- Texas Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to kill drive-thru voting, more, more – time to have some serious GOP primary challenges to all by Justice Devine
- GOP Election Workers Fired for Not Wearing Masks, Appeal Denied – more reason to challenge justices up for reelection.
- Sunset Commission to take testimony on Teacher Retirement System of Texas, 12 Nov.
- Mother of Attorney General Ken Paxton passes away – RIP
- Judge Moves Criminal Case Against Texas Attorney General – finally!
- AG Ken Paxton Calls Attention to Domestic Violence on Go Purple Day
- AG Ken Paxton intervened in donor’s legal affairs multiple times this year – let’s see some evidence any of this is wrong or that the “donor” does not have legitimate legal complaints or, is the argument that the law no longer matters if you happened to have donated to the campaign of a DA, sheriff, etc?
- Senator Perry: Not passing anti-abortion ordinance against God’s will VIDEO
- Planned Parenthood to reopen in Lubbock on Monday
- Civil Rights complaint filed against Texas juvenile detention center in Mart and four other facilities
- Harris County poised to reach 1 million ballots Friday, an all-time early record
- Harris Co: Alternate Judge Reports Errors With e-pollbooks Program – will result in illegal double voting.
- Citizen Groups Lead Fight Against Voter Fraud
- Long Lines, Stacks of Mail, and High Expectations: Texas’ Voters and Elections Staff Weather Turnout Tidal Wave
- The Back Mic: Abbott Spends Millions to Defend Texas Republicans, Democratic Super PAC Doubles Spending, New Campaign Ads Released
- Republican Justices Fight Further Flip of Democrat-Dominated Appeals Court (5th)
- HD65: In the only blue Texas House district in Denton County, GOP challenger takes a different approach
- Parties’ Late Spending on Senate Races Shows GOP’s Jeopardy
- As Cornyn says Hegar’s salty language is too naughty for a senator, she says he’s too prim for Texas
- There’s Some Cussing Going on in the Cornyn/Hegar Race
- MJ Hegar raised nearly three times as much as John Cornyn in the first two weeks of October
- Money counts in Texas elections, but timing matters, too
- NRA backs Cornyn and attacks Hegar with digital ads
- Texas Congressional Democrats Continue to Report High Fundraising Numbers with Latest Filings
- TX25: Battle between Rep. Roger Williams, Julie Oliver spotlights Texas’ evolving political map
- Faith and Family Issues Take Top Priority in Texas Republican Party Platform
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump Celebrates Sudan Agreement to Normalize Diplomatic Relations with Israel, Sudan Peace with Israel Reverses the Three ‘Noes’ of Arab Rejectionism
- New Trump executive order suggests major house-cleaning should he win
- Senator John Cornyn announces Save Our Stages Act
- How Trump could use the census to extend his sway, even if he loses re-election
- Section 230: What is the law that’s causing so much big tech buzz?
- Ben Carson Announces New Houston HUD EnVision Center
- Cuellar, Arrington help launch bipartisan energy export caucus
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump Campaign: Biggest Online Fundraising Day Ever After Final Debate
- Trump Won the Debate—But Won Bigly the Post-Debate
- A serious debate that leaves Biden with lingering bruises
- Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro fume that Biden has neglected Texas, demand ‘crunch time’ investment – the super lightweights cry
- Here’s what Texas politicians said about the final presidential debate
- Texas Republicans React to Final Presidential Debate
- Biden Calls for ‘Transition’ From Oil, GOP Sees Opening
- Texas Republicans drill into Democrats over Biden’s pledge to ‘transition from the oil industry’ – more War on Texas that was a hallmark of the Obama admin.
- Trump Busts Biden for Getting ‘Nothing’ Done as VP: ‘All Talk and No Action’
- ‘Will you remember that Texas?’: Key moments from the final Biden-Trump presidential debate
- The debate commission’s new rules were a gift to Trump
- Rasmussen: Trump Approval Among Likely Black Voters Jumps to 46% After Debate
- Poll: Majority of Biden Voters Say They Have Already Cast Their Ballot
- Michigan Poll: Donald Trump 49%, Joe Biden 45%
- Trump Takes The Lead In AZ In New Poll
- CNN’s Dale: ‘False for Biden to Say That He Never Said He Opposed Fracking’
- Biden says he ‘would transition from the oil industry’
- ‘Joe wants to transition away from Texas,’ Governor Abbott weighs in on oil industry
- Oil lobby attacks Trump and Biden’s climate policies after debate
- Biden lied about having endorsement of boilermakers union
- More Biden: C’mon, no one lost their private insurance under ObamaCare
- Bidencare vs. Private Health Insurance
- Conrad Black: Biden’s Campaign Blew Up in a Bad Way
- ‘Children Are Brought Here by Coyotes and Lots of Bad People’
- And THEY make fun of Trump?! HA! Lots and lots and LOTS of blue-check libs don’t know what a coyote is (screenshots)
- Joe Biden’s court-packing alternatives
- Packing the Supreme Court with More Justices is a Threat to Our Rights and Freedoms
- Bernie Sanders eyeing Labor secretary job if Biden wins, report
- Code Name ‘Project Hanson’: Insider Documents Reveal How Hunter Biden Associates Helped Chinese Military Contractor Acquire Michigan Dual-Use Manufacturer
- Joe Biden’s Boosters Wrote His Prodigal Son’s Entire Résumé
- Biden Whistleblower Tony Bobulinski Sits For FBI Interview; Hands Over Phones
- Former Biden Biz Partner: Joe Biden Knew Family ‘Aggressively Leveraged’ His Name to Make Millions
- Report: Kamala Harris Listed as ‘Key Contact’ for Biden Family Business Venture in China
- Opinion: Single male looking for love? Better vote for Biden – shocking (well not really) that a newspaper would run this crap.
- These Texas women aren’t ‘flocking’ to Trump. They made up their minds weeks ago.
- Frank Luntz: If the polls are wrong again this time, my profession is finished
- Left’s obsession with America’s faults and failures is folly
- Americans have rejected socialist revolutions before
- Gender Identity: Can a 5’9, White Guy Be a 6’5, Chinese Woman? VIDEO
- Explainer: Details about protests surrounding ChinaAid’s founder in Midland
- Midland’s Fu reports bomb threats, calls for HOA to take action
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- Border / immigration
- Border Security at a Crossroads: The Uncertain Future of America’s Southwestern Border
- DHS Chad Wolf: President Trump Slashed Migrant Inflow from 400,000 to 14,000
- 900 Pounds of Cocaine Seized at Texas Border Crossing
- $3 million in ICE fines targeted 9 sanctuary-seekers, email shows
- Judge Urges US to Help Find Parents Deported Without Kids
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- Coronavirus related (while I hold over some stories for a while this is not a collection that grows each day. You must go to previous days’ posts.)
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 10/23/2020 (pdf) – 17,286* deaths & “active cases” of 85,618 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about 3/10ths of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read. Plus, according to the *CDC only 9,856 have died nationwide with COVID-19 as the exclusive cause of death!
- *CDC’s COVID-19 fatality numbers suggest fraud to cause panic
- Why the numbers are meaningless and inflated by Dr. Kristin Held, president, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
- Collin County Slams State’s Bad Coronavirus Data – Judge Chris Hill says the county is “100 percent certain” the numbers reported by Texas DSHS are not accurate. Collin County Pushes for Fix as State Agency Admits ‘Significantly’ Overstating Coronavirus Cases
- Texas overstated COVID positive testing rate by about 100%
- COVID-19 and the false positive trap: Current test results should not be automatically accepted as real
- COVID Death Stats…Inaccurate or Just Misleading?
- Major Hospital CEO Refutes Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Doomsday Prediction
- Nashville officials accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional , ‘He’s decided he’s the king’: Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID response leaves lawmakers on sidelines
- Federal judge rules Pennsylvania COVID-19 restrictions unconstitutional
- Michigan Supreme Court calls lock down orders by governor illegal
- A Timeline of Gov. Abbott’s Executive Orders and Case Numbers, An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown, The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
- The lockdowns were a bad idea and did not work
- A ‘Failed Strategy’: Doctors Review Abbott’s Coronavirus Response
- Never has a virus been so oversold, Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Has Sweden been vindicated?, More data from Sweden demonstrates failure of lock downs everywhere else, Sweden declares victory over COVID-19
- How Reliable Are COVID-19 Tests? Depends Which One You Mean
- Could mass testing for COVID-19 do more harm than good? – a must read
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- Dr. John Lee: The dangers of a COVID ‘elimination’ policy
- Dr. Daniel Jeanmonod: “Do you remember a winter without a cold?”
- The real sickness afflicting America
- Texas Democrats remind they’d run Texas as a prison state
- Only a misinformed public would believe Democrats took COVID more seriously than President Trump
- Governor Abbott Surges State Resources To Support COVID-19 Response In El Paso
- Abbott’s Shutdown Orders Kill Thousands of Texas Businesses
- Dr. Li-Meng Yan Reveals China’s Fake Science and the COVID-19 Cover-up
- Look Who’s Skeptical of a Coronavirus Vaccine Now
- The curious case of the man who caught COVID twice
- People who survive serious COVID have long-lasting immune response, MGH study shows
- The incredible vanishing World Health Organization
- After months of encouraging lockdowns WHO officials now condemn them
- Germany’s growing COVID revolt
- Study: Almost impossible to contract COVID-19 on an airplane
- The US is coming out of COVID no worse than any European country
- You’re Only an ‘Expert’ When You Agree
- The dying COVID-19 epidemic – see the graphics
- Sweden Liberates its Elderly and Takes Another Step Back to Normality
- Reporting errors led to inaccurate coronavirus hospitalization data, Austin health officials say – “officials announced the errors in a Thursday evening news release, which did not state how many hospitalizations were miscounted.” So they say they made an error but won’t tell us what it was but we’re supposed to trust them that the “error did not change the upward direction of hospital admission trends in the area.” Right.
- Costa Rica to eliminate coronavirus test requirement for tourists
- Midland Mayor Payton: Let’s be ‘disciplined’ in fight against COVID
- King: The Furor Over Herd Immunity
- Texas Doctor Cleared of Malpractice Claims After Using Hydroxychloroquine to Treat Coronavirus
- Europe Hits Record-High Daily COVID-19 Cases – but fatalities are not spiking
- COVID & masks
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- Wearing face masks more than doubled Texas COVID-19 fatality rate! (But wait there’s more…)
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- Government routinely warned against mask use — before it was political – exactly as I have written and spoken about. See: More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Oxford: Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials Against 20–1000 nm Size Particles
- Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery
- CDC inadvertently admits the uselessness of masks against COVID-19
- Europe’s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19
- Face masks are ‘NOT necessary’ and could even harm the fight against coronavirus, say Holland’s top scientists
- The danger of following ‘the science’
- The Dystopian Age of the Mask
- Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates
- State Mask Mandates Don’t Apply to Businesses, Say Lawyers for Local Chamber of Commerce
- Majority of voters take relatively relaxed approach to mask-wearing in public
- Mask Fanatics Have Officially Abandoned Science To Control Your Life
- Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks
- Florida proves (again) the stupidity of mask mandates
- Citizen Victory: Southlake Stops Mandating Masks When Voting
- AG Paxton Issues Letter Regarding Masking Requirements for Individuals Administering Elections
- ‘Mask mandates don’t work’: White House COVID adviser criticizes ‘obsession’ with masks
- Dr. Birx Rips the Mask off and Goes After Scott Atlas
- CDC: ‘Strong recommendation’ but no rule for masks on planes
- CDC: 85% of COVID-19 patients report ‘always’ or ‘often’ wearing a mask – Americans are wearing masks, but masks aren’t working.
- Joe Biden Flip-Flops Again: My Coronavirus Plan ‘Starts with a Mask Mandate Nationwide’ – Dems love “solutions” that don’t work
- Watch: FNC’s Carlson Exposes CNN’s Cuomo Hypocrisy on Masks VIDEO
- League City high school student alleges she was beaten by cops after being reprimanded over face mask
- Maskless voters make some uncomfortable – too bad and it’s because they are ignorant people to begin with.
- COVID & schools
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Dr. Scott Atlas: There Is No Risk To Children From Covid-19, I Don’t Know Why People Deny This; Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
- TEA Updates Pandemic School Funding Formula
- Coronavirus cases in Texas schools remain low, but trend points upward
- Are Public Schools Trying to Illegally Keep Parents From Withdrawing Their Kids?
- Alarming failure rates among Texas students fuel calls to get them back into classrooms
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- Business/Economy
- Baker Hughes rig count, Modest increase gives rig count its 6th-straight gain
- Oil drops further with Libyan output set to rise
- Pioneer-Parsley merger driven by need to generate cash flow
- Commentator tells Pioneer CEO: ‘You’ve got one that’s investable’
- As COVID fuels coastal real estate boom, Houston home buyers bolt for Galveston
- RIP: Beef industry pioneer, Micro Beef Technologies founder, Bill Pratt dead at 77 – “The Thomas Edison of the Beef Industry”
- New port provide more export opportunity for sorghum producers
- Hudson identifies challenges for cotton producers
- Walmart Sues US in Pre-Emptive Strike in Opioid Abuse Battle
- US Airlines Still Piling up Losses but Say Demand Is Rising
- Southwest Airlines won’t block middle seats for Christmas flights
- McAllen businesses rank local economy at 67 percent
- SpaceX wins partial approval to provide Starlink service in Canada
- Lubbock Concrete Company Pays Over $43,000 in Back Wages
- Armstrong Mechanical responds to Dept. of Labor wage investigation
- Cassie Mogg named new CEO of Covenant Health Plainview
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Texas Man Accused of Shooting at Minneapolis Police Station
- Philly agitators plan ‘mass action’ for days following election
- Oakland withdraws from FBI joint terrorism task force
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Slain Houston Fire Investigator Remembered Fondly at Service
- U.S. Attorney Files Federal Charges on Accused Houston Cop-Killer
- Waller Co. constable sues Harris Co. Constable Ted Heap over excessive force allegations
- 1 arrested after hourslong standoff in Leander, police say
- Georgetown man accused in 5 convenience store robberies
- Lubbock family responds to social media post calling Halloween decorations ‘racist’ – the utter stupidity of our current want-to-be-offended culture
- Man found fatally shot in parking garage near Houston’s Museum District
- Odessa woman dies after two-vehicle collision
- Ector Co. SO searching for missing man
- Midland store employee attacked by accused shoplifter
- Midland PD: Detectives have found no foul play in juvenile death
- Midland teen boy beaten with brass knuckles, sent to hospital VIDEO
- Abilene man accused of sexually abusing two children for years
- Lubbock Police Looking for Pickup After Armed Carjacking
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- Local government
- San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood defends posing for photo eating sushi displayed on nude woman
- Proposed ordinance to stop the sale of commercially bred puppies and kittens in pet stores is a win for San Antonio – no, it’s a complete violation of property rights.
- City of Odessa receives award for fiscal year budget
- City of Midland City Hall to close to public
- Eastland issues city-wide boil water notice
- City of Abilene says new smart meters providing accurate reads – but it is foolish to claim these meters are always accurate, it’s still and analog to digital conversion thus the analog part can fail in the way of older meters AND electronic components do fail and give false readings despite what stupid people often claim.
- Abilene City Council approves design company for the Cedar Creek Waterway Project
- Roby CISD asks November voters to approve $10.8M bond for school improvements
- Hart alcohol election underway at Hart City Hall
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- Colleges & universities
- Students, Young Conservatives and Democrats of MSU Texas weigh in on campus political climate – “I would say that [MSU] is generally left-leaning…”
- Tech officials emphasize retention rates, recruitment efforts
- TTU’s La Ventana wins Pacemaker Award
- TTU School Of Law Announces 2020 Alumni Association Awards
- Texas Tech late start, spring 2021, only one day for spring break
- Tech Chancellor Tedd Mitchell talks COVID-19 after returning to work
Pratt’s post for 10/23/2020
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