- Could Texas House Republicans Elect Homosexal/LGBT Advocate as Speaker?
- Slaton: Why I’m a White Light for Speaker, and What Could Change That
- More Harris County judges accused of favoritism in defense appointments – all Dems
- Citizens React to Photo of Unmasked Abbott – do as I say, not as I do.
- Governor Abbott Appoints Distefano To Texas Medical Board
- TABC Now Offers Training for Alcohol Delivery Drivers
- DMN editors object to truth in ballot language! – despicable Leftists
- George P. Bush Mulling Run for Texas Attorney General in 2022
- Texas social workers will no longer be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ Texans and people with disabilities – this is slanted coverage. What this is is gov’t discrimination against those who disagree with a Leftist social agenda.
- Abbott to order 1,000 troops to Texas cities during election
- Texas Army National Guard says it has no plans to dispatch troops to polls – what idiot Democrat started this rumor?
- Hays, Williamson counties among first to exceed 2016 total votes
- Texas hits record high for early voting turnout
- One-third of Tarrant County mail-in ballots have a defect, but votes will still count – hmmm
- Disparities in Harris County Election Tallies Prompt Inquiry From State
- Early voting hours extended to 10pm for the next three days in Harris County
- New radio ads target Texas border voters in effort to boost turnout of Democrats
- Texas ‘Ballot Chaser’ Pressures Voter to Change Vote from Cornyn to Hegar: ‘That’s My Job’ … ‘I Can Honestly Say I’m Bringing at Least 7,000 Votes to The Polls’ … Said Garza Gave Her $2,500 Gift Budget VIDEO
- AG Paxton Statement on Project Veritas Uncovering Organized Election Fraud in Bexar County
- ‘It’s now or never.’ Democrats pour over $55 million into newly competitive Texas
- Polls, late campaign activity suggest Republican dominance in Texas could be at risk
- Bloomberg commits late money to help Biden in Texas
- Chrysta Castañeda raises $3.7 million, more than half from Bloomberg
- Jon Francis: Time for Clarity
- Olivia Tallet’s Houston Chronicle election story belittles Texas Latinos
- HD121: Beto Pancho O’Rourke to canvass in San Antonio today for key state House race
- HD136: Comparing the Candidates: Bucy, Elliott, Guevara
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Heritage President Applauds Confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court
- Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court Nomination Confirmed With Support from Cruz, Cornyn
- Amy Coney Barrett’s Memphis Liberal Arts College Fostered Diversity in Views – that is where state Rep. Dustin Burrows studied.
- Texas AG Paxton Statement on Confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to United States Supreme Court
- Governor Abbott Statement On Justice Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation To United States Supreme Court
- Sen. Cruz: Confirming Judge Barrett is a Great Victory for Every American Who Cherishes Our Fundamental Liberties
- Trump announces new Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict ceasefire brokered by US – great news, Azerbaijan is wonderful country and extremely key friend of the USA in a key spot on the globe. Armenia is fully in the wrong on this and it needs full resolution by Armenia withdrawing. Russia is the longtime agitator here.
- Sens. Cruz, Lee, and Cramer Introduce UNSHACKLE Act to Reform NEPA
- Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on Announcement that Mexico Will Meet its Water Delivery Obligation Under the 1944 Water Treaty
- Push for Ports-to-Plains Interstate Corridor Moves to U.S. Senate
- Trump administration to announce plan for Medicare & Medicaid to cover costs of coronavirus vaccine
- Landlords, homebuilders sue CDC over moratorium that bans evictions during pandemic
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Donald Trump is a terrifyingly good finisher
- Historically accurate pollster puts the presidential race within the margin of error
- Confessions of the Secret Suburban Trump Moms: Maryland
- Rick Perry hits the campaign trail for Donald Trump, slams Biden energy plans
- Is Trump gaining more voters than he’s losing?
- Bloomberg Is Funding Late $15 Million Push to Help Biden in Texas, Ohio
- Joe Biden makes last-minute plea to Hispanic voters in 11 states, including Texas
- ‘Lie of Year’ resurrected by Biden, disproven by millions
- Harris claims during ’60 Minutes’ interview she’s not ranked the ‘most liberal senator.’ She is.
- Joe Biden Refers to Doug Emhoff as ‘Kamala’s Wife’ VIDEO
- Biden Tells a Bold-Faced Lie in Texas, Then Tops It Off With a Whopper of a Gaffe
- Even the Leftist Fact-check says Biden lying about Obama-era “criminal justic reforms” having released 38,000 prisoners
- Joe Biden’s endless wars
- Biden’s Energy Plan: Here’s Where Texas Congressional Candidates Stand On Phasing Out Oil and Gas
- Former U.S. attorneys appointed by Republican presidents endorse Joe Biden – swamp swimmers
- Ayanna Pressley says packing the Supreme Court ‘is certainly on the table’
- A Biden Family Special Prosecutor in 2021?
- Trump adviser says soon-to-be-released Hunter Biden tapes are next shoe to fall
- Newt Gingrich releases video slamming Biden family’s alleged foreign corruption
- Trump Resistance Plans ‘Mass Mobilization’ After Election To Shut Down The Country If Biden Doesn’t Win
- U.S. Election Fraud is Real—And It Is Being Ignored
- Absentee ballots tossed in trash by ex-postal worker in Kentucky, who faces criminal charges
- AOC complains it’s too hard to vote
- Supreme Court rejects request to extend Wisconsin mail-in voting deadline
- 80 Yr. Old Nancy Pelosi says she’ll run for speaker again if Dems keep House
- Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin endorses Arizona GOP Sen. McSally over fellow astronaut Kelly – Kelly is a scumbag.
- Seven recent examples of leftists threatening to murder their opponents
- Twitter continues election interference by flagging Trump tweets
- Trump pollster: Facebook banning new campaign ads a week from election is biased against GOP
- Majority of voters say social media will censor on behalf of Biden before Election Day, poll
- How Can I Flee Wildfires in My EV When There’s No Electricity?
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- Border / immigration
- Migrant Teen, Infant Brother Found Abandoned near Border River in Texas
- Records show Trump’s border wall is costing taxpayers billions more than initial contracts – these libs are never concerned about such on other spending…
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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 10/27/2020 (pdf) – 17,514* deaths & “active cases” of 93,479 (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
- How did politicians act in lockstep on lock downs (and more) even before COVID was a crisis?
- 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
- People who survive serious COVID have long-lasting immune response, MGH study shows
- 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
- LA Times features Lubbock and Texas Tech for COVID response, but not in a good way – yes and it was dishonest in the way most WuFlu reporting is.
- El Paso Imposes Curfew as Virus Cases Overwhelm Hospitals
- Temporary Hospital to Be Set up in El Paso Convention Center
- Governor Abbott Requests To Use William Beaumont Army Medical Center For Non-COVID Patients in El Paso
- Restrictions placed on City of Lubbock due to COVID-19, more – 15% number from Abbott is arbitrary and Lubbock suffers because a large cohort of patients come from well outside of the health region as Texas defines such.
- San Antonio hospitals taking patients from El Paso to relieve COVID-19 crisis
- Fauci says US is still in its first wave of coronavirus infections
- Studies: COVID-19 mortality plunging in hospitals
- Husband in world’s longest-lived couple dies at 110 after pandemic brings depression
- TTUHSC doctor compares allergy, COVID-19 symptoms
- Texas Getting 8.7 Million Fast COVID-19 Tests as Cases Rise in Cities
- In Lubbock, pandemic fatigue sets in as hospitalizations rise
- As State Rollbacks Hit Region, Lubbock County Not Eyeing More COVID-19 Restrictions
- 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.
- Citizens React to Photo of Unmasked Abbott
- 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
- Houston ISD changes COVID-19 decision metrics after meeting original threshold to close
- Report: Some public schools obstructing parents’ efforts to withdraw children for home-schooling
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- Business/Economy
- Texas service sector growth slows; retail sector slows too
- European manufacturing firms eye McAllen area
- Producers Shut 49% of U.S. Gulf Offshore Crude Oil Output
- U.S. oil producers bet on $42 oil prices in 2021
- DOE: Oil and gas production to account for 68 percent of energy consumption over next two decades
- Amazon expanding throughout Texas, new fulfillment center in Waco is latest endeavor
- Amazon to hire 2,800 in Houston for the holidays
- COVID-19 may stunt electricity demand for years
- Firefly gets two new launch contracts; completes testing on 1st stage
- SpaceX identifies problem with several engines on booster, requiring replacement
- Blue Origin pinpoints problem with BE-4 engine
- Houston Methodist ranked top hospital in Texas, U.S. News study finds
- Hendrick Health finalizes purchase of Abilene and Brownwood Medical Centers
- H-E-B unveils first Lubbock store
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Trump Resistance Plans ‘Mass Mobilization’ After Election To Shut Down The Country If Biden Doesn’t Win
- More Than 30 Philly Cops Injured in BLM Riot After Police Shoot Black Man Armed With Knife, more
- Biden Efforts to Rally Supporters in Philadelphia Goes up in Smoke – Riot Videos Inside
- Seven recent examples of leftists threatening to murder their opponents
- Texas Tech student-athletes form Black Student-Athlete Alliance
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Overnight ice causes power outages throughout Lubbock region
- Winter-weather road conditions expected for most of West Texas
- Abilene records earliest snowfall on record, low temperature record set Monday
- Ice causing hazardous road conditions around Big CountryOfficials ask for your help to find teen after bike found near highway over weekend
- Over 100 residents without gas in Midland as temperatures remain below freezing
- Texoma schools are closing or delaying due to inclement weather
- Oncor outages leave more than 4500 residents without power in Wichita Falls-area
- Icy conditions cause limb damage, power outages in Texoma
- Police confirm one fatality after two-car accident in Electra
- DPS releases details, weather-related deadly crash kills Plainview man
- Semi-trailer truck crashes and becomes stuck under overpass in Wichita Falls
- Magnolia couple saves 5 lives with Houston Methodist kidney swap
- Homeowner Told Her Skeleton Stripper Display Must Come Down by HOA – live in an HOA, abide by your contract. It is a cool display!
- U.S. Marshals arrest Kentucky murder suspect in Abilene
- Soon-to-be ex-wife arrested for assaulting pregnant girlfriend
- Brother vs brother, shooting in Lubbock described by police report
- Plainview man dies, Tulia man hospitalized after Monday
- Two Lamesa Police Department officers cited for valor
- Lubbock shooting at 34th & Q leaves one dead, one injured
- Austin and Travis County Homicides Up 41.9% YTD – how’s that Leftist policing working for you liberals?
- Doctor sues Texas judge over guardianized mom’s will
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- Local government
- How did politicians act in lockstep on lock downs (and more) even before COVID was a crisis?
- More Harris County judges accused of favoritism in defense appointments – all Dems
- Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo proposes $10 million early childhood development fund – exactly the type of spending people support because, and only because, it sounds good. They never look into the effectiveness of such.
- Conservatives and Socialists Join Coalition to Change Houston City Charter
- Disbursement of Mission EDC funds questioned AUDIO
- When ‘Live PD’ cameras rolled, Williamson County deputies used more violence
- Lakeside City Volunteer Fire Department prepare to open new facility
- Asst. Chief Mike Perry to serve as Abilene’s interim police chief, Chief Standridge leaving APD Nov. 13
- Higher Taxes and Debt on North Texans’ November Ballots
- Austin City Manager Expresses ‘Great Confidence’ in APD Chief Brian Manley
- ‘Sanctuary for the Unborn’ Resolution Survives Kerr County Commissioners Court
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas A&M to lead $100M hypersonic research project
- The College Politicization Problem (As Seen by the Chronicle)
- ACU faculty member named chair of state board of examiners
- TTU Homecoming King, Queen Crowned During Virtual Pep Rally
- Texas Tech student-athletes form Black Student-Athlete Alliance – more self-segregation
- UTSA neuroscience researchers win $30,000 BrainStorm pitch competition
Pratt’s post for 10/27/2020
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