- Peacock: Will Texans See Budget Gimmicks or Spending Restraint in 2021?
- Rep. Biedermann Exits Texas Freedom Caucus, Citing the Group’s Speaker Candidate List
- Harris County Democratic members of the Texas House support Chair Thompson for speaker
- Developer Tied to Texas AG Accused Judge, Others of Fraud – right, that’s the center of the investigation. Don’t think it happens? Check with Trump and his universe of associates! Maybe it is hogwash but how do you know if you do not allow an investigation? We have a history of such things and the recent examples in DC at the highest levels show that the idea of conspiracy to defraud involving gov’t folks isn’t so farfetched. Don’t think these things can happen? Two GIANT scandals reached the top of Texas government when it was all run by Democrats, see: Ken Towery & the Texas Veterans Land Board Scandal; Texas Sharpstown scandal
- Hearst papers attack Project Veritas for the video as if the substance of what is shown is not the issue – despicable.
- 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
- Texas AG Ken Paxton Announces “Aggressive” Investigation into Ballot Harvesting Scheme Exposed by Project Veritas
- Ballot Harvester in Texas Caught on Video Pressuring Senior to Change Ballot to Straight Dem Vote
- Texas proposes fewer budget cuts to women’s programs but would freeze hiring eligibility workers
- Revised ‘Ike Dike’ plan would cost $26.2B, include massive sea gates and 43 miles of sand dunes
- Deploying guardsmen to keep peace post-election in Texas bugs Leftists
- Abbott says National Guard won’t interfere with voting, will be deployed to ‘address protests that could turn to riots’
- Texas voters have to wear masks while voting despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s exemption, federal judge rules
- US judge requires face masks in all Texas polling locations VIDEO
- Supreme Court upholds Abbott limit on mail ballot drop-off sites
- Texas Supreme Court Backs Limiting Ballot Drops
- Error forces Tarrant County to fix thousands of mailed ballots, more
- Mail Ballot Problems Cropping Up Around Texas
- Communists Vandalize Austin Polling Place: “ELECTIONS NO! REVOLUTION YES!”
- Wichita Co. Republican Party questions Wichita County judge’s ethics – easy to do in his case
- A Lesson Learned: Democrats Plot Route to Washington Through Statehouse Races
- Gov. Abbott gives GOP candidates over $1.9M in Texas House races – fine but it’s a paltry amount given his cash-on-hand.
- Republicans Largely Out-Raise Democrats in State Legislative Fundraising Reports Before Election
- Republicans roar back, defending Texas House hopefuls with seven-figure wads of cash
- ‘Tainted money’: Democrats decry Bonnen’s donations to Republicans in tough Texas House races – laughable. All Dem $ is inherently “tainted!”
- ‘Chump change’? Cornyn’s, Hegar’s fundraising tallies once would’ve been record-setting, but are now just average
- TX23: Candidates Talk Of Ideas To Distribute, Speed Up COVID Tests
- Billionaire Grocery Heir (H-E-B) Bankrolls Democrats, Establishment Republicans
- Texas Republicans highlight energy issues as a closing argument of campaign
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Facebook, Twitter and Google CEO’s testify before Senate on censorship concerns
- Ted Cruz grills Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for ‘censoring’ Hunter Biden story VIDEO
- Cruz TORCHES Twitter CEO for Political Censorship: You Are Behaving Like a Democratic Super PAC VIDEO
- Twitter, Facebook, Google CEOs testify on social media protections amid censorship claims
- Charges filed against members of China’s ‘Operation Fox Hunt’ repatriation squad, DOJ says
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Jerome Hudson Highlights How Donald Trump Revived Manufacturing, U.S Oil Industry Obama and Biden Abandoned VIDEO
- Rush — and Reason: Don’t vote for Biden
- IBD/TIPP: Trump now ahead of where he was in 2016
- Among likely voters, nearly half have already cast a ballot in 2020 election
- Melania in Pennsylvania: Biden’s socialist agenda will destroy America
- Morning in America or mourning in America?
- Latino Voters 2020: Meet A Progressive Who Won’t Be Voting For Biden
- Joe Biden Cannot Keep His Tax Promises
- Staggering Early Vote Turnout Boosts Hopes for Biden in Texas – could be but EV in Texas has historically favored Republicans.
- ‘New day in Texas’: Julián Castro, returning to the stump, expresses hope that Biden can win Lone Star State
- Dem VP nominee Kamala Harris’ Texas visit will include stops in Houston, Fort Worth and McAllen, more
- Biden campaign launches bus tour in Texas on Wednesday
- Biden/Harris bus tour stops in Lubbock – it looks as if fewer than 25 folk showed up
- Biden bus visit to Abilene draws Democrats and Trump supporters downtown
- ‘Ya’ll think I’m kidding’: Joe Biden says he’s Kamala Harris’ running mate
- Kamala Slams ‘Illegitimate’ Justice Amy Coney Barrett: ‘We Won’t Forget This’
- Analysis: Biden’s federal fracking ban could actually be good for Texas – how far the Leftist Texas press will go to back the Dem.
- ‘Plausible deniability’: Tony Bobulinski claims Biden family shrugged off concerns about risk to 2020 bid
- Bobulinski: I personally met with Joe Biden twice to discuss 2017 China deal
- Hunter Biden and Lobbyist Named in IRS Complaint Against National Security Non-Profit Where They Both Served on Board
- Facebook Claims It Helped Register 4.4M People to Vote
- Statisticians find ‘no evidence’ voting by mail increases fraud – an example of bull bleep because it is an unknown unless caught and there is no consistent or regular effort to find cases of such. These idiots simply rely on filed cases of fraud.
- Former postal worker accused of throwing away more than 100 ballots
- Activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman indicted in Ohio for voter suppression scheme
- AOC: ‘I don’t know if I’m really going to be staying in the House forever’ – go back to bartending, please.
- AOC Criticizes ‘Racist Visionary’ Trump and ‘These Motherf**kers’ Who Won’t Embrace Big Government Programs
- Vanity Fair gives AOC the puffiest of puff pieces
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- Border / immigration
- Migrants Quickly Expelled by Trump Try Repeatedly to Cross – as do most all irrespective of when expelled or how long it took. Stupid story.
- Hinojosa: Gov. Abbott will help us get our bridges reopened
- Mission mayor wants to see passenger rail on planned Madero Bridge
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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 10/28/2020 (pdf) – 17,595* deaths & “active cases” of 95,784 (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
- Texas coronavirus cases, hospitalizations at highest point in two months
- Anthony Fauci: U.S. May See ‘Semblance of Normality’ Only in 2022, more – “F” Dr. Faulty and his kind. Get on with life, just as with war and many other epidemics we can march on.
- Should we be worried by declining COVID antibodies?
- 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
- Sisters stabbed Chicago store worker 27 times after being told to wear masks, prosecutors say
- 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 upstream oil and gas sector adds jobs; First time in seven months
- Astros planning layoffs, furloughs
- Rockets to hire Stephen Silas as coach
- Redevelopment of downtown Houston post office delivers surprises
- Conrad Lofts wins award from Texas Downtown Association
- Walmart hopes old law will block feds’ suit over opioid ‘unwritten expectations’
- COVID has led manufacturers in China to look at TX-MX border region
- Austin’s Eagle Eye Networks raises $40 million for growth
- AMD to buy chipmaker Xilinx in $35 billion deal
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Night of 1000 Looters: Philadelphia rocked by second night of rioting
- Protesters Assault Reporter Filming BLM Looting in Philadelphia VIDEO
- Looters Pillage Philadelphia Walmart — Steal Big-Screen TVs VIDEO
- BLM, Antifa Fight Over Who Should Lead Philadelphia Protest VIDEO
- DC Cops Respond to Violent Protesters with Tear Gas, Flash Bangs VIDEO
- Dallas Delivers Plan to Handle Potential Election Day Riots
- Deploying guardsmen to keep peace post-election in Texas bugs Leftists
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- RIP: Billy Joe Shaver, Singer-Songwriter and Hero of ‘Outlaw’ Country, Dies at 81, more
- Former-Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean Trial Set for Next Year in Woman’s Death
- Montgomery Co. deputies search for armed man who fled post office after passerby fired shots at him
- Magnolia man gets life for coercing girl he met on game app into sexual acts
- Grand Jury indicts James Staley on capital murder for the death of Wilder McDaniel, more
- Emergency medic worked to transport a man that allegedly tried to jump into the Wichita River.
- Fredericksburg teacher accused of improper sexual relationship with students
- Big Spring Police Department investigating shooting on S. Nolan
- Man intentionally crashed into another driver, Lubbock police report says, in road rage
- Name of pilot who died in Monday plane crash in residential area Lubbock released: Donald Eakin, 69, of Hallsville
- $6,000 offered for tips related to Shell gas station robbery in Austin
- San Marcos police seeking shooter who injured man outside bar
- Viral video of employee at Lubbock daycare pulling girl’s hair leads to lawsuit
- RIP: Texas farmer, peanut industry leader from Brownfield dies
- Weather
- NWS: Weather event was one for the record books
- Burk officials open community center for residents without power
- Oncor officials work to restore power across Texoma
- KAUZ TV temporary signal loss due to power outage in Wichita Falls
- Man killed on I-20 in Taylor County due to winter weather road conditions
- Abilene residents cope with early taste of winter weather
- Xcel reports approximately 1,600 Levelland customers without power
- Some downed power lines reported around Plainview
- LP&L Still Working To Restore Power Throughout Lubbock
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- Local government
- Harris County adopts small property tax cut for coming year
- Harris County to Release Bail Policy Data, Rejects Partnership with Victim’s Advocates
- Revised ‘Ike Dike’ plan would cost $26.2B, include massive sea gates and 43 miles of sand dunes
- Mansfield ISD to introduce new LGBTQ [homosexual] discrimination policy
- Dickson: Lubbock City Council Will Vote on Outlawing Abortion | Texas Scorecard, Lubbock City Council to Vote on Outlawing Abortion
- Lubbock City Council Suspends Atmos Energy Rate Increase
- Fort Bend, Richmond agree to move Jaybird statue honoring white supremacists from spot near City Hall
- Montgomery County OKs $5.5M in federal funds for schools, courts
- Wet or dry? Olney residents to decide on alcohol sales
- WCRP questions Wichita County judge’s ethics
- Plainview council approves economic development agreement to bring Sutherlands Home Base to town
- Stephenville Joins Prestigious Main Street Revitalization Program
- Dallas City Council approves master plan to revitalize Fair Park
- Dallas Delivers Plan to Handle Potential Election Day Riots
- Alamo Heights voters weighing $13 million in Broadway bond funding
- Austin: PAC spends nearly $1 million to support Project Connect
- Herman: Is King Adler I trying to sell us a train?
- Williamson commissioners approve grant; deputies will not lose equipment
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- Colleges & universities
- TTU: Virtual 62nd Carol of Lights to be aired on Dec. 1
- TTU: Endowed Scholarship For Design Students Established By Award-Winning Alumnus
- Tech post-Thanksgiving plans pose challenges for international students
- Texas Tech Alumnus Turns Love Of Learning, Outdoors Into Budding Career
Pratt’s post for 10/28/2020
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