- Sullivan: The GOP’s Quiet Speaker Race Gets Some Sunlight
- Three Republicans declare candidacy for Texas House speaker
- Three Republicans Enter the Race for Texas House Speaker
- Trent Ashby, Chris Paddie and John Cyrier are the first three from their party to file. Two Democrats are also seeking the gavel.
- Another: Republican state Rep. Geanie Morrison of Victoria files for Speaker
- Biedermann Leaves Freedom Caucus, Wants ‘Culture Change’ From New Speaker
- Abbott: Troops will be ‘in position’ after election but only deployed in Texas ‘as needed’
- Lt. Gov. Patrick With Election Preview, Preparations For Civil Unrest AUDIO
- Texas Protective Order Registry Established by Monica’s Law Goes Live
- 3 ways Texas can fulfill its promise to better fund our public schools – schools are flush with cash, they don’t need more. They need forced efficiency which allows for the focus to be upon teaching instead of bureaucracy.
- A through F grading system for Texas public schools is one more way to stigmatize poor neighborhoods – in other words, we shouldn’t let the poor know how bad their public schools are compared to others! Typical Democrat position.
- Governor Abbott, TEA Issue Report Showing Teacher Pay Raises For 2019-2020 School Year
- Texas’ Juvenile Justice System Is Still Broken, Complaint Says
- Gun Violence Is A Problem In Texas. And No One’s Talking About It. – no, crime is a problem (everywhere) and we need more law abiding armed.
- Anti-Christian Policy Approved by State Health Council, Gov. Abbott’s Request Ignored
- Herman: State board rejects Confederate Woman’s Home marker removal request
- Appellate court stops AG Ken Paxton’s criminal case from moving to Collin County, for now – here we go again! Paxton can’t get to trial because there are many who want to keep this issue alive.
- All seven of Texas AG Ken Paxton’s whistleblowers have resigned, been fired or put on leave. more – good, they should all be without state paychecks!
- Paxton investigation looked into Paul’s conspiracy allegations
- Gov. Abbott, TEA issue report showing teacher pay raises for 2019-2020 school year
- Governor Abbott Reappoints Four To Texas Forensic Science Commission
- Abbott Appoints VanSteenberg To Commission on State Emergency Communications
- Project Veritas documents systematic vote fraud in Texas & Hearst reporter attacks Project Veritas
- Judge requiring face masks at Texas polls stopped by 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, more
- Curbside Voting Confusion
- Worried your mail-in ballot still hasn’t arrived? Here’s how to be sure your vote counts
- Republicans File New Lawsuit to Void Harris County Drive-Thru Votes, more
- Texas Woman Mailing Holiday Cards Accused of Voter Fraud by Man
- Cruz and FEC fight over whether donors can repay $10,000 he loaned his 2018 campaign against O’Rourke
- Abbott Brings Back the Blue Pledge to Houston in Wake of Officer’s Death
- TX10: Leftist Mike Siegel on America’s ‘New Deal’ moment – what is it with Leftists loving their photo with megaphones?
- TX23: District stays competitive despite state’s political shifts
- John Cornyn embarks on final reelection sprint as late Democratic spending crests in U.S. Senate race
- Whitlock: Why we need to send Sen. Cornyn back to Washington for a fourth term
- Sen. John Cornyn ‘backs the blue’ in Houston as challenger MJ Hegar rakes in $3.6M
- Speaker Bonnen sits on millions, doling out relatively small amounts to help GOP candidates – Why? Because the more he keeps on-hand (and he can’t raise much now as a lame duck) the more power he has in future years. Simple.
- Szwarc: What Is a Republican?
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump Rewrites H-1B Program to Help American White-Collar Workers
- Federal court revives free speech lawsuit against UT
- Despite fewer regulations, emissions are declining, oil industry says
- Ted Cruz to Twitter CEO: ‘Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you?’
- Texas Ranks 29th in Reliance on Federal Funding
- Washington’s ‘Knowledge Problem’ About Innovation, Technology and Google
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- Presidential race / national politics
- President tweets appreciation for Trump signs in Lufkin trees
- Ari Fleischer Endorses Donald Trump for President
- ‘Anonymous’ Never Trumper Miles Taylor Now Works for Google, more
- Flint City Council’s Maurice Davis: Dems Not Helping Black Folks –Trump the ‘Man for the Job’ VIDEO
- Hackers steal $2.3M from Wisconsin GOP’s Trump campaign days before the election
- Ben Shapiro: The Great COVID Lie
- CNN refuses to run pro-Trump ad warning of Biden tax hikes on middle class Americans – the revoking of the GOP/Trump tax cut is a big tax hike on all
- 2016: Final RCP Averages Underestimated Trump’s Lead in Key Battleground States
- Trump’s humor is his weakness — and his strength
- The Philly riots could throw Pennsylvania to Trump
- Trump Draws Thousands to Campaign Rallies in Arizona, Kamala Harris Draws ‘Approximately 100’
- Biden Warns Us About His Authoritarianism
- Biden vows to stop, reverse Trump’s immigration record
- Telemundo poll: Biden’s lead among Hispanics down to five in Florida, far behind Hillary’s pace
- Biden Aids and Abets China’s Awful Regime
- Biden’s plan to ‘transition away’ from the oil industry would hurt Texas, New Mexico the most
- A NYT reporter deleted a tweet linking the oil and gas industry to white supremacy
- Kamala Harris will vist 3 Texas cities
- Nolte: 12 Reasons the Joe Biden Corruption Revelations Are Credible
- MSNBC’s Ruhle: Hunter Biden Allegations Have Been ‘Debunked’ – by whom and with what?
- Hunter Biden emails: Tony Bobulinski says he was warned, ‘You’re just going to bury all of us’
- ‘Damning’ Hunter Biden documents mysteriously vanish in transit to Los Angeles, Tucker says
- UPS Conducting ‘Urgent Investigation’ Into Missing Hunter Biden Docs Shipped By Fox News
- UPS found the missing documents sent to Tucker Carlson
- Soros-Connected ‘Election Integrity Partnership’ Protects Color Revolution Agenda to Oust President Trump
- Eva Longoria is famous for her acting, but she’s increasingly recognized as a political player in Texas and beyond – she’s just another ignorant Leftist
- The Unelected Tyrants Who Burned Down the Golden State
- Girl Scouts of America congratulate Amy Coney Barrett and the angry mob went nuts – that they caved to the mob is the real story, GSA & BSA are worthless.
- Why Absentee Ballots Arriving after Election Day Represent a Vote-Counting Problem
- Freedom of Speech in Danger – exactly what they’ve done in the UK and elsewhere
- Brady Campaign Runs Swing State Ad on Health Insurance, Not Gun Control
- The demise of America has been greatly exaggerated
- The Lincoln Project Channel is God’s punishment for our sinful ways – In the first quarter of 2020, 90 percent of all the group’s spending went to Lincoln Project staff or firms owned by them. In the second quarter, they improved slightly; a mere 86 percent of expenses went into the Project’s own pockets.
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- Border / immigration
- Gulf Cartel Armored Vehicle Tech near Texas Border Improves
- Trump Rewrites H-1B Program to Help American White-Collar Workers
- Report: US Knew of Problems Family Separation Would Cause – so? All these people entered illegally, they are the source of their own problem
- Biden vows to stop, reverse Trump’s immigration record
- Trump officials in Texas tout progress on 400 miles of border wall before election
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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 10/29/2020 (pdf) – 17,700* deaths & “active cases” of 96,528 (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
- Houston to test sewage from 60 schools, 15 nursing homes for COVID-19
- Gov. Cuomo: I’m Holding Trump ‘Responsible for Every’ Coronavirus Death in This Country – the man who forced thousands of Covid-positive people into nursing homes resulting in thousands of deaths!
- Ben Shapiro: The Great COVID Lie
- Texas Voters Divided on Coronavirus Vaccine, Poll Shows
- Moderna: We’re about ready to launch our COVID-19 vaccine too
- El Paso leaders contemplating full “shut down” despite illegality of such
- New Mexico sees same rising case trend but had maintained strict 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
- Midland ISD uses snow day to clean and disinfect campuses – fine but humans are the hosts of viruses.
- Texas Teachers Group to Abbott: Prevent in-Person College Graduations – I thought these folks were all about “local” control and that’s what we have without Abbott action on the issue. More of the same old hypocrisy.
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- Business/Economy
- Q3 Growth Spikes, But U.S. Economy Far From Full Recovery
- Surge in virus threatens to reverse global economic rebounds
- Exxon to lay off 1,900 US employees, mostly in Houston
- ConocoPhillips Posts Smaller-Than-Expected Loss as Oil Prices Recover, more
- Chevron laying off about 570 from Houston-based Noble Energy after acquisition
- UK increases drive Group 1 profit in Q3
- Houston has lost the most construction jobs in the nation this year – it’s not as due to the oil downturn as to very strict WuFlu lockdown.
- On Gulf Coast, is carbon storage the next big thing?
- Texas-based company is giving ranch water a new look
- Texans have some of the lowest credit scores in the nation, study finds
- AAA Texas: Statewide pump price average drops to 11-week low
- U.S. Marshals to Collect $50 Million Dollar Debt From Bart Reagor, more
- Affected by Reagor-Dykes collapse? You can file for relief.
- FERC approves application for Double E pipeline by Summit Midstream
- Ring Energy restores production to within 15 percent of 2020Q1
- Matador, affiliate San Mateo expect record production, revenue in 2020Q4
- Concho Resources averaged 201,000 b/d of oil production in 2020Q3
- CBRE to Move Corporate Headquarters From Los Angeles to Dallas
- Austin cybersecurity firm NSS Labs shuts down – another shutdown casualty
- Austin startup Esticom sold to California tech company
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Abbott: Troops will be ‘in position’ after election but only deployed in Texas ‘as needed’
- San Angelo residents propose name changes for Robert E. Lee Middle School
- Philadelphia under curfew amid unrest over police shooting of Walter Wallace
- White House offers federal help to Philadelphia to quell riots, looting
- Philly police ordered to not arrest looters
- Authorities find van with explosives amid Philadelphia protests
- Breonna Taylor’s mother requests an independent prosecutor to present case to new grand jury
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Train Derails in Southeast Texas in Orange Co., Forcing Evacuations
- Motorists flee after train derails in southeast Texas
- Prosecutors: Houston ISD vendor overcharged district by $6 million in kickback scheme with administrator
- Midland DA, law firm release joint statements concerning Jasmine Melendez’s death
- Odessa Police Department asks for help identifying robbery suspect
- James Staley extradited, booked into Wichita County Jail
- Fictitious license plate reportedly lands two in jail
- Wichita Falls police: Victim stabbed suspect to stop attack
- Dallas ME confirms body in car was missing Fort Worth grandmother
- Abilene man has child sex charges dropped after alleged victim recants, moves out of state
- Fire crews called twice Wednesday to Abilene house
- Elsik HS student targeted on Instagram before she was killed, family says
- Girl kicks man who tried to snatch her as she got off school bus
- Suspects still at-large after violent week across Houston area Updated 2 hours ago
- Two teens charged with capital murder in deadly Central Texas shooting.
- Ex-nurse charged in alleged sexual assault at Waco hospital
- Texas man charged with sex trafficking after allegedly buying, selling teen ‘sex slave’
- Man was ‘illegally incarcerated’ by Hunt County sheriff, Texas Rangers in mass shooting, lawsuit says
- 4 linked to 7-Eleven robberies in Austin accused of crimes in other cities, police say
- Austin police searching for man accused of slamming person’s head on sidewalk
- Woman found with dozens of stolen IDs, forged checks, Hays County deputies say
- Man’s death in South Austin being investigated as a homicide, police say
- Weather
- 1,200 Vernon residents still without power following winter storm
- Power outages cancel school for Petrolia CISD Thursday
- Two Abilene radio stations remain off the air
- Power outages persist in Abilene, Big Country
- Winter storm slows efforts to return power in Lubbock – sunny and nice today
- Many in Lubbock and South Plains still without power Thursday – impact of winter storm
- Day 3: Over 17,000 customers still without power across the South Plains
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- Local government
- Lubbock City Council approves impact fees smaller than recommended – taxes on growth.
- No-bond advocates say Wichita Falls ISD banners violate law
- Richardson ISD: Electioneering for Democrats Using Taxpayer-Funded School Resources?
- Alpine High School begins construction on their new building
- Howard County ‘Assitance District’ proposition explained
- San Antonio business groups fight back against CPS Energy, SAWS petitions
- Proposition B explained: Behind the San Antonio plan to use sales tax revenue to grow the workforce – and insane worthless program if ever there was such.
- DeSoto Mayor Curtistene McCowan has died of lung cancer, three weeks after announcing diagnosis
- Austin’s Prop A campaign turns ugly in final days
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- Colleges & universities
- Federal court revives free speech lawsuit against UT
- Tech advisers reflect on effectiveness of remote advising
- TTU Goin’ Band from Raiderland discusses inclusivity efforts – so people cannot just join or not? More Leftist poison.
- TTU Researchers Receive $1 Million Grant To Increase Hispanic Degree Pursuit, Completion In Food, Agricultural, Natural Resources And Human Science Disciplines – why does the Left not respect the freedom of choice of Hispanics?
- New Concentration In Energy Offered Through Texas Tech Graduate School
- Texas Teachers Group to Abbott: Prevent in-Person College Graduations – I thought these folks were all about “local” control and that’s what we have without Abbott action on the issue. More of the same old hypocrisy.
Pratt’s post for 10/29/2020
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