- The Back Mic: A Timeline of the Race for Texas House Speaker
- Rep. Cyrier drops out of speaker race, backs Rep. Morrison
- Allen West: No Backroom Speaker Selection
- Liberal Evan Smith pontificates on the Texas House speaker race AUDIO
- Rebeca Huddle takes oath, joins Texas Supreme Court
- AG Paxton: Fifth Circuit Agrees to Hear Fetal Dismemberment Case En Banc
- Developer Tied to Texas AG Says Feds Tampered With Warrants – yes, that is the point of the investigation that any of us would want but the Travis County has withdrawn its referral effectively stopping any look that might uncover bad action.
- Even With This Year’s Raises, Texas Teachers’ Pay Still Lags – see how it works! I told you that after praising the HUGE, all-time record increase in public school funding, the press would return to how nothing is ever enough.
- Texas Teachers Receive Substantial Pay Raises this School Year, Report Shows
- Low Enrollments Are About to Cost Texas School Districts Lots of Money – guess they should have opened up and nixed all the damn don’t-learn-from-home crap.
- Sexual Assault Survivors’ Task Force Issues First Biennial Report To Texas Legislature
- Comptroller Skirts Medicaid Expansion as Fix for Texas’ Uninsured Woes – the comptroller cannot expand Obamacare, only the legislature can.
- Former Senator H. Tati Santiesteban passed away in El Paso
- Szwarc: What Is a Republican?
- Harris County Looks to Boost Turnout by Offering 24-Hour Voting
- Tilove: Don’t forget, you can actually vote on Election Day
- Texas Early Voting Exceeds Total of All 2016 Ballots
- 9 million have already voted in Texas, passing 2016′s total
- Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including the Turnout This Year
- Why it was right for Judge Pulliam’s voting booth mask mandate to be stopped
- New Lawsuit Looks to Disqualify Harris County Ballots Cast Via Drive-Thru
- Is Curbside Voting Secure? – not when run like Dallas…
- Ballot Harvesting in San Antonio AUDIO
- What you should watch — and what you should ignore — while the votes are being counted in Texas
- Texans no longer have a straight-ticket voting option. How that affects Texas House races is unclear. – it should hurt Dems the most but it will also hurt Republicans in non-heavy Dem-areas.
- Beto O’Rourke going door knocking in Arlington in support of Texas House candidates
- LGBT [homosexual] candidates running in Texas
- New political action committee seeks to train, elect black candidates in San Antonio – how about just people or are you all racists?
- “We’re on overdrive’: Texas House campaigns working down to the wire to win competitive races
- Collin County is the center of a political storm as the Texas suburbs become more competitive for Democrats
- Sen. John Cornyn, MJ Hegar make last-minute appeals to voters ahead of election day
- Cornyn makes stop in Wichita Falls as Election Day approaches
- Analysis: A Texas election with a decade of politics at stake – right, it’s redistricting friends; you must get out to vote
- Despite polls showing a close race, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claims if Democrats win on Election Day, it will be “because they stole it”
- Texas Democrats think a seat on the oil and gas regulating board could be their best chance of winning statewide in two decades – probably right.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Federal Reserve widens terms of Main Street lending program amid a murky timeline on stimulus
- Billions potentially went to fraudulent applicants in SBA’s coronavirus relief program, report – all big programs, including all welfare, are fraught with fraud.
- DOJ investigating Hunter Biden over money-laundering allegations
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Greatest golfer in history endorses a 2020 presidential candidate
- Univision: Trump 49, Biden 46
- Black Americans for Trump
- Among voters who believe the country isn’t better off, Trump gets most of the blame
- Trump has the momentum in the final week
- Trump’s SECRET FORMULA! Will these BIG NUMBERS sink Joe Biden’s ship?
- Herschel Walker: The Importance Of Re-electing President Trump AUDIO
- Lil Wayne meets with Trump to discuss president’s economic prosperity plan for black Americans
- Is Trump’s barnstorming tour helping him or hurting him?
- Cartel-Linked Mexican Governor Calls on Immigrants in U.S. to Vote for Biden
- Oil faces Iran shock if Biden win points to nuclear deal
- The World is China’s if Biden Wins
- Is China Funding the Phony Joe Biden Campaign? – valuable writing on how ActBlue works to hide donors
- Facebook glitch impacts presidential campaign fundraising, Biden camp says $500k lost
- San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich endorses Joe Biden in ad, says he ‘stands for truth’ – he’s a loonytoon liberal
- Trolling in Texas? ‘Biden Bus Tour’ Can’t Escape ‘Trump Train’ of Fired up Trump Supporters!
- Kamala Harris brings Biden campaign to Texas
- Kamala Harris joining Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro in campaign across Texas on Friday
- Kamala Harris tries to fire up Fort Worth supporters as part of three-city Texas swing – if she has to “try” then it’s all a bit late.
- Kamala Harris visit to Houston is key in campaign’s steady outreach to Black Texans
- Politico: Florida Dems hit the panic button over Miami-Dade turnout
- Thin-skinned Obama Can’t Get Past His Grudge Against Trump
- Brexit architect Nigel Farage: Mainstream media using polls to suppress Trump turnout – nothing new in that
- Trump Hate is the Perfect Safe Space for the Intelligentsia
- Federal court says Minnesota must separate late mail-in ballots, in case they’re ruled invalid
- Heartland Democrats: Leftists in “Sheep’s Clothing”
- Singers, musicians sign on with Planned Parenthood ad campaign in swing states
- Profane AOC on Trump, the election, socialist demands and freezing her eggs
- AOC Wears $14,000 Outfit in Vanity Fair to Curse About Trump
- What counts as voter intimidation? – what a bull-bleep story!
- How UPS explained the missing Hunter Biden flash drive
- Franklin Graham challenges pope’s endorsement of same-sex civil unions
- Another Professor Resigns After Pretending to Be Non-White
- Michigan Fraternity Sued Over Nonbinary, Female Members
- Leading Gunmaker Boosts Production, Still Can’t Meet Surging Demand
- NBC News’ Disingenuous Propaganda Piece Deems 64-Page Biden Report “Disinformation”
- NY Post: Twitter “running a blackmail operation” with our account
- Chris Wallace says he ‘never believed’ that Joe Biden did not speak about Hunter’s business activity
- Glenn Greenwald resigns from the Intercept over site’s refusal to publish a story about Hunter Biden docs
- What Trump can learn from Boris in fighting fake news
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- Border / immigration
- Mom Tapes Meth, Fentanyl to Son’s Body at Texas Border Crossing, Say Feds
- Customs and Border Control Commissioner Mark Morgan says Twitter account suspended
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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 10/30/2020 (pdf) – 17,819* deaths & “active cases” of 98,775 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about 1/10th 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!
- El Paso County judge orders two-week shutdown of non-essential businesses amid Covid-19 surge – does nothing effective
- Libertarian group’s video against coronavirus measures features Idaho lieutenant governor – gotta love Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin!
- More evidence the number of COVID-19 deaths is greatly exaggerated
- Hockely Co: Seven new deaths reported Thursday, all Lynwood Nursing home residents
- Amarillo hospitals at ‘critical capacity’ as COVID-19 conditions worsen
- Lubbock frontline workers overwhelmed by surge
- El Paso County’s judge has ordered nonessential businesses to close to slow coronavirus spread. The Texas attorney general says he can’t do that.
- El Paso county judge says only a court can declare closure order invalid as lawsuit is filed
- El Paso police refuse to enforce county judge’s order limiting business due to virus outbreak
- El Paso Mayor Dee Margo defends decision to ignore county judge’s shutdown order
- 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
- Twelve graphs prove masks are useless against COVID-19
- 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.
- Texas Education Agency rolls out COVID-19 rapid testing program for students and school staff
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- Business/Economy
- Baker Hughes Rig Count Summary, Permian additions lead to 7th straight increase in rigs
- Oil set for biggest monthly drop since March as virus curbs grow
- Oil faces Iran shock if Biden win points to nuclear deal
- Exxon loses $680 million in third quarter
- Exxon’s historic losing streak adds urgency to CEO’s overhaul
- On the road to a deal, Conoco and Oxy ended up in different places
- Enterprise Products posts $1B profit after slashing costs
- The e-commerce boom offers a lifeline for oil
- Big Oil loses refining crutch with margins crushed last quarter
- Permian Fuels America campaign moves forward
- Oil show cancellation is latest hit for hotel industry in Midland
- SpaceX finds clogged valves in several Merlin engines
- SpaceX’s Starship poised to launch Texas’ space industry into new era
- Slingshot Aerospace raises $8M to expand products, team
- Wichita Falls fifth for women in construction field
- A transmission line and nature preserve can co-exist
- Walmart restores guns, ammo to store shelves
- Frost Bank’s top leaders taking reduced pay in 2021 – going on in almost all businesses but we sure don’t see it from paid local gov’t folk who have done much of the damage.
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Protesters Retaliate Against Seattle TV Station for Reporting Riot Arrests
- THREAT: ‘Shut Down DC’ Releases Target Maps to ‘Confront’ Trump’s Campaign Officials and Supporters at Home
- Amid riots and looting Philly City Council votes to ban tear gas and rubber bullets
- Evergreen State College enrollment is down sharply again in 2020
- Family of Philadelphia man fatally shot by police doesn’t want officers charged with murder
- Unhappy with response to May protests, Austin council members ask police chief for Election Day safety plan
- 2 more Austin police officers sidelined after force used in May protests
- Austin police probe whether issues with less-lethal rounds led to protesters’ injuries – they were rioters not protesters
- If Riots Return, Will Democrat District Attorney Enforce the Law?
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Abilene, Lubbock, Midland bank robber charged after DNA, fingerprint matches, more
- Wichita Falls police investigate another ATM burglary
- Police: Woman arrested after domestic disturbance seen on phone video
- Abilene ISD employee arrested for child pornography, more
- Abilene ISD employee arrested for child porn is fired
- Motorcyclist dies after Thursday crash, Abilene PD releases ID
- S.C. man accused of buying 19-year-old ‘sex slave’ in Texas
- Lubbock Man Shoots Wife, Then Commits Suicide
- Two Lubbock men part of gang/mafia bust in El Paso, DPS says
- Abilene police: Group home knife assault leads to man’s arrest
- Police search for missing Central Texas man
- Some Mauriceville residents allowed to return home after train derailment, evacuation order on Thursday
- Couple’s dispute over money led to shooting, standoff in west Bexar County, BCSO says
- Thieves fail in attempt to break into ATM at Chase Bank, police say
- Footage shows Maverick County deputies tackling man who recorded them, asked for their names
- Rumors about Clements Unit riot put to rest
- Lubbock police & FBI Investigating Armored Truck Robbery
- Weather
- Power for some Xcel Energy customers expected to be restored Friday, Saturday
- Area utilities report progress as thousands remain without power
- A devastating storm for farmers
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- Local government
- Plainview to introduce new police chief next week
- Plainview chooses Lee Lewis Construction for fire station, police station construction projects
- Wichita Falls city council to consider 4A money to improve business park – businesses need to improve business parks, not taxpayers.
- Wichita Falls seeing increase in illegal food sales – the deep reach of gov’t
- ‘Moderate’ Austin City Councilman Continues Revealing True Far-Left Views
- Austin council members ask police chief for Election Day safety plan
- Austin spends $883K on electric bikes as customers opt for easier ride – ha! So much for all the health crap about the bike-share program!
- Reviewing Amarillo’s 2021 Tax Bill
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- Colleges & universities
- UT-Austin report details sexual harassment, assault reports made to employees
- Sul Ross University wins grant to support programs on climate change – more Leftism and anti-science most likely.
- MSU West College of Education Dean honored
- TTU: FBRI Director Receives Discover Natural Fibers Initiative Innovation Award
- Texas Tech Recognized As A Top University In The U.S. For Hispanic Students
- Criminal Justice Programs Embrace ‘Wokeness’
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