- Rep. Phelan, other Republicans intent on giving Texas Democrats that which voters refused to give, Here is the pledge many of these folk signed to select a speaker free of Dem-influence only from within the Republican House Caucus
- Group of 15 Democrats, mostly women, throw support behind Chairman Phelan for speaker – these are far Lefties!
- Support grows for Phelan as House speaker as rival drops out
- Rep. Phelan names Tommy Williams as Chairman of the Speaker Transition team – this alone is a terrible sign!
- Republican Dade Phelan says he has broad support in Texas House speaker race
- Now that Phelan is presumptive Speaker, Rep. Richard Raymond proposes a one day special session to elect the presiding officer in December
- New Connections Found Between Attorney General Ken Paxton and Nate Paul According to Deposition, more – now it’s wrong to have a friendly relationhip!
- AG officials complain of retaliation after taking Paxton allegations to FBI – again, where is the evidence. Allegations against the boss without evidence should lead to “retaliation.”
- Governor Abbott wants to stop spent nuclear fuel from coming to West Texas
- Abbott Sends Letter Opposing Storage Of Spent Nuclear Fuel In Andrews County
- Attorney General Paxton Announces Staff Promotions: Lesley French as Chief of Staff and Shawn Cowles as Deputy AG for Civil Litigation
- AP Sources: Texas AG’s Affair Tied to Criminal Allegations – but again this gives zero evidence to the allegations of criminal behavior alleged.
- Texas schools still failing special education students, federal review finds
- TEA gives districts option to end online-only classes for struggling students
- Governor Abbott Announces Partnership With CyberStart America To Promote Cybersecurity Career Track For Texas High School Students
- OneStar Foundation Announce 2020 Governor’s Volunteer Awards Recipients
- Abbott Renews State Disaster Declaration For COVID-19 in November 2020
- Governor Abbott Statement On Texas Being Named The Top State For Foreign Direct Investment And Free Trade
- A controversial rule limiting housing options for homeless Texans with criminal records was softened, but it still worries advocates
- Texas Agencies Seek $75M to Fix Foster Care Problems
- Direct Action Texas joins national efforts to expose voter fraud
- Are Texas Elections Secure?
- Texas GOP Chairman West: Texas is still Red
- Chairman Allen West on GOP Victories
- “It’s not purple. It’s not blue. It’s conservative.” Watch what happened in the Texas elections VIDEO
- How Texas Republicans beat Democrats at their own game
- Democrats hoped high turnout would usher in a blue wave across Texas. It didn’t.
- Wasserman: Vote margins along Texas-Mexico border were ‘catastrophic’ for Democrats – damn those “brown people” didn’t agree with the Texas Democratic Party chairman that they “belong” to him and his party!
- Beto Pancho O’Rourke: There’s much to learn from this election
- Beto Pancho O’Rourke Kicked the Hornet’s Nest in 2018. Republican Votes Spilled Out. – great headline and largely right.
- Joe Deshotel talks Democratic messaging in the Valley
- Democrats Sweep Harris, Fort Bend State District Judge Races – proving the ending of straight ticket voting did not provide the desired effect there.
- US Postal Service Found 815 Ballots in Texas Facility Sweeps – you can never remove a certain error rate from something so large. It is more evidence that we need to limit voting by mail even more not expand such.
- Democrats pick up 1 seat in Texas Senate, but GOP majority still strong
- Texas’ LGBT [lesbian] Caucus is re-elected
- The Back Mic: 2020 Texas House Margins of Victory Compared to 2018
- HD65: Democrat Michelle Beckley Bests GOP’s Kronda Thimesch in Contest for Denton County House Seat
- HD45 & 47: Democratic Reps. Erin Zwiener and Vikki Goodwin Defeat GOP Challengers in Central Texas House Races, more
- SD30: Luther: ‘It’s still very possible that I could go back and serve the other five’
- HD108: Rep. Morgan Meyer Wins Reelection, Defeating Democrat Joanna Cattanach in Rematch for North Dallas District – Dems in the media were sure of this race.
- HD112: Republican Angie Chen Button Once Again Defeats Brandy Chambers in Dallas Suburbs
- HD135: Democratic State Rep. Jon Rosenthal Ekes Out Win In Harris County Swing District
- Republican Jim Wright Wins Railroad Commission Seat in a Landslide, Victorious Over Massive Democratic Effort
- New Republicans to Fill All Open Congressional Seats in Texas
- Limestone County Social Worker Charged With 134 Felony Counts Involving Election Fraud – classic version of fraud that does happen often and that Dems want to change laws to make it impossible to prove.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Cruz, Roy and Williams man the battlements for Trump election fraud claims
- Trump Immigration Rule on Welfare Takes Effect Again During Appeal
- Did Trump retaliate against FERC chairman? – another swamp-swimmer proud that he opposed the policies of his boss, the President. Scumbag.
- Nancy Pelosi Formally Requests Two More Years as Speaker of the House
- Control of U.S. Senate Hinges on Georgia Results
- After donating $500K to Trump’s election defense fund, Sen. Graham pivots to working with Dems on immigration reform and infrastructure
- Oral Argument Heard At Supreme Court On Key Religious Liberty Case
- DOJ leaker caught, pleads guilty to outing cooperating witnesses in drug case
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump right not to concede: The 2020 election could be a bigger scandal than Russiagate
- Trump lawyer: This election is not over
- Confounding Democrats, Trump Makes Inroads With Latinos
- Trump’s Latino outreach has paid off — big time
- First Reading: Why it was Viva Trump! in Zapata County
- Presidential polls in Texas showed a tight race, but Trump won by 6 points. What happened? – once again polling firms were wrong, used wrong models, assumptions and more.
- In Texas, Biden’s urban wins couldn’t offset Trump’s millions of votes in rural, red counties
- Trump Eclipses Obama’s Popular Vote Record, Reinforcing Speculation of a 2024 Run if He Loses
- Republicans Retain Power in States Despite Democratic Push
- Reporter’s Notebook: Did oil doom Biden in Texas? – no because other Republicans beat Democrats across the board so oil was not the factor.
- ‘Groundhog Day Here in Texas’: Biggest Red State Stays Red
- Trump once again proves how well he understands America
- Horowitz: How Republican-controlled state legislatures can rectify election fraud committed by courts and governors
- Who’s excited about a Biden presidency? Almost nobody.
- A Trump loss will overshadow a catastrophic election for the Democrats
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick accuses pollsters of suppressing vote for President Trump – good for him using the word the Democrats (and press) irresponsibly throw around regularly.
- U.S. House Democrats in marathon call squabble over how they lost seats amid projections of Blue Wave
- Is America a banana republic?
- Election challenges live updates: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania judges toss Trump suits
- Trump Campaign Loses Lawsuit Seeking to Halt Michigan Vote Count
- Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over ballots
- Judge Orders U.S. Postal Service to Do Twice Daily Sweeps for States Still Receiving Ballots
- US Postal Service Found 815 Ballots in Texas Facility Sweeps
- U.S. Postal Service Delivered 40,000 Votes Nationwide Thursday: Lawyer
- Detroit city worker blows whistle, claims ballots were ordered backdated. FBI probing.
- GOP Expert Describes Plan to Reveal Ballot Fraud
- Michigan GOP lawyer alleges ballot misconduct at TCF Center in Detroit
- Candace Owens announces lawsuit against Facebook fact-checkers
- Facebook deletes ‘Stop the Steal’ group, enforces emergency limiting protocols post-election
- YouTube, Twitter and Facebook remove Steve Bannon video calling for violence against Fauci
- Democrats Blame Gerrymandering, Campaign Strategy for Failure to Flip State Legislatures – Dems are experts at gerrymandering but it’s never a problem, or wrong, when they engage in such.
- In Blue and Red States, Milestone Wins for LGBTQ [homsexual] Candidates
- Jimmy Kimmel Wants Trump Arrested over ‘Despicable and Incoherent Attack On Democracy – you see? To oppose the Left is to be criminal.
- Tapper: Trump Will Be Physically Escorted from White House – moron
- The Progressive Agenda Is Dead – wishful thinking
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- Border / immigration
- Trump Immigration Rule on Welfare Takes Effect Again During Appeal
- Mexican Government Orders Military Silence After Fmr. Defense Secretary’s U.S. Arrest
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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 11/06/2020 (pdf) – 18,453* deaths & “active cases” of 116,225 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about a third 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
- Studies: COVID-19 mortality plunging in hospitals
- US Department of Defense Sends Medical Teams to El Paso
- El Paso Gets Trailers to Meet Possible COVID-19 Death Surge
- Lubbock Medical Examiner’s Office sees influx of patients amid COVID-19 surge – sorry but they are not “patients” once they are dead.
- Texas stands pat on countermeasures as COVID-19 spread worsens – dear morons, the “countermeasures” you support haven proven ineffective worldwide.
- Additional nurses from State of Texas requested to help Hendrick Health Systems in Abilene
- 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
- Abilene City Manager encouraging people to wear a mask, slow spread of COVID-19 – silly, they’re wearing them and the case numbers are spiking!
- Rinaldi: The Sinister Effect of the COVID ‘Muzzle’
- In Europe, the use of masks leads to more COVID-19 cases
- The Most Masked European Countries Have the Biggest Coronavirus Surges
- Whitmer calls on Michigan legislature to pass law to force you to wear masks
- 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
- Over 240 Texas Schools Sign up for COVID-19 Rapid Testing Program
- Is Texas on the verge of a pandemic-induced teacher shortage?
- TEA gives districts option to end online-only classes for struggling students
- Failing online Plainview ISD students must return to in-person instruction
- Political ads fuel record quarterly revenue for Nexstar, the Irving-based TV station operator
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- Business/Economy
- Comptroller Hegar: Consumers will lead Texas out of recession VIDEO
- Oil & Gas Drilling Rig Count Summary
- Rig count continues its steady climb
- Employment rebounds in Texas oil and gas industry in September
- U.S. energy chiefs weigh what Biden means for oil, renewables
- Oil drops below $38 on surging virus, close U.S. election race
- Hess can’t recover $218 million in damages from Schlumberger
- EOG Resources stems losses in third quarter
- NRG profits declines as demand, prices fall
- CenterPoint 3rd-quarter profit falls by more than half
- Plains All American Pipeline profits plunge in third quarter
- Texas should have enough power this winter, next spring
- SpaceX Texas Starship hop tentatively set for Nov 9-11
- SpaceX launches Space Force GPS satellite
- Bezos sells another $3 billion of Amazon shares
- McAllen Foreign Trade Zone celebrates its 50th Anniversary
- Cuts continue, but Texas job market shows improvement
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo announces plans for 2021 Livestock Show
- Justices axe $90K verdict against Ross Stores, find company not liable for fistfight between employees
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Protesters rally in downtown Austin, call for fair ballot count after historic Election Day
- Armed anti-Trump protestors rally outside of city hall Wednesday
- Shooting in Dallas Wounds Community College Police Officer
- Ex-Minneapolis police officers in George Floyd case to be tried together, trial can be broadcast
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- In a lasting patch of Texas beach, residents seek to keep oil out
- Man arrested in Wimberley after burning uncle’s ‘collectible car,’ others, authorities say
- Deadly shooting in Southeast Austin sparked by dispute over drugs, police say
- Child injured after vehicle struck bicycle in Northwest Austin, EMS says
- Man, 18, Arrested in Slaying of Actor Eddie Hassell in Texas
- Faulty DNA paternity test results bring decades of heartbreak, families say VIDEO
- Man wanted for murder after body found in storage unit south of Lubbock
- Family wants Schertz officers fired after police use Taser on teenage son fleeing traffic stop – why we have endemic lawlessness, the parents want police punished instead of wanting their son corrected.
- Video footage of Lubbock armored truck robbery VIDEO
- Police searching for man wanted in connection to sexual assault of a child
- Odessa police investigating multiple shots fired, burglaries
- DPS searching for suspect who fled troopers on foot near UTPB
- Wichita County Democrats headquarters burglarized – who but a Democrat would want anything from in there?
- Awaiting trial for murder, Justin Michael Love jailed on perjury charges
- Man arrested for DWI blamed transplant medications
- 3rd person arrested, charged in Brownfield murder of Evan Tyrese Anderson
- Wounded Lubbock veteran, family celebrate newly gifted house
- Texas man drives more than 300 miles to kill ex-girlfriend, then himself
- ‘Yellowstone’ creator, local restaurateur chip in to help solve cold case murders in McLennan County VIDEO
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- Local government
- Help Find Misuse of Public Funds
- El Paso Mayor Headed to Runoff Election With Former Mayor – Dee Margo is not sufficiently far Left for the Leftists in El Paso.
- Plainview City Council appoints Derrick Watson as new police chief
- Windham School District creates new position: Transition Service Specialist-Equity and Inclusion
- Reelected Abilene Mayor lays out plan for next three years VIDEO
- Jim Ned ISD voters pass multimillion dollar bond propositions, superintendent shares plans moving forward
- List of names to be considered for 3 Abilene ISD schools named after Confederate leaders
- Garduno named Abilene ISD associate superintendent
- Lubbock Police Department Application Opportunity This Saturday
- Houston Metro has lost half its riders, but still has a $7.5B plan for new projects – this is how it works, spend, spend, spend even when customers don’t want the service anymore.
- Austin Voters Overwhelmingly Approve 20% City Property Tax Hike for Project Connect
- Multiple Pro-Taxpayer Candidates Advance to Austin City Council Runoffs
- Voters Soundly Reject Nearly $1 Billion Bond Package in Northwest ISD
- In $3.54 Billion Tax Increase Decision, Dallas ISD Voters Pass Lion’s Share of Bond Proposals
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Tech Upholds Its Tradition Of Excellence In Banking And Finance
- UTPB student earns national Gold Award
- ACU occupational therapy program partners with Hendrick
- First-generation ACU student leads program to help other students
Pratt’s post for 11/6/2020
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