- Texas GOP chair: Party won’t support Dade Phelan for speaker – I certainly don’t support the process of his getting there. It’s a sellout of Republican voters.
- GOP Chair West Calls Phelan a ‘Political Traitor’ for Courting Democrats
- Texas GOP Chair says party will not “support or accept” Republican Rep. Dade Phelan as next House speaker
- Who Is Dade Phelan, Presumptive Speaker of the Texas House? – a guy who will owe Dems much for their support and who already has voted with the homosexual lobby in Texas, that’s who.
- Phelan creates working group led by Rep. Tom Oliverson and Rep. Senfronia Thompson to focus on legislative operations during pandemic – so he basically surrenders GOP control to a power sharing agreement with Dems?
- Rep. Phelan, other Republicans intent on giving Texas Democrats that which voters refused to give
- State reps signed a firm pledge on House Speaker selection and then did the opposite. AUDIO
- Gov. Greg Abbott knocks Austin for ‘defunding’ police, says state may take over policing in some areas
- Attorney General Ken Paxton must resign now – the DMN has been trying to destroy Paxton since he won the runoff to be the GOP nominee for AG.
- A Timeline of the Criminal Allegations Against Attorney General Ken Paxton
- AG Paxton: Poll Watchers Must Be Permitted to Observe Ballot Counting
- Sales Tax Revenue Down Again as Texas Faces Budget Deficit
- Bill filing for 2021 Texas session begins with legislation on abortion, police stops and redistricting
- Landgraf files bill to create active shooter alert system – these are feel good but do little items that cost money and time best used elsewhere
- Democrat files anti-gun rights legislation in Austin
- As Other States Loosen Drug Laws, An ‘Incremental Approach’ To Cannabis Likely In Texas
- Will Texans See Budget Gimmicks or Spending Restraint in 2021?
- Governor Abbott Statement On Passing Of Mother-In-Law
- What to expect as Texas heads to the U.S. Supreme Court in bid to overturn the Affordable Care Act
- Obamacare to Take Center Stage This Week in the U.S. Supreme Court
- In Texas, a seasonal shift away from election politics
- Public Polling’s Predicted Blue Wave Meets Red Reality in Texas
- No blue wave here: Lubbock, South Plains stay very red
- Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez: Young voters of color are key to flipping Texas – Democrats, keep taking your advice from losers.
- Amid tumultuous times, Texans vote for the status quo
- Still Counting in Texas: Provisional Ballots
- A handful of battleground races in Texas remain unsettled days after Election Day
- Texas Social Worker Charged With 134 Election Fraud Felonies
- Paxton Loses Case Targeting Travis County Vote Counting – the Court (5 to 4) voted to allow Philadelphia-style cheating by making poll/election watching ineffective. Abbott’s new appointee Rebeca Huddle voted wrong along with Nathan Hecht, Debra Lehrmann, Brett Busby and Jane Bland. These need un-electing as soon as they appear on the ballot.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- [If elected:] Biden promises to appoint “at least one” Native American to the cabinet – Texas Tech Law dean on rumored list (a putative Republican)
- Mitt Romney has been asked to lead Health and Human Services in Biden administration
- Biden’s climate plan would hinge on Senate outcome
- Biden’s Pick for Coronavirus Task Force: ‘Living Too Long Is Also a Loss’
- How Joe Biden’s Top Four Priorities Could Impact Texans
- Schumer to include Upstate New York and Puerto Rico in statehood legislation
- Sens. Cruz, Johnson, Lee Ask Google CEO to Explain Apparent Election-Related Disparities
- Trump replaces Esper as Defense secretary
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Cruz on Fox ‘The Media Doesn’t Decide Elections’
- Jeb Bush Congratulates ‘President-Elect’ Joe Biden – this is the surrender in advance Republican Party and to think his son P. Bush is our Texas Land Commissioner and planning a run for other office here!
- George W. Bush congratulates Biden on election win – of all people he should no better but he’s another reason to not support Bush folk.
- Biden supporters celebrate in downtown San Antonio; Trump Train members remain upbeat – Biden may indeed get it but it’s a sign of how utterly ignorant our country is when they think media announcements are what determines a winner.
- Biden, Trump supporters rally outside Texas Capitol
- Mexican President: Media ‘Censoring’ Trump’s Concerns over Election Integrity
- Nolte: Corrupt Media Desperate to Close Books on Contested Election
- Noem: ‘We Gave Al Gore 37 Days’ Trump Voter Deserve Same Consideration
- Donald Trump will never be silenced, but he cannot be part of the Republican Party’s future – says a former newspaper editor who is NOT conservative
- 2020 election has highest voter turnout in half a century
- Katy, Texas woman received Alabama mail-ballots in here mail VIDEO
- Deplorables don’t riot
- Patty from 100% Fed Up Talks About Her Shocking Experience As a Poll Watcher at Detroit’s TCF Center On Wednesday following the Election VIDEO
- Michigan lawmakers issued subpoena to election officials during Saturday hearing
- New Lawsuit in MI Alleges “Massive Fraud’ in Election Vote Counting; Calls For New Election in Wayne County
- Election whistleblower in Nevada alleges ballots with faulty signatures were counted in affidavit
- Dead voters: Biden van full of ballots
- GOP AGs hope Supreme Court rules against counting late PA mail-in ballots as soon as possible
- The Republicans’ nightmare in Georgia
- Georgia, Georgia, Georgia
- The Democrats’ civil war begins
- Cockburn: The spectacularly timed Pfizer vaccine announcement
- Pfizer U-turns at warp speed
- A Montana Second Amendment referendum passed despite being massively outspent
- American media beclowns itself again – mistakes fireworks in England for a celebration of Biden
- Few Students Know Anything About Our Civilization
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- Border / immigration
- 67 Migrants Rescued from Abandoned Locked Tractor-Trailer in Texas near Border
- 174 Pounds of Meth, Cocaine Seized at Texas Border Crossing
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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 11/09/2020 (pdf) – 18,743* deaths & “active cases” of 124,617 (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
- Massachusetts sets curfew, Chicago closes indoor dining as U.S. sees record COVID case counts – case counts are not correlating to fatalities
- Hundreds in Galveston getting Pfizer’s COVID vaccine that appears effective
- 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
- El Paso Business Owners Fight County Lockdown, Aided by Attorney General
- Fauci held Zoom call with Gwynth Paltrow, Kim Kardashian, Ashton Kutcher, Katy Perry on COVID-19
- Cuomo: Potential COVID-19 vaccine comes ‘about two months’ too early: “We can’t let this vaccination plan go forward.”
- Biden’s Pick for Coronavirus Task Force: ‘Living Too Long Is Also a Loss’
- 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
- Kaufman: Parent Says ISD’s COVID-19 Response Failed Student
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- Business/Economy
- Ex-Astros GM Jeff Luhnow sues team, claims he was made scapegoat for sign-stealing scandal
- Flynn Restaurant Group bids $816 million to buy NPC International out of bankruptcy
- Potbelly Corp. pares back possible closures amid lease negotiations
- Q3: Red Robin permanently closes 5 restaurants, loses $6.2 million
- The fallout at Grunt Style: Daniel Alarik and the company he founded are locked in court battle
- GM to Add 3,000 Tech Jobs to Develop Vehicles and Software
- AAA Texas announces additional $139M in financial relief for auto insurance policyholders
- Boeing hires former SpaceX software engineer
- Southwest Airlines to start furlough process for small group of employees
- A hemp-based vodka distillery is budding in south Houston
- Oil surges by double digits with vaccine hopes igniting markets
- Hendrick Health System ‘aware of network security threat’ at main Abilene campus, more
- RV Rentals, Sales See Pandemic Boost
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- BLM Protesters Harass Restaurant Patrons During Michigan Protest VIDEO
- Bodycams Haven’t Stopped Police Shootings. Releasing The Footage May Be A Start
- McCloskeys sue photographer who took pic of them armed, protecting home amid protests
- Antifa attacks Multnomah County Democrats building, shatter windows, paint graffiti
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- Crime & general news of 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.
- 1 killed in attempted robbery in Northwest Austin, police say
- Austin homicides rise amid year of pandemic, civil unrest
- Kersten: The Valley Land Fund Owes It the Public to Save Salineño Preserve
- Astronauts Arrive at Launch Site for 2nd SpaceX Crew Flight
- Police: Street racers struck, killed Fort Worth couple
- Suspect flees fatal Montgomery County bar shooting
- Man found shot to death in car at west Houston apartment complex
- Midland: Arrest warrants issued in shooting of 3 males
- One person is dead in a fatal crash in Borden County
- 3.0 magnitude earthquake shakes Gardendale this morning
- Van Horn man arrested on six counts in child-sex investigation
- Indictments: Theft ring operated in Wichita Falls
- Kentucky woman accused of kicking Wichita Falls police officer in head
- Wichita Falls police investigate a reported shooting Friday night on Professional Drive
- Wichita County jailer charged with violating inmates civil rights
- Stolen horse statue honoring slain teen found, more
- Brownwood woman, 37, elected state Jaycees president
- Houston man charged with stealing over 100 pieces mail, including absentee ballot
- City of Abilene Animal Services seizes animals from Paw Angel Animal Rescue after 85 animals were found in residential backyard
- North Texas rental home community told to remove all flags – buy a house and don’t rent if you don’t like the rules
- Police Arrest Lubbock Teen After Crashing Stolen Vehicle
- Texas Tech Football Player Gets Splashed With Bizarre Arrest, Police: Tech football player arrested, reportedly threatened to shoot people
- Suspect Shoots Lubbock Man Leaving Market Street convenience store on 19th Street, more, Warrant says man didn’t know man he shot
- Seminole Fehr Charged With Solicitation of a Minor
- Third juvenile arrested in connection with string of crimes in Odessa
- Big Spring man dies in crash on State Highway 350
- Motorcyclist dies following crash at 65th & Quaker in Lubbock
- Plainview Police searching for suspect who pulled gun on victim at apartment complex
- El Paso man arrested for selling ‘health plan’ without a license
- Houston police sergeant fatally shot in north Houston
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- Local government
- Gov. Greg Abbott knocks Austin for ‘defunding’ police, says state may take over policing in some areas
- Wimberley EMS responds to region’s growing pains with upgraded station
- Workforce plan win bodes well for San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, but question remains whether it translates into another term
- South Padre Island order makes beachgoers face the heat
- Abilene ISD names new Associate Director for Curriculum and Instruction
- Keep Dallas Safe: Give Citizens a Voice in Hiring New Police Chief
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- Colleges & universities
- Lubbock Osteopathic Fund gifts Texas Tech HSC $1.1M – love how you can “buy” these prestigious medical school chairmanships. Guess it’s not about expertise and academic merit after all?
- TTUHSC research team receives $7.25M from NIH to test new alcohol use disorder drug
- TTU Atmospheric Science Professor Receives Two NOAA Grants
Pratt’s post for 11/9/2020
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