- Rep. Dade Phelan’s Road to the Texas House Speakership
- Julia Rathgeber named Chief of Staff to presumptive Speaker Phelan
- Allen West: A Chairman The Legislature Wasn’t Prepared For
- How Did a Florida Man Become the Face of the Texas Republican Party? – Another of a long history of stories which defines the party and what it should be from the perspective of the elected who want it to elect them and do nothing else. The party is a collection of members and run by those who volunteer the time and energy so to do, and we often have a very different view of what its function is. West isn’t perfect but many of us want a party vocally holding the elected to public accountability as it relates to our platform, not a bunch of folk used only for money and volunteer work to hold an election to benefit officeholders (all of whom, by the way, are free to run as independents without our brand.)
- Presumptive Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan will face choppy waters in difficult legislative session
- Whistleblower Lawsuit Uncovers New Details on Criminal Allegations Against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton – so-called whistleblowers
- Alamo Plan Leadership Clings to Cenotaph Move Despite Permit Denial
- Alamo Plaza at risk in an inconvenient marriage
- Railroad Commission updates flaring exception form
- Texas on fast track to self-driving big rigs on roads
- Webinar on the State’s Prepaid College Tuition Plan and Scholarship Opportunities
- Some capitol veterans form new group to tackle business issues
- Proposed Bill Would Classify Sex Transitions for Minors as Child Abuse
- In economic crisis, Texas Democrats push to legalize marijuana
- Malone: It’s Time to Pass Constitutional Carry
- A bill to ban no-knock warrants
- Impeachment is a political option in Washington. In Texas, not so much.
- Why Does Abbott Really Oppose West Texas Nuclear Waste Site?
- Latino voters won’t show up to a party they’re not invited to, political strategists say – a good start would be for “strategists” to stop speaking on behalf of other people for whom they have no right so to do.
- ‘The Trump effect’ showed up in heavily Hispanic Texas border counties
- “Moderate” Texas lawmakers blame progressive issues for election results
- In Texas unabashed conservatives won; unabashed liberals lost
- How split-ticket voting might have saved two Republican Texas lawmakers in a blue county
- SD30: Republicans Luther, Springer face off in Senate District 30 runoff election VIDEO– Luther says some rather dumb things
- Texas Senate District 30 candidate Shelley Luther previews legislative goals if elected
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Second stimulus checks: Where we stand halfway through November
- Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on UH-60 Helicopter Crash, the Passing of Five American Peacekeepers
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- Presidential race / national politics
- FNC’s Wallace: Ted Cruz Is Like a Japanese Soldier Who Thinks the War Is ‘Still Going On’ – tune out!
- Million Maga March Was Huge And Peaceful! — Then Biden Supporters Attacked
- Trump Lawyers Powell and Giuliani Claim ‘Massive’ Vote Rigging By Dominion, Allege Company Link to Antifa
- Trump campaign says Washington Post’s story on Pennsylvania suit ‘intentionally misleading’
- Attorney Lin Wood lodges lawsuit seeking to block certification of Georgia election results
- Nearly 2 Dozen Arrested in Trump Protests in Washington – the people arrested and acting poorly were not the pro-Trump folk but the Leftists who showed up.
- Antifa Accosts Women, Children, Elderly, and Restaurant-Goers After MAGA March VIDEO – see for yourself
- DMN: Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick use Trump’s refusal to concede to push voter fraud narrative
- Cuomo uses church platform to say, ‘President Trump must learn the lesson’
- Anti-Trump Lions in the Press Turn Into Cuddly Biden Kittens
- Angry left vows to purge GOP ‘Nazis’ in name of unity – irony is lost on the fanatical brain dead.
- The Trump CT Scanner
- California Republicans embrace ballot harvesting practice: ‘Adapt or die’
- Judge rules California Gov. Newsom violated Constitution with election order – a little late to matter!
- CNN panel: Here’s why Stacey Abrams’ refusal to concede was more virtuous than Trump’s
- Hardening Partisan Map Steepens Democrats’ Climb in Senate
- Cancel Culture Has Become ‘Cancel America’
- How America’s Cities Became Bastions of Progressive Politics
- Cal Thomas: Where should evangelicals go now? Cal Thomas
- WordPress goes after politically conservative website
- Is Parler a ‘Threat to Democracy’? CNN blasts Parler, Newsmax as ‘Dangerous’
- Rebekah Mercer Reveals She Co-Founded Parler
- After COVID-19: The Next Crackdown, or at Least a ‘Reset’ (Spoiler: Climate Change)
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- Border / immigration
- Failed drug-smuggling attempt worth over $1 million
- Judge: DHS head didn’t have authority to suspend DACA – such B.S. how these courts are treating Obama executive orders as if such were legislation duly passed. It is dangerously clear: Leftist orders have force of law and non-Leftists orders have no force of anything.
- Mission family’s land scheduled to be condemned by government for border wall
- Gulf Cartel Kidnaps Mexican Border City Shopkeeper near Texas
- MPI: What to expect from Biden on immigration – amnesty & more amnesty which brings more and more illegal crossings.
- Cuellar: North American Development Bank is changing lives along border
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- Coronavirus a.k.a. WuFlu related – See this link for archive of essential WuFlu-related stories
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 11/15/2020 (pdf) – 19,470* deaths & “active cases” of 135,919 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about 4/10ths of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy
- Texas Surpasses 20,000 Virus Deaths, Second Highest in US – but actually 22nd highest per capita and 31st highest number of total recorded cases per capita
- Elon Musk gets contradictory COVID-19 test results – pay attention
- New study: Lockdowns & masks are useless and might even increase COVID-19 spread, NEJM: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission among Marine Recruits during Quarantine
- Fauci: Social Distancing, Masks Still Necessary After Getting Coronavirus Vaccine – think we were misleading you before? I and others were right!
- Wichita Co. Judge Gossom explores county-wide shutdown possibilities VIDEO
- El Paso Official Blasts Ruling Overturning Virus Measures – well too bad for the Democrat tyrant.
- Here’s how Texas counties are enforcing Abbott’s order
- New Michigan COVID restriction order sparks division as case numbers rise
- New Mexico Governor issues statewide stay-at-home order
- Walmart to start limiting number of customers in stores again
- Abilene mayor against police enforcement for COVID non-compliance VIDEO
- San Angelo, Tom Green County to see compliance officers to slow COVID-19 – “compliance officers,” how euphemistic.
- Mexico reaches 1 million coronavirus cases, nears 100,000 deaths – 100,000 is less than a tenth of a percent of Mexico’s population.
- Incarcerated Texans asked to work in county morgue as COVID-19 deaths overwhelm El Paso
- New COVID medicines to be distributed in Texas with allocation plans in place
- 300,000+ People Have Fled New York City Due to Coronavirus, Crime
- Whitmer says she won’t be ‘bullied’ by administration officials who oppose new Michigan lockdown
- Moderna says coronavirus vaccine 95% effective in trials
- COVID & masks – See this link for a group of essential mask-related stories
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- New study: Lockdowns & masks are useless and might even increase COVID-19 spread
- Unmuzzle Our Kids: Texas Parents Fight School Mask Mandates
- Tarrant County Judge Wants to Fine Non-Mask Wearing Citizens, Cancel Youth Sports
- COVID & schools – See this link for more.
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Austin-area students failing at higher rates amid coronavirus pandemic – the remote crap is just that, crap, for many if not most students.
- Unmuzzle Our Kids: Texas Parents Fight School Mask Mandates
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- Business/Economy
- PNC to Buy US Unit of Spain’s BBVA Bank for $11.6 Billion
- SpaceX successfully launches four astronauts to ISS, more
- SpaceX: Most recent engine test on eighth Starship prototype had issues
- Nonprofit decides ‘no sale’ on ‘paradise’ birding preserve in South Texas
- COVID-19 pauses plans for Abilene downtown hotel – taxpayer subsidized
- New high-tech distribution center, 201,913 square feet under construction in Lubbock
- About 90K sex abuse claims filed in Boy Scouts bankruptcy
- Austin-area homebuilding still booming amid pandemic
- Tesla looks to tap into Austin talent pool
- Luxury auto dealerships roaring as used car market stalls in uneven pandemic recovery
- 32-story downtown tower with apartments, retail coming to San Antonio
- Beef Loving Texans names Eddie Jackson as chief recipe officer
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Antifa Accosts Women, Children, Elderly, and Restaurant-Goers After MAGA March VIDEO
- Million Maga March Was Huge And Peaceful! — Then Biden Supporters Attacked
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Shooting in La Villa leaves one man dead, police investigating
- One person dies after “negative reaction to drugs” at McAllen bar
- Man, 63, arrested in connection with string of car fires at Lewisville complex
- Investigation underway after shooting reported at Big T Plaza in Dallas
- Texas Man Sentenced for Death of 2 Kansas Carnival Vendors
- Odessa police investigating auto-pedestrian crash
- Tip leads to discovery of gun at Midland Lee Freshman
- Andrews Police Department warns of counterfeit money scam
- WF residents are seeing wild hogs and the land damages left behind
- Woman charged after 3-year-old girl allegedly left in daycare vehicle almost 3 hours, more
- Police: Broken cup leads to broom attack
- Two Earthquakes Hit West Texas on Saturday, Including One Near Snyder – common in that area
- Father fatally shot, daughter killed after chasing suspects, Dallas police say
- ‘Tiger King’ star arrested, charged with DWI in Austin area
- Abilene Police: Woman threatened to shoot husband in head
- Lubbock Police Officer Kills Armed Person in Shooting
- Lubbock Police release new details, woman shot, killed in officer-involved shooting
- Another pedestrian killed in Lubbock County
- Motorcyclist seriously injured in hit-and-run crash in Lubbock
- Deputy in East Texas wounded in shootout with man who opened fire on law officers trying to arrest him
- Williamson County stabbing suspect finally arrested after 4-year search
- Fire strikes K-Bob’s Steakhouse in Lamesa on Saturday at 1:40am
- Austin traffic deaths climb despite pandemic keeping drivers home
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- Local government
- Wichita County HR director’s job is on the line again
- Fort Bend Superintendent plans exit from school district
- Round Rock school chief Steve Flores resigns
- Austin city council hits pause on picking new site for downtown court
- Travis County case backlog grows as courts wait for jury trials to resume
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- Colleges & universities
- Webinar on the State’s Prepaid College Tuition Plan and Scholarship Opportunities
- Internship in George Floyd’s honor to begin this spring at Texas A&M University-Commerce – insanity
- Pandemic Pushes Steep Drop in Foreign College Students
- UT Permian Basin and Odessa College team up for new teacher education program
- MSU students react to the cancellation of Spring Break
- HPU’s nursing program receives $150,000 contribution
- TTU Interdisciplinary Researchers Awarded NSF Grant To Improve Faculty Equity, Success
- UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell poised to make $1.25 million annually, 40% more than former president
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- Military
- Katy man identified as one of five US soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Egypt VIDEO
Pratt’s post for 11/16/2020
November 16, 2020 by 1 Comment
The mask nazi’s are back. Patients are not allowed to receive medical care or to enter a Lubbock medical facility without masking. We sat and watched one front door mask nazi for 20 minutes — people were allowed in with all manner of homemade cotton face coverings. But when a gentleman came in with an American flag mask, in red-white-and-blue, he was suddenly required to cover it with a generic blue surgical mask. Is this what things have come to in Texas?
Watching the employees, was comical, if it weren’t so tragically disheartening. Some were wearing two masks and homemade masks with sequins and sparkles, no less. They would take them off or down, when whispering closely to each other. Even medical professionals have no clue about masks. We can no longer trust medical providers when most of the public is better read and informed than they are! This insanity has to end.