- Texas Rejected Use of Dominion Voting System Software Due to Efficiency Issues – it is beyond belief that any state certified a system that does anything other than tabulate. The presence of software that allows for manipulation of votes shocking.
- What Is Dade Phelan’s Agenda? No Republican has explained what Dade Phelan’s priorities would be as Speaker of the Texas House. – true, not even privately did his backers give me any reasons to back him. I think it is all about certain folk getting certain committee chairmanships.
- Lawmakers File Bills to Stop Unsolicited Mail-Ballot Applications
- GOP Bill Would Prohibit County Officials from Mailing Absentee Ballot Applications to All Voters
- CPS Reform Bill Filed by Sen. Bryan Hughes and Rep. James Frank to Add Protections for Families, Parents – good reform bill
- HB606: Another anit-gun bill filed by Democrats
- HB605: Democrat files “safe school water plan” for public schools!
- Governor Abbott Directs DPS Resources To Dallas To Combat Spike In Violent Crime, more
- Gov. Abbott is sending state police to help combat violent crime in Dallas. A similar effort last year proved controversial.
- DPS: Irving man arrested, suspected of DWI after crash damaged Texas Capitol gate
- TEA announces $420 Million reimbursement program for eLearning devices
- TEA Announces Pre-K Learning Solution to Support Texas Schools with In-Person and Remote Instruction
- Texas education board approves new sex ed policy that does not cover LGBTQ [homosexual] students or consent – good. Minors cannot “consent” and we don’t need to be teaching 97% of students about the 3% who practice homosexuality.
- Texas Sex Ed Curriculum Takes Right Turn, Heads to Final Vote
- Abbott Appoints Coble To Texas Forensic Science Commission
- Deal that supplied millions of protective masks to state agency unravels
- Texas RRC Commissioner Wayne Christian Selected as Vice Chairman of Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission
- AG Paxton Announces $113 Million Settlement with Apple Over iPhone Throttling
- AG Paxton Joins 18-State Coalition to Protect Unborn Babies from Discriminatory Abortion
- Matthew McConaughey says he’s not running for Texas governor at this time, more
- California migrants are not trying to un-Texas Texas
- Texas Democrats’ down-ballot disappointment spurs messaging debate, pitting moderates vs. progressives – what “moderates?” Their moderates are far-Left be the standards of even 20 years ago.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump Fed nominee Shelton faces more difficult road to confirmation – see how it works? I mainstream idea of returning to the gold standard is listed as a radical stance. That’s like saying being supply-side disqualifies one for service.
- Sen. Cruz Applauds Commerce Committee’s Passage of Bipartisan Aircraft Safety and Certification Reform Act
- Sens. Cruz, Cotton, Colleagues Urge Administration to Ensure Guidelines on Israeli Goods Labeling Policy Are Not Discriminatory
- With a fresh six-year Senate term ahead of him, John Cornyn gently pushes back on Donald Trump – swamp swimmer up and over the ears
- Donald Trump Reverses Cancellation of ‘Wreaths Across America’ Event – a good example of why people like Trump
- Three Federal Judges to TX GC Forum: COVID Issues Rule
- Judge halts federal execution of man in Texas teen’s killing
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Cornyn says Joe Biden is not president-elect, not until the votes are certified
- 9 Key Points from Trump Campaign Press Conference on Challenges to Election Results
- Giuliani, Trump campaign attorneys outline ‘multiple pathways to victory’ in key state vote audits
- Count Every Legal Vote — Then Certify Them, Too – but only after authentic investigations to determine which were “legal” votes.
- Wayne County Republican Canvassers Try To Rescind Votes To Certify Election
- GOP Election Board Members Rescind Votes to Certify Election in Wayne County, MI
- Michigan leader says Detroit voting irregularities ‘reprehensible’ and lacking transparency
- Yes, those ‘glitches’ are from the same software that made Venezuela’s elections so free and fair
- Georgia poll watcher spotted nearly 10,000 tally error in Biden’s favor, later corrected
- Georgia election audit leads to discovery of more than 3,000 uncounted ballots in two counties
- Georgia recount witnesses swear to have seen votes for Trump counted for Biden
- Georgia secretary of state: Almost no difference between Dominion vote tabulations and hand recount
- Excuse Me While I Call BS: In Arizona
- Cal Thomas: “Everybody believes there was fraud going on”
- Romney to Trump: Normally you find the evidence before you claim fraud – again demonstrating Romney’s divorce from reality.
- Adam Housley Schooled Brian Stelter on What Journalism Is and Isn’t During Rudy Presser, and It Was Glorious
- Majority of voters say special counsel should be convened to investigate Biden, Ukraine dealings
- We have allowed the left to hijack and redefine the words we use to describe the important issues of our day. – as I’ve pointed out for decades
- Ilhan Omar claims she’s severed financial ties with husband’s political firm – AFTER moving millions of campaign $ into their marital pockets.
- Rep. Ilhan Omar Compares Trump Rallies to ‘Klan Rallies’
- Gutless Democrats can’t do any better than this
- Democrat Strategist Sums Up Party’s Post-Election Circular Firing Squad: ‘We’re Democrats, We’re Morons’
- As GOP heavyweights storm Georgia for Senate runoffs, Democrats hold back — for now – that is patently untrue
- They Want to Shut You Up
- Ted Cruz Slaps CNN’s Chris Cuomo Around as ‘Hush Child’ Gets Uttered
- Midland’s Fu files defamation lawsuit against Chinese billionaire
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- Border / immigration
- ICE officials hold press conference on immigration enforcement
- ICE arrests 180 illegal immigrants in Operation Broken Promise
- Two Deported Killers, One Sex Batterer Arrested After Illegally Crossing Border into U.S.
- If votes certified, ‘Dreamer’ protections to be reinstated by Joe Biden on day one
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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 11/19/2020 (pdf) – 19,883* deaths & “active cases” of 141,891 (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
- Governor promises delivery of monoclonal therapy against COVID-19 in Lubbock press conference VIDEO
- Why is Texas’ governor out promoting Eli Lilly’s drug?
- Governor Abbott Provides Update On Bamlanivimab Distribution To Hospitals Across Texas
- CDC recommends Americans don’t travel for Thanksgiving – tell the turkey’s at the CDC to go to New York (an alternative but close to Hell)
- Border funeral homes overwhelmed by surge in COVID-19 fatalities – how when the “excess death” count is not particularly high?
- Minnesota governor orders restaurants, bars to halt in-person dining for four weeks
- Phase 2 results of Oxford, AstraZeneca vaccine trial show promising results
- Finland and Norway Avoid Covid-19 Lockdowns but Keep the Virus At Bay
- Are Pandemic Lockdowns A Dry Run For The ‘Climate Crisis’? – yes
- As Texas Doles Out Eli Lilly Antibody Treatment, Virologist Says Don’t Let Guard Down – if we were down to 1000 cases statewide many of these folk would still be trying to frighten folk into all kinds of things
- Dallas County Commissioner Pushes Back on Judge Jenkins as Gov. Abbott Signals No New Lockdowns
- Crisis puts stress on ‘finite’ number of doctors in Midland
- Robertson Unit on precautionary lockdown with more than 1k active COVID-19 cases
- Scientists downplay sanitizing efforts as key to stopping COVID-19, say focus on air, report
- Top Pathologist Claims Coronavirus is “The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public”
- 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
- The Danish Mask Study
- Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers
- Major study shows mask wearing not effective for COVID but New York Times says wear them anyway!
- Amarillo City Council to Consider Mask Mandate Fines – utter fools and not enforceable. All you could fine a business for is not putting up signs asking people to wear masks as the business has no legal authority to enforce an ordinance upon customers (third parties.)
- COVID: Reporting, “mask NAZI’s” & ending the insanity
- Robertson Unit on precautionary lockdown with more than 1k active COVID-19 cases
- Top Pathologist: Masks are utterly useless
- CDC advises wearing masks indoors if Thanksgiving guests are inside your home
- Biden Says He Discussed ‘National Mask Mandate’ with Governors
- McCarthy slams Newsom for dining without a mask: ‘He lost a lot of credibility’
- Deal that supplied millions of protective masks to state agency unravels
- 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
- Let’s face it, Democrats, Trump’s right about opening schools, says … NYT’s Kristof?
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- Business/Economy
- Astronaut: SpaceX Dragon Beats Shuttle, Soyuz for Launching
- Dismissed: Insurer’s claims against Morgan Elite Specialist Services – adjusting company awarded attorney’s fees
- Oil hits two-month high with vaccine news buoying demand hope
- Del Rio News-Herald ceases publication, blames virus cutback – the losses are due to lockdowns and orders that curtailed business with advertisers.
- Shiner Bock Wins Gold in International Beer Competition
- Airlines Will Allow Passengers on Boeing 737 Max Flights to Reschedule Free
- USAA adds another $5M to its pandemic relief contributions – would be better if they used the $ to pay more claims.
- Verizon to sell HuffPost to BuzzFeed in business deal – and I didn’t think HuffPo’s credibility could decline further, it has.
- Centennial converts wellsites to electric grid to reduce emissions, costs
- Plunge in oilfield land prices “is sign of crisis facing U.S. oil, gas explorers”
- Economist: Austin poised for post-pandemic rebound
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Seattle continues to circle the bowl
- Minneapolis council, residents argue over police budget
- Democrat threatened to shoot DeSantis, Rubio, Scott for ‘looting’ Florida, deputies say
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Taylor Co. deputy hospitalized after traffic accident near Merkel
- Central Texas deputy injured during pursuit released from hospital
- One in custody, fugitive on the run after two-county, high-speed Central Texas chase
- Two suspects in deadly Texas shooting may live in Waco VIDEO
- DPS: Irving man arrested, suspected of DWI after crash damaged Texas Capitol gate
- Federal Inmate Who Killed Texas Teenager Set to Be Executed
- Meet the young Houston artist who offers free self-harm cover up tattoos – but tattoos are inherently a form of self-harm…
- DPS: Pedestrian dies after being hit by vehicle in Midland Co.
- Upton County Deputies discover weapons, explosives while executing search warrant
- Wichita Falls Police Discover Meth and Heroin During Traffic Stop
- Wichita Falls High School temporarily locked down due to prank
- Wichita Falls police investigate motorcycle cop accident
- Woman arrested for driving while too drunk to even smoke
- Victim, 55, of Abilene RV fire identified
- Toy rifle prompts lockdowns of 3 Plainview ISD campuses – I’ve experienced people calling police for seeing me with firearms on my own property which is near a school.
- Lubbock police searching for men who wounded homeowner
- Lubbock Man Indicted on Two Counts of Sexual Assault of a Child
- LPD Major Crash Unit seeking public’s help in deadly hit-and-run crash
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- Local government
- Pharr police to implement “Cite-and-release” for marijuana
- Lubbock, Texas City Council Refuses to Stand with Justice
- Dickson: Fight for Life Continues in Lubbock
- Clifton Beck Hired as City of Lubbock Human Resources Director
- Travis County DA-elect’s transition team brings history of justice reform – extreme Leftism very soft on crime
- Dallas County Commissioner Pushes Back on Judge Jenkins as Gov. Abbott Signals No New Lockdowns
- Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson says less talk, more data needed to reverse city’s violent crime – action is needed
- Gov. Abbott is sending state police to help combat violent crime in Dallas. A similar effort last year proved controversial.
- Heated Dallas School Board Race to Conclude with December 8 Runoff
- How negotiations between CPS Energy and climate activists broke down – the city owned utility has no business negotiating with any activists
- How Bexar County’s election plan fell short – what? Too many Republican votes?
- Harlandale ISD reinstates MLK Day as school holiday after community backlash
- Fort Worth to Lobby Congress for Panther Island, Infrastructure, Defense Industry Funding
- Executive level staff changes finalized at Abilene ISD
- License plate cameras coming to Hewitt in Central Texas – ban this!
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- Colleges & universities
- Jay Hartzell to make $1.25M as UT president – prove he wouldn’t take the job for half that…
- Some Harvard students say not so fast on Trump ban – Carter Estes is a Texas Tech grad now at Harvard.
- MSU Texas prepares Spring Tasks for next semester due to COVID-19
- Texas Tech A Partner In U.S. Department Of Energy-Funded Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute
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- Military
- Renovated Sheppard AFB main gate set to open Saturday
- Goodfellow AFB receives bomb threat Thursday morning
- Funeral arrangements announced for San Antonio soldier killed in helicopter crash
- Governor Abbott Statement On Port San Antonio Being Selected As Finalist For U.S. Space Command Headquarters
Pratt’s post for 11/19/2020
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