- Court: Texas, Louisiana Can End Planned Parenthood Funding
- Frank & Hughes file good CPS reform bill; Dems file wasteful bills
- SB215 filed to create Inspector General at TEA
- Rep. Darby files bill to stymie local permitting of hazardous waste, other waste facilities
- As oil demand declines, Texas must scout for new tax revenue streams – the latest way to push for more and higher taxes.
- Amid budget shortfall and with growing bipartisan support, marijuana reform may get a boost in Texas – I’m not kidding, the marijuana issue gets more press than almost any other!
- Governor Greg Abbott expresses support for the National Museum of the American Latino Act
- Governor Abbott Reappoints Sjolander To Coastal Water Authority Board Of Directors
- Texas GOP chair wants an attorney general focused on constituents, not personal legal issues – West completely misses the boat here. Like Trump, Paxton was targeted by political rivals because of his conservatism and not playing the Austin insider game. Thus any true conservative will get the same treatment. West’s argument here is like that of the liberal Republicans to surrender.
- Moritz: Want to increase voter turnout? Let young people lead the way – claptrap
- Study: Hispanics don’t vote in RGV due to poverty, corruption, disconnect with candidates, lack of discourse – OK, but the “corruption” is their very Democrat and cultural product. (Libs are going nuts over how many in the RGV voted for Trump.)
- McCaig: It is time for a serious GOP investment in the Rio Grande Valley
- Ted Cruz faces backlash over ‘Come and Take it’ Thanksgiving meme – from whom? Leftists that hate him to begin with.
- John Cornyn, other senators hold Trump in ‘extreme contempt,’ Carl Bernstein says – hardly news.
- Biden, Texas candidates should be thankful for Black voters, Donald Trump, expanded electorate
- Texas Republicans eye 2022 — and beyond — after romping in November election
- What’s Next for Texas Democrats After 2020? – fighting redistricting, that’s what
- Tarrant County vs. Fort Bend County Betrays Weak Election Fraud Supposition
- County Canvassing Done; Houston Appellate Races End Up Equally Red & Blue
- Chinese-controlled outlet pays US media big money to run pro-Beijing content; Includes Houston Chronicle
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- The U.S. has withdrawn from the Treaty on Open Skies
- Trump attends his final G-20 summit but does not participate in pandemic preparedness session – good for him
- Dem lawmakers, progressive groups push Biden to bypass Congress to forgive student loan debt – “executive authority” what hogwash.
- NIH spends more than $1.4 million on app that connects Latina women for walks together
- Gene Arrington honored by his Congressman son in Washington
- Lubbock included in proposed plan to rescue two endangered species of fish
- Walmart wants to sell liquor in Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court said no.
- China says it will respond to U.S. admiral’s unannounced visit to Taiwan – maybe they’ll slow up some payments to the Biden family.
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- Presidential race / national politics
- McEnany: Trump was ‘never given an orderly transition of power’ – exactly right and why certain putative Republicans should be drummed out of the party.
- Blackwell: The Greatest Electoral Heist in American History
- Trump Lawyers: Pennsylvania Lawsuit Dismissal Moves Us Closer to Supreme Court
- Giuliani releases statement distancing Trump campaign from lawyer Sidney Powell, more – I’d rather Trump distance from Giulliani than Powell, seriously.
- Chris Christie: Trump’s Legal Team Has Been a ‘National Embarrassment’ – maybe, maybe not but Christie turned out to be quite an embarrassment
- Twitter Temporarily Suspends Sidney Powell – a Twitter suspension is so common to no longer be news!
- Powell: I’ll release the “Kraken on steroids” soon even after getting cut loose by Team Trump
- Trump campaign demands recount, signature matching in Georgia
- Trump campaign demands recount, signature matching in Georgia
- Recounts underway in Wisconsin’s two largest counties
- Detroit asks judge to sanction Trump campaign for spreading ‘disinformation’
- National conservative group Amistad Project to challenge presidential election results in key states
- Nevada voting raffle targeting Native Americans opens door to Trump legal challenge
- FEC Chairman: Trump campaign bringing ‘legitimate accusations’ of election fraud to court
- The urgent case for voting reform
- Rush Limbaugh: Trump Needs to Hold Rallies in Georgia
- Biden to Name Russia Hoaxer, CNN Analyst Tony Blinken Secretary of State
- Biden names John Kerry to be ‘climate envoy’
- Biden’s Pick For Homeland Security Chief ‘Exerted Improper Influence’ In Visa Program For Rich Foreign Investors
- Ex-Fed chair Janet Yellen to lead President-elect Biden’s Treasury Department
- Biden promises to fight for transgender rights
- Cultish ‘Church’ Encourages Small Children to Come Out as Trans or Gay in Public Ceremony
- The Green End Game Runs Through Biden
- Revenge of the Republicans; Political turnabout is fair play
- George Clooney, Will Smith Pour Cash into Georgia Senate Runoffs George Clooney, Will Smith Pour Cash into Georgia Senate Runoffs 388
- 2020 Election Showed Limits of Criminal Justice Reform
- Zimmerman: The left is now reaping what it sowed
- International Emmys: Watch Hollywood Toast Andrew Cuomo as He Claims Victory over Coronavirus
- Democrat Congresswoman-Elect Cori Bush Sets Sights on ‘Colorism’ in Hollywood Before Taking Office
- Teen Vogue: ‘America’s Values Are White Supremacy and Capitalism’ – Capitalism is simply individual freedom of choice and in and of itself it is counter to the idea of any type of racial supremacy because all dollars spend equally.
- Massachusetts Legislature Passes ‘Infanticide Act’ Removing Requirement of Preserving Abortion Survivor’s Life – pure Evil
- Pope Francis Presses Young Catholics For A New Economy – he’s a useful idiot for communists and fascists, just look at his time in Argentina
- Episcopal Priest Slams Catholic Bishops for Criticizing Joe Biden
- Washington State is a worrisome window into the future
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- Border / immigration
- 100 Migrants Arrested in Three Human Smuggling Efforts in Texas near Border
- 71 Migrants Found in Tractor-Trailer in Mexico Heading to Texas Border
- October Border Apprehension Statistics Highest Since July 2019
- Darling: Travel ban on Mexican shoppers will likely not be lifted until Biden takes over – almost every facet of this story drips with hypocrisy!
- Mounce: Hemp in Mexico and Texas: Pot Luck?
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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 11/23/2020 (pdf) – 20,556* deaths & “active cases” of 162,393 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about half of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy
- Who will get the coronavirus vaccine first? Texas officials release distribution plan
- Texas National Guard to help El Paso morgues with virus dead – sad for those affected but 300 deaths since October in a county of almost 1 million hardly sounds so massive. That’s about 6 per day for 51 days. How many obituaries/notices appear in the El Paso Times each day? I wonder what the excess death rate is for that period.
- Whistleblower says El Paso ambulances picking up COVID-19 patients from Juarez, Mexico
- China Wants Passenger Tracking System for Global Travel Coronavirus Reset – of course they do so they can track all of us as they do their captive citizens
- TSA Screens Two Million in Two Days Despite Holiday Travel Warnings
- FDA Authorizes Regeneron’s Covid-19 Antibody Cocktail Drug
- Essay: “I’d rather die from COVID than loneliness.”
- Horowitz: New data show hospital levels not much worse than flu season
- Minnesota governor orders no social gatherings for a month
- Oregon’s leftist governor tells residents to call police on neighbors who violate her new COVID lockdown edicts
- Horowitz: A severely symptomatic lie about asymptomatic spread
- Hospital capacity remains limited as city confirms 505 new coronavirus cases in Lubbock County
- Innovative Budesonide Treatment Key to West Texas Woman’s Remarkable Coronavirus Recovery
- NJ Police chief refuses to enforce Murphy’s draconian Thanksgiving orders
- Gathering at Buffalo gym turns confrontational as health inspector arrives
- AstraZeneca reports coronavirus vaccine up to 90% effective in late-stage 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.
- Midland city council again votes down mask mandates, more
- Horowitz: A severely symptomatic lie about asymptomatic spread
- 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
- Study: Children are so immune to COVID-19 that even after extensive exposure they test negative
- Kentucky AG joins legal challenge to governor’s order banning in-person learning at schools
- Peaster ISD superintendent is openly defying the state mask mandate in schools. No one is stopping him. – good for him. I thought these Leftists in the media were all for local control in our schools.
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- Business/Economy
- Abbott: Stock exchange coalition ‘impressed’ in visit to Texas Governor’s Mansion
- SpaceX launches oceanography satellite
- U.S. Marshals found Bart Reagor Thursday in attempt to collect Ford debt – found? Doesn’t appear he was hiding.
- Austin FC claims MLS single-day record for jersey sales – as communism arises again communist football becomes popular!
- Lubbock Christian Schools Removes Tye Rogers as President
- Walmart wants to sell liquor in Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court said no.
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Wisconsin students wage war against racist rock – mommy and daddy’s children are not so brilliant and with promise as many of them think.
- Virginia High School Chemistry Teacher Suspended over George Floyd Question on Test
- Cancel culture hits Rockefeller Christmas tree for ‘American exceptionalism’ and its ‘toxic relationship’ with nature
- Rand Paul: No DOJ Investigation into Funding Behind ‘The Thugs’ Who Attacked Republicans After RNC Event in August
- Kenosha defensive shooter Rittenhouse free on bail thanks to… Ricky Schroder?
- 50 People Shot, 5 Killed, over Weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Waco police officer dragged nearly 40 yards by car after responding to call
- Austin police officer suspended after pulling gun on driver, driving recklessly, memo say
- Lubbock man searched internet for father/daughter incest; he’s going to prison
- Temple police investigating shooting that left man wounded
- Former Cameron high school football star among two killed in fishing accident
- Police looking for 3 linked to Southeast Austin drive-by shooting
- Police searching for robber who struck East Austin grocery store
- Police searching for man who held up East Austin gas station
- Man in custody after being shot by Pflugerville police
- Wichita Falls: Couple arrested after 150-mph chase in Corvette
- Deputies, officers pursue suspect in high-speed chase that ends in lake
- Abilene teenager accused of racing: Cars clocked at 96 mph, 116 mph
- One dead, one taken to hospital after single-car accident in WF
- Burkburnett man indicted on 26 child sex crimes
- Man indicted in death of San Angelo mother
- 2nd suspect arrested in Abilene cell phone robbery, shooting
- Buda man shoots, kills father and tries to escape custody, deputies say
- Missing Lubbock Teenager Found With Man in Another State
- Naked man arrested for assault on Plainview Hike and Bike Trail
- One seriously injured in crash in Southwest Lubbock Monday morning
- Crews respond to pile-up crash near Southland Monday morning
- Highway 84 in Garza County shut down after multiple crashes
- Man accused of killing boss during argument at construction site in Hockley
- Houston police looking for man accused of setting his girlfriend on fire, leaving her in critical condition
- 30-year-old man accused of sexually abusing two children in southeast Houston
- Woman ejected, killed in crash on West Road, sheriff says
- Driver flees after causing crash that flipped Houston police cruiser, officers say
- Man indicted, charged in west Lubbock County murder
- Affidavit: Lufkin coach tried to buy prescription pad from doctor’s son
- A purple robot and yellow submarine: Little Free Libraries in Houston flourish amid the pandemic
- Abilene robbery suspect arrested after evading police
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- Local government
- Audit: 14 former Hutto employees paid for consulting never performed
- Lawsuit: Austin improperly disqualified signatures on camping ban petition
- Austin at Large: Too Late to Turn Back Now?
- South Garland High School logo and mascot to be changed
- Wichita County aims to secure more ambulances
- Plainview ISD School Board votes to extend school year, give discretionary payment to staff
- Why San Antonio leaders think the city has a shot at landing the Space Command
- Lubbock and the Fight for the Unborn
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- Colleges & universities
- University of Texas’ Hogg Foundation declares racism a mental health crisis – racism is evil but the mental health crisis is among these folk
- MSU International students share their stories
- MSU classes fully online after Thanksgiving break
- ACU offering free family and couples counseling to help with pandemic stress
- Texas Tech Aims To Make Aircraft Production Process More Secure
- ‘Wokeness’ Infiltrates College Music Departments – I recently covered such at Texas Tech!
- South Plains College to delay start of spring semester
- Wayland Lubbock switches to online classes for remainder of fall semester
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- Military
- Investigation shows Fort Hood leaders failed to protect soldiers, Army secretary says
- Why San Antonio leaders think the city has a shot at landing the Space Command
Pratt’s post for 11/23/2020
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