- In Dade Phelan’s bid for Texas House speaker, trust was key – yeah, he so trusted his fellow Republicans that he went and got a slew of Democrat support so he could push other Republicans out of the race. He really trusted his colleagues!
- Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Announces Transfer of $2.3 Billion to State Highway and Rainy Day Funds
- Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying: Reform or Abolition?
- Texas Senate panel revisits debate over Confederate art at Capitol
- Fight Over Historical Monument Removal Brewing Ahead of the 87th Legislative Session
- State lawmakers seek to improve sexual assault prosecution, data collection
- Bipartisan push begins for full insurance coverage of telehealth services – people need to be able to buy, or not buy, the services they want. Mandating such makes insurance more expensive for everyone. Plus the “parity” issue is a scam which will greatly increase the cost to consumers of telemedicine.
- Hydroxychloroquine Use Needs Clarification, GOP State Senator Tells Texas Medical Board
- AG Paxton: Fifth Circuit Upholds Decision to Defund Planned Parenthood
- Court: Texas, Louisiana can end Planned Parenthood funding
- AG Paxton Announces Josh Reno as Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice
- AG Paxton Announces $ 17.5 Million Settlement with Home Depot Regarding Data Breach
- DPS Increases Enforcement for Thanksgiving Holiday
- TxDOT lauches digital highway sign contest
- Texas police file hundreds of custodial death reports late, incomplete
- TABC destroying businesses with unclear, changing rules
- SBOE Stands Strong Promoting Abstinence Over LGBT Politics in Final Vote
- Texas Stops Far-Reaching Online Forex Trading Scheme
- Abbott Appoints Reynolds To Housing & Health Services Coordination Council
- Students, booming suburbs swung Hays Co. vote to Democrats – Texas State, like UNT, has become a Leftist hotbed
- Suburban Latinas Also Not A Monolith
- Is racism a mental health crisis, or is wallowing in victimhood the bigger problem?
- Student Wins Fight to Bring Conservative Club to Llano High School
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sen. Cruz Applauds United States’ Withdrawal From the Open Skies Treaty
- Sen. Cruz: Tradition of Gratitude Is Woven Into the Very Fabric of Our Nation
- AOC gives Ted Cruz just the ammo he needs to shoot gaping holes in her COVID19 relief narrative
- Members of Congress finding agreement on a tech antitrust agenda
- Sen. Feinstein, age 87, to step down from top spot on Senate Judiciary Committee
- Paris Climate Treaty Puts America Last
- Trump Administration Issues New Regulatory Rules Hoping to Lower Prescription Drug Prices
- Following disputed Nov. 3 results, voters overwhelmingly support election reforms
- Do Enlarged Fiscal Deficits Cause inflation: The Historical Record
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- Presidential race / national politics
- By Every Legal Means Necessary
- Codevilla: Fraud, Evidence, Proof, Power
- Group files emergency petition in Wisconsin after finding 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots
- Something Rotten in Pennsylvania – wanton law breaking
- PA supreme court tosses five more Trump election challenges – “So the challenge has served at least one purpose — highlighting ambiguities and arbitrary policies in the various counties.”
- Pennsylvania Certifies Election Results for Biden
- Trump, GSA Announce Beginning of Transfer of Power to Biden Team
- Trump Refuses To Play By The Rules Of The Game – maybe that’s why we like him as opposed to being offended. The rules are bent.
- The amazing blandness of Joe Biden’s foreign policy team
- Biden taps national joke John Kerry to report for duty as climate czar
- Biden lying that 666,000 teachers been laid off since March
- The mullah report: is Biden bringing back the Iran Deal?
- Biden advisor: Elderly should be first to die, last to live
- Biden’s Dangerous Central-Planning Ambitions
- Two polls show Republicans prefer Trump as 2024 nominee, but…
- Republicans should make AOC House Speaker
- Here’s why California wanted illegal aliens included in the census
- Gavin Newsom’s Woke Posturing Masks a Dismal Economic Record in California – full of lessons for all
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- Border / immigration
- Woman delivers baby shortly after crossing Rio Grande
- Border Patrol Agents Deliver Migrant’s Baby near Banks of Rio Grande
- US Agrees for Now to Stop Deporting Women Who Alleged Abuse
- Trump, The General And The Mexican President: The Politics Of AMLO’s Resistance To Recognizing Biden
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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) – (no new report posted as of 1300 hours on Tuesday) 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
- Howard Payne University students, professor build hat to kill COVID-19
- Who will get the coronavirus vaccine first? Texas officials release distribution plan
- CDC director: COVID vaccine likely to be distributed by second week of December
- San Antonio’s first double lung transplant for COVID-19 performed at University Hospital
- New York: Oppression imposed because of almost no COVID-19 deaths
- De Blasio orders ‘COVID-19 checkpoints’ at bridges into NYC to catch, fine violators of travel ban
- After firestorm of criticism, Gov. Cuomo cancels Thanksgiving plans with 89-year-old mother
- California’s Gavin Newsom presides with aristocratic hauteur over a state in crisis
- California Democrat Gov. Newsom’s fiasco over dinner party during pandemic ignites recall effort
- D.C. imposes new coronavirus lockdown restrictions, mirroring the mandates of other major cities
- Weslaco dry ice producer preparing to ramp up production for COVID-19 vaccine
- Texas Men Charged With Trying to Sell 50 Million Bogus N95 Masks to Foreign Government – a sub-scam of the COVID-19 scam. Scamming politicians who did worse by bankrupting our businesses don’t get punished.
- Midland businesses will return to 50 percent occupancy Tuesday
- Midland continues to take stance against enforcing COVID measures
- El Paso struggles to staff morgues as COVID deaths rise – utter hyperbole. What are the staff needed for? To treat the dead when they sneeze?
- Governor Abbott, TDEM Launch Bamlanivimab Infusion Wing At Alternate Care Site In El Paso
- Director of health warns of false sense of security with a negative test result – more of the constant stream of nonsense
- Doctors say some COVID-19 patients don’t believe virus is real while hospitalized with it – sounds more like docs hallucinating. Actually many of these folks may indeed have another “ILI” influenza-like-illness while testing positive for COVID-19, that is very likely to be true for some.
- TABC destroying businesses with unclear, changing rules
- Williamson County judge will pay $1,000 fine for violating his own stay-at-home order – more insanity.
- What we don’t yet know about the Oxford vaccine
- Criminal gangs are making billions from fake medical supplies during COVID
- Alief nursing home that lost 24 residents to COVID kept fighting
- Penalties for violating GOP Maryland governor’s Thanksgiving crackdown include 1 yr. in prison and a $5K fine – why will people not literally fight back?
- Angry women confront NJ Gov. Phil Murphy over COVID-19 policies as he eats dinner out VIDEO
- Biden advisor: Elderly should be first to die, last to live
- Hydroxychloroquine Use Needs Clarification, GOP State Senator Tells Texas Medical Board
- AOC gives Ted Cruz just the ammo he needs to shoot gaping holes in her COVID19 relief narrative
- 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.
- Can You Repeat That? Hearing Trouble More Obvious With Masks – take the relatively worthless things off!
- City of Odessa issues Mayoral Declaration requiring masks – foolish and worthless
- Tarrant County Extends Mask Mandate to February 28, 2021 – see the extremist control of this? Data says masks not effective but they’ll mandate such way into the future.
- NFL expands mask usage guidelines and other coronavirus safety measures – haven’t watched a game this year and won’t until the politics stops
- 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
- Abbott announces new reimbursement for district devices
- Kentucky AG Files Restraining Order to Block Religious School Closures
- n Virginia, the number of failing students has nearly doubled thanks to online schooling
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- Business/Economy
- America’s largest solar project coming to Northeast Texas
- Rosanky Rural Alliance forms opposition to proposed $190M solar project in Bastrop County
- Value of dollar in Texas amounts to $1.03 based on regional price parity
- FAA begins environmental review of SpaceX Boca Chica site
- Survey: In one year, foreign buyers spent $800M on Austin-area homes
- Why Houston takes the hit when Irving-based Exxon falters
- Weslaco dry ice producer preparing to ramp up production for COVID-19 vaccine
- GM to recall 7M vehicles globally to replace Takata air bags
- Despite lower gas prices, fewer expected to travel for Thanksgiving
- As Texas grows, communities face an unwelcome neighbor: concrete companies. Homeowners have few options.
- Texans still can’t buy liquor in Walmart, after U.S. Supreme Court rejects bid
- RadioShack comeback in the works with new investors targeting online shoppers
- Porter Hedges Wins $143M Judgment for Downhole Tech Founder
- Prosperity Bank’s Charlotte Rasche and Bracewell’s Will Anderson – Real Lawyers for Real Bankers
- Governor Abbott Encourages Texans To Participate In Small Business Saturday VIDEO – says the guy who directly is responsible for bankrupting so many of them!
- Abilene DCOA looking at ‘Project Legacy,’ which could bring hundreds of new jobs
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- There won’t be any BLM marches to call for justice for Carl Jackson Jr.
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Ex-Arcola cop accused in sexual assaults now faces federal charges
- Conservation group looks to cleanup Boca Chica Beach
- Texas Men Charged With Trying to Sell 50 Million Bogus N95 Masks to Foreign Government – a sub-scam of the COVID-19 scam. Scamming politicians who did worse by bankrupting our businesses don’t get punished.
- 2 Kids Killed, 4 Hurt in North Texas Go-Kart Collision, more
- 14-year-old arrested and charged in early morning chase in Odessa
- Former JC Penney employee convicted of stealing jewelry, cash back in jail after allegedly violating probation
- Police: Dispute over blanket leads to assault
- Remains of West Virginia man missing nearly 4 months found in Mitchell County
- Thieves caught on camera taking power tools from Abilene hardware store
- Lubbock Christian Schools gives parents a brief explanation why President Rogers was removed, more
- Missing Texas woman found dead six days after she disappeared
- McKinney nurse, ex-boyfriend die in murder suicide
- Man hospitalized after running himself over in east Harris County, authorities say
- Sheriff: Anaqua Springs killings ‘most likely’ a murder-suicide, case may soon be closed
- Trial again delayed for woman linked to Vanessa Guillen slaying
- Speeding truck goes airborne, crashes into North Austin apartment, officials say
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- Local government
- Texas police file hundreds of custodial death reports late, incomplete
- Two San Antonio Fire Department officials made inappropriate comments about women. Several employees say it’s an example of bigger problems.
- Town of Pecos City asks for citizens to follow Instagram page
- Lubbock Expo Center project remains in COVID creep
- Lancaster ISD must end silence on superintendent buyout
- Harris County’s Top Health Official Has a New Gig – the Leftist will love being in Washington State!
- Edwards Aquifer Authority’s ambitions put it at odds with San Antonio water utility
- Austin Water flexes capability to fight zebra mussel infestation
- Taylor County commissioners enact 90-day burn ban
- Bastrop County commissioners extend burn ban for second time
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- Colleges & universities
- Howard Payne University students, professor build hat to kill COVID-19
- Is racism a mental health crisis, or is wallowing in victimhood the bigger problem?
- University of the Incarnate Word puts its mark on old AT&T building on Broadway
- Texas A&M President Michael Young says he’ll retire on Dec. 31 instead of May
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- Military
- Fort Hood: MP unit is the Army’s best VIDEO
Pratt’s post for 11/24/2020
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