- Will Lawmakers Cut Spending or Raise Taxes?
- Presumptive Speaker Phelan announces top staff
- Crash at Angelina County Airport results in no major injuries, more, Video of the end of runway crash VIDEO
- On Election Day, Republicans lost a critical advantage in the state Senate. Will Dan Patrick push to change the rules?
- Despite vaccine hopes, lawmakers plan for more months of pandemic – anything to get the public and activists out of their offices and committee rooms.
- Six GOP state lawmakers file legislation ahead of session to prevent mail ballot fraud
- Rep. Ray Lopez Files Slate of Bills for Fostering Informed Care
- Texas lawmaker proposes higher fees on electric, hybrid car owners to counter revenue decline
- Don’t kill our mountain lion. Can Texas do more to protect our predators? – here we go again with ignorant.
- Abortion [baby murder] advocates brace for an unsettling era in Texas
- Deadline extended for expired vehicle registrations in Texas
- Governor Abbott Appoints Rowin To Texas Physician Assistant Board
- Abbott Appoints Workman To Governor’s Committee On People With Disabilities
- Judge: Suit to overturn Texas law on drone photography can proceed
- Report: Texans Are Fleeing Public Schools to Start Homeschooling
- Despite Ammo Shortage, Gun Sales Still Rallying in Texas
- Texas State Bar Discipline: 15 Lawyers, 2 Disbarments
- Francis: Forced Sharing Isn’t Sharing, It’s Socialism
- Austin Councilmember’s ‘Vulgar Marxist’ Staffer Reveals Plan for ‘Socialist Revolution’
- Houston City Council Runoff Tested A Law Limiting The Rights Of Candidates With Felony Convictions. Now Comes The Election
- Early voting underway for election runoffs held throughout December
- True Texas Project Releases Local Runoff Recommendations
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- U.S. Reps. Michael Burgess and Joaquin Castro seek House leadership roles
- U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess loses bid for GOP leadership position on key committee
- Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw join calls for deeper probe of Trump’s election fraud claims
- Official: DOJ Will Continue to Pursue All Specific and Credible Allegations of 2020 Election Fraud – yeah like the great work they’ve done on the Clinton crime family and the deep state attacks on Trump and other Republicans.
- Trump’s big Bill Barr bust
- These Heroic ‘Honorary Texans’ Are Now Being Recognized With A Stamp
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- Presidential race / national politics
- ‘I’ll see you in four years’: Trump teases 2024 presidential run
- USPS Driver Says Trailer with ‘Thousands’ of Ballots Disappeared
- Ex-USPS Subcontractor Says Colleagues ‘Ordered to Backdate Ballots’ VIDEO
- No Election Justice, No Election Peace
- Republicans ask SCOTUS to repeal Pa. decision on absentee ballots
- Biden’s Jen Psaki Warns of ‘Russian Propaganda’ After Images of Pink Communist Hat Resurface – these are very strange people
- NAACP says Biden has yet to schedule a meeting with them
- Obama says Democrats’ ‘defund the police’ agenda contributed to surprise losses in 2020
- Braun: No One Talking About Georgia Runoffs — ‘They’re Still Concerned’ About the Presidential Election
- Georgia: Ossoff & Warnock Victories Would Give Far-Left ‘Unchecked Power’ to Grant Amnesty, Defund the Police
- Democrats Double Down on Dirty Georgia Tricks Designed to Split Trump Supporters from GOP Senate Candidates
- Stacey Abrams Voter Registration Group Denies Impropriety as Georgia Election Officials Investigate
- Nolte: CNN Says James O’Keefe Broke Law by Doing What CNN Did to Melania
- CNN’s PR account goes FULL KAREN, says they’ve contacted law enforcement about James O’Keefe
- Mail-In, Absentee Voting Mess Demands Reforms
- Ex-FBI Director James Comey to teach at Columbia University next year – Columbia and most of these places honor people of little integrity
- Fired New York federal prosecutor Berman lands job at high profile Manhattan firm
- RIP: Longtime Tyler Paper columnist Walter E. Williams dies at 83
- RIP: Famed economist, Rush guest host, Walter E. Williams has died (Most now say he was 84)
- Heritage Mourns Loss of Walter Williams, more
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- Border / immigration
- Four Deported Sex Offenders Arrested for Illegally Crossing Border into Texas
- Federal Judge in California Blocks Donald Trump’s H-1B Reforms
- McAllen and Brownsville ranked ‘safest border cities’ according to research
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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 12/02/2020 (pdf) – 21,549* deaths & “active cases” of 188,984 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about half of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy.
- WuFlu numbers in Texas do not justify erosion of freedoms
- Is there too much COVID-19 testing?
- Governor Abbott Announces Initial COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution For Month Of December
- CDC to shorten recommended COVID-19 quarantine days – the 14-day period was always because of unknown, it had no actual evidence to back it up. 10-days is too long as well. 7-days is pushing it if it begins after symptoms have left.
- Thousands in Dallas could end up homeless if eviction ban is lifted in January, lawyer says – what about the bankrupt landlords? Oh, they don’t count.
- COVID has turned breathing into a deadly event and all of us into potential serial killers – NOW!, do you believe me that this is irrational hyperbole?!
- The dangers of COVID-19 far outweigh the risks of a vaccine
- El Paso mayor blames spike in COVID-19 cases on Big Box retailers – how about showing real evidence as opposed to simply making claims.
- UT Dell Medical School study: As coronavirus rates go up, so do food insecurity fears – more waste of time B.S.
- Coronavirus ablaze in West Texas as tourists flock to area
- Texas Virus Spread Even Puts Desert Artist Hub Marfa on Edge
- New recoveries outnumbered new COVID-19 cases in Hale County
- 100 Welsh Pubs Ban First Minister Drakeford Over Booze Ban
- Proposed Austin ordinance would extend COVID regulations to Dec. 31, 2021, impose up to $2,000 fines per violator
- Staten Island Bar Owner Taken Away In Handcuffs For Covid Edict Violations
- More California Officials Dine Out After Locking Down The People
- ‘Biblical mandate.’ California churches ready to defy Newsom after Supreme Court ruling
- Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson asks U.S. health officials for equitable vaccine distribution – this is the problem with the Left. “Equitable” usually has a different meaning from people from different points of view.
- United Kingdom becomes first Western nation to approve COVID-19 vaccine
- Governors and Mayors Should Quit Making Quarantine Decrees
- Austin’s Mayor Went to Mexico While Urging People to Stay Home
- Austin mayor stressed residents ‘need to stay home.’ He was vacationing in Cabo at the time
- 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.
- Odessa City Council extends mask mandate for one week
- Odessans react to mask mandate
- Zimmerman: The muzzle of oppression
- 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
- Report: Texans Are Fleeing Public Schools to Start Homeschooling
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- Business/Economy
- Governor Abbott Announces Hewlett Packard Enterprise Global Headquarters Relocation To Texas
- 6666 Ranches up for sale, says Lubbock brokerage firm – yes, friends of mine are not only listing the Sixes but the equally famous Matador Ranch!
- Nate Paul loses some Austin properties to foreclosure, Read this to know much more
- Conoco may lay off as many as 500 employees
- New rule would allow airlines to ban emotional support animals – about time
- Another Lubbock restaurant falls victim to pandemic, effort to save others underway
- Longview: Dudley’s Cajun Cafe closes their doors after 28 years, due to COVID-19
- Despite Ammo Shortage, Gun Sales Still Rallying in Texas
- Waiting for Passengers, American Puts Boeing Max in the Air
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Eyeball Sculpture Damaged in Dallas Protest Being Repaired
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- DPS Seeking Information in Refugio County Cold Case Homicide
- Terror, Hate-Crime Counts Mulled in Vegas in 2-State Rampage by 3 from Texas
- 5 things to know about Alexis Sharkey-Robinault, the Instagram influencer found dead in Houston – typical of modern B.S. reporting: “as gripped the country.” Terrible story but I spend hours daily reviewing the press and yet this is the first time I’ve seen it mentioned.
- Dallas heart transplant recipient meets the Las Vegas family whose son saved his life VIDEO
- 77-year-old House Park Bar-B-Que in Central Austin damaged in fire
- 2 killed in collision on RM 1826 in Southwest Austin, EMS medics say
- Wichita Falls police arrest suspect in murder of Edward Collins
- Mother charged with second endangerment by meth after second birth in about one year, more
- Man convicted of bizarre child abuse back in jail
- WFPD: Man charged after allegedly throwing pot of hot cabbage at girlfriend
- Anti-Wimp: Gun trumps knife in Wichita Falls showdown VIDEO
- RIP: Lubbock jazz musician J.T. Braxton dies at 101
- Injuries reported after crash involving school bus in Lubbock
- Castillo indicted, charged with capital murder in the deaths of Cynthia Palacio and Linda Carbajal
- After teen girl went missing from Lubbock, the suspect “is a danger to the community” federal magistrate says
- Henderson County sex offender arrested, tried to hide meth by kicking it under police car
- Affidavit: Blood in missing San Augustine woman’s van leads to arrest of ex-husband
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- Local government
- Harris County Will Not Rescind Appointment of Elections Administrator in Defiance of Attorney General – all they need do is follow the legal process again and get it right but instead they want to grandstand.
- Houston City Council Runoff Tested A Law Limiting The Rights Of Candidates With Felony Convictions. Now Comes The Election
- San Antonio fire chief violated city policies by posing for photos with ‘naked sushi’ woman, city officials say – utter P.C. B.S.
- San Antonio: Nirenberg-Brockhouse mayoral rematch begins to take shape
- Interim Metro Health Director Colleen Bridger sets firm departure date from City of San Antonio
- Two years after vote, progress on Lubbock Co. expo center slowly continues
- Still Uncertain – Plans, Funding For Lubbock County Expo Center
- Austin Councilmember’s ‘Vulgar Marxist’ Staffer Reveals Plan for ‘Socialist Revolution’
- Austin’s Mayor Went to Mexico While Urging People to Stay Home
- Austin mayor stressed residents ‘need to stay home.’ He was vacationing in Cabo at the time
- Austin scraps plans to move homeless court to East Austin
- Proposed Austin ordinance would extend COVID regulations to Dec. 31, 2021, impose up to $2,000 fines per violator
- Big Spring awarded Public Protection Class, Insurance Services Office
- Wichita Falls city council proposes new maintenance ordinance for downtown
- McKinney City Council temporarily fills vacant Shemwell seat
- Fort Worth Moves Toward Community Police Oversight Board
- Ackerly Becomes 17th Texas Town to Outlaw Abortion – God bless them.
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- Colleges & universities
- Professor sues UT alleging retaliation, discrimination over work on equity – Leftists eating Leftists.
- Midland College Announces Plans for Spring 2021
- ACU names new dean of College of Graduate and Professional Studies
- Alamo Colleges makes good on pledge of tuition-free education but future funding in question – damn easy to pledge “free” when you simply tax local taxpayers for the money. That’s not “free” morons.
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- Military
- Texas Soldier killed in Egypt helicopter crash honored at memorial service
Pratt’s post for 12/2/2020
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