- Texas House GOP Caucus vote shows enmity toward conservatism
- How Beaumont State Rep. Dade Phelan Clinched The Texas House Speakership – another story with leftist Dems praising him.
- Rep. Middleton Files Bill to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying
- Rep. Toth files HJR 42: Constitutional amendment regarding emergency powers of governor
- Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Ban Filed Ahead of the 87th Texas Legislative Session
- Citing Hospital Visitation Restrictions, Rep. Landgraf Files Pro-Transparency Bill to Fight Bureaucratic Bullies
- Rep. Israel files bill that equates animals with humans
- Democrat filed bill would ban law enforcement reality show filming in Texas
- Las Vegas Sands gets serious about bringing gaming gambling to Texas
- Appeals court to rehear Texas late-term abortion case in January
- State Commission on Judicial Conduct releases annual report
- Texas has the 3rd-worst drivers in the nation, report says
- Opponents readying for long fight, though key I-45 deadline to TxDOT days away
- What went wrong with Texas Democrats’ 2020 plans? State party leaders intend to find out. – a start would be to end the premise that the natural state is for Democrats to win in Texas. “Democrats have since said they were misled by bad polling and lamented their decision to hold off on in-person campaigning during the coronavirus pandemic.” Yeah, that’s it, it just couldn’t be the Democrat message.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- White House panel: Abbott to discuss vaccine
- House leaders say they will be able to override Trump’s possible veto of $740 billion defense bill
- McConnell: Let’s ‘set aside’ liability protections, state and local funding and pass a relief bill – but those liability protections are key to economic rebound
- Sen. Cruz, Sen. Cornyn, Colleagues Submit Amicus Brief To Supreme Court in Brnovich v. DNC
- New PPP data shows law firm of spy chief John Ratcliffe’s wife got $116,266 when he was still in Congress
- Justices Struggle to Measure Facebook Texts Against Outdated Spam Law
- Federal Judge Sullivan formally dismisses fed’s case against former national security adviser Flynn
- FreedomWorks’ Bill of the Month for December 2020: Sen. Cruz’ “Keep Nine” Amendment, S.J.Res. 76
- Defense spending bill named after Texas congressman passes in U.S. House despite Trump’s veto threat
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Texas Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Help Trump Upend Election – what a loaded biased headline!
- AG Paxton Sues Battleground States for Unconstitutional Changes to 2020 Election Laws
- Texas files lawsuit directly to Supreme Court challenging election results in four states
- Texas asks U.S. Supreme Court to help Trump upend election, more
- Texas Sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin at Supreme Court over Election Rules, more
- Ken Paxton asks Supreme Court to block Joe Biden victory in 4 battleground states – a disgusting and misleading summary of the issues of the suit.
- Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to overturn election results in 4 states Trump lost
- Levin Calls for SCOTUS to Intercede in Election Fraud Investigations — Pennsylvania ‘Abandoned Its Constitution’
- Lou Dobbs calls out White House for not accepting Ted Cruz’s help
- Senator Cruz Offers to Argue PA Election Suit Before SCOTUS
- ‘Safe harbor’ deadline arrives for states to cement Biden’s election win
- Georgia Governor and Lieutenant Governor Announce They Will Not Call Special Session of Legislature over Election
- The “I Hate Trump, so election-fraud is totally OK” Democrats
- Obama judge upholds Michigan election: ‘The people have spoken’
- Arizona’s Supreme Court agrees to review of state GOP challenge to election results
- Trump campaign asks Michigan Supreme Court to stop election verification
- Michigan GOP leader threatens Dominion CEO with subpoena if he fails to appear before committee
- Sidney Powell’s ‘Kraken’ Cases Go 0-2 in Georgia & Michigan: ‘The Plaintiffs Simply Do Not Have Standing to Bring These Claims’
- Biden’s key picks signal path on gun control
- Crenshaw, Cruz, Castro head to Georgia to sway voters ahead of crucial Senate runoffs
- Haynes: Why Does the Left Want to Cancel Our Culture?
- Report: Chinese Spy Was in ‘Relationships’ with at Least Two Midwestern Mayors
- Ratcliffe: China’s Penetration of Gov’t Networks ‘Significant and Growing Every Day’ VIDEO
- Republican resurrection: Trump will leave the party in much better shape than Bush did
- Barack Obama, the real narcissist president?
- Democrats Can Only Win If America Rolls Over
- Example of the utter ignorance on major issues of credentialed White House press corps
- Goya Foods CEO named AOC Employee of the Month after calling for boycott
- San Diego School District ‘White Privilege’ Training Told Teachers ‘You Are Racist’
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- Border / immigration
- Two Texas Women Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Meth, Fentanyl from Mexico
- Border Patrol agents stopped 20 smuggling attempts in three days
- Efforts to stop Trump’s border wall construction could extend long past Inauguration Day
- Journalist Assaulted, Arrested for Recording Police Extortion Act in Mexican Border State
- 700 Violent Gang Members Arrested in Central America by Joint U.S.-Local Operation
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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 12/08/2020 (pdf) – 22,627* deaths & “active cases” of 200,050 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about half of 2/3rds of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy.
- WuFlu numbers in Texas do not justify erosion of freedoms
- Texas to Distribute Rapid COVID-19 Tests to Small Businesses – more testing with inaccurate tests just leads to more “case” numbers
- Virus Outbreak in Texas Army Base Alarms New Mexico Leaders – the sun coming up alarms New Mexico’s fascist leaders.
- CNN Medical Analyst: Cancel Christmas, New Years Eve Plans – fascist
- Fauci: If Only 50% Get Vaccinated We Lack ‘Umbrella of Immunity over Us’
- Should skin color decide who gets the vaccine first?
- White House panel: Abbott to discuss vaccine
- FDA: Pfizer Vaccine Highly Effective After First Dose
- FDA confirms Pfizer vaccine safe, effective, report expected to lead to approval in coming days
- United Kingdom becomes first Western nation to begin COVID-19 vaccination program
- Why lockdown skepticism is growing in Japan
- Every business is essential
- Newsom’s new lockdown in California triggered by totally normal numbers
- About 300K excess deaths in 2020 based on untrustworthy CDC data
- Dallas Co: COVID Guidance Ignored in Pro-Mandate County Building
- California: 5 lawmakers dine outside at restaurant despite virus surge
- NBC News Stealth-Edits Viral video of California Restaurant in Order to Hide Parent Network Being Granted Covid Exclusions
- Rand Paul: No scientific evidence COVID-19 lockdowns work
- Police raid the home of Florida coronavirus data whistleblower accused of hacking state system
- Nearly 75% of voters say small businesses should qualify as ‘essential’ during pandemic closures
- Fake Covid-19 Vaccines Demonstrate (Yet Again) the Threat of Importing Drugs
- CA Sheriff Won’t Be ‘Used as Muscle’ to Impose Stay-at-Home Orders
- 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.
- Oklahoma governor rescinds anti-masker’s board appointment – fascism
- 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
- Schools Confront ‘Off the Rails’ Numbers of Failing Grades
- Wisconsin Justices Hear Challenge to School Closure Powers
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- Business/Economy
- Small Business Optimism Sinks in Election’s Aftermath and Return of Lockdowns
- SpaceX to Stage Key High-Altitude Starship Test – sadly an abort at T minus 00:01.3
- Tesla Seeks to Sell $5B in Stock; CEO Musk Moves to Texas
- Elon Musk moves private foundation to Austin: Bloomberg report
- SpaceX’s Starlink constellation wins $885 million in federal subsidies
- New method quickly converts natural gas into solid form for storage
- Amazon to open new warehouse in Missouri City
- Goodbye California: Hewlett Packard Enterprises to pack up and move to Texas
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Bush judge holds Seattle Police Department in contempt for use of pepper spray, blast balls during BLM, Antifa riots – sickening
- Man Who Toppled Christopher Columbus Statue Avoids Jail, Faces ‘Restorative Justice’ – restorative justice means the guy who trashed your house has to mow your lawn a few times, before he comes back to burgle your house.
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- 70th Harris County Resident Murdered by Suspect Out on Bond, Says Victim’s Advocate, Alleged devil worshipper out on bond for 2016 Houston murder has killed again, police say
- 2 people, including juvenile, shot in Denison
- Man arrested in San Marcos after police chase
- Reeves County murder suspect arrested in Lubbock County
- Body armor, drugs and weapons seized in Fort Stockton
- Odessa woman killed in shooting, suspect arrested
- Man charged with sexually assaulting child multiple times
- Teen charged in Odessa gas station robbery – what’s with the hair?
- Man charged with point BB gun at another man – what’s with the hair?
- Midland Co: Fairview Cemetery to exhume body after burial plot mix-up
- Man ejected from car in single vehicle crash in Wichita Falls
- Abilene Police: Identifying as police, man harasses workers
- Lubbock man dies after assault at Rockport bar
- Man arrested for hit-and-run in Abilene remains in jail on immigration hold
- NM man caught by undercover sting in Lubbock seeking sex with underage girl
- Lubbock man jailed, accused of sex trafficking of a child
- Man threatened to show up at the home of Lubbock PD officer with a gun
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- Local government
- Snyder City Hall temporarily closed after ransomware attack, 2nd this year
- Sherman city council passes fee increase for fire permits and inspections on new construction
- Lubbock committee files to bring sanctuary city for the unborn ordinance to a public vote
- $7.8 million reimbursed to City of Lubbock for Coronavirus expenses
- Houston, county consider $14M buyout of unfinished Kingwood subdivision blamed for flooding
- Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Fight Goes Local
- Dallas Co: COVID Guidance Ignored in Pro-Mandate County Building
- San Antonio’s rental assistance program to get financial boost as eviction moratorium expires
- Taylor County commissioners ban aerial fireworks
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- Colleges & universities
- Former Texas football coach Fred Akers dies at 82
- UT professor files new libel suits against students who accuse him of promoting pedophilia
- ACU social work group plans mobile food pantry for college students – training up the young welfare libs
- ACU students complete work on STAR detector components through Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Alamo Colleges District nabs 5-year, $1 million donation to sustain tuition-free scholarship through 2025
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- Military
- 14 Fort Hood Soldiers Fired, Suspended Over Violence at Base
- Army fires or suspends more than a dozen, including two generals, over Fort Hood violence
- Army Fort Hood Panel Finds ‘Permissive’ Culture of Sexual Assaults
- Army to Fire, Suspend Fort Hood Troops Over Violence at Base
- Abilene native affirmed to Space Force, shares career journey VIDEO
Pratt’s post for 12/8/2020
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