- Celebrating 175 years of Texas statehood, by the numbers
- Proposed Bill Would Bar Elected Officials from Closing Churches, Even During Disasters – a good start
- Balancing Texas’ budget is always complicated. The pandemic and recession will make it even harder in 2021.
- Rep. Dean on legislative priorities: No defunding police
- Disgraced, Outgoing Texas House Speaker Tests Positive for Coronavirus
- Texas House speaker, wife test positive for COVID-19
- Editorial: Texas has real problems. Austin PD isn’t one of them.
- Former Travis County employee sues Ken Paxton, challenging anti-Israel boycott law
- Beto O’Rourke to teach UT politics class – good example of how much of academia is rotten and taught be those who can’t.
- John Cornyn’s Christmas Eve brisket confuses stupid people
- TX24: Meet Republican Beth Van Duyne
- Fissure Within the Texas GOP Widens After General Election Successes, Ahead of Legislative Session – it’s like DC, we are seeing more clarity on who represents the people and conservative ideals versus the insider-comity and power.
- Governor Abbott Sets Special Election For Texas House District 68
- HD68: Governor announces special election for Drew Springer’s House seat
- HD68: Governor Abbott Calls Special Election for Drew Springer’s House District
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- President Trump Signs Stimulus and Government Spending Bill
- House Passes Bill to Increase Stimulus Checks to $2,000
- Ted Cruz defends effort to secure pandemic relief for oil and gas companies, including one run by major donors
- Cuellar: Getting broadband to rural areas is now one of my top issues – we don’t need wasteful gov’t for this. OneWeb, SpaceX’s Starlink, and others are about to be deploying such service. Firms like Viasat already offer older service similar in speed to DSL.
- New Round of Trump Clemency Benefits Manafort, Other Allies
- Law Prof Explains Why the Facebook Antitrust Case Focuses on Mark Zuckerberg’s Emails
- Federal omnibus bill approves Smithsonian American Latino Museum
- Cornyn’s 20 Texas Priorities in Water Infrastructure Bill signed into law
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Andrewy McCarthy Misses the Point in the Michigan Election Audit
- Rep. Louie Gohmert sues Pence in far-fetched bid to overturn election results on Jan. 6, more, more – love Louie!
- Michigan considers sanctions against some lawyers who filed 2020 election challenges
- Seven Ohio counties show why Trump lost as Republicans won
- Democrats see grim prospects in final election results despite Biden’s win
- Donald Trump has made showers great again
- Who would want to be Joe Biden’s attorney general?
- Team Biden’s backward hostility to charter schools
- Joe Biden’s climate agenda is all about creating a crisis — not actually fixing one
- Kamala Harris Recalls Childhood Memories of Kwanzaa – what B.S.
- Biden Appointees Underrepresent Whites, But It’s Still Not Good Enough
- Donald Trump Plans Election Eve Rally for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue
- Democrat Ossoff Raised Nearly 6x More $$$ in California than Georgia
- WaPo: Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff Is Refusing to Disclose Company’s Financial Documents
- Georgia election officials predict senate election count will take weeks
- Early ballot counting in Georgia will be mandatory ahead of Jan. 5 Senate runoffs
- Hilaria Baldwin’s fake Spanish past is revealed – identity politics brings such fraud.
- We Treat Our Dogs Better Than Our Boys
- Ted Cruz proved that GOP won’t simply return to Reaganism after Trump – a perversion of the term Reaganism by Jonah Goldberg.
- In the GOP Version of the Alamo, Nobody Dies Fighting
- MSNBC senior producer Kyle Griffin demands to know why Donald Trump has ‘been silent on Nashville’ (there’s just one problem)
- Nevada student sues high school for ‘coercive ideological indoctrination’ of woke curriculum
- Mimi Groves’ Story Is A Disturbing Peek Into The Future That The Radical Left Seeks To Create
- University of Michigan’s ‘Words Matter Task Force’ says the words ‘picnic’ and ‘brown bag’ are offensive
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- Border / immigration
- Aid groups aim to bring health care to migrants on way to US
- US eyes accused drug trafficker’s property for border wall
- $4.57M spent so far in Laredo on border wall
- Meth Seizures Skyrocket Along U.S.-Mexico Border — 42 Percent Over Last Year
- Border Patrol Charity Delivers Christmas Gifts to Children of Fallen Agents
- Mexican Border State Government Denies Christmas Weekend Cartel Clash Ever Occurred
- Mexican Border State Police Officer Caught Leading Gulf Cartel Cell
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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 12/28/2020 (pdf) – 26,472* deaths & “active cases” of 279,831 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, less than 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy.
- WuFlu numbers in Texas do not justify erosion of freedoms
- Hundreds jailed, thousands ticketed for violating South Texas COVID restrictions – over the top by miles, why are these “officials” not being stopped?
- Texas reaches record 11,351 COVID-19 hospitalizations
- Escott: Austin area could enter state of emergency – utter insanity and tyranny
- Texas Coronavirus Hospitalizations Fall but Remain Near Peak
- Senator Rubio: Can’t Trust Dr. Fauci – He Is a Liar, more, more
- Fauci admits to lying in his public statements about COVID-19
- Fauci Admits He’s Been Lying to Us About Herd Immunity In Order to Manipulate Us
- Museum of the Bible Considers Suit Over D.C. Pandemic Lockdown
- Black Americans in the RGV distrusting of COVID-19 vaccine due to Tuskegee study
- Governor Abbott, DSHS Encourage Nursing Facilities To Take Advantage Of COVID-19 Treatments
- Asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 didn’t occur at all, study of 10 million finds
- Nine South Texas Counties Forced to Restrict Business Operations by Gov. Abbott
- Fancy Beverly Hills Hangout Busted Planning ‘Secret’ NYE Party
- Black market vaccine prosecutions are already a thing
- Cartoonist’s Hard-Hitting Comic Perfectly Highlights Both the Horror and Absurdity of the Lockdowns
- Bill Gates Wants You to Lock Down for Years, but His Bad Ideas Get Much Worse
- Graph Showing Difference In Case Rates Between Florida and California Is a Wake-Up Call for America
- America’s COVID Detractors Owe the U.S.A. an Apology
- California, home of masks and harsh lockdowns, has highest COVID-19 infection rate in nation
- 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.
- Leftist media attempts to shame people into wearing masks
- Senator (and doctor) Rand Paul: Masks ‘Are All About Submission’
- When anti-maskers turn violent – it is a form of violence to mask people against their will without due process.
- Austrian Court Overturns Virus Mask Mandate in Schools
- Masks Block 99.9% of Large Covid-Linked Droplets: Study – large droplets are insignificant – complete junk. The Coronavirus is slightly larger than nanometer. And note the talks of “microns.” A micron is 1 millionth of a meter, a nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
- Nationwide analysis suggests masks increased the spread of COVID-19
- Disabled child removed by police from AMC theater for failing to wear a mask – sue, sue, sue!
- 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
- Proposed Bill Would Compel Schools to Rehire Teachers Who Quit Due to COVID-19 Concerns – what happened to “local control?”
- Some New Mexico Students Go to Texas for In-Person Education
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- Business/Economy
- Texas Manufacturing Activity Expands at a Faster Pace
- Baker Hughes Oil & Gas Rig Count Summary, more
- Rumors of oil’s death have been greatly exaggerated
- Gasoline prices continue their rise
- Not even Christmas can save battered U.S. jet fuel market
- Abbott: Elon Musk wants to expand his operations in South Texas
- Southwest Pulls Threat of Furloughs After Relief Bill Signed
- SolarWinds hack: Cybersecurity company calls for more transparency with what happened
- El Fenix Café in Abilene closes after 84 years
- SpaceX Starship #9 update: 1st flight targeted for shortly after the new year
- California investor expands its Texas holdings with purchase near DFW Airport
- A Chicago investor has grabbed a new industrial building in North Fort Worth
- Comptroller approves incentives for EDF’s Brazos Fork solar farm
- Dallas hotel operator Ashford Hospitality gets $200 million lifeline to ‘navigate the pandemic’
- Hotel leaders hopeful this next PPP round won’t be the last
- Dallas investor buys more than 700 Grand Prairie apartments for redo
- North Texas commercial property market sees slow rebound from pandemic
- Southlake’s successful gaucho pizza concept is expanding
- San Antonio-based Lone Star Capital Bank to acquire community bank in Austin
- Ruben Martin to head Mercy Ships International charity
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Sheriff’s Deputy Shoots Man After Exchanging Fire in Houston
- Austin police officer injured trying to stop car
- Texas Woman Accused of Selling Toxic Diet Pills in Michigan
- South Austin car crash injures several people
- Texas college student vanishes on way home for Christmas after crashing car, Search For Missing Student Suspended By Texas EquuSearch
- 3 Harris County defendants no longer to face death penalty prosecutions
- Harris Co. jail inmate died of dehydration, medical examiner says
- Man dies after being found shot in car in Spring area
- Woman finds husband shot to death outside Houston home
- Fire in Odessa kills one person
- Wichita Falls Police ID suspect in murder at north side bar, more
- Wichita Falls woman charged with DWI, assaulting a cop
- Police: Brother assaults sister over cigarette
- Olney man granted presidential pardon
- One dead after pedestrian hit by semi-truck in Vernon
- One dead following single rollover accident in Baylor County
- Mobile home, house damaged in Brownwood fires
- Sirens malfunction in Brownwood
- Man points gun at another driver on I-20 after getting ‘brake checked’ for tailgaiting
- Abilene police ask for help finding missing woman
- Football player Ty Jordan dead at 19 after ‘accidental shooting’
- Abilene woman sentenced to life for murder
- Mother of Ector County murder suspect arrested
- 1 injured, 1 in custody after shots fired callout in Plainview
- Man arrested for multiple felonies after brief foot chase in Plainview
- Lubbock police investigating Christmas day kidnapping
- Corpus Christi historian, longtime columnist Murphy Givens dies
- Man Killed in South Dallas After Argument Involving a Dog, Police Say
- 1 Killed in Single-Vehicle Crash in Arlington
- 1 Dead After Shooting at Dallas 7-Eleven
- 18-year-old fatally shot on Dallas front porch, police say
- Driver Charged With Intoxication Manslaughter After Hitting Disabled Vehicle In Arlington
- At least 3 dead in Smith County 2-vehicle crash
- Port Arthur PD IDs suspect killed in robbery
- Jasper man killed in Christmas ATV crash
- Groundskeeper drowns after ATV accident at Waller County golf course
- $8,000 in rings stolen from southwest Houston store, police say
- Brother charged after woman shot, killed in East Houston
- HPD: Burglars break into building with saw, leave with $20,000 cash in southwest Houston
- Man shoots, kills 1 of 3 robbers holding Port Arthur family at gunpoint in their home
- Speeding blamed in northeast El Paso rollover crash during weekend that killed woman
- Arson suspect arrested after El Paso man dies in house fire trying to rescue dog
- SAPD: Fight between roommates ends in fatal beating at apartment near UTSA
- Bexar Co. SO deputy assaulted girlfriend and then attempted to destroy evidence, sheriff says
- Killeen Police are investigating another shooting in residential neighborhood
- Abilene police arrest brother, sister on gun charges
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- Local government
- Appeals Court Sides With Churches Targeted by Magnolia’s Hiked Water Rates
- Editorial: Texas has real problems. Austin PD isn’t one of them.
- Odessa’s new mayor calls special workshop
- Wichita Falls PD makes final push for hiring officers
- Abilene recycling contractor to stop accepting cardboard, paper
- Red Oak ISD apologizes to Coronado for comments made by assistant head coach
- Citizen calls on City of Lubbock to clean debris left from fire
- New Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia speaks during virtual press conference
- Corpus Christi is under new water restrictions
- Weslaco gets legal advice on combatting data breaches
- Fisher Co. Appraisal District investigates missing public funds
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- Colleges & universities
- Beto O’Rourke to teach UT politics class – good example of how much of academia is rotten and taught be those who can’t.
- UT-Austin to terminate Campus Climate Response Team in response to Speech First lawsuit
- ‘Eyes of Texas’ divides athletes, students and alumni at UT
- ELAM: How Covid changed higher ed
- ACU: Dr. Tom Lee inaugural recipient of the Clark Stevens Endowed Professorship
- WBU Announces Alumni Awards for Homecoming 2021
- Netflix series includes insights from Texas A&M-Galveston professor who’s set dive records
- California State University vice president selected as sole finalist for UH-Downtown president
- 17-year-old UH graduate has two college degrees, already enrolled in master’s program
- Angelina College develops programs to serve diverse student population
- TAMIU adding new equipment, technologies to ensure effective remote learning this spring
Pratt’s post for 12/28/2020
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