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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: “Scorched earth ,” belittling the Governor and Lt. Governor , and much more keeps coming from the Lubbock House delegation in its tantrum-style effort to gain the Texas House Speaker’s gavel. Beyond the obvious self-serving nature of the effort so far is the issue of the false arguments being offered by most including almost all press coverage. The race is not about Burrows and his Burrowcrat Coalition or David Cook and his backers, it about putting an end to the “ most pervasive, long-lasting, and heavily funded divide in the Texas Republican Party. “

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Texas has a new Chief Justice of its Supreme Court and a new member on the court: Gov. Abbott appoints Jimmy Blacklock as Chief Justice and James P. Sullivan as Justice, Place 2 .

UT-Austin’s president leaving to become head of SMU .

U.S. Rep. Keith Self files bill in Congress to move Customs and Border Protection’s headquarters to Texas .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: First order of business in the U.S. Senate under new majority leader Thune: Crack down on illegal alien criminals . Senate could vote on the bill by Friday and the House has companion legislation read to go as well. More border news:

Texas Arrests Four Tren de Aragua Gang Members Crossing U.S. Border
Texas Arrests Deported Alien after Re-Entry
Convicted Rapist Caught Attempting to Illegally Cross Texas Border
Honduran President Warns of U.S. Base Closure over Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan
Mexican President Changes Mind on Receiving Deported Migrants from Other Countries

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The Hill: Texas GOP’s civil war nears climax as Speaker’s race heats up . And: Texas Speaker of the House Race Polarizes Republicans . (Not really, it simply extends an old polarization unnecessarily.) I plan, if I am able, to discuss this in a big way tomorrow, Tuesday.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A look at some legislation filed for the upcoming Texas Legislature, including:

Capriglione Files Bill to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Lawyers for Illegal Aliens
Advocates Press for a Ban on Taxpayer-funded Lobbying in 2025
Will Lawmakers Provide Property Tax Relief in 2025?
Newly filed bill could make weed legal in Texas — if passed

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Oil and gas drilling rig count for the week from Baker Hughes.

CEO and co-founder of HealthCare2U, Andy Bonner , joins me to talk about the fantastic membership-based direct primary care program I have been telling you about . I also did a long form Podcast Extra with Mr. Bonner and you can here that at this link .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court slaps down the libs at the State Bar of Texas for going after Texas Attorney General staff over 2020 election lawsuits filed by the state. The state bar libs didn’t like the politics of Paxton’s office and so, as they’ve done in other states, went after lawyers on “disciplinary” charges that were spurious and unmerited. Read the full decision here .

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The late Richard Cavazos , General of the U.S. Army, is being posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions on the battlefield in Korea. He was a graduate of Texas Tech and his brother Lauro was president of Texas Tech as well as Secretary of Education under President Reagan.

Texas sales tax revenue was $4.1 billion in December , an increase below the general inflation rate.

The Dallas Fed releases the Texas Service and Retail Sector report for December .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: 2024 was a good year for the Texas economy as the Texas Miracle just continues to follow good policy choices. It was a very bad year for the Texas Lottery . And, a real pain for many of us goes away in 2025.

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“Texas should be leading the fight against Planned Parenthood – not employing them ,” says Rep. Brian Harrison in a letter to Governor Abbott .

Texas DPS outage closes driver’s license offices until at least Thursday .

2024’s big press hoaxes were all pro-Democrat, pro-Biden, and anti-Republican – and don’t think that is about to change. Our friend Merrill Matthews has is list of biggest Democrat lies in 2024 here .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The case of U.S. Representative Kay Granger is emblematic of what is wrong with a culture of elected people who begin to think of themselves as entitled to power and office.

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DEI training requirements imposed for licensed Texas Counselors on Abbott’s watch. Rep. Harrison exposes that the medical director for the Texas Medical Board is also employed by Planned Parenthood .

December’s Texas Manufacturing Survey is out .

Big bragging on border wall court decision appears to be political puffery . It is important but turns out it doesn’t matter much .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Another reliable Texas electric power generation plant is going offline because Democrats are handing its owners over $ 1 BILLION of your money to bribe them into stopping use of coal generate power . Are they going to replace it with cheap, abundant, effective, and clean natural gas? Nope. The coal fired reliable power plant will use over a billion dollars of your money to put in solar panels and batteries!

Note: New climate research debunks CO2’s ability to warm the atmosphere, even as other research shows CO2 greens the Earth .

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Latest update : Fifth Circuit reverses course, blocks government enforcement of burdensome Beneficial Ownership Information reporting for small businesses .

Oil and gas rig count is down this week .

Anti-Wimp update: Boys try armed robbery, and get shot . This and other stories beg the question: Where are the parents?!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas colleges and universities are in need of more reform by the Legislature – but don’t forget that Governor Abbott’s appointed regents already have the power to act and stop the Leftwing foolishness and racism on campus. Why haven’t they? Why did we even need a DEI ban?

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A reminder of how the census and illegal immigration are being used to achieve political gains for Democrats and to thwart the will of the American people.

Lubbock Lights story: Hundreds may have lost millions with troubled local company after criminal case extends to Lubbock from San Antonio .

Another story that reminds us of the folly of those who claimed “campus is safe” and “campus is a special place” when opposing concealed carry on campus several years ago . Legislators need to peal back most all restrictions on places in which one cannot legally carry a gun – the criminals certainly don’t obey such laws!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has found a good angle from which to sue the NCAA over its letting men play in women’s sports – suing them for violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act . Read the actual lawsuit filed in Lubbock County here – no matter it’s legal claims, it has a great history of the NCAA and the issue of men playing in women’s sports.

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List of this year’s Texas high school football state champions .

Where has Congresswoman Kay Granger been? Last vote was in July.

Paxton teases a run against Cornyn at AmFest .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Member of Burrows’ Calendars Committee for two legislative sessions, Representative Shelby Slawson, joins us to talk about the race for House Speaker.

Also, State Rep. J. M. Lozano is alleging that the BurrowCrat Coalition had former, now disgraced, Speaker Bonnen spying for them in House Democrat caucus meetings . Lozano questions the trust and ethics of such as it pertains to Burrows. I ask: Why should he care? He breached the body’s trust before and all it did was lead to a step up the ladder for him.

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Texas unemployment rate goes up but so does the number employed in the Lone Star State – another record month.

Oil and gas rig count up.

Economist Vance Ginn , and I, explain why Texas public school spending per student is closer to $50,000 than to the $10 to $15 thousand most often cited .

Texas House committee denied its one-sided extra-judicial show trial of death row inmate Robert Roberson . More , more .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The BurrowCrat Coalition to advance Dustin Burrows’ goal of becoming Texas House Speaker has brought us an interesting side show which demonstrates many comments I have made on the air over the past couple of years about Republican groups selling themselves out for big donations.

LUCA President Admits $10k Donation Before Burrows Endorsement
Latinos United for Conservative Action (LUCA) recently endorsed Rep. Dustin Burrows for the Texas House Speaker race

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Mentioned this but had no time to discuss: Critical Race Theory Books in Texas Tech Architecture Library .

On the border:

Texas launches billboard campaign in Mexico, Central America to warn migrants – what a waste
Arrington Introduces ‘America First Act’ to Prevent Illegal Immigrants from Accessing Federal Benefits

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Putting a Thumb on the Scale: The Growing Alarm Over ISD Electioneering and What to Do About It . James Quintero of the Texas Public Policy Foundation joins us to offer up four changes legislators need to make to put teeth into election law that is flouted more and more brazenly by public school officials.

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Dustin Burrows created the BurrowCrat Coalition to advance his goal of becoming Texas House Speaker and in so doing whacked at the hornets’ nest of Texas G.O.P. politics. When you do such for no discernible reason other than self-advancement, you often create opposition that wouldn’t have existed otherwise – and that’s what the BurrowCrats have done: A new Texas PAC seeded with $20 million to be used to separate the Republican chaff from the grain .

A media report says that Governor Abbott will ask for even more money for his Operation Lone Star even though we were promised time and again that funding needs would be much lower if Trump policies were back in place. Legislators should say “no way!”

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The BurrowCrat Coalition posits an interesting charge: The Republican House Caucus is “broken.” The problem is that if you read Rep. Terry Wilson’s op-ed backing BurrowCrat Burrows for Speaker of the House, he never gives any evidence at all of anything “broken” in the caucus other than that the majority didn’t support his candidate. Also, he repeats the lie that something was amiss with not being granted a “brief recess” once the voting process had already started. I address this oft repeated misdirection.

I also address the how the press, in many recent stories, left out the paramount issue with the Bonnen-Burrows scandal of a few years back. It’s what they leave out that should give pause to members support Burrows.

Dustin Burrows risks big to seek Texas House speakership
Q&A with Texas House speaker candidate Dustin Burrows
Dustin Burrows believes opposition by fellow Republicans won’t block path to House speaker
Texas House speaker candidate Dustin Burrows rejects claim that he is a tool of Democrats

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Fort Worth liberal Democrat Councilman Nettles says the release of a recording is to “tarnish his name .” Funny, I think it’s what he is recorded as saying that tarnishes his already murky reputation.

SpaceX’s Starlink revenue in 2025 now projected to be $11.8 billion . T-Mobile initiates direct-cell-to-satellite texting using Starlink . Europe to spend $11 billion to build its own Starlink government constellation . All this begs the question: Why are Texans, and federal taxpayers too, spending billions to provide rural broadband Internet service when it is already available with more coming online soon?!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much news of Texas including yet another example of how wrong are the Civic Cheerleaders and others who denigrate and disparage citizens who show up, watch, and question local government. Give this story a read . How does someone in a relatively small town sit on the city payroll at almost $100,000 per year and yet no one really knows what the person does?

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All the Texas high school football state championship pairings – the games begin Wednesday.

There is tons of news on the BurrowCrat Coalition’s attempt to elect Dustin Burrows Speaker of the Texas House – I’m not covering it today but will tomorrow and in coming days. Frankly I’m tired of it for the moment!

Elon Musk moves to make Starbase, Texas the official ‘gateway to Mars’, SpaceX seeks incorporation election from Cameron County .

Oil and gas rig count down this last week.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com (he really did write the Encyclopedia of Space ) joins us to talk about Trump’s big decision to appoint billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator.

Zimmerman hints at an essay he was working on earlier this week when we recorded the interview on what Isaacman will do, or should do, at NASA. That is now published here. Part 1 and Part 2 .

Also we talk about the current state of work by SpaceX and Blue Origin, both companies have a big presence in Texas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The BurrowCrat Coalition of Democrats and mostly non-conservative Republicans led by Rep. Dustin Burrows continues to make enemies. Now Governor Abbott stresses that the Speaker needs to come from within the GOP caucus by majority vote and the Lt. Governor agrees . Burrows and crew walked out before the vote total for the nomination changed to three-fifths on the third vote. Walked out and went and did a deal with the radical Left Democrats.

Clearly power-hungry insiders like Burrows and his BurrowCrats don’t care but momentum for what’s right grows: Over 100 Republican County chairmen are now backing David Cook for House Speaker .

Rep. Stan Lambert, a BurrowCrat at the moment, said yesterday in a packed forum in Abilene that there will likely be another House Speaker candidate emerge before the vote in January. It wasn’t covered by the media but it is in the transcript of the forum:

“So what’s the outcome gonna be? I don’t know. There’s very likely to be another candidate emerge before January the 14th that maybe the majority of the Republicans would support cuz they’ve got to get to number 53. The 53 is the number that they’ve got to get to and neither Cook nor Burroughs was able to achieve that on Saturday.”

And yet Burrows is now using the Speaker-elect title. It doesn’t sound like his own team agrees!

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Border news and much more in today’s edition including:

Texas professors self-censor on campus, survey found – we all self-censor every day.
Trump to End Policy Restricting ICE Arrests
Suspected Tren de Aragua Gang Members Arrested in $1M Texas Drug Bust

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The BurrowCrat Coalition to elect Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock as Texas House Speaker may prevail in the end but at this point it seems to be shedding support and making more enemies (understandable if you well know the people involved) than friends – a full BurrowCrat update including:

Gov. Abbott Condemns Misleading Text Campaign Linking Him to Burrows’ Speaker Bid
Liberal Democrat State Rep. Confirms Burrows Will Continue ‘Bipartisanship’ in House, Back Burrows
County GOP Chairs Urge Unity, Support State Rep. David Cook for House Speaker
Burrows Hemorrhages Support as Harless Backs Cook

At least one threat of violence reported against a supporter of Chair Burrows for speaker . Buck up! The BurrowCrats are the ones who went nasty nuclear on the nomination.

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Texas sales tax receipts for goods sold in October much higher for most cities. Look up your city here .

Democrat funding machine ActBlue adds to suspicions it aids the Left by raising money illegally when it admitted it didn’t block foreign gift cards until this fall – the same time it finally started requiring that security CCV codes be used.

Report: Trump may pick Tilman Fertitta for U.S. ambassador post .

Merrill Matthews great column I mentioned but did not have time to cover: Trump’s Revenge: Naming Dr. Bhattacharya to Head the NIH

Albertsons Kroger merger is off (good!) and now Albertsons is suing Kroger.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Among other border news items today is this: Governor Abbott says he wants to sign a law that stops Texas judges from letting criminal illegal aliens out of their parole early .

Also in the border stack:

Incoming border czar accepts Starr County land offered by Texas General Land Office
Former ICE contractor pleads guilty to smuggling migrants
Rule giving DACA recipients access to ACA coverage blocked

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Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina switches from Democrat to Republican . The Laredo native says Democrats left him and border values long ago .

A BurrowCrat Coalition © update:

Dustin Burrows faces scrutiny over ‘Speaker-Elect’ designation , Rep. J.M. Lozano suggests Burrows is breaking several state laws.

House Speaker Vote Results and Fallout – Texans For Fiscal Responsibility. That third from the end paragraph is more true than even they can comprehend.

Rhonda Weaver talks about this year’s Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Demonstrating the height of hypocrisy and a low of integrity, the Texas House Republican Caucus process of nominating a candidate for Speaker of the House (without Democrat influence) Saturday turned into a mess of putting personal ambition ahead or principle and past commitments – once again handing power to choose a House speaker to Leftist Democrats in the Texas Legislature.

Dustin Burrows says he has votes to be Texas House speaker after David Cook wins GOP caucus vote
Donald Trump, Jr: It’s unbelievable what is happening in Texas…
State Rep. David Cook Wins GOP Caucus Nomination For Speaker; Rep. Burrows Vows Final Victory
David Cook Secures GOP Nomination for Texas House Speaker, Backed by Reform Advocates
Dustin Burrows Releases House Speaker Majority Support List After David Cook Wins GOP Caucus Nomination

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Two Texas teams made it to the College Football Playoff system and eight others received bowl invitations with two playing each other. Here’s the full list .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House Speaker race has changed overnight: Without enough votes to win, the Austin swamp swimmer leader Speaker Dade Phelan has withdrawn from the race for re-election. His Austin swamp swimmer cabal is trying the old switcheroo in order to remain in power by running Lubbock’s state Rep. Dustin Burrows for the job . It goes downhill from there.

How do you get reform by electing the same group? Burrows has been “the other man in the room” in the last two Speaker failures. Rep. Brian Harrison makes the point here .

Dade Phelan Drops Out, His Lieutenant Jumps In
What to know about the 2 Republicans hoping to become Texas House speaker
Phelan Withdraws from Speaker Race After Tumultuous Tenure
5 things to know about Dade Phelan as he drops his bid for Texas House speaker

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan steps down amid Republican infighting , more

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Texas oil and gas drilling rig count jumps nicely .

Abilene’s city manager to retire .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Houses Speaker race now appears to be an effort by the upper-echelon of wealthy lobbyists to save Dave Phelan as speaker which begs the question: What’s in it for them?

Mike Toomey, an elite huge money lobbyist, is very competent but reading this story, one is forced to wonder how it goes without notice that all these things only need reform because Dade Phelan has done the opposite as speaker . Why re-elect the guy who failed and is suddenly now going to implement the changes that most have known were needed, including Toomey, for some time?

Former Phelan ally Trent Ashby endorses David Cook for speaker .

Texas House Democrats snub TMF and elect Gene “Boo-Hoo” Wu as caucus chairman in a notable swing leftwards. Wu is someone who needs very close scrutiny but seems a perfect representation of today’s pro-Chinese communist Democrat Party.

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Lt. Gov. Patrick and Sen. Charles Perry to lead effort to ban all THC from sale in Texas .

Major victory for the Constitution and all business owners, shareholders, partners, etc: Horrible FINCIN “Beneficial Ownership” reporting stopped by federal judge with nationwide injuction.

50 North Texas teachers flagged in statewide test cheating scandal . You can see the full list of teachers at this story.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The now common move by companies to block your right to tinker with or repair your own private property is a growing and costly concern. What will the Texas Legislature doe about such this next session? We talk about the Right to Repair issue with David Dunmoyer of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. See the TPPF report on the issue here .

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TEA now probing over 100 teachers linked to certification cheating ring .

ERCOT says Texas is better prepared for extreme cold this winter with more electrical generation on the grid .

Good news: Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister bows out of nomination for DEA administrator . Read more here .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Will Republican state reps in West Texas sell-out their conservative voters and help re-elect Dade Phelan as Texas House Speaker or, will they put the good of Texas ahead of their personal power ambitions and elect a speaker who seeks to pass a Republican agenda? They meet in caucus Saturday .

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Border and illegal immigration news including a story on Texas busing of migrants that is ridiculous because it ignores the fundamental fact that the busing has all been voluntary.

Texas Democrat says border buoy barrier was his idea
11 Afghan Migrants Found in Large Migrant Group After Crossing Border into Texas
Many want Trump to address the border crisis in his first 100 days in office
New Migrant Caravan Departs Southern Mexico for U.S. Border
U.S. Sanctions Five Gulf Cartel Members Over Illegal Fishing in Gulf of Mexico

Texas Sales Tax revenue totaled $4.3 billion in October.

The Texas Miracle continues: Lone Star State leads U.S. in net domestic migration, Census Bureau estimates show .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden’s decision to issue a blanket pardon for his miscreant son Hunter effectively blocks serious investigation into the Biden family’s “business” in China and Ukraine. It also reminds us of what a self-interested LIAR Joe Biden is and has always been as well as what hypocrites are today’s Democrats .

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Border news including:

Court Rules Biden Admin Wrong to Cut Texas Razor Wire on Border , more

Illegal Migrants Less Likely to Commit Crime? Guess Again.

There is a disturbing trend that needs stopping by Texas legislators, at least in the public sector: Refusing cash payment forcing people to have credit cards or third-party payment systems.

RIP: Judge Jim Hansen .

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A special edition of Pratt on Texas:

Our Lone Star story of the day: We talk today with journalist and author Mark Patinkin about his book: The Holy Land at War: A Journey Through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza . (Click the link to order your copy.)

Mark Patinkin has been writing a column for the Providence Journal for over 45 years, starting in 1979 at age 26. Around 6,000 columns later, he is still at it.

Patinkin has written about famine in Africa, religious conflict in India and Beirut, and recently, the Gaza War. He covered the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, where he was arrested by the secret police in Stalinist Romania for trying to interview a dissident and expelled from the country.

In addition to “The Holy Land at War,” Patinkin has written several previous books, including “An African Journey,” “The Silent War,” about the world’s most competitive companies, and “Just the Way He Was Before,” about a boy who lost both legs to bacterial meningitis but went on to play ice hockey.Patinkin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting and was recently named columnist of the year for Gatehouse Media, now Gannett.

“The Holy Land at War ” is not a political analysis but a personal odyssey – one writer’s attempt to bear witness through those touched by this long conflict, Jews and Arabs sentenced together by history and geography.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Good space industry news from Texas including a win in court against Leftists trying to stop SpaceX from launching anything from Boca Chica; Firefly’s lunar rover may launch in January, and; AST SpaceMobile of Midland is getting competition for the cellphone from satellites business from SpaceX’s Starlink. See Bob Zimmerman’s behindtheblack.com for these and more stories .

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More review of pre-filed bills for the upcoming Texas legislative session .

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar transfers of $5.5 billion to State Highway and Rainy Day Funds .

Trump transition team signs modified White House agreement, without government technology used last time to spy on the team .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislature 2025: Rep. Brian Harrison, HD10 , explains why Texas public colleges and universities need reining in and why the Univ. of Texas system may need a big budget cut from state appropriations. He also repeats what I have said for many years: The Leftism on campus has been allowed by Republicans. That and much more legislative news from gun rights to campaign finance law to election integrity.

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Dallas Fed is out with the Texas manufacturing , service, and retail sector outlook reports .

2024 A&M vs. Texas tickets most expensive college football game .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The de facto open border policy of Democrats is immora l and leads to horrible things such as crime, human trafficking, kidnapping , as well as undermining national security . A Texas poll shows that even a majority of Hispanics want deportation of illegal crossers, but did you know that over 1.4 million people with judicial orders for deportation have avoided such ? It’s time for bold action in America.

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Jack Smith throws in the towel on the political prosecution of Donald Trump .

Trump names more Texans to key posts including Secretary of Agriculture .

Sunset Review report on the so-called Texas Ethics Commission, yes the unethical clown court, admits much of the problem but then recommends making it hard to challenge the irresponsible agency’s rulings .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Get ready for more local, state, and national misleading propaganda on the Texas Bluebonnet public school curriculum. The SBOE adopted part of such today and no, it does not teach the Bible or Christianity to students. It simply includes references, where appropriate, to the Bible so that concepts, traditions, and influences can be taught or understood in proper context. One cannot be educated to understand much of anything of Western Culture without being exposed to Christian Biblical teaching because such is at the center of most everything.

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A big win for Ken Paxton today at the Texas Supreme Court is a big win for the rule of law but because of Paxton hatred, many can’t understand this fundamental principle. When you’ve not contested civil claims and come to settlement, plaintiffs can’t then compel you to be deposed so they can go on fishing expeditions for other things.

Oil and gas rig count rises.

Stench of local government story out of Waller : Fighting back against local tyranny pays off for muralists and for private property rights. Josh Polk, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Institute , joins us to discuss the case.

Rep. Harrison, others, upset at UT’s “free” tuition scheme . I’ll have Harrison on the show soon to cover details.

Abilene alphabet community member upset over simply being asked about biological sex at hospital outside of a private setting . Dear confused: You choose the lifestyle, live with it.

More illegal immigration shenanigans from the Biden Admin . And, DPS inaugurates first mounted border trooper teams .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton sues the City of Dallas over its pro-marijuana ordinance that contradicts state law. AG press release .

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Matt Gaetz withdraws from U.S. Attorney General nomination – relax, it is likely very much for the best .

Fraudulent text blast is just more controversy in the race for Texas House Speaker.

Evil on display: Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to a person for spending her life working to kill babies in the womb – Texas’ Cecile Richards who ran “Planned Parenthood” for years.

Comment on protesting and issues surrounding the acquittal of an Abilene man on charges of stalking the city manager .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas offers up use of its new Starr County ranch for Trump’s deportation efforts and Abbott thumbs his nose at Biden/Harris, adds more buoy barriers in the Rio Grande . Trump’s new “border czar” Tom Homan reveals how military will be used for mass deportations, dispelling liberal speculation .

Tony Gonzales, Chip Roy clash over mass deportation plans . This will be the big battle inside the GOP and inside the country. Plan: Work out the kinks and get the system working well with the criminals and then, ramp it up for all who have entered illegally including the fake asylum app people.

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Texas Tech regents ask Governor Abbott for permission to break Texas law in paying athletes because they predict the legislature will change the law next year ! Who are these people and what warped sense of the Rule of Laws and civic integrity do they have?

SpaceX launches show the power of freedom – get government out of the way! Flights into Brownsville sold out prior to SpaceX’s sixth test flight of Starship/Superheavy.

FAA approves revised launch rate for Boca Chica ; schedules public meetings locals better start showing up because so far they have abandoned the playing field to the radical Left: “ SpaceX does not help humanity; it’s a sci-fi fantasy for the rich and powerful,” Josette Hinojosa, with South Texas Environmental Justice Network, partly said in a statement. “Elon Musk inviting Trump to watch our low-income community used as a testing site for rocket explosions is a blatant example of white supremacy. “

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Leftist media would have you believe that Texas public schools are about to start teaching from the Bible. One, this is not true. Two, our culture, history, and politics cannot accurately be taught without reference to the Bible and Christian principles. We create a huge gap in people’s education if they are not familiar with references to Biblical influence.

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Ector County commissioners add on to the all too common abuse: Use CO bonds to build a courthouse instead of going to the people for a vote.

What you need to know about presidential “recess appointments” and the history of how appointee approval by the Senate broke – hint, it’s the Democrats.

Congress eyes moves on Farm Bill but don’t expect much.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Tech , other state universities , are still teaching DEI and other similar Marxist doctrines. Most are doing as I predicted and simply renaming things to make it hard to find.

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Texas Supreme Court allows Robert Roberson execution to go forward , says House can’t stop process with a subpoena. Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton secures win at Texas Supreme Court, shut­ting down attempt to derail court-ordered exe­cu­tion of con­vict­ed child murderer .

RIP: Texas music giant Tommy Alverson . On the radio and radio stream we celebrate the music of the Texas original in our intro and exit music today.

Another record high for Texas Civilian Labor Force after adding 47,300 in October .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: When building a foundation for something, why mix the cement poorly from the beginning? More Trump Team commentary including questions about Matt Gaetz as U.S. Attorney General .

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Governor Abbott tells regents he wants no tuition increases over next 2 years in Texas public colleges and universities . Bad timing for Texas Tech system’s Midwestern State University .

Wynn Rosser named Texas Higher Education Commissioner.

Migrant center leader hopes Trump doesn’t bring back ‘remain in Mexico’ – this woman is a radical no-border Leftist we have covered fro years. What a soft-soap job on the story by the Fox reporter.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Tuesday began early bill filing for next year’s Texas Legislature and much was filed. Here are a few good rundowns:

School Choice, Other Education Bills Filed for Upcoming 2025 Legislative Session
Chinese Land Ownership, Border Security, Gender Privacy: Legislative Filing Opens in Texas
Texas Legislature: Lawmakers begin filing bills for 2025 session
A Second Democrat Enters the Speaker Race

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Sen. John Thune wins Senate majority leader in second round of voting handily beating Texas’ John Cornyn . Even Senator Ted Cruz was no backer of the swamp-swimming Cornyn .

Trump Team news:

The ‘Defense World’ Freakout Over Pete Hegseth Is Epic, and It Tells Us Everything We Need to Know
In Defense of Pete Hegseth | National Review

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump’s new Chief of Staff has it right: Trump has a window of opportunity of only “two years” to change the federal government for the better . This time he is getting good people in place early.

Trump selects Lee Zeldin to head the EPA
Former Trump Energy Sec, Dan Brouillette, Who Unleashed Production Boom Positioned for Return to Admin
Trump selects South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for Homeland Security secretary
Sen. Marco Rubio to serve as secretary of state?
Trump’s first moves match public’s push for immigration fix

Is Texas Senator John Cornyn threatening Trump to stop appointment of Ken Paxton as Attorney General ? Probably but my gut makes me think that Paxton is not on the short list to begin with. Either way we see how nasty and anti-conservative is the swamp-swimmer Cornyn.

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The famed Michelin stars fall upon the Texas restaurant scene .

An example of everything that is wrong in America: Texas DACA recipients somehow now qualify for taxpayer subsidize Obamacare despite being in the country without legal status .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Border news and Trump’s 2nd administration news is all wrapped up together. Plus, what are the items with which Congressional Republican leaders have been working with Trump for immediate action ?

I sure like this item: Trump pushes for national concealed carry reciprocity .

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Anti-Wimp update from DeSoto : Woman uses gun, stops man breaking into her home .

Texas school choice is simmering on the legislative burner and about the only obstacle left appears to be the race for Texas House speaker. Lieutenant Governor Patrick says school choice will be Senate Bill 2, only after the budget which has to be SB1 .

U.S. Department of State and Mexico come to agreement in repaying water – details remain sparse.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Mandate, D-EXIT , or whatever you term it, the real question is if Trump, and at this point Vance, can keep it. Or, do they do as happened in other cases and turn to inward DC deal making in such a way that the people no longer perceive the fight to be on their behalf?

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The vile and bigoted Texas Democratic Party chairman resign s after ‘devastating’ losses . Bexar County Democratic Party chairman announces resignation days after election results .

Attorney General Ken Paxton Wins Major Victory, Blocking Biden-Harris Administration’s Unlawful “Parole in Place” Policy . Also see: EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Intel Report Warns Venezuela Sending Intel Operatives, Released Prisoners to ‘Neutralize’ Targets in U.S.

Lt. Governor Patrick says Texas school choice is his “top priority” in the upcoming legislature .

North America Rig Count Report .

Texas A&M Board of Regents ends ‘LGBTQ Minor’ and other ‘Low Performing’ programs backed by woke faculty. Also, A&M – Commerce is no more – it is now East Texas A&M .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Some Democrats just don’t know what hit ’em Tuesday and others, our college babies , can’t cope very well with not getting their way.

The inroads into the Hispanic vote in Texas, made by Trump, helped Senator Cruz and others. The real question is: How ignorant and insulated must Democrat leaders be to not understand how all the anti-male, pro-homosexual and transsexual, and open borders positions are seen by regular folk – and that includes Latinos?

Hispanic Americans among key groups that helped reelect Trump as president of the United States.
Hispanic voters shift to the right, leaving Texas Democrats seeking answers

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Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has choice words post-election about Texas House members voting for a Speaker who won his gavel with Democrat support and who empowers the Democrats voters reject.

Fresh off GOP wins, Gov. Greg Abbott vows to enact school choice in Texas . Will Gov. Abbott and House Republicans keep playing games with school choice ?

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A full election review today which includes Republican gains across Texas, rolling back recent gains made by Democrats. Senator Cruz wins big and both the Texas House and Senate see GOP pickups as well as Republican judges winning back court benches in Harris County. About the only big loss in the Lone Star State was Amarillo voters choosing the go the way of the Devil .

Trump wins in a landslide, Harris concedes election

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Local city sales tax collection numbers are out from the comptroller – it’s a real mixed bag. Look up your city here .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A review of the key races across Texas to watch as election returns come in. Will the GOP make gains in South Texas and the RGV? Will a young Leftist beauty queen upset a longtime state representative in Richardson? Will Amarillo be the first Texas city to fail to pass a sanctuary city for the unborn ordinance in a citywide vote? Will the GOP make gains in either the Texas House or Senate?

I review the races to watch. [SD27, HD52, HD70, HD74, HD80, HD108, HD112, Amarillo’s Pro-Life Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinanc e, and race turnouts in places like Williamson and Fort Bend counties.

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Feds agree to follow the law and stay out of Texas polling places and ballot count rooms .

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As expected, Comptroller Hegar reports that Texas’ cash position has declined since last year .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Another very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024 including a visit with Texas’ top numbers guru Derek Ryan on what the Early Vote turnout predicts for the election in Texas.

Texas Tells Biden-Harris Admin ‘No’ to Federal Polling Place Monitors
DOJ reminds federal agents not to respond to polling places with guns, it is against federal law
Trump vows tariffs on Mexico if country doesn’t crack down on migrants, drugs
Biden-Harris Admin’s Massive CBP Migrant Release Center near Border in Texas
John Fetterman: ‘Immigration Has Remade Texas,’ and That’s a Good Thing
New Slur: NY Gov Goes Beyond ‘Garbage,’ Calls Trump Suporters ‘Anti-American’New Slur: NY Gov Goes Beyond ‘Garbage,’ Calls Trump Suporters ‘Anti-American’

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Texas State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $4 Billion in October .

Wildfire that forced evacuations in Bastrop County caused by nearby structure fire . Governor Abbott Deploys Additional Wildfire Response Resources To Hudson Fire In Bastrop County .

A visit with playwright and songwriter Chip Polk about his new Christmas play at the Ragtown Gospel Theater .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Federal judge says lawsuit brought by CAIR can move forward against University of Texas and University of Houston systems over Governor Abbott’s order against anti-semitism on state colleges and campuses . I explain why this is correct and why part of Abbott’s order is likely okay.

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Texas named top state for business climate, again !

Oil & gas rig count and other petrol and business news.

Much more Election 2024 news including:

Media seizes on Trump’s Liz Cheney comments: Here’s the full context
Five most alarming revelations about progressive group ActBlue’s fundraising platform
House speaker fears foreign powers laundering money to Democrats, warns adversaries
Stacey Abrams: Record ‘Turnout Does Not Mean There Is Not Voter Suppression’

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Another very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024.

Trump Humiliates Biden by Riding in a ‘Make America Great Again’ Garbage Truck in Wisconsin
Orange Vest-Wearing Trump Tells WI Crowd Hilarious Story of How Garbage Truck Ride Came to Happen
Ted Cruz, Colin Allred become most expensive U.S. Senate race
Allred Continues Fight Against Voter ID, Election Integrity Laws
Anonymous PAC Targeting Ted Cruz
‘Don’t California my Texas?’ That’s likely not happening, data shows
Pro-Harris PAC Led By Trans Activist Caught Running Voter Suppression Scams in Battleground States
Nolte: Kimmel Spreads Disinformation to Voters on His Show — Meme Guy Sentenced to Prison for Same

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Largest timber OSB manufacturing plant in North America opens in Polk County, Texas .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024. Sadly, part of the story is that more Texas school districts are blatantly violating the law by using taxpayer money to advocate for passage for their tax rate and bond election. Turkey-Quitaque ISD and Canyon ISD caught . They know beyond all question that their actions are illegal, it is time for prosecutions.

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More on the Texas teacher certification testing scandal:

Attorney General Ken Paxton Announces Indictments Against Participants In “Pay-To-Pass” Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain Texas Teacher Certifications
Who are the Houston ISD staff involved in the teaching certification scandal?
Much detail is here from yesterday’s Pratt on Texas

A.G. Paxton calls on Rep. Jeff Leach to resign his seat and sends a criminal referral for Leach’s attempt to illegally influence a judge in the Roberson death penalty case .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A huge teacher scandal uncovered by the Harris County District Attorney: Dishonest “teachers” from around the state, well over 400, have paid big money to have a proxy take their official Texas teacher certification test. The ring is said to be led by a longtime Houston ISD basketball coach and involved two other district people as well as others outside of the district. It is alleged that the coach, at the top, netted over one million dollars in the long running scheme . Read all about it here:

Teacher certification cheating ring nets 5 arrests, DA Ogg says
Prosecutors: 3 HISD staffers ran teacher license test cheating ring

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The dangerous constitutional crisis caused by the Texas House Jurisprudence Committee just gets dirtier and dirtier:

Internal notice of the “ex parte” communication effort by Leach from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (pdf)
Court: Texas House member, Jeff Leach. tried to sway judge on Robert Roberson case
OAG Notifies Texas Supreme Court of Unethical Attempt By State Representative Jeff Leach To Improperly Influence a Judge in Roberson Capital Punishment Proceedings

Much border news including New York City is now paying paroled illegal aliens to fly to Texas and other states. Also, Texas has bought a 1,400-acre ranch in Starr County on which it plans to build border wall . And, El Paso poisons at least 34 with food poisoning at local illegal alien shelter .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A new New York Times / Siena College poll shows Ted Cruz up over Allred just after a Dem-backed poll , made to help raise money, claimed the two were tied as of Saturday. Gromer Jeffers, Jr., of the Dallas Morning News , sure has it right: After spending the entire campaign acting as if he’s not part of the Lefty-Harris Democrat Party, Allred went all out to embrace Harris and his liberal Democrat roots in the big Harris Rally in Houston this weekend.

Despite all the glowing press reports of the huge Harris rally in Houston, was it really what it seemed ?

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The Dallas Fed’s Texas Manufacturing Survey headlines with good news but the internals don’t really support that good news.

Citizens legally petition for a recall election of the entire city leadership of San Benito – mayor and all of the council.

Murdered little girl’s family released a letter over the Roberson death penalty case which chastises the Texas House committee’s pro-innocence dog-and-pony show . See the full letter here, on X .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The local story from El Paso that I brought you earlier this week about the heavily Democrat city being down on Early Voting is now part of a bigger story that could be a good sign for Republicans . This explains why Harris left the battleground states to come to Texas for a big urban Houston, celeb-filled rally today for Senate candidate Colin Allred.

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Oil and gas rig count unchanged this week.

No wonder Neiman Marcus is in so much trouble it is being bought out. It has the most famous luxury Christmas catalog on earth that earns massive free media coverage upon its annual release and so what does the lameduck, current CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck do? He took “Christmas” out of the famed “Christmas book !”

Harris/Biden use immigration court delays to provide “quiet amnesty” to thousands, if not millions. And here’s a reason to not accept the “high tech surveillance” alternative to a real border barrier: Even in a time of unprecedented border crises, about 30% of the Border Patrol’s cameras are not working !

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Office of Attorney General catches up to Pratt on Texas and calls state Reps. Joe Moody and Jeff Leach liars over their propaganda in the Roberson death penalty case. Court records back up the A.G.’s claim and match what I have been telling you. These records show that advocates, media, and some elected officials have been spreading some very smelly B.S. about the case. Read it:

Office of the Attorney General Sets the Record Straight About Nikki Curtis’s Death, Rebutting Jeff Leach’s and Joe Moody’s Lies About Convicted Child Murderer
Read Dr. Jill Uban’s sworn letter to the court of 2017.

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The perverted “trans gender” issue is hurting Democrats Allred and Harris . At least it’s an issue Harris has not flipped on like so many others but Allred lies and lies about his very recent support of the perversion. Also see: Taxpayer-Funded Doctor Studies Puberty Blockers on ‘Trans Kids’ but Hides Results .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Roberson capital punishment case shows why traditionalism and conservatism often lose: Even when evidence supports the conservative position, one-sided presentations based in emotionalism (the Donahue or Oprah style complete with much omission) seems to turn off the skeptical and rational switch in the heads of many.

Media stories and editorials all engage in serious sins of omission and tell us this case is a travesty of justice and yet, most all of this is built upon the lie that “shaken baby syndrome” was the entire case against Roberson. And, most of the argument comes from outsiders who are against capital punishment or have a problem with general procedural habit of Texas courts . Juror Compton’s 21-year-old memory is not evidence but the word-for-word trial transcript and evidence history is and this case was never all about the questionable “shaken baby syndrome.” You’ll easily pick that up when you read Judge Yeary’s concurring opinion here .

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Texas sues Biden/Harris Administration over its refusal to follow federal law and assist states to weed out non-citizens from voting rolls. Secretary of State Nelson joins in .

Kamala Harris goes on record for more than amnesty for millions and millions of illegal aliens , she wants them in the voting booth too – that’s what a “pathway to citizenship” means!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrat Leftists claim they are trying to “save Democracy,” but at about every policy point they oppose law and ordered government so what are the saving? Nowhere is this more flagrantly hypocritical than on illegal immigration * and also with voting integrity .

*The Left, including Cesar Chavez and his brother, used to claim that this was the rich capitalists exploiting illegals for cheaper labor, harming American citizens. Now the Left campaigns for the illegal cheap, imported labor that takes wage growth from lower income Americans.

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Harris coming for an Allred rally in Houston to push the killing of innocent babies in the womb. Meanwhile, Cruz points out how similar are Allred and Harris: They both are running from their very radical records .

This Statesman piece, Democrats highlight abortion in bid to flip Texas Supreme Court seats , demonstrates just how incompetent, ignorant, or just plain biased, are many reporters these days . Reporter Bayliss Wagner writes: “In social media posts, the [Democrat backing] PAC has painted statements like Devine’s 2012 speech as evidence that the incumbent justices can’t be trusted to rule impartially.” But then never sees the hypocrisy of the entire message that Republicans who are openly on one side of the abortion argument are claimed to be unable to “rule impartially” and yet Democrats openly on the other side of the argument are? That should be the main line of questioning of the piece given its context but it is ignored by the reporter.

Biden-Harris’ DHS Delivers Special Interest Aliens from California to Texas for Release .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Friday I explained what an overreach the Texas House Jurisprudence Committee has made in the Roberson death penalty case. Today, Governor Abbott says why; Attorney General Paxton says why, and; even another member of the Texas House says why:

Governor Abbott’s amicus curiae brief to the Texas Supreme Court
Rep. Tinderholt’s amicus curiae brief to the Texas Supreme Court

Attorney General’s motion for reconsideration and to dismiss petition for lack of jurisdiction .

You don’t need to be a lawyer to read these things and you’ll get much more of the actual argument than from press stories.

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New poll has Senator Ted Cruz up by 7 points on Democrat Allred . It seems Allred’s support of boys in girls’ sports is breaking undecideds towards Cruz.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Whether guilty or not, the cause celebre of the case of Robert Roberson’s ordered execution has gone off the rails. Media stories and advocate assertions so not tell the full story.

I cannot summarize 40 minutes of analysis here so listen to the show and you’ll hopefully get my point. Skepticism is required from all sides of an issue when trying to find the truth in a fallen world. Here are two of the stories I work from on the show:

Texas Supreme Court halts Robert Roberson execution
A Texas Board Rejects Clemency Plea From a Man Facing Execution in Shaken Baby Syndrome Case
Justice Sotomayor unhappy with Texas court’s handling of Roberson’s death row case

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Oil and gas rig count falls .

Unemployment data for September: Texas Civilian Labor Force Exceeds 15.4 Million, Over 29,000 Jobs Added .

Not so good news for Texas and Taylor out of the Samsung world .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas House committee has gone too far in trying to interfere with an official execution in Texas . This is exactly the type of thing Democrats will do for most everything if they win back control of Texas government. Here is an example: State Seeks Recusal of Judge Cornelio in Case of Death Row Inmate Over False Bench Warrant, Secretive Proceedings

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In Fox interview , Kamala Harris played (?) dumb over why 70% of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track. She also deflected her failure (in our terms) on the border and illegal immigration. She referenced our “broken immigration system.” Do not be fooled by this, what the Leftist and Democrats mean by broken is limits and enforcement to begin with. Their “fixes” are almost always amnesty and making it easier for near unlimited people to enter the country at any time. That is how you fundamentally transform country – you replace a native majority with a non-native majority.

FBI caught misleading the American people again, to benefit Democrat campaigns . Turns out they cooked the crime numbers, then revised such but did so without announcing the change.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Cruz / Allred “debate” has an interesting lesson on how even when there is what seems to be hard questioning for both, there is still Leftwing bias in media driven debates. An additional problem with all the political debates is that because the questions come from, and the debate steered by, media members, rarely is there proper focus on the issues that voters actually care the most about. Stories today I used to demonstrate how the press coverage is mostly in minor issues, style, and attack liners than on what is polling as important to voters :

Ted Cruz, Colin Allred come out swinging over abortion, immigration in Texas debate
Key takeaways from the combative Ted Cruz, Colin Allred debate
Ted Cruz, Colin Allred spar over abortion, border in US Senate debate
Cruz and Allred Meet for Only Debate Before Election
Cruz, Allred Spar Over the Border, Abortion, and Biological Men in Women’s Sports in Lone Senate Debate

8 key moments from the Ted Cruz vs. Colin Allred debate – with video clips

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As expected, and hoped, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed Texas a big win for election integrity by stopping Judge Xavier Rodriguez and his last moment rulings against components of SB1. Rodriguez was fairly strongly chastened by the court: “On the eve of elections in Texas, the district court has entered an injunction that impacts how ballots can be handled. It holds unconstitutional a law that has been on the books for over three years, but that the court did not see fit to enjoin until now. The Supreme Court has instructed lower courts not to unduly delay ordering changes to election law until the eve of an election .”

Slandering of Mike Miles by teacher unions and Democrat political operatives in Houston, and elsewhere, shown to be lies and slander .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A new Texas-based poll shows the Cruz vs. Allred race right where I said it should end up – but only if Republicans do well at getting the vote out. Cruz and Allred to face off in Senate race’s only debate tonight . Also, “Is Ted Cruz Blowing His Re-Election Race in Texas? ” – don’t buy it, this is a part of a trend of stories that began a couple of weeks ago trying to claim the Cruz has gone silent on conservatism and I simply haven’t seen that to be the case.

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Here we go again! Texas Department of Insurance turns down a TWIA rate increase even though the “insurer of last resort” needs the money to remain stable. What’s the plan? Stick to all the rest of us to bail it out, again.

Border news:

New Migrant Caravan Headed North Trying to Beat the Possible Arrival of a Trump Administration
EXCLUSIVE: Kamala’s Broken Border — Special Interest Alien Surge in Texas
Migrant Deaths in New Mexico Have Increased Tenfold
Feds Admit: Child Sex Trafficking Reports Triple under Harris and Biden

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Three big court decisions affect Texas in different ways.

First , the Fifth Circuit has overruled a contempt charge and fine against Texas over its foster care system ; more importantly the court has removed activist, biased Judge Janis Jack from the case! This is a huge win for sanity and proper judicial behavior as well as for Texas.

Second , the very unreliable Judge Xavier Rodriguez has ruled against more Texas election integrity rules found in SB1 . Whether or not the 5th Circuit will put some of this on hold as it has previous rulings from this judge remains to be seen. Rules on voter assistance have existed way before GOP control mostly to protect people from being coerced to vote a certain way by a spouse, employer, or other party with power over them

Three , Texas’ investigatory law that has been on the books for over a century has been ruled unconstitutional . The ruling is correct in my opinion but complicates the Attorney General’s ability to investigate matters such as assisting illegal immigration.

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Lubbock County Commissioner Jason Corley tells about finally passing his “game room” regulations this morning but not until the fake Republican county judge, Bowtie Bully Parrish, mucked it up with amendments. Note that it was the two Democrats who opposed it: Precinct 3’s Flores and Judge Curtis Parrish .

Our great friend, and former sometimes network board operator, Jody Smyers, a great photographer, joins us to talk about watching the historic launch, and catch of the booster, from SpaceX’s Starbase in South Texas yesterday .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Now that Fort Worth says the legal avenue to outright ban so-called “game rooms” is clear , will Lubbock County finally move Commissioner Jason Corley’s simple game room regulatory proposal forward Monday? Commissioner Corley joins us to bring us up to date on the year and a half long saga .

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Polling and campaign update includes:

New Poll Shows Flores Gaining Over Gonzalez in House Race
New Marist Poll has Ted Cruz up by 5 points over Colin Allred

Attorney General Paxton’s lawsuit against Travis County’s outside taxpayer funded voter registration program booted out of federal court – a win for Paxton . The Texas Tribune’s story is a hatchet job of journalism as it completely leaves out the issue of the firm that was hired being linked to partisan efforts to only enhance Democrat voter registration .

Border news:

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Releas­es State­ment On Texas DACA Chal­lenge Argued Today In Fifth Circuit .

ICE Contractor Used Charter Bus to Smuggle Illegal Aliens in Texas, Says Prosecutor .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Should the State of Texas be in the gambling business? The Texas Lottery contributes very little to public education despite being sold to the public as a big funding mechanism for much . I believe that the social costs of the lottery far outweigh any benefits and that it should be recommended for closure by the Sunset process – but don’t place a bet that it will be as too many profit from it.

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National media has picked up on the Texas Voter ID story I have been covering (listen to yesterday’s show here ) and frankly it is clear that the elections director should be removed for being so stupid as to not advise the use of a provisional ballot in the cases at the root of the controversy.

A big story showing just how radical are today’s Texas Democrats – they are anti-American revolutionaries, or at least their front groups often are.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: I was right in my speculation about the Denton County story on letting those with non-citizens state ID’s vote but only partly. Now that we’ve learned more , it is much worse. In my informed opinion the Secretary of State’s elections chief is either too stupid to do the job or is biased for illegal voting. She needs to be removed by Secretary of State Nelson. Anyone with a brain would know that the solution to the legitimate problem is to use a Provisional Ballot , not a regular ballot.

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Fort Worth to shut down so-called “game rooms” now that the Texas Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by operators . Lubbock County’s conservative Commissioner Jason Corley to put game room regulation on the agenda, again, for next Monday’s Commissioners’ Court meeting.

The local sales tax collection report shows continued slowing of spending. Look up your city here .

A disturbing survey shows about half of “people of faith” do not plan to vote in the election . How in the world can you be unclear on what to do with headlines like this: Porn Industry Launches Ads Supporting Harris Campaign .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Allred outraised Cruz in Q 3 but didn’t say how much cash-on-hand he had. Kamala Harris told ABC’s “The View” today that she would do nothing different from Joe Biden . And, one report claims the Denton County elections administrator is insisting that non-citizens who are registered to vote must be allowed to vote even if all the present for voter ID is a special non-citizen version of a Texas driver license. I explain what this may be about.

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More reasons to distrust public school backers who claim to be underfunded in Texas:

El Paso ISD Trustees OK $2 Million for Bond ‘Strategist’ Despite Budget Deficit

Houston’s Highest Paid Principals – a good reminder of when districts said they could not dedicate 65% of their revenue to actual classroom instruction!

Texas officially takes ownership of Alamo Cenotaph.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Media, Democrat double-standard on full display over Hurricane Helene and the federal response to the disaster. There is a fundamental, anti-progressive, lesson in it all showing why you should never order a society to depend upon “experts” and bureaucrats but instead upon a free and largely autonomous people.

Highly recommend this column by Amber Duke at The Spectator
FEMA abandons residents of devastated NC town because of ‘road closed’ sign
Private Helicopters Deliver over 500,000 Pounds of Supplies to Western NC
FEMA head draws outrage by declaring criticism of failed response ‘dangerous,’ could hinder comfort of employees
WH Press Secretary Caught in Lie About Whether FEMA Funds Were Used for Migrants

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Texas nets significant “wins” in court on saving innocent life and on election security.

US Supreme Court Rebuffs Biden Administration on Emergency Abortions in Texas
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Temporarily Stops Injunction That Blocked Texas Election Integrity Law and Investigations Into Vote Harvesting Schemes

Border news:

South Texas ICE processing center approaches full capacity as DPS continues to apprehend immigrants
San Antonio police raid and arrest 4 Tren de Aragua members in gang bust at North Side apartment complex

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Dallas County Republican Chairman, Allen West, says that Dallas County elections equipment failed required tests and that the elections administrator did not note the failures observed in the public test on the required attestation statement. If true, this is a major problem and Secretary of State needs to step in immediately. Even if the failures observed were of human error, that is still a systems problem than must be corrected before actual ballot counting begins.

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Can convicted felons who are in Texas prisons vote in the Lone Star State? Yes, some of them can and it is an area that legislators need to clean up.

U.S. Supreme Court to take up several key cases in its new term:

US Supreme Court to Hear West Texas Nuclear Waste Storage Dispute
Supreme Court to weigh a Texas death row case after halting execution
American Gun Companies on Trial? Supreme Court Takes Up Mexican Government Lawsuit

Texas oil & gas drilling rig count has another positive week.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The so-called “shocking” and “bombshell” accusations in Jack Smith’s revised “election interference” indictment of Donald Trump are anything but shocking or bombshell. The media just expects you to read the headlines without examining the charges. MediaIte lists what it calls the “11 most shocking revelations in new DOJ filing ” and yet none of them are particular shocking at all and nothing on the list comes close to being anything that is a crime.

To buy into any of this one must take the position that working within the constitutional system to challenge, slow down, investigate, or correct an election is somehow a crime. Where was this philosophy when Democrats tried to steal the presidential election with Al Gore by recounting Florida ballots until they knocked off enough hanging chads on punch card ballots to win?

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Kamala Harris lies, outright lies, about what is need to got our border and immigration system under control – all that is needed is to enforce existing law. Why is it not impeachable and a serious threat to democracy that she and Biden refuse to enforce American law?

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Big Pharma Drug Manufacturers and Pharmacy Benefit Managers for Conspiracy That Increased Insulin Prices by 1,000% .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas voter registration now tops 18 million and key races get closer and closer by the cycle . Will Texas return to an electorally competitive state? Many say it is happening now – what will it take for those who became active only in an era of strong GOP dominance to wake up and get to the kind of work it took to win that dominance?

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Texas sales tax collections up but actually down when considering inflation .

The Alamo visitor center project, and more, kicked off this week in San Antonio .

Vice Presidential candidates debated last night – a full review . And, if you want to see what a different universe many on the Left live in, read this .

Who Won The VP Debate Last Night? Here’s What Snap Polls And Betting Markets Say.
Media Elite Admit Vance’s Performance Was Spectacular
MSM Pan Walz’s Performance — ABC News Anchor Compares It To Biden’s Disaster
Texas Abortion Data Refutes Harris Campaign’s False Claims as Doctors Perform Abortions to Save Women’s Lives

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is interesting and shows that Texas Republicans could lose the U.S. Senate race. Democrat liberal Colin Allred is polling neck and neck with Ted Cruz. I give a full rundown of the detail of the poll done by Public Policy Polling .

All the free media publicity around man-child Beto Pancho O’Rourke had Republicans working but this time around we don’t see the same work ethic yet Allred is polling better than did Beto.

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Texas manufacturing down ; service sector okay but relative flat , and; retail continues its contraction .

The longshoreman strike shows what is, and has always been, wrong with the labor union movement: Unions have always been as greedy as they and their allies have painted business owners or “capital” to be . Press reports say that ILA [union] members currently have a base salary of $81,000, but large amounts of overtime can allow some to reach $200,000 for manual labor jobs.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Another county adopts the No New Revenue Tax Rate without causing the sky to fall . New figures out today from Lubbock County’s newly factored No New Revenue Tax Rate budget shows what an outright unmitigated liar Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish, and his other allies, was with the “deep cuts” scare tactics.

Note this: “Galveston County Commissioners Court passed a budget for FY 2025 based on a property tax rate below the NNR rate. According to Galveston County Judge Mark Henry, this is the 14th year in a row the county has lowered property taxes.” Why that is not possible according to fake Republican Parrish!

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The mostly unreliable federal judge Xavier Rodriguez rules against the 2021 Texas law that limits illegal ballot harvesting . It’s a ridiculous ruling and we should all hope that the Fifth Circuit sets things straight.

As Things Stand Now, Dade Phelan Needs Democrats to Stay Speaker – which is how he became the House speaker to begin with.

Texas lost a cultural giant: RIP Kris Kristofferson .

“Jawdropping ,” utterly astonishing numbers reveal the Harris / Biden administration has let 650,000 criminal aliens and suspects loose to roam the country .

Elon Musk says Democrats are using illegal immigration to create ‘one-party state’ .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Maybe the media makes sure, at the story source level, that there is little “widespread election fraud” on which to report by making sure many of the stories get little press coverage – that will certainly fool the search engines! Today we talk with Abilene Republican Women’s Club president Diana Hartmann about a fraudulent voter registration story local media is mostly ignoring even though there has been an official press release from the Taylor County elections administrator .

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Texas up one rig in the oil & gas rotary drilling rig report .

Texas State Fair can ban guns Supreme Court rules, reproaching Paxton .

Anti-Wimp update : Shovel vs. Gun – Harris Co. homeowner prevails with gun .

More Texas Democrat fraud in Fort Bend County leads to new indictment: Democrat County Judge K.P. George indicted in fake social media posts scandal .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Ted Cruz, Colin Allred race is tight meaning Texas’ U.S. Senate seat is in play and yet, with some notable exceptions, the local GOP apparatus in the key counties to offset the liberal city vote, as well as the state Republican Party, is full of young people who are busy at playing party politics instead of at the hard work needed to ensure statewide victory. Work that should have kicked off in August is not being done and we are already in late September. It’s as if these folk, who have no idea how much work it took to turn this state from a Democrat swamp into a GOP stronghold, are sitting around thinking the Trump turnout will be enough to win it all. Let us pray they are right because there isn’t much work being done to ensure massive, city offsetting, turnout in the places in Texas that give Republicans solid statewide wins.

Texas’ US Senate race: Ted Cruz, Colin Allred tie in new polls
Senate Democrats announce ad buy targeting Ted Cruz, Rick Scott
‘Against our daughters’: Cruz challenger hit with blistering 7-figure ad over transgender sports bill vote
Ted Cruz vs. Colin Allred Texas U.S. Senate race: Latest polls
Cruz race now a ‘tossup’ should be warning for Texas GOP, says expert

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Jonathan Turley’s column shows that there is no longer any hiding of the Democrat plan: Literally destroy, do away with, the U.S. Constitution to obtain absolute majoritarian tyranny of the Left .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: President Trump will be in the Midland/Odessa next week for a deep pockets fundraiser and many other stories from the campaign stack.

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After saving Lubbock County taxpayers from a big tax increase, commissioners Corley and Rackler have to deal with petty political retribution from Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish, lameduck Kovar, and admitted Democrat Flores. Commissioner “No Tax Increase” Corley tells us about it.

Appeals court turns down A.G. Paxton’s lawsuit over licensed concealed carry at the State Fair of Texas. Frankly, this is an issue for legislators next session and it’s time once again for them to prove their Second Amendment loyalty by eliminating most of the remaining restrictions to personal safety.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: After hearing much testimony, jurors felt they had to rule against someone for something in the so-called “Trump Train” trial. I understand fully juror sentiment in the case that I have followed closely but even so, they were wrong to use the Ku Klux Klan Act in so doing.

Texas jury rejects counts against all but one ‘Trump Train’ defendant
Texas Jury Clears Most ‘Trump Train’ Drivers in Civil Trial Over 2020 Biden-Harris Bus Encounter
‘Trump Train’ trial: Bus driver says he felt ‘under attack’ during interstate clash
A ‘Trump Train’ Convoy Surrounded a Biden-Harris Bus. Was It Political Violence?

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Two Lubbock Commissioners Stop County Tax Increase . Lubbock County adopts smaller budget [than requested, still higher than current year] as commissioners continue walkout . Lubbock commissioners approve budget funded by no-new-revenue rate .

Republican Texas House members gathered Friday to come together for a candidate to challenge Speaker Phelan . They settled on Rep. David Cook . Here is the best write-up on the matter: House Reformers Call Their Shot

Lubbock’s Rise Academy Charter School named National Blue Ribbon School . Governor Abbott Celebrates 31 Texas National Blue Ribbon Schools .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Dr. Merrill Matthews joins us to talk about the 2024 presidential election and we work from several of his columns that have recently appeared in The Hill, including:

For Democrats, ‘Freedom’ is Just Another Word for Mandate
Are You Ready for ‘Kamalanomics?’
What ‘Evangelicals for Harris’ Gets Terribly Wrong

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a health policy expert and regular columnist at The Hill . He has worked with the Institute for Policy Innovation , a research-based, public policy “think tank” in the Metroplex for many years.

Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, co-author of On the Edge: America Faces the Entitlements Cliff, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).

He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, The Hill, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.

Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County’s Bowtie Bully, Curtis Parrish, held a press conference in which he did little but offer deception to the people about what it means to adopt the No New Revenue Rate , meaning no tax increase for next year, by commissioners Rackler and Corley properly using a provision of the law to deny the Bowtie Bully’s planed $7.5 million spending increase and accompanying tax increase.

He made such incredibly ridiculous claims such as:

Not raising taxes will destroy the county’s bond rating increasing costs in the future. Never mind that all bond payment spending is in the current budget and will be in the new budget with the No New Revenue Tax Rate.

That not adopting his $7.5 million INCREASE in spending will cause them to “make the deepest, most massive cuts in the history of the county.” That my friends is an outright, undebatable lie. The budget with not tax increase will still be larger than that of the current year.
That commissioners breaking a quorum, the only way they can prevent a big tax increase given the other three are voting for such, is the same as Democrats breaking the legislative quorum. Another baldfaced lie from the Bowtie Bully . It is against state law to break a legislative quorum but state law specifically allows for blocking a tax increase by two commissioners refusing to show up for the vote. It has been done in Lubbock County before, in Harris County, the state’s largest just a few years ago, and who knows where else in our 254 counties.
Parrish claims that, somehow, not having a tax increase and increasing spending by $7.5 million this coming year will greatly harm the county for many years to come. Really? Not growing government beyond population, inflation, and economic growth will be a harm? That’s a D.C. Democrat idea.

Interestingly, after harping on non-existent “cuts,” Sheriff Rowe admitted that a budget with the No New Revenue Tax Rate would still be a big increase in spending over the current budget when he said that he was expecting 8 new deputies with the tax increase but will only get half that amount, 4, without the tax increase.

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Texas workforce keeps growing, unemployment at 4.2% for August .

Rig count goes up .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: “Voting Deserts,” voter registration rates, turnout, and other nonsense of the Left take up much political coverage and discussion time by people on all sides and do so to the exclusion of something few harping on the matters ever think about: Individual freedom.

Most of this is in reaction to a very well written piece by Gromer Jeffers, Jr. at the Dallas Morning (s)News: In ‘voting deserts,’ D-FW advocacy groups want to drive more voters to the polls .

There is something very elitist, in the most negative sense of the word, about the entire everyone-should-register, everyone-should-vote movement when adherents to such drone on with their speculations as to why other citizens choose not to participate. It is almost always tinged with the idea that the nonvoter would share my enthusiasm for voting, almost presented as something sacred, if it weren’t for his ignorance at how to go about it, how to register, or knowing for whom he should vote.

Our republic is not well served by ignoring the right of people to not vote; it is not well served by having people vote who don’t care enough to educate themselves, and; it is not well served by people voting who are simply manipulated into the polling booth. A representative republic is based on its participants being educated and interested in self-government. Such a system is not designed to work with the input of people who don’t care.

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Public Schools: Democrat district judge extends ruling to keep parents and taxpayers in the dark as to how their expensive public schools are performing. And, TEA’s chief asks lawmakers to ban cellphone use by students in schools .

Harris/Biden ordered cover-up of the increase in suspected terrorists arrested at the border; also moved illegals from CA to TX , plus more border news.

Bowtie Bully Curtish Parrish and other tax takers and spenders hold a presser to scare the public into not passing a big ($7.5 million) spending/tax increase in Lubbock County. All you need understand is what Bowtie Bully Parrish said in the July budget hearing.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It was 3 years ago today when the nation saw the unrestricted hoards of Haitians crossing the border into Texas from Mexico. “There was a lot of asylum fraud going on there. Most of the Haitians we talked to admitted they had been living & working in Chile & other South American countries for years,” reported Fox News’ Bill Melugin via X.

Leftist Democrats , and that includes most of the media, use their “dangerous” rhetoric and call people concerned about the effects of uncontrolled immigration “bigots” and “xenophobes” but, it is beyond ridiculous to pretend that there are not very real consequences to Americans and their communities from such. This story from the Daily Wire deals with the issue responsibly: ‘What Has My Town Become?’: Springfield Residents Say It’s Falling Apart Amid Haitian Influx .

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NBC News has run a huge, very long, story on the usage of unclaimed bodies for scientific research out of Univ. of North Texas Health Sciences Center and Dallas and Tarrant Counties. Listen to the show for my take on this story and how it is presented by the libs at NBC.

Has Biden’s D.O.J. “botched” its ridiculous case against whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim over the sex change for children horrors at Texas Children’s Hospital?

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Demonstrating, once again, what lying race pimps (dangerous rhetoric!) they are, Texas Democrats along with others went all out liar on Texas DPS Director McCraw yesterday . It all relates to Governor Abbott’s presser in Houston at which he announced the designation of the Tren de Aragua mafia as a foreign terrorist organization .

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Four years later the Biden Dept. of [un]Justice is still trying to make a case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . The latest grand jury testimony indicates trying to get an indictment on a process crime , if that, instead of an actual criminal offense. And on that note, yesterday was the anniversary of Paxton’s complete victory in the impeachment hoax perpetrated by Speaker Phelan and his top lieutenants. Phelan is still keeping the costs of the impeachment debacle, we all paid for, secret and Lt. Gov. Patrick is still asking .

Attorney General Ken Paxton Appeals Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Bexar County’s Unsolicited Voter Registration Form Mailout Program . When I said yesterday that Bexar Co. pulled a fast one, we didn’t know how bad!

Same old song, slight new verse: FBI Agent Investigating Second Assassination Attempt Allegedly Made ‘Anti-Trump’ Posts . The Special Agent in Charge of the Miami FBI office appears to have been an internal conservative hunter within the FBI for higher ups.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The “scripted” responses from Democrat officials , and predictably wrong media narrative, over yet another assassination attempt of Donald Trump should, but sadly won’t, awaken all Americans to the big lie that has been Leftist projection on so-called rhetoric and political speech.

Alleged shooter hid for nearly 12 hours before Secret Service saw him at golf course
FBI Affidavit Indicates Alleged Would-Be Assassin Had SKS Rifle
Ryan Routh, armed man arrested at Trump golf course, posted prolifically about Ukraine war, has long rap sheet
Would-be Trump Assassin Had Biden-Harris Bumper Sticker
Trump Assassination Suspect Donated 19 Times to Democrats
MSNBC Guest: Donald Trump Is ‘Exactly Like Hitler’
Texas Dem U.S. Rep. Crockett: MAGA Is a Domestic Threat, Trump Is Stoking Them

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Bexar County pulled a fast one with their register-more-Democrats-to-vote scheme . Mailed the stuff out before the court hearing over barring them from doing so.

Amarillo’s Rep. Smithee finally decides to run for House Speaker . His best chance is as a safe compromise candidate and it might work. Also a far-Left Democrat, Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos, has filed for Speaker as well .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The lawfare case against Brent Webster, Texas First Assistant Attorney General, by the leftists at the Texas Bar Association was heard by the Texas Supreme Court yesterday. It’s a plain and simple case of using the courts, and in this case a regulatory body, to punish people for their political viewpoint . Justice Blacklock’s questions made this reality clear. It is time that legislators end the practice of a private association, the state bar, having regulatory power over lawyers.

Can Texas officials be reprimanded for arguing fraud changed 2020 election results?
Texas Supreme Court Hears Arguments in State Bar’s Case Against OAG’s Brent Webster.

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For Friday the 13th: Three stench of local government stories:

McKinney Puts Misleading Term Limit Language on November Ballot
Texas Senator Hits College Station Over ‘Sanctuary City Style’ Resolution Blocking Individual Disannexation
Kerrville Residents Win Partial Injunction Against City’s Electioneering Ordinance

Collin Allred’s ad features border wall he once blasted as ‘racist ‘ .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has taken what I think to be an odd ruling on campaign violations, the Texas [un]Ethics Commission, and local prosecutors. It is almost as if the majority is trying to implement in Texas the administrative state problem we have with federal government. Read: Texas Ethics Commission Has Exclusive Jurisdiction Over Campaign Violations, Court Rules and ‘Secret Speech Police’ Granted Exclusive Power Over Campaign Violations, Court Rules .

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From the “What did they expect” file: Hindus erected a 90-foot idol in Sugar Land and then are amazed that others have reacted and that they might need at least security cameras in place. See: Photos Show America’s New ‘Third Tallest’ Statue .

First private sector, non-government, EVA, or spacewalk, took place today . I like Elon Musk’s comment via X:

Strive to greater heights,
For a future brighter than the past,
Waking up each morning inspired,
To learn new secrets of the Universe!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump Harris skirmish on ABC reminded voters how biased is their media and despite the propagandists claiming Harris “won” the debate, or “did enough”, post debate polling and interviewing by the New York Times and Reuters showed it favored Trump .

I comment on many other details including:

Kamala Harris’s Carefully Rehearsed Evasion
The lie of Kamala Harris’ “middle-class” upbringing in the “streets.”
21 False Claims & Hoaxes by Kamala Harris that ABC’s Debate Moderators Did Not Fact Check
Harris, Who Boasted of Being ‘Last Person in the Room’ on Afghanistan Exit, Blames Trump

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Sales tax collection by local cities mostly up in September report . Look up your city here .

In remembrance of Patriot Day: We Know the Price of Liberty, and We’re Willing to Pay It

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Our Lone Star story of the day: State Representative James Frank of Wichita Falls announced a run to challenge Dade Phelan for Speaker of the House bringing the total to 4 challengers, 5 in the race.

Rep. Frank is a good conservative on most issues, though my own column in 2017 reminds that he can stray, but members should give serious consideration to whether they want yet another speaker for whom his or her word is not necessarily a bond when political expediency comes in to play – see: Rep. Phelan, other Republicans intent on giving Texas Democrats that which voters refused to give.

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Lubbock County commissioners Jordan Rackler , Precinct 4, and Jason Corley , Precinct 2, stand strong for taxpayers and again deny the quorum required to pass yet another Bowtie Bully Parrish tax increase . Parrish wants to increase county spending by seven and a half million dollars this year alone!

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick releases additional “interim charges” for senators.

Texas HD73 Democrat candidate smokes pot on camera in a commercial pushing legalized marijuana.

We have an Anti-Wimp update today : Victim wrests gun from robber, uses it to ensure man robs no more .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New reporting as well as personal experience shows that it is likely that Texas Tech has put its Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources in the hands of dedicated Leftists.

Ag. College at Texas Tech Offers ‘Diversity’ and ‘Inclusion’ Agriculture Course – the Dean’s statement reads like a Leftist’s word salad.

Texas Tech Rodeo coach terminated for alleged misconduct – “Hofstetter said he felt like he was being pushed out of his job for the past few years. He said this started with the change in the chair position of the Ag department.”

Texas Tech Rodeo Team members, alumni, donors outraged over coach’s firing – Leftism and DEI comes way before successfully building a program and winning. In fact, DEI likely identifies winning as a negative.

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Texas GOP Names Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne As Its New 2024 Victory Chairman . – Very late to get this going.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The backroom work to intimidate, and even ruin, two Lubbock County commissioners – all for working to stop ballooning county spending and a big tax increase – is underway from several fronts. The latest item that is in public is beyond petty – it is juvenile and petulant political retribution from Big Budgets Bowtie Parrish.

We visit with one of the targets, Lubbock County Precinct 4 Commissioner Jordan Rackler.

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Attorney General Paxton sues Travis County for the same reason he sued Bexar County earlier in the week: The hiring of a partisan “progressive” outfit to run a local voter registration scheme.

Oil and gas rig count unchanged this week .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas case out of Fort Bend County, in which a Democrat county commissioner candidate, former Dem county judge chief of staff, and Biden White House liaison has been indicted on charges of impersonation , shows how the Left and Democrats setup their own victimhood and excuses for rabidly criticizing the country . It’s all very similar to international false flag operations and is based on lies. When your are a Marxist, rejecting all ideas of set morality, you adopt the Marxist idea that the ends justify the means.

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Rick Perry’s help the big money insider crowd keep Dade Phelan in the Texas House Speaker’s chair goes from the runoff campaign to an official position in Phelan’s operation – he joins mega-lobbyist Mike Toomey. More .

Much other news of Texas including: Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Biden Admin­is­tra­tion Over Ille­gal Rule that Would Weak­en State Law Enforce­ment and Inves­ti­ga­tion Authority .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: False conservative city Councilwoman Jennifer Wilson leads Lubbock city council to pass a tax increase , overriding the newly elected Mayor Mark McBrayer as well as conservative Councilman David Glasheen. But wait there’s more! Wilson also appears to have successfully pushed a mechanism whereby elected officials will have less responsibility and accountability in one of biggest expenses of a city – police and firefighter pay. This the exact disease that the Congress began decades ago which puts the growth of spending and government on near autopilot while exempting the elected from having to do hard work.

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Texas revenue for FY2024 comes in right about where the Comptroller predicted a year ago . It is down when factored against inflation.

A fourth state representative enters the race for Speaker of the Texas House: David Cook . I discuss the items of importance he wrote in a letter to members of the House.

Attorney General Paxton sues Bexar County for hiring an outside, Leftist firm to mail unsolicited voter registration applicants to voters – and it did so on a no-bid contract! Read the suit , it has far more information than the press release.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Paxton had a big week last week. I’ll talk about his push on election integrity with Bexar and Harris counties and why government has not legitimate interest in having higher, or lower, voter turnout.

Harris County delays plan to boost voter registration
Paxton Launches Illegal Voting Tipline
Paxton Wins Nationwide Stay of Agency Gender-Identity Mandate, Blocking Biden From Forcing Taxpayer-Funded Hospitals to Conduct “Gender Transition” Surgeries
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues the City of Dallas for Unlawfully Prohibiting Firearms From the Texas State Fair
A.G. Paxton Files Amicus Letter with Texas Supreme Court After Dallas City Council Uses Misleading Language To Thwart Popular Ballot Initiative Forcing City to Enforce Laws

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A black female Texas Democrat lame duck member of the legislature is switching to the Republican Party . Welcome Rep. Shawn Thierry.

Leftist business group sues to strike Texas’ ESG investment ban – a truly stupid lawsuit because a state has a right to set rules for its own investments just as California can favor ESG investment.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas is leading the way in voter roll clean up and has removed over 1 million ineligible voters . But nevermind all of that, Democrats and their press propagandists keep with the narrative that there is little to no corruption related to voting.

The problem for Texas Democrats is that for decades most of the allegations brought to law enforcement (as well as convictions) come from Democrats charging other Democrats with cheating.

The latest episode has LULAC , the media , and Democrats claiming racism and all the other regular charges but once again, it is nothing of the sort. The Office of Attorney General is investigating ballot harvesting charges from a Democrat candidate and was requested to do so by the local district attorney. Also, the raids last week were only a step in an investigation that has gone on since 2022.

You have to skip the top section of the story, as it’s filled with agitprop for Dems, to get to the real meat of the story the media would rather bury: Warrants detail Ken Paxton’s vote harvesting investigation .

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Texas Secretary of State Releases Election Audit Reports .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: We begin with a look at the success for the United States in pivoting to a free enterprise, private sector model for space flight with noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com . (He really did write the Encyclopedia of Space !)

After our look as spaceflight, Bob gives us another “Blacklisted Americans,” and “pushback” update. See all Blacklisted Americans stories here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/

Items we cover include:

Colorado legislature lifts its ban of clothing with political messages
Google monitors and censors Gmail and Googlegroup emails for political content it dislikes
Pushback: Former police chief who illegally raided local Kansas newspaper criminally charged
Pushback: Jury awards former BlueCross researcher almost $700K for firing her vindicatively for not getting the “vaccine” shot
Marvel bans all Jewish or Israelis characters

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today we will talk with conservative movement warrior Jim Pfaff and get us all reacquainted with one of the oldest and most prestigious conservative organizations – it turns 50 this year – The Conservative Caucus . Many of you will remember its weekly television show, Conservative Roundtable , hosted by founder Howard Phillips – I was a viewer.

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About issue polling versus candidate and party support: Data shows me that a very large plurality of voters, in this case in swing states, really have little to no idea of the positions and action of parties and candidates on the issues those same people say are most important. Here is the detailed survey data I was working from and here is the data from the North Carolina polling.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, we debunk, for the umpteenth time, the big lie spread around on Texas school funding. Hint, it’s double what advocacy groups say. State Rep. Harrison Busts School Funding Myths, Pushes for Fiscal Responsibility .

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More on the Lubbock County fight to stop a big tax increase . Some media get it right, others let the pompous Curtis Parrish feed a misleading line. And while Parrish says it would be terrible to not raise taxes, Tarrant County has already passed a big tax cut . Now, the City of Fort Worth has told the city manager to redo the budget and provide a tax cut there too !

Also from Tarrant County, public schools show they are about greed for money above all – claim the move to appraise residential property every two years, instead of every year, would destroy them and harm children!

Dallas Fed: Texas service sector growth modest; retail still in decline .

Temporary win for Americans, Texas, Paxton, et. al. over another Harris/Biden policy to encourage illegal immigration and fraud . Paxton’s statement .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lies from the dais in Lubbock County! For almost two decades I have spoken and written about the lies told to voters by local officeholders, often then repeated by local media, about property taxes. There are many who still do not believe me that elected officials openly lie about who it is that raises their property taxes and try to finger the appraisal districts as the primary culprit.

Today, as the courageous fight kicks off by Lubbock County’s only two conservative commissioners to stop yet another big tax increase, a longtime Lubbock County commissioner, Gilbert Flores of Precinct 3, told the big lie to those present, the lie I have been documenting for nearly twenty years!

I also interview Lubbock County Commissioner Jordan Rackler about the proposed tax increase and his push back on it.

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In business-related news:

Dallas Fed: Texas manufacturing sector remains weakened .

Big AP story on the status of the Kroger takeover (merger) of Albertson’s .
Fifth Circuit Vacates DOL’s 80/20/30 Rule for Tipped Employees

Texas Supreme Court upholds the creation of the new 15th Court of Appeals for the state, Dallas loses challenge.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear an expedited appeal from Attorney General Paxton in the case of the church-affiliated Annunciation House in El Paso. This is the group that has fought to keep its records secret related to its work with illegal immigrants.

And, Texas is leading 16 states in suing the Biden/Harris Administration over its rule on immigration that is well outside the bounds of what the law allows that further incentivizes and rewards illegal immigration into these United States.

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Texas House Speaker, for now, Dade Phelan makes huge move to save his speakership ; brings in Texas top lobbyist (and top casino gambling lobbyist) to be his Chief of Staff. My opinion is Mike Toomey isn’t giving up millions in annual income for sacrificial service but to save the big-business lobby’s key man Phelan. It may very well work.

DNC Fail: Viewers Rage After False Reports of Beyoncé Performance — ‘F-ing Liars Lied to Get People to Watch’ . Also, Texas DNC delegate robbed at gunpoint by suspects in ski masks in downtown Chicago .

North America rotary drilling rig count from Baker Hughes.

Another piece using bad language (“dress coded”) and the self centered nature of America’s younger generation: Woman sparks online debate after wearing shorts to job interview, recruiter sends her home .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Reports abound, investigations launched , actions taken – all for a story that didn’t read as legit from the beginning . My first take was why the heck aren’t Republicans out registering voters too!?

There is nothing illegal about registering voters outside of a DPS office and it doesn’t matter if they could have registered inside as well. And, how in the heck would an observer know if the claimed groups were engaged in registering non-citizens? Even the original, very flawed and wrong report, did not make that allegation, it simply said “immigrants.” Some of the hardest working Republicans I know are immigrants including my wife.

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Texas press tries to rope-a-dope you on Trump versus Harris polling in the Lone Star State. Take this headline: Kamala Harris cuts Donald Trump’s lead in Texas in half, poll finds . The actual re-polling covered, and best covered in the WFAA version , shows Trump gained half-a-point in support after Harris was announced .

The Dem convention in Chicago is one of the world’s largest gathering of oddballs and kooks and yet speaker after speaker calls Trump and Republicans “weird.” I’m proud to be such from the point of view of nutcase Leftists!

Federal Judge sitting in Dallas strikes down Biden Administration FTC all-out ban on worker ‘noncompete’ agreements . This is a very important and good ruling.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats shoved poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Joe Biden out of Prime Time at their convention in Chicago, all so they could let other poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Democrats speak.

Democrats Shove Biden Out Of DNC Primetime For Last Gasp Of Presidency
Joe Biden’s DNC Swan Song Reflects His Life: Poorly Informed, Vindictive, and Dishonest
Biden Returns to Hoaxes at DNC: ‘Fine People’; ‘Suckers and Losers’; ‘Bloodbath’
Dems Celebrate Walz’s Stolen Valor At DNC

Walz Praised Chinese Communism as a System Where ‘Everyone Shares’ (to high school kids in his care)

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Jury makes right decision and finds parents not liable for school shooting violence at Santa Fe (Texas) High School in 2018 .

So-called conservatives in many of our counties can’t do it but conservatives running giant Tarrant County can : A real tax cut, higher homestead exemption, and a budget spending $50 million less than last year’s budget!

In Lubbock County, Judge Parrish argues that voters have asked for annual tax increases and if you don’t want to pay more, “move.” Here is the audio:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: After the home town RINO whiner, Rep. Glenn Rogers, was defeated in the Republican Primary this year, his Palo Pinto County commissioners court pals passed a slate of “electioneering regulations” designed to restrict active conservative opposition in the county. Conservatives sued and the courthouse kings got an early win in U.S. District Court but now the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has handed the county a big loss, for now:

“For the reasons herein, we conclude that the district court erred in denying Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction. We thus VACATE the district court’s judgment and order, GRANT a preliminary injunction of the Regulations in their entirety, and REMAND for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”

The 15-page order is very much worth reading for those involved in political campaigns and activism : https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/24/24-10432.0.pdf

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A very long story with a grabbing headline that actually doesn’t present much of anything new: Texas GOP making inroads with Latino voters in big cities .

In a story that should remind that simply passing a law mandating things isn’t often a full solution when it comes to results: Houston ISD vows to repair automated external defibrillators that are not working after student’s death . I wonder how many of these lifesaving devices are unworkable.

Texas leftists to be big part of the Democrat Convention in Chicago .

Circle K owner Couche-Tard seeks to buy $31 billion owner of 7-Eleven stores .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today’s press review has a perfect example from one Texas county how all the property tax levying local governments’ just-a-little-more-per-month tax increases add up . Try about $1000 per year more for just the “average” taxpayer !

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden Administration Over Rule Forcing Private Businesses and States to Implement “Transgender” Policies

Texas oil and gas rig count falls.

Texas unemployment rate remains below national average; labor force records 7th consecutive month of growth.

Here’s evidence of what I have said about Democrats and teacher unions not really being interested in improving public schools: 1 in 3 Chicago Public-School Teachers Keep Their Kids out of Public Schools .They are all members of the union and yet sacrifice financially, almost a third of them, to keep their children out of the public schools they staff and run!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The insider political deal all those years ago to indict Ken Paxton on securities fraud and then work to never let it come to trial was a political hit that blew up. Now, it has also blown up on the private lawyers that were uniquely brought in to prosecute, maybe persecute is the better word, and promised a fat, unusual billing rate for their time .

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Denton ISD school leaders admit guilt to avoid trial on illegal electioneering charges but could come out with no record and Denton ISD already promoted one of the pair!

In case you missed it: Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish says you want annual tax increases from the county and, should you be one of the few who do not want tax increases annually, you should “move!” Listen here:

Other Election 2024 news.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The rightful indignation over the State Fair of Texas deciding to ban licensed concealed carry holders from having their guns at the fair, over an incident that demonstrated the need for such, is warranted by all involved.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is right to go after the City of Dallas over the issue and legislator are right to push the State Fair board to get back to the right policy of allowing licensed concealed carry.

What bothers me is state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock leading the rhetoric in this matter in the state press when his home town’s large and historic Panhandle-South Plains Fair adopted the exact same policy several years ago. Where is all the pressure and press from Burrows on the same situation in Lubbock? One might think that getting more state press notice to move up the leadership chain in the House might be more important to Burrows than actually dealing with issues at home.
Click to see a photo of the South Plains Fair signs .

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A reminder of Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish arrogance telling citizens who don’t to pay more in property taxes that they should move – as well as saying that we all, or most of us, want to pay more taxes.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues General Motors for Unlawfully Collecting Drivers’ Private Data and Selling It To Several Companies, Including Insurance Companies

Comment on the City of Lubbock budgeting, taxes, and more. Also on the bait and switch tax break from the City of Dallas .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish tells citizens they should “move” if they do not want to pay higher property taxes every year . He also tells Commissioner Jason Corley that the commissioner is only hearing from a small minority of voters opposing tax increases; Parrish says that Lubbock County voters want annual tax increases because paying more every year equates to “good government.” Frankly, if you listen to all of Parrish’s language in the court hearings, he speaks as a Progressive Democrat.

If you want, watch the entire hearing here . Time marks for the items I covered in the compilation come from about 2:13:35, 2:16:50, and 2:17:10.

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Numerous legislators write to State Fair of Texas board to protest it’s decision to begin banning licensed concealed carry at the fair.

Anti-Wimp Update : Armed teacher saves girl from sexual assault .

Leftwing Austin judge once again blocks release of public school A to F grades to the public .

One school superintendent, also a listener wrote:

"So, once again, public schools will duck accountability for a second straight year because some judge agrees that the STAAR tests are flawed and unfair. What’s unfair is keeping parents and the public in the dark about school performance.
"It’s true that the tests are more difficult, and some material is misaligned to the appropriate grade levels. Nevertheless, we need to know where schools stand in terms of accountability, however imperfect that rating system is."

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