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Our Lone Star story of the day: New Speaker of the House, Dustin BurrowCrat, delays House Rules vote until 22 January - the longest delay since the first illegitimate speaker, Joe Straus, came into office the first time.  Good or bad? Time will tell but the biggest problem we have faced each session is the House not getting to work early.

Burrows has earned the BurrowCrat moniker by losing his own party's vote for speaker and yet winning with a large number of Democrats. Burrows won the gavel with the support of only 36 Republicans and 49 Democrats making him illegitimate as a "Republican" speaker. See how every member of the House voted on each ballot here.

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Today, Texas argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of its law requiring age-verification to access pornography online. The ACLU teamed with the porn industry to oppose such a common sense thing. 

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature was gaveled into session today. Governor Abbott attended the opening of the Senate and said he wants action on bail reform and school choice. In the House, Lubbock’s Dustin Burrows, leader of the BurrowCrat Coalition, was elected Speaker of the House with more Democrat than Republican votes – as expected.

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Texas A&M caught using money to pay for attendees to attend a racially segregated event – whites and Asians not allowed. After being caught, A&M has backed down.

Much border news.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature comes into being tomorrow and the first order of business in the Texas House of Representatives, or should we say investment partners, is to elect a Speaker of the House. Lt. Governor Patrick, and it now seems Newt Gingrich’s group, allege that the BurrowCrat Coalition is run by five guys who are business partners in a small bank that has big investment from BlackRock & Vanguard.

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Texas Comptroller Hegar released the Biennial Revenue Estimate for the Legislature. General purpose funds are down from last session.

Texas Attorney General Paxton sues Allstate alleging the company has unlawfully collected, used, and sold over 45 million Americans’ driving data to insurance companies. You need to read the filing here to see how this is being done, allegedly, through third party phone apps.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature comes into being next Tuesday and meets for 140 days. The House starts it off with an entirely avoidable fight for speaker laden with dishonesty, hypocrisy, and absurdity. Beyond that are many general issues to which lawmakers will giving attention – that is if enough of them can get over their self-importance and get to work.

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Who got the most snow? More than 9-inches of snow forces Amarillo airport to close.
 

Oil and gas rig count falls.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: There are big, expensive lessons for Texas coming out of the Los Angeles urban wildfires. So far, Texas legislators, while aware of the problem for years, have not had the fortitude to fix it. We have similar problems with TWIA as California has with FAIR and it is because of politicians.

DeVore: Government mismanagement, not climate change, is to blame for California’s destructive wildfires. Chuck references a book all should read, especially young adults, so that they can see what wimps we have become compared to our American ancestors: Two Years Before the Mast by Dana.

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The Texas GOP battle over whether or not the Texas House Republican Caucus should select the Speaker of the House is nasty, bitter, and now beyond the absurd. Burrowcrat Coalition backer Rep. Cody Harris “seeks felony charges against Texas GOP chairman”for standing up for the party’s platform and Burrowcrat “scorched earth” backer Rep. Carl Tepper says George Soros is running the Republican Party of Texas! Both of these things are beneath the bottom rung.

The Texan: Five Questions to Consider About the Texas House Speaker Race.

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.”

JCPenney merges with big brand group to create new company.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: 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.”

Incoming state Rep. Paul Dyson tells local media his name was on Burrow’s list but he is supporting the nominee of the Republican Caucus, which is not Burrows.

Paxton makes the point I make: This is about having the GOP caucus choose the Speaker, not about Cook or Burrows. Note both Cook and Burrows participated in the scheme to impeach Paxton.

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Comptroller releases local sales tax distribution numbers. It’s a really up and down list. Find your city here.

Planned Parenthood employ no longer “medical director” for Texas Medical Board. How did he get there and is he still employed there?

Big banks begin to see the light, withdraw from climate cartel Net-Zero Banking Alliance.

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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:

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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:

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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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I visit with Healthcare2U’s co-founder, president and CEO Andy Bonner about how the firm, based upon providing high quality membership-based direct primary healthcare, came to be and how it works.
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