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The news of Texas covered today includes:

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.

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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:

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:

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.

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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.

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

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.

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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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