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Category Archives: Texas
Followup: Austin City Council Votes To Purchase Wilco Homeless Hotel
Today (not yesterday as the Statesman had reported), the Austin City Council voted to purchase the Candlewood Suites Hotel at 10811 Pecan Park Boulevard over the strenuous opposition of local reasidents. The vote was 10-1, with only Mackenzie Kelly voting … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas
Tagged Austin, homeless, Mackenzie Kelly, Texas, Williamson County
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Reinstatement of Austin Camping Ban Makes May 1 Ballot
A tiny bit of good news in a sea of gloom: The petition to restore the camping ban has been garnered enough signatures to be placed on the May 1 ballot: A group’s petition to reinstate Austin’s camping ban will … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas
Tagged Austin, Greg Casar, homeless, Joell McNew, Ken Casaday, Matt Mackowiak, Ora Houston, Save Austin Now, Steve Adler, Texas
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Followup: Is The Silver Squeeze A Ruse?
Following yesterday’s story, I got pushback from readers that asserted the supposed WallStreetsBets silver squeeze was, in fact, a ruse from hedge funds to distract retailer investors from the GameStop and AMC squeezes. That does in fact seem to be … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Texas
Tagged Adam Ford, Citadel Securities, Economics, Glenn Greenwald, Ken Paxton, Melvin Capital, silver, Texas, Wall Street, WallStreetBets
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LinkSwarm for January 29, 2020
I was up late doing yesterday’s GameStop post, so today’s LinkSwarm may be a bit briefer than you’re used to. Nope! Still huge! How the elites are trying to crush the GameStop retail investor uprising. At one point, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors, Texas
Tagged 2022 Election, abortion, Bryan Slaton, California, China, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, Dogecoin, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, GameStop, George Stephanopoulos, Glenn Kessler, Greg Abbott, Huawei, Hunter Biden, Ibram X. Kendi, impeachment, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, LinkSwarm, Lord of the Rings, Media Watch, Middle East Peace Process, Netflix, oil industry, Rand Paul, Republicans, San Francisco, Sean Davis, Semiconductors, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, transexual, voting fraud, Washington Post
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Joe Biden: Stop All Deportations! Federal Judge: Not So Fast.
The Biden Administration’s plan to stop illegal alien deportations has run into a Texas-sized roadblock: A federal judge in Texas has blocked President Biden’s executive order halting deportations of some illegal immigrants. Biden signed the order halting deportations for 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Texas
Tagged Border Controls, Drew Tipton, Illegal Aliens, Ken Paxton, Texas
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Joe Biden vs. American Oil Industry Jobs
The Biden Administration is wasting no time in declaring war on America’s oil and gas industry: Biden revoked permits for the Keystone XL pipeline, killing thousands of jobs. He rejoined the job-killing Paris Climate Accord. The Paris Climate Accord has … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Regulation, Texas
Tagged Democrats, Joe Biden, Keystone Pipeline, New Mexico, oil industry, Regulation, Texas
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NRA’s Texas Bankruptcy Ploy Is No Slam-Dunk
In a follow-up to last week’s story about the NRA declaring bankruptcy and reincorporating in Texas, John Richardson of No Lawyers—Only Guns and Money sent me a link to this piece, in which bankruptcy lawyer Adam Levitin analyses the gambit, … Continue reading
Posted in Guns, Texas
Tagged Adam Levitin, bankruptcy, fraud, Guns, New York, NRA, Texas, Wayne LaPierre
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Austin Update For January 17, 2021
Austin news has been accumulating in heaps in drifts like trash strewn from a homeless encampment in a public park. So let’s grab a shovel: First up: the case of the missing $6 million: More than $6 million in taxpayer … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Crime, Democrats, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Waste and Fraud
Tagged ANCHOR fund, Austin, Brad Johnson, Crime, Democrats, drugs, fraud, Greg Casar, homeless, Joe Deshotel, Ken Paxton, Matt Mackowiak, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors, Steve Adler, Taxes, Texas
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Welcome to Texas, NRA! Leave Wayne Behind.
This news broke Friday night: The National Rifle Association announced Friday that it has filed for bankruptcy and will move out of New York and restructure the organization as a nonprofit in Texas. The nation’s leading gun rights advocacy group … Continue reading
Posted in Guns, Texas
Tagged Ackerman McQueen, bankruptcy, Guns, Letitia James, New York, NRA, Texas, Tony Makris, Wayne LaPierre
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