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Battle over deportations | TTU regents want to ignore state law | SpaceX shows power of freedom – Pratt on Texas 11/20/2024

The news of Texas covered today includes: 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 … [Read More...]

State Rep. Carl Tepper honors VFW on its 125th anniversary

Rep. Tepper files resolution and presents proclamation for Veterans of Foreign Wars Via press release:  Austin, Texas – Representative Tepper has filed House Concurrent Resolution 7 during the first week of pre-filing legislation leading … [Read More...]

All about “recess appointments” | Texas school curriculum with Biblical references – Pratt on Texas 11/19/2024

The news of Texas covered today includes: 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 … [Read More...]

TTU, others keep teaching DEI | Court says House can’t stop execution | RIP Tommy Alverson – Pratt on Texas 11/18/2024

The news of Texas covered today includes: 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 … [Read More...]

Abbott says no tuition increases | Fox soft-soaps far-Left open borders advocate | Trump Team – Pratt on Texas 11/14/2024

The news of Texas covered today includes: 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. … [Read More...]

Early Texas bill filing shows issue direction | Cornyn loses in D.C. | Trump Team news – Pratt on Texas 11/13/2024

The news of Texas covered today includes: 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 … [Read More...]

Cornyn deep-sixing Paxton as Trump’s AG? | DACA illegals get subsidized health insurance | New lone stars in Texas – Pratt on Texas 11/12/2024

The news of Texas covered today includes: 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 … [Read More...]

Anti-Wimp: Woman uses gun, stops man breaking into her home

On Friday night in DeSoto, a woman was driving when she noticed a man in a pickup following her. She turned into her neighborhood near Woodbridge Elementary School and noticed that the man continued to follow her.  The woman arrived at her … [Read More...]

Trump makes move on border leadership | Anti-Wimp update | School choice in Texas – Pratt on Texas 11/11/2024

The news of Texas covered today includes: 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 … [Read More...]

Mandates must be nurtured & kept | Texas Democrat Party chairman resigns | Border news – Pratt on Texas 11/8/2024

The news of Texas covered today includes: 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 … [Read More...]

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On Virtue & the Republic

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. — Edwin Meese III

 

On Political Pessimism

Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome – we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until He ends the game, not us. — Robert W. Pratt

 

On Liberty

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. — Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart

 

On Right

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

 

On Political Correctness

Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense. — Milo Yiannopoulos

 

On pessimism and difficulty

When you encounter difficulties, you need to be optimistic. The pessimists tend to die. — Zhou Youguang

 

On American Liberals

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

 

On Universities

Universities have become a place to provide economic and political protection for those who hold economically and politically unworkable ideas. — Robert W. Pratt

 

On Rush Limbaugh

William F. Buckley is the esteemed father of the American conservative movement and gave it meaning; Ronald Reagan took conservatism to the public, showed it worked, and made it popular; Rush Limbaugh is the man who embedded political conservatism into our culture. — Robert W. Pratt

 

On Mistakes in Politics

Politics, as opposed to science, does not reward the correction of mistakes, given that correcting a mistake also entails admitting to having made one. Worse, the bigger the mistake, the greater the political urgency of defending it at all costs. — Lionel Shriver

 

On Rights and Freedoms

When we think of our rights and freedoms as rewards for good behavior, we lose. — Meghan Murphy

 

On Republican Moderates

Republican “moderates” rarely fight hard for anything, except for other Republicans giving up their principles. — Robert W. Pratt

 

On Judging Public Policy

Judge public policies by their results, not their intentions. – Milton Friedman

 

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