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Report: Texas not in 287(g) agreement with ICE despite leadership rhetoric | Gun bills that passed – Pratt on Texas 6/4/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Report shows that despite all the rhetoric from Governor Abbott and other state leaders, Texas itself is not participating with ICE under 287(g) agreements. This … [Read More...]

2025 Hunters’ Banquet & Auction – enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets – a $250 value!

Enter below for a chance to win a pair of tickets ($250 value!) to sit at the Pratt on Texas table at the 2025 Hunters' Banquet & Auction on Saturday, August 2nd at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. A very good dinner, drinks (open … [Read More...]

Taylor Co. GOP moving to censure Rep. Lambert | Cornyn polling remains dismal | SB974 needs a veto – Pratt on Texas 6/3/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Taylor County Republican Party Chairman Ryan Goodwin joins us to explain why the TCRP has begun a Rule 44 censure process against HD71 State Representative Stan … [Read More...]

89th Legislature ends – 3 significant items failed in the last moments | OAG court victory – Pratt on Texas 6/2/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today endeth the 89th Texas Legislature as the 140 days have come to an end. Three big bills that were thought to be likely to pass did not. One of them puts … [Read More...]

ISDs lose Sovereign Immunity is sex abuse cases | Election integrity at risk | Border news – Pratt on Texas 5/30/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: More coverage from the final days of the 89th Texas Legislature which must end on Tuesday, 2 June. Election integrity still in jeopardy; a bill passes stripping … [Read More...]

Top pro-life bill killed in Texas House | Patrick, Bettencourt brag on property tax relief package – Pratt on Texas 5/29/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Bills that have passed; bills still in play, and; bills that were killed or failed - another update in these closing days of the 89th Texas Legislature. Also, … [Read More...]

House lets time run out on important bills, others pass through | Zimmerman on SpaceX Starship test – Pratt on Texas 5/28/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A big deadline for the Texas House passed this morning and as usual, many good bills died because leadership waited until the very end of the session to get to … [Read More...]

Huge update from the Legislature | Lottery scandal widens | Manufacturing steady in Texas – Pratt on Texas 5/27/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It's the final days of the 89th Texas Legislature. Here are some of the late breaking items covered today: Texas Poised to Enforce Age Verification on Apple, … [Read More...]

Memorial Day Edition: Legislature passes key bills, much still to do in final days – Pratt on Texas 5/26/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The House and Senate are working in these final days of the 89th Texas Legislature with the House working all through the weekend. There is much to catch you up on … [Read More...]

May we remember on Memorial Day

A very nice prayer for Memorial Day is here.       … [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

 

On Fundamental Rights

The oft-quoted phrase that ‘no right is absolute’ does not mean that fundamental rights precariously subsist subject to the whims, caprice, or appetite of government officials or judges. Stephen McGlynn

 

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