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Annual Property Tax Misrepresentation Season Begins
Lubbock’s mayoral runoff features a candidate who uses the most common falsehood. For at least a decade and a half, I have spent considerable time correcting the ignorance, and yes often purposeful misdirection, of elected officials and … [Read More...]
Too much on Kamala Harris for media to hide | Earthquakes | Kroger Albertson’s deal delayed – Pratt on Texas 7/26/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The media's attempt to cover up who Kamala Harris is, is blatant and going at full pace. The problem they have? She is so much of a say anything Leftist that there … [Read More...]
Biden lied on border crossing numbers | Abilene tax increase | Lubbock Co. game room ordinance – Pratt on Texas 7/25/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden blatantly lied to the American people about border crossing numbers in his free prime time campaign address from the Oval Office. And, El Paso County's … [Read More...]
Brazen media gaslighting of VP Harris’ border czar role | Lubbock council’s right decision on art trail – Pratt on Texas 7/24/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Did you know that hapless V.P. Kamala Harris was NEVER the Biden Administration's "border czar?" She was but the gaslighting media is now saying she wasn't. Why … [Read More...]
Why nominate Harris when it fixes nothing troubling Biden? | Feckless Secret Service head quits – Pratt on Texas 7/23/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: As predicted, Democrats fall in line with Willie Brown's lover to be that broken political party's nominee for President. What about all that "democracy" they … [Read More...]
What will Texas Dems do at national convention? | Secret Service lied, gave Trump less protection – Pratt on Texas 7/22/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: With Joe Biden out of the the re-elect race, announced on X by the way, what will Texas delegates to the Democrat convention do? I speculate that there is so … [Read More...]
Social justice story on Lubbock is fatuous | Remembering Lou Dobbs & Bob Newhart – Pratt on Texas 7/19/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Tribune has a big "social justice" story out on Lubbock and it's full of half truths, utter ignorance, and even a lie or two. There are many things … [Read More...]
Abbott speech has limited intellect libs calling us Nazis, again | Cruz tells Tx delegation truth this a.m. – Pratt on Texas 7/18/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott talked tough at the Republican National Convention, see speech below, and it has Democrats and other lib groups going nuts - with their limited … [Read More...]
Musk moves SpaceX & X HQs to Texas | Dallas mayor speaks to Democrats’ pro-criminal stance – Pratt on Texas 7/17/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas' RINO's, Democrats, and big businesses, especially TAB, often claim that conservative pro-family and decency legislation (those "social" issues) will hurt … [Read More...]
Secret Service chief excuses reach absurd level | Paxton pushes forward El Paso NGO investigation – Pratt on Texas 7/16/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Excuses from the U.S. Secret Service chief, the big Leftist DEI proponent, for the agency's deadly failure Saturday now reach a level of extreme absurdity. If a … [Read More...]
Why assassination attempt wasn’t surprising | JD Vance is Trump’s Veep pick | Documents case tossed – Pratt on Texas 7/15/2024
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: I explain why my immediate personal re-action to the attempt to murder, to assassinate, President Trump was not one of shock or surprise - differing from even … [Read More...]
Older posts from Pratt on Texas...
- Legal marijuana is no longer a budding industry, it has a record
- Annual Property Tax Misrepresentation Season Begins
- Media “misinformation” on Biden deportations | Win on Title IX rule | Court favors home distilling – Pratt on Texas 7/12/2024
- Univ. of Houston’s Satan statue beheaded | More Beryl fallout | Biden circling the Democrat drain? – Pratt on Texas 7/11/2024
- United & West Texas/ENM status in Kroger takeover | Biden wakes up, lies about Abbott & Patrick – Pratt on Texas 7/10/2024
- Why Coleman Co.’s big property valuation increase doesn’t have to mean higher taxes | Title IX hearing – Pratt on Texas 7/9/2024
- Podcast Extra: Shrimping West Texas: The rise & fall of the Permian Sea Shrimp Co. with Bart Reid – July 2024
- Texas’ lifesaving abortion law working well without “further clarity” | Texas-based Firefly puts satellites in orbit – Pratt on Texas 7/8/2024
- Water markets in Texas | Neiman Marcus no longer Texan? | SpaceX’s RGV economic impact – Pratt on Texas 7/5/2024
- Happy Independence Day!
- Texas border “wall” will take 30 more years to build | Texas [un]Ethics Commission problems – Pratt on Texas 7/3/2024
- Fighting ESG not costing Texans big money, TAB wrong | Guv wants more $ for power plant building fund – Pratt on Texas 7/2/2024
- What today’s landmark SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. U.S. is and is not | Sharp retiring from A&M – Pratt on Texas 7/1/2024
- SCOTUS reversal of “Chevron” hugely important | Indictment of Uvalde CISD’s former police chief – Pratt on Texas 6/28/2024
- Travis Co. dismisses charges against UT protesters | Ballot numbering fix | Biden still pursuing Paxton – Pratt on Texas 6/27/2024
- A clear & perfect example of why the “Texas Ethics Commission” is unethical & needs replacing – Pratt on Texas 6/26/2024
- Media misleads on Tx infant-mortality report | Biden backs out of Texas State debate | Key court action – Pratt on Texas 6/25/2024
AUDIO: Pratt on Texas & Podcast-Extras
- Episode 3528: Too much on Kamala Harris for media to hide | Earthquakes | Kroger Albertson’s deal delayed – Pratt on Texas 7/26/2024 July 26, 2024
- Episode 3527: Biden lied on border crossing numbers | Abilene tax increase | Lubbock Co. game room ordinance – Pratt on Texas 7/25/2024 July 25, 2024
- Episode 3526: Brazen media gaslighting of VP Harris’ border czar role | Lubbock council’s right decision on art trail – Pratt on Texas 7/24/2024 July 24, 2024
- Episode 3525: Why nominate Harris when it fixes nothing troubling Biden? | Feckless Secret Service head quits – Pratt on Texas 7/23/2024 July 23, 2024
- Episode 3524: What will Texas Dems do at national convention? | Secret Service lied, gave Trump less protection – Pratt on Texas 7/22/2024 July 22, 2024
- Episode 3523: Social justice story on Lubbock is fatuous | Remembering Lou Dobbs & Bob Newhart – Pratt on Texas 7/19/2024 July 19, 2024
- Episode 3522: Abbott speech has limited intellect libs calling us Nazis, again | Cruz tells Tx delegation truth this a.m. – Pratt on Texas 7/18/2024 July 18, 2024
- Episode 3521: Musk moves SpaceX & X HQs to Texas | Dallas mayor speaks to Democrats’ pro-criminal stance – Pratt on Texas 7/17/2024 July 17, 2024
- Episode 3520: Secret Service chief excuses reach absurd level | Paxton pushes forward El Paso NGO investigation – Pratt on Texas 7/16/2024 July 16, 2024
- Episode 3519: Extra Time from Pratt on Texas 7/15/2024 - SpaceX; Texas headlines, & more on the assassination attempt July 16, 2024
- Episode 3518: Why assassination attempt wasn’t surprising | JD Vance is Trump’s Veep pick | Documents case tossed – Pratt on Texas 7/15/2024 July 15, 2024
- Episode 3517: Media “misinformation” on Biden deportations | Win on Title IX rule | Court favors home distilling – Pratt on Texas 7/12/2024 July 12, 2024
- Episode 3516: Univ. of Houston’s Satan statue beheaded | More Beryl fallout | Biden circling the Democrat drain? – Pratt on Texas 7/11/2024 July 11, 2024
- Episode 3515: United & West Texas/ENM status in Kroger takeover | Biden wakes up, lies about Abbott & Patrick – Pratt on Texas 7/10/2024 July 10, 2024
- Episode 3514: Why Coleman Co.’s big property valuation increase doesn’t have to mean higher taxes | Title IX hearing – Pratt on Texas 7/9/2024 July 9, 2024
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
Legal marijuana is no longer a budding industry, it has a record
In almost every press story related to cannabis issues in Texas, the writers include polling data indicating that a majority of Texans favor legalizing the recreational use of pot to get high. Majorities in Texas, of Democrats mostly, … [Read More...]