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Is Abilene’s Rep. Lambert ready to gut tax relief? | TSA gun numbers beyond insignificant – Pratt on Texas 1/25/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Abilene's state Rep. Stan Lambert ready to gut significant tax relief to join with Democrats and hand most of the surplus over to his favorite political … [Read More...]
Lubbock hospital exposed pushing Leftist ideology on employees & more on the social justice cancer – Pratt on Texas 1/24/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock's Covenant hospital system has been exposed as having embraced divisive Leftwing social justice programs. Given that all "social justice" movements are … [Read More...]
Abbott drags out COVID “emergency” but reasoning doesn’t hold water | Senate committees named – Pratt on Texas 1/23/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick released Senate committee assignments today - here is the list. Texas legislative Democrats are back to calling Republicans xenophobes, … [Read More...]
City of Lubbock’s legislative amateur show | Zimmerman on Starlink & SpaceX | Border wall news – Pratt on Texas 1/20/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock's city leaders signed on to a legislative priorities list but never bothered to discuss the issues of list with its legislative delegation. Who is pulling … [Read More...]
AG Paxton busy suing feds | Survey of big issues before the 88th Legislature – Pratt on Texas 1/19/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A wide look across issues before the 88th Texas Legislature from casino gambling and gun control to election security and leaking from courts. Our Lone Star … [Read More...]
Texas draft budgets (House & Senate) released, still unclear on significance and manner of tax relief – Pratt on Texas 1/18/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas House and Senate committee chairmen have released their draft biennial budgets for the 88th Session. What's the press and Democrat reaction? They're bothered … [Read More...]
Older posts from Pratt on Texas...
- Podcast Extra: Blacklisted Americans update with Robert Zimmerman – 1/17/2023
- Inauguration speeches leave Texas tax relief unclear | Illegal immigration hurts black Americans – Pratt on Texas 1/17/2023
- Texas Republican timidity could spoil legislative session | NYC mayor visits border at El Paso – Pratt on Texas 1/16/2023
- The alternate (& often perverse) world of TASB & some Texas school officials | Legislative news – Pratt on Texas 1/13/2023
- Texas medical schools discriminating by race? | Phelan moves to support woke/homosexual agenda – Pratt on Texas 1/12/2023
- Speaker Phelan starts term with disrespect | Uvalde CISD’s top cop prevented classroom breech – Pratt on Texas 1/11/2023
- Podcast Extra: Texas House Speaker nominating speeches & vote – 1/10/2023
- Opening day in Austin: Will those self-described “fiscal conservatives” show up? – Pratt on Texas 1/10/2023
- Biden’s El Paso visit shamefully like China or Soviet Union | Abbott’s accident payments – Pratt on Texas 1/9/2023
- Anti-Wimp: Customer shoots armed robber, returns stolen items to restaurant victims in Houston [video]
- Texas files smart lawsuit related to immigration | Carlson gets U.S. speaker race right, echos Pratt – Pratt on Texas 1/6/2023
- How Wall Street is working to ruin Texas, America with Kevin Stocklin – Pratt on Texas 1/5/2023
AUDIO: Pratt on Texas & Podcast-Extras
- Episode 3134: Is Abilene’s Rep. Lambert ready to gut tax relief? | TSA gun numbers beyond insignificant – Pratt on Texas 1/25/2023 January 26, 2023
- Episode 3133: Lubbock hospital exposed pushing Leftist ideology on employees & more on the social justice cancer – Pratt on Texas 1/24/2023 January 25, 2023
- Episode 3132: Abbott drags out COVID “emergency” but reasoning doesn’t hold water | Senate committees named – Pratt on Texas 1/23/2023 January 24, 2023
- Episode 3131: City of Lubbock’s legislative amateur show | Zimmerman on Starlink & SpaceX | Border wall news – Pratt on Texas 1/20/2023 January 21, 2023
- Episode 3130: AG Paxton busy suing feds | Survey of big issues before the 88th Legislature – Pratt on Texas 1/19/2023 January 20, 2023
- Episode 3129: Texas draft budgets (House & Senate) released, still unclear on significance and manner of tax relief – Pratt on Texas 1/18/2023 January 19, 2023
- Episode 3128: Podcast Extra: Blacklisted Americans update with Robert Zimmerman – 1/17/2023 January 18, 2023
- Episode 3127: Inauguration speeches leave Texas tax relief unclear | Illegal immigration hurts black Americans – Pratt on Texas 1/17/2023 January 18, 2023
- Episode 3126: Texas Republican timidity could spoil legislative session | NYC mayor visits border at El Paso – Pratt on Texas 1/16/2023 January 17, 2023
- Episode 3125: The alternate (& often perverse) world of TASB & some Texas school officials | Legislative news – Pratt on Texas 1/13/2023 January 14, 2023
- Episode 3124: Texas medical schools discriminating by race? | Phelan moves to support woke/homosexual agenda – Pratt on Texas 1/12/2023 January 13, 2023
- Episode 3123: Speaker Phelan starts term with disrespect | Uvalde CISD’s top cop prevented classroom breech – Pratt on Texas 1/11/2023 January 12, 2023
- Episode 3122: Podcast Extra: Texas House Speaker nominating speeches & vote – 1/10/2023 January 11, 2023
- Episode 3121: Opening day in Austin: Will those self-described “fiscal conservatives” show up? – Pratt on Texas 1/10/2023 January 11, 2023
- Episode 3120: Biden’s El Paso visit shamefully like China or Soviet Union | Abbott’s accident payments – Pratt on Texas 1/9/2023 January 10, 2023
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 Judging Public Policy
Judge public policies by their results, not their intentions. – Milton Friedman