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How many layers of warnings do we need? | City of Lubbock dept. lets heavy equipment flood – Pratt on Texas 7/11/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Warnings of warnings of warnings! How much is enough? How many systems are needed, layered on top of each other, to warn of weather and similar emergencies? At … [Read More...]

Dallas Morning News sells to Hearst | Abbott’s special session call | Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce – Pratt on Texas 7/10/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott updates items on his Called Session of the Legislature list. Most are good but two are not. One is a cave to teacher unions and less accountability … [Read More...]

17-miles of floating barrier coming for Rio Grande | San Antonio voters authoring “Military City” demise – Pratt on Texas 7/9/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Not only have the feds, under Trump, stopped objecting to Texas' 1000-foot floating barrier in the Rio Grande, DHS has announced it is going to build 17-miles of … [Read More...]

IRS moves to end threat to church tax exemption for political speech | Texas Dem calls for killing ICE agents – Pratt on Texas 7/8/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: After failing, in 2007, to well clarify the reach of the Johnson Amendment, the IRS has now joined plaintiffs asking a federal court in Texas to stop enforcement … [Read More...]

Flood deaths remind we are not “in control” | Armed attacks on Border Patrol, ICE, & police in Texas – Pratt on Texas 7/7/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A natural disaster hit Texas at just the wrong time on the calendar and wrong time of day from our perspective. The disaster is already exposing who are the real … [Read More...]

Happy Independence Day!

A prayer for Independence Day: Lord God Almighty, in whose Name the founders of this country won liberty for themselves and for us, and lit the torch of freedom for nations then unborn: Grant that we and all the people of this land may … [Read More...]

More indictments in big Texas vote fraud probe | Illegal alien healthcare costing Texas taxpayers – Pratt on Texas 7/3/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: 15 suspects, including former Texas House candidate and Bexar Co. Democrat chairman have now been indicted in vote harvesting investigation despite media telling … [Read More...]

“Uniparty” label is very wrong on governance | Texas sales tax take up | TWIA still underfunded – Pratt on Texas 7/2/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A story from today's press review demonstrates why Democrats and Republicans are NOT a "uniparty." On spending, maybe you can make a partial claim on such but it … [Read More...]

Ronnie Smith Transmission / KWS Gold & Silver

Ronnie Smith Transmission Experienced Transmission Diagnostic & Repair Ronnie Smith Transmission expertly repairs transmissions unlike those who just throw in a pre-packaged kit, hoping it lasts.  You don’t thrive and grow for over … [Read More...]

Left wants it both ways on unborn being people | More protest against Rule of Law planned – Pratt on Texas 7/1/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Leftists can't make up their minds on whether a baby in the womb is a human being. They want it both ways depending upon the issue of the moment but even if a … [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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