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Dumb, Deaf, & Blind: Lambert, Darby, King vote for Dem Texas guest worker bill | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/13/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Illegal use of foreign drivers is killing small Texas trucking companies, others are using the drivers illegal to underpay for labor, and we've had two decades of … [Read More...]
Ruling: Local government not supreme to Legislature | More bad news for Cornyn | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/12/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Supreme Court ruling last week is important in reminding local governments that the Legislature is in control of what they can and cannot do. It is also an … [Read More...]
Red Flag laws, “misgendering,” AG prosecuting election crimes, tort reform & much more from Austin – Pratt on Texas 5/9/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much news out of the 89th Legislature in Austin including: Texas House Lawmakers Take Aim at Red Flag Laws Texas Renews Call for Convention of States To … [Read More...]
Taylor County leaders should let windmills come down | 2 good gun-related bills & more from Austin – Pratt on Texas 5/8/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A good concealed carry bill related to election polling places passes the Texas House. And, the "State Fair" bill has moved out of the Senate and needs a vote in … [Read More...]
Frio Co. vote harvesting indictments | House set to weaken higher ed. governance reforms | Bail reform – Pratt on Texas 5/7/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Six indictments and arrests for alleged vote harvesting in South Texas follow a "multi-year investigation." But don't worry, the media narrative remains: Vote … [Read More...]
Burrows fires his lawyer/policy director | Ken King blocking important bills | HB 1313 needs vote – Pratt on Texas 5/6/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaker of the Texas House Burrows, fires his general counsel and policy director. His holding the position to begin with shows the incestuous nature of the Austin … [Read More...]
Tax relief deal reached in Austin | School choice now Texas law | Starbase now a Texas town – Pratt on Texas 5/5/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House and Senate appear to have made a deal on property tax relief that, if it holds, will remove a time consuming issue from the limited time left in … [Read More...]
Wayne Christian says Big Oil has betrayed ERCOT fix | Major bills being held up in House by Ken King – Pratt on Texas 5/2/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A nail-spittingly angry Texas Railroad Commissioner, Wayne Christian, tells how big oil has switched sides at the 11th our of the legislative session and joined … [Read More...]
Burrows’ House trying to save get-high THC retail industry | Polls: Cornyn trails Paxton by big margin – Pratt on Texas 5/1/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaker Dustin Burrows is lining up to have his legacy as the man who backdoor legalized the get-high THC marijuana/hemp industry in Texas. I have been following … [Read More...]
Older posts from Pratt on Texas...
- Move to let legislature reconvene to override vetoes | Bail scandal in Texas must be fixed – Pratt on Texas 4/30/2025
- A large ISD loses in court on at-large districts | Mexico to deliver water | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 4/29/2025
- New levels of “bond deception” in Texas elections | Texas wins again! | Legislative drama – Pratt on Texas 4/28/2025
- Huge list of updates from the Legislature | Corley joins upright Americans, sues FinCEN over bad rule – Pratt on Texas 4/25/2025
- Legislature should stop “nationality squatters,” pass SB 1798 | School cell phone ban & more – Pratt on Texas 4/24/2025
- Impeachment reform & more from the 89th legislature | A&M gets big FAA facility contract – Pratt on Texas 4/23/2025
- Lubbock ISD bond debt proposal is not for better education | Tx Lottery situation worsens – Pratt on Texas 4/22/2025
- San Jacinto Day! | Dallas sued for anti-gun action | Senate may “concur” with House school choice bill – Pratt on Texas 4/21/2025
- Victory! Texas is born! Celebrate San Jacinto Day!
- Special Good Friday edition of Pratt on Texas with Rev. Daniel Hinton – Pratt on Texas 4/18/2025
- School choice passes House, Dems had no substantive arguments against | Richards resolution stopped – Pratt on Texas 4/17/2025
- Hickland’s Retail Decency Act, HB1549, needed, leadership ignoring | Much other legislative news – Pratt on Texas 4/16/2025
- Abilene’s Stan Lambert strikes again | School choice vote tomorrow | Mexico to deliver water – Pratt on Texas 4/15/2025
- Nvidia’s huge Texas investment | Bill to stop local gov’t from breaking state law | A&M and Qatar – Pratt on Texas 4/14/2025
- Tx House passes budget | Is SB38 tough enough on property squatters? | Campaign news – Pratt on Texas 4/11/2025
- SB15, “housing” bills need a relook, Carole Spencer explains | Boyd to retire from Tx Supreme Court – Pratt on Texas 4/10/2025
AUDIO: Pratt on Texas & Podcast-Extras
- Episode 3728: Dumb, Deaf, & Blind: Lambert, Darby, King vote for Dem Texas guest worker bill | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/13/2025Dumb, Deaf, & Blind: Lambert, Darby, King vote for Dem Texas guest worker bill | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/13/2025 May 13, 2025
- Episode 3727: Ruling: Local government not supreme to Legislature | More bad news for Cornyn | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/12/2025 May 12, 2025
- Episode 3726: Red Flag laws, “misgendering,” AG prosecuting election crimes, tort reform & much more from Austin – Pratt on Texas 5/9/2025 May 9, 2025
- Episode 3725: Taylor County leaders should let windmills come down | 2 good gun-related bills & more from Austin – Pratt on Texas 5/8/2025 May 8, 2025
- Episode 3724: Frio Co. vote harvesting indictments | House set to weaken higher ed. governance reforms | Bail reform – Pratt on Texas 5/7/2025 May 7, 2025
- Episode 3723: Burrows fires his lawyer/policy director | Ken King blocking important bills | HB 1313 needs vote – Pratt on Texas 5/6/2025 May 6, 2025
- Episode 3722: Tax relief deal reached in Austin | School choice now Texas law | Starbase now a Texas town – Pratt on Texas 5/5/2025 May 5, 2025
- Episode 3721: Wayne Christian says Big Oil has betrayed ERCOT fix | Major bills being held up in House by Ken King – Pratt on Texas 5/2/2025 May 2, 2025
- Episode 3720: Burrows’ House trying to save get-high THC retail industry | Polls: Cornyn trails Paxton by big margin – Pratt on Texas 5/1/2025 May 1, 2025
- Episode 3719: Move to let legislature reconvene to override vetoes | Bail scandal in Texas must be fixed – Pratt on Texas 4/30/2025 April 30, 2025
- Episode 3718: A large ISD loses in court on at-large districts | Mexico to deliver water | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 4/29/2025 April 29, 2025
- Episode 3717: New levels of “bond deception” in Texas elections | Texas wins again! | Legislative drama – Pratt on Texas 4/28/2025 April 28, 2025
- Episode 3716: Huge list of updates from the Legislature | Corley joins upright Americans, sues FinCEN over bad rule – Pratt on Texas 4/25/2025 April 25, 2025
- Episode 3715: Legislature should stop “nationality squatters,” pass SB 1798 | School cell phone ban & more – Pratt on Texas 4/24/2025 April 24, 2025
- Episode 3714: Impeachment reform & more from the 89th legislature | A&M gets big FAA facility contract – Pratt on Texas 4/23/2025 April 23, 2025
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
About Cinco de Mayo and why it’s good to celebrate a little!
Lost on many in these modern times is just how much we share in common with the Mexican people and numerous others in Latin America. I’m not talking about the cultural history we all know, I’m talking about political … [Read More...]