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The unnecessary Texas impeachment

Texas House's impeachment of Paxton was bad form, bad precedent, and unneeded. A necessary preface: I have found many people, including elected officials, unable to understand, or accept, that one can vehemently oppose the use of … [Read More...]

Dallas, Harris county GOPs support Phelan censure | Operation Lone Star not stopping huge border invasion today – Pratt on Texas 9/20/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It's not just "those little counties" anymore. Dallas County and Harris County Republican Party's vote to support censure of House Speaker Dade Phelan for not … [Read More...]

Patrick tells Speaker Phelan to be a man, admit wrong | School choice fight looming – Pratt on Texas 9/19/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Is a special legislative session on school choice coming soon in Texas? Most likely it us but don't by this week's media narrative that the impeachment strife … [Read More...]

Paxton acquitted on all charges; Lt. Gov. delivers scathing rebuke of House’s handling of impeachment – Pratt on Texas 9/18/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The historic Ken Paxton impeachment trial ended Saturday with full acquittal and reinstatement of the Attorney General. Afterward, in order to put it in the … [Read More...]

Impeachment to senator-juror deliberation | Texas employment #’s | UAW’s baneful strike – Pratt on Texas 9/15/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Paxton impeachment trial ends and the issue moved to senator-jurors today. Watch closing statements (beginning at 24:50) here: … [Read More...]

Texas has new fine related to service dogs | Impeachment moves to defense | DACA illegal – Pratt on Texas 9/14/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Paxton impeachment trial moves to the defense but is it necessary? House prosecutors have no introduced and hard evidence of crimes committed - but then again, … [Read More...]

Dangerous subtext in impeachment trial | Lubbock leaders cannot control spending | Border news – Pratt on Texas 9/13/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: There is a subtext throughout the testimony of Texas law enforcement people in the Paxton impeachment trial that is terrible and yet confirming of what we've seen … [Read More...]

Special Pratt on Texas meeting with NRA-ILA to talk gun legislation – this Thursday 9/14/23 in Lubbock

You are invited to a late-scheduled Pratt on Texas Listener Club event this Thursday evening. Cole Myers, the grassroots field coordinator for Texas for NRA-ILA, National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action, is coming to … [Read More...]

How Paxton’s ordeal fits in the national conservative struggle | TEA to soften truth of school grades – Pratt on Texas 9/12/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: How does the Paxton impeachment link to the national battle in which we find ourselves? How is it that supposedly super-conservatives who worked for Paxton find … [Read More...]

FAA vs SpaceX StarShip with Zimmerman | No direct evidence yet of law breaking in impeachment trial – Pratt on Texas 9/11/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day:  More from the impeachment imbroglio in Austin. The legendary former Texas Ranger Dave Maxwell, former Director of Law Enforcement Operations at the Attorney … [Read More...]

Articles of impeachment keep falling on cross-ex, one by one | Why has House hidden witness interviews? – Pratt on Texas 9/8/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day:  Ken Paxton's impeachment imbroglio  continues and testimony and new evidence keeps knocking down the poorly prepared House impeachment articles. Worse, we learn … [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

 

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