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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...]
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...]
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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...]
Older posts from Pratt on Texas...
- Cuban communist behind wheel of truck, killed 5 on I-20 | Another open Texas Senate seat – Pratt on Texas 6/30/2025
- Nine big court rulings to cover from the U.S. & Texas supreme courts & other levels, mostly good! – Pratt on Texas 6/27/2025
- 89th Legislature – Bad, worse, and terrible: Stan Lambert, Ken King, and Drew Darby
- Using gold & silver to buy & sell made easier in Texas | Texas-built icebreakers? | Border news – Pratt on Texas 6/26/2025
- Abbott’s legal reason to veto THC ban falls apart, in court; Congress looking at similar ban – Pratt on Texas 6/25/2025
- “Get High” Abbott’s Special Session; veto & signed review | Campaign news | Texas wins, again – Pratt on Texas 6/24/2025
- Gov. “Get High” Abbott protects illegal drug industry; Lt. Gov. Patrick explains what Abbott has done – Pratt on Texas 6/23/2025
- Never ignore when officials can’t smell the stink: Abbott’s hand pick of Hancock for Comptroller – Pratt on Texas 6/20/2025
- Actor Glenn Polk on his farewell performance | Were Texas Capitol threats real? – Pratt on Texas 6/19/2025 Juneteenth
- Texas loses case to stop nuke waste license in Andrews | Abbott being too clever in Comptroller case? – Pratt on Texas 6/18/2025
- Black judge shows folly of lens-of-racism | Texas Dems elect “pan-sexual” socialist to official post | Lubbock Co. budget – Pratt on Texas 6/17/2025
- Special session for taxpayer-funded lobbying ban? | Texas GOP working to end “open” primary – Pratt on Texas 6/16/2025
- Left no longer favors strong presidential power in immigration? | Abilene council cuts voters out – Pratt on Texas 6/13/2025
- Robert Zimmerman: Ted Cruz terrible on NASA spending | Private sector race to build space stations – Pratt on Texas 6/12/2025
- It appears some prefer rioting by opposing preemptive measures | McKinney’s despicable behavior – Pratt on Texas 6/11/2025
- Mid-decade Texas redistricting? | Abilene raising property taxes? | ICE arrests wrongly contextualized – Pratt on Texas 6/10/2025
AUDIO: Pratt on Texas & Podcast-Extras
- Episode 3770: How many layers of warnings do we need? | City of Lubbock dept. lets heavy equipment flood – Pratt on Texas 7/11/2025 July 11, 2025
- Episode 3769: Dallas Morning News sells to Hearst | Abbott’s special session call | Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce – Pratt on Texas 7/10/2025 July 10, 2025
- Episode 3768: 17-miles of floating barrier coming for Rio Grande | San Antonio voters authoring “Military City” demise – Pratt on Texas 7/9/2025 July 9, 2025
- Episode 3767: 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 July 8, 2025
- Episode 3766: Flood deaths remind we are not “in control” | Armed attacks on Border Patrol, ICE, & police in Texas – Pratt on Texas 7/7/2025 July 7, 2025
- Episode 3765: More indictments in big Texas vote fraud probe | Illegal alien healthcare costing Texas taxpayers – Pratt on Texas 7/3/2025 July 3, 2025
- Episode 3764: “Uniparty” label is very wrong on governance | Texas sales tax take up | TWIA still underfunded – Pratt on Texas 7/2/2025 July 2, 2025
- Episode 3763: Left wants it both ways on unborn being people | More protest against Rule of Law planned – Pratt on Texas 7/1/2025 July 1, 2025
- Episode 3762: Cuban communist behind wheel of truck, killed 5 on I-20 | Another open Texas Senate seat – Pratt on Texas 6/30/2025 June 30, 2025
- Episode 3761: Nine big court rulings to cover from the U.S. & Texas supreme courts & other levels, mostly good! – Pratt on Texas 6/27/2025 June 27, 2025
- Episode 3760: Using gold & silver to buy & sell made easier in Texas | Texas-built icebreakers? | Border news – Pratt on Texas 6/26/2025 June 26, 2025
- Episode 3759: Abbott’s legal reason to veto THC ban falls apart, in court; Congress looking at similar ban – Pratt on Texas 6/25/2025 June 25, 2025
- Episode 3758: “Get High” Abbott’s Special Session; veto & signed review | Campaign news | Texas wins, again – Pratt on Texas 6/24/2025 June 24, 2025
- Episode 3757: Gov. “Get High” Abbott protects illegal drug industry; Lt. Gov. Patrick explains what Abbott has done – Pratt on Texas 6/23/2025 June 23, 2025
- Episode 3756: Never ignore when officials can’t smell the stink: Abbott’s hand pick of Hancock for Comptroller – Pratt on Texas 6/20/2025 June 20, 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
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...]