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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...]

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...]

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...]

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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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