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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Several big Texas taxpayer owned universities are willfully breaking the law by giving illegal immigrants the big discount for in-state tuition while charging taxpaying legal Americans out-of-state tuition. I’ve discussed this immoral behavior for years on Pratt on Texas and …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: While gasoline prices are outrageous, the Biden Administration has concocted a new plan, through the EPA, to harass Texas oil and gas producers as well as raise the cost of American energy independence: EPA flyover inspects of Permian Basin oil and gas wells. Our Lone Star st…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Same ol’ unreliable federal judge, Lee Yeakel, issues a ridiculous ruling that Texas cannot require the verification of voter registration resident addresses of those registering with a post office box. LULAC and Voto Latino sued over the issue making one wonder where the “mi…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The “Alex Jones” lawsuit from Sandy Hook parents is absurd from every angle and Texas courts shouldn’t be playing a role in the farce. Jones has done himself and us no favors but that doesn’t excuse everyone looking the other way pretending this “defamation” lawsuit business …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Is 2022 the Year of the Latina Republican? Maybe, maybe not but it is a year that reminds that the Democratic Party and other Leftists have no place in their worldview for minorities who have viewpoints different from those sanctioned by the Left. Dems show they are fundament…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s, the fake Hispanic (or Latinx?!), campaign staff votes to unionize! If his own political supporters cannot trust him, how can the rest of Texas? Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DO…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Is “sex education” the most important thing public schools do? A Texas Democrat legislator thinks so and what it shows is that the Democrat and Leftist view of public schooling is to indoctrinate social values into children more than to teach skills like reading, math, and si…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Here we go yet again! Local media misleads taxpayers – is it because reporters are insufferably ignorant, lazy, or work with elected officials to fool the public? See this unclear report in the Abilene Reporter-News. Learn how it really works, read: The “tax rate” doesn’t tel…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Corruption of medical science “surges” on. From unfounded WuFlu hysteria to false claims about Monkeypox, to faked(?) Alzheimer’s research that has been relied upon for years by researchers the world over, Bob Zimmerman sounds the alarm bells that medical science is going the…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Matt Crow, who worked for the House Committee on the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde and assisted in its fact-finding investigation and report, joins me for the full hour to discuss the contents of the report which was release one week ago. Read the report yourself …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas wins one, for now, at the Supreme Court on immigration policy against Biden. However, a federal court has struck down parts of SB1, Texas’ key voting integrity bill, and the state has chosen not to appeal on those voter assistance matters. Our Lone Star story of the day…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A City of Houston ordinance goes so far from American principals that it is embarrassing it is in Texas. The problem is many, including many Republicans, will support it failing to understand why it is wrong on so many levels. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Al…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: O’Rourke takes $1 million from one of the most radical Leftist donors in the U.S: George Soros who backs district attorneys who will not prosecute many criminals. And, the racism and bigotry of the Texas Democratic Party flares up in the RGB where Republicans have been making…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Why are so many in our society hostile to the idea of effective self-defense, and the defense of other such as family and friends, from murderous violence even when we know that when seconds count, help is minutes away? What has led us to a society in which many refuse the mo…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House committee fact-finding report on the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School is out and I’ve read it all, footnotes included. I noted five major takeaways as I read and highlighted the report (these are in addition to some of the more obvious covered by mo…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Maybe the A.G.’s office is saving the unEthics Commission from itself in not taking past due fine cases to court. The flimsy hit piece on Paxton from Hearst actually lets the real story be known in this little snippet buried in the bottom portion: “Texas has limited options w…

Institute for Policy Innovation’s Dr. Merrill Matthews discusses his recent op/ed in The Hill titled: Rick Scott Wants to Make Welfare Reform Great Again. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Senators, in hearing, speakk truth on the border and Abbott’s ineffective Operation Lone Star. We are paying billions for a program that is having no positive effect at slowing illegal immigration. What happened to Republicans who looked at the results of a program to j…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE claimed a need for “transparency” in releasing a leaked copy of the school shooting in Uvalde. That excuse is utterly bunkum and they know it. Their actions are shameful and were unnecessary to report the story or hold authority accounta…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: How did one of the 5 wealthiest countries quickly dive into an economic chasm? It adopted the same energy policies Beto Pancho O’Rourke and Texas (and national) Democrats want. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best servic…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Too much wind generated electrical power, as a percentage of grid resources, is once again endangering the Texas economic “miracle” and human life. It’s time the winds of change blow toward more reliable generation on the ERCOT grid. Legislators need to take bold action requi…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott does it again: Takes a position on the border that sounds tough but turns out to be empty and more expensive for Texas taxpayers. Taking illegal aliens back to ports of entry to turn over to the Border Patrol for federal catch-and-release does nothing but add …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Medical Board continues to use anonymous “complaints” to go after physicians who offer successful treatment to WuFlu patients. Oddly they haven’t gone after doctors for off-label prescription use for sex-change procedures. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: When media and advocates warn about public school teacher turnover they seem to never ask the key question: How does that turnover compare to other parts of the economy? Why do they not ask? Partly ignorance and partly because you’ll find that despite all the panic inducing s…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Why are so many focused upon “gun violence” as opposed to violence itself no matter the tool? The gun is simply not central to the issue of stopping or understanding violence from one human upon others as such has existed in grotesque quantity since the beginning of time – th…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Charter schools have been a roaring success in Texas with most enrollment coming from traditional Democrat constituencies but, it’s the public school lobby, running the Democrat Party and controlling some RINOs, that works constantly to remove choice from parents. Good change…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: We all knew it was true but TPPF put out the numbers showing most of our local cities and counties have been growing spending well in excess of growth and inflation over the past decade. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the b…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas officials who should know better are falling into the trap of just “doing something” after the massacre at the Uvalde school. Spending taxpayer money on so-called mental healthcare to significantly reduce, or even stop, mass shootings is a waste and not supported by the…

John Cooper has published a piece in The Epoch Times headlined “Stop Saying Team Biden Has No Plan—the Plan Is Your Pain.” It begins with: “Do I really look like a guy with a plan?” Heath Ledger’s Joker famously asks Harvey Dent in the 2008 masterpiece, “The Dark Knight.” Many Americans have been wondering for months if Joe Biden has a plan for, we…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Is existing Texas law making abortion illegal “dead letter” law as a judge has claimed? I’ll explain the absurdity of that argument as well as much else surrounding the ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and sending the issue of abortion back to the people of the various states. …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: In the fallout from the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the power over abortion rights to the people of the states, one call from the outraged pro-abortion people stood out because it unknowingly demonstrated the farce of their habit of classifying abortion as “re…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court has finally righted a constitutional disaster, and a moral wrong to a lesser extent, in overturning the Texas case, Roe versus Wade, that removed the power from the people to decide the issue of abortion rights within their republican institutions. The …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirms that the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution means what it says when it says the right to “keep and bear” arms. Justice Alito slaps down the liberal dissent with plain language and Justice Thomas makes clear that one must not have to have t…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The tribalism of Uvalde’s mayor as well as state senator is unhelpful, irresponsible, and immature. Emotions must be set aside to have honest appraisals made of what happened and did not happen at Robb Elementary School. It’s not about whether it looks good or bad for Uvalde …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: As I have suggested before, the daily clarifying picture of what happened, and did not happen, at the Uvalde school is leading toward a disgusting suggestion that not only incompetence was at play with police but possibly, and I do not say it lightly, possible some cowardice.…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Senator Cornyn was booed at the Texas Republican Convention (and not for the first time) over red flag laws but wait until people learn of how his enabling of a federal bill that destroys the nation with CRT and similar. Stanley Kurtz sounds the alarm at National Review: http…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The border situation is so bad with Biden that the number of illegal aliens entering plus official “got-aways” dwarfs the population of 23 states. How’s that for evidence of a plan to remake America’s political culture? Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Co…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Republicans are gathered for the largest political convention in the free world in Houston and two very good messages are coming out on closed primaries and blocking lawmakers from trying to run our political party. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Republican from the Valley will be the first Mexican-born U.S. Congresswoman as Mayra Flores wins special election to serve in Congress for TX34 until the end of the year. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service i…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It is clear the Biden Administration, through regulatory agencies, is trying to shackle SpaceX’s launch operations at Boca Chica in South Texas. Democrats dominate the Rio Grande Valle – will they allow their party to ruin the most transformative economic investment in RGV hi…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Senator Cornyn’s gun compromise makes you less safe, less free, and grows government spending and federal power. It’s all a bit like LBJ’s Great Society war on poverty – you’ll spend and spend not on your family but on government and wake up decades later with no change in th…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Energy prices reflect bad government policy at both the federal level and even at the State of Texas. Bad policies are hitting many in the pocket harder than any direct taxes they pay and most of the problems are forced errors. See: The Texas Grid Should Pass Its Test this We…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: How prescient I was Tuesday on schools and asking “How can you help those who refuse to help themselves?” Texas has done more than any other state to give effective tools to school districts and their staff and faculty to save lives but largely it is those folks who have refu…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: What is “responsible” about punishing those not responsible for murder? Don’t buy the pro-Second Amendment lines from actor McConaughey, he has called for gun bans for years even as a speaker at an anti-Second Amendment rally. And, note the ridiculousness of the things he say…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: On school shootings, or other violence in schools, can you help those who refuse to help themselves? Texas has done more than any other state to give effective tools to school districts and their staff and faculty to save lives but largely it is those folks who have refused t…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Beware that it is not only guns you are being led to give up. Why calls for “common sense” gun control and keeping guns out of the hands of “dangerous people” are mostly not compatible with a free society in which power is reserved to the people as opposed to a governing clas…

Today's special edition of Pratt on Texas is an interview, 2 of 2, about our good friend, true conservative, and guest host Matt Crow and how he became part of the Ronald Reagan re-elect effort (1984) and then the administration in the 2nd term. (This is not a repeat, this is the first airing.) Matt also served in both the Bush 41 and Bush 43 admin…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Guns, violence, Uvalde, politics and the childish notion of many that evil, that sin, will go away if we adopt the “right” policy or spend taxpayer money for more government “solutions.” Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the b…

On today’s Pratt on Texas I interview a former president of the Republic of Costa Rica, José María Figueres. Mr. Figueres is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was elected president of Costa Rica in 1994 at the age of 39 becoming the country’s youngest democratically elected…

Pratt on Texas from Costa Rica with Dr. Sivlia Zuñiga of DentoCare in Escazu. Learn more here: https://prattontexas.com/dento-care/