Pratt on Texas: Recent Episodes
Pratt on Texas
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 out of Washington, DC over the last decade.
What chance to regular people have when officials outright dismiss, before hearing any specific argument of seeing any evidence, the idea that government agencies such as the FBI, DOJ, or top state law enforcement may have done wrong? These people not only dismiss such but openly say that such allegations are “going nowhere” with them and their agencies. It all appears to be another sign of just how bad the new American aristocracy and “deep state” has become and that it is just as present in Texas as in DC.
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Lubbock’s new “conservative” city council members and mayor vote for tax increase – except Councilman Mark McBrayer who voted “no” and kept his promise to taxpayers.
Biden’s keep-’em-in-Texas policy getting pushback and other border news.
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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 immediately, even before hearing someone’s story or seeing any evidence, that it is preposterous, or “crazy,” that U.S. Department of Justice or FBI personnel might engage in wrong behavior?
The entire nation has seen DOJ and FBI misconduct of the deepest and worst manner and at the highest level for years now but, these folks’ biggest objections to Paxton’s policy decision with the Nate Paul complaint is to call it crazy to even look at – so crazy that it makes it magically illegal.
Why is it a problem for them? Because, if you listen, you’ll understand that this is the world in which these people live and earn a living from. That’s why Paul Gottfried’s column today at American Greatness so well sets a background narrative for the entire Paxton impeachment: The Empire Strikes Back: Conservative establishmentarians are becoming bolder about showing their revulsion for the populist Right.
Also, I’ve included just one, of many, examples of testimony from the “legendary” former Texas Ranger Dave Maxwell, former Director of Law Enforcement Operations at the Attorney General’s office, to give you a more accurate idea of what the accusers sound like than you get from most press reports.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Texas Education Agency to delay making public school A to F grades public because it looks too bad for the schools – gotta work with the insiders to keep just how bad it is for students, parents, and taxpayers bottled up.
Trial Begins Over Texas Voter Laws That Sparked 38-Day Walkout by Democrats in 2021. – Why weren’t they impeached? They broke the law outright but were rewarded with key leadership spots by Speaker Phelan!
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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 General’s office, was a complete dud. Maxwell makes the arrogant young lawyers look humble in his attitude and demonstrated the worst in law enforcement by prejudging most everything to do with the case before having any evidence to reach even a reasonable level of competence. In many ways Maxwell’s testimony was self-contradicting and he also engaged in repeated defamation of Mr. Nate Paul from the beginning – without evidence.
The most damning of all of Maxwell’s, and attorney Ryan Vassar’s,, testimony (Thursday and Friday) is that they actually provide no evidence that A.G. Paxton broke any law or committed any terrible infraction other than disagreeing with them – Vassar and Maxwell.
So far this has been the case with all witnesses: Paxton broke the law because he held attitudes and took actions with which the witnesses disagreed. No direct evidence, or in my opinion even suggestive evidence, has been directly testified to in the first week of the impeachment trial.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Bob Zimmerman: Good news? FAA issues own report on April Starship/Superheavy launch. Zimmerman tells us of the FAA’s newest action to slow private sector space, specifically Space X and political opponent Elon Musk, in its efforts to get Starship working at Starbase at Boca Chica, Texas in Cameron County.
The right way to respect lessons learned(?) from 9/11/2001: Secure the Border.
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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 that it appears House investigators, under the sanctimonious git Rep. Andrew Murr, have hidden evidence from the defense and their own lawyers – why?
Likely because like other evidence coming forward in cross-examination after cross-examination, it doesn’t support their trumped up allegations against Paxton. I play audio today related to this.
Today I explain why there has been relatively little in the press about the 2nd key witness Ryan Bangert and his testimony. First, after an hour on the stand he is likely disliked by even the most anti-Paxton liberal in the press pool. Bangert is everything a lawyer does not want on the stand and arrogance pours forth like Niagara Falls. But worse, like Mateer, what he offers up doesn’t support the charges against Paxton in the manner the House intended. We also learn of a key text to him previously not disclosed by the House managers that puts the proper context on non-official-opinion A.G. opinion in question.
I offer substantial audio today to give you a feel of how things are going.
Again, as I said yesterday, there is a common theme of an arrogance from the staffers, the bureaucrats, that only they are to run everything; everything that happens should conform to their personal ideas of what is normal or usual,, and; that the elected boss is a figure head who should not actually lead or impose his view of policy upon the agency. This is common across the permanent bureaucracy in Washington and states but it surprising how strong it is from the conservative attorneys. It is as if they do not see this in themselves.
Rubber-stamping Star Chambers; the shameful vote of Texas state senators to accept “evidence gathered in violation of the law” in the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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First positive oil and gas rig count report in a while.
Biden gets nastier on the border and Texas gets to keep the buoys in the Rio Grande for a while longer.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The impeachment imbroglio of Ken Paxton continued with a House Persecutor lawyer questioning their “key witness,” former First Assistant Attorney General Jeff Mateer. Not only did the testimony never come close to establishing that Mr. Mateer had any specific knowledge or evidence of Paxton breaking the law, his testimony gave tremendous credence to the spoiled staffers environment in which the appointees actually think they are above the one who appointed them – in this case the elected Attorney General.
In cross-examination, the entire narrative of the House impeachers fell apart and showed precisely, under oath this time, exactly what I had explained three years ago happened. These arrogant folks went to the FBI to try and destroy Paxton without bothering to ask even the most basic questions about what it was that had “alarmed” them. Now, with egg on the face, it is fully admitted that they were simply ignorant of the work that was being done, not for Nate Paul, but for the Travis County D.A.’s office.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Comment on Lubbock County Sheriff Kelly Rowe’s budget tiff with the commissioners court.
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REPEAT: Force you into electric cars & then drain your battery!? | Voter ID for mail-in ruled a violation – Pratt on Texas 8/23/2023
REPEAT: Does big Abbott donor profit from illegal immigration? | Anti-Wimp update | Local sales tax take – Pratt on Texas 8/9/2023
REPEAT: Rogue prosecutors in Texas | New property tax limitation idea | DeSantis at the border – Pratt on Texas 6/26/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Texans for Lawsuit Reform, TLR, is a curiously center stage player in the upcoming show trial impeachment of Ken Paxton. Most curious is how the once respectable group has turned so arrogant that its own statements, its bullying, is laughably self-contradictory.
It’s rather clear to most honest insiders, even those like me who over the years allied with TLR on much, that the group’s too-big-for-their-britches these days leaders are out for Paxton’s political blood after the humiliation taken by TLR in the primary. TLR got poor Eva Guzman to give up a spot on the Supreme Court to run against Paxton, spent millions on her, and came in a distant third behind even to scandal plagued George P. Bush.
This is another reason I maintain that impeachment was the wrong vehicle for issues with Paxton, whether true or not, because all of the impeachment process comes down to political scalp taking.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Houston wins bid to host the 2028 Republican National Convention, the first for the Bayou City since Geo. H.W. Bush in 1992.
Space X has successful engine test of Superheavy at Boca Chica. And, in another prong of the political attack on SpaceX and Elon Musk, Biden’s “Justice” Department sues the company for only hiring U.S. Citizens or lawful Permanent Residents! (This despite ITAR rules that force such on SpaceX.) Read this story AND the informed comments and you’ll understand how preposterous this is.
Another big fall off in the oil and gas drilling rig count.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Amarillo city council fires its city manager (good); Dallas’ mayor unsuccessfully fights for a property tax cut; McLennan County adopts no-new-revenue tax rate and much more from the local government news and school district news stack.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Anti-Wimp update: Firearm used to stop alleged burglar; sheriff praises armed assistance.
Border news: Trial begins as Texas, other states, sue the Biden Administration over it’s free entry to work policy for certain aliens.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Not only do Democrats want to force you into an electric vehicle, they also want the right, without notice, to drain its battery overnight to shore-up the electric grid they have imperiled by making it hard to build reliable power plants.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth of The Heritage Foundation address this latest, very real, policy fiasco of Democrats. Read more here: California Transportation Policy Is Not for the Free.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Update on several lawsuits against Texas:
- Nut-case federal judge says Texas can have Voter I.D. for in-person voting but not for the far less secure and easy to cheat mail-in-ballot voting!
- Judge in border buoy case to rule strictly on the merits of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.
- Harris County must, for now, follow the new law that requires it to end its Office of Elections and turn duties over the elected county clerk and voter registrar.
- Texas booksellers ask judge to put book rating law on hold because they apparently do not know, or want to know, what it is they sell to Texas school libraries.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: It is another Blacklisting of Americans update from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.
Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”
See all Blacklisted Americans stories here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/ Find other Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra blacklisting updates here: https://prattontexas.com/?s=blacklist
By the way, Zimmerman’s latest book: Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space is a must-read for those who want to understand how wrong the Left is about America’s slavery history as well as how a small part of what became the USA took very wrong decisions which are still at the center of our most difficult societal problems. This book is original, not another rewrite of what others have published. It is also real History written from primary sources.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick make a wrong choice for counsel in the upcoming Paxton impeachment trial.
The real story out of this weekend blowup is how the press in Texas misleads you by omission. They set it up from Quorum Report to the Statesman to the Texas Tribune as a trivial matter of a $250 donation to Paxton’s primary opponent. However, that WAS NOT the story.
The story is how the judge Patrick has picked to help him has direct ties to those investigating impeachment, voting for impeachment, and prosecuting impeachment – that bit was completely absent in the big media stories! What liars.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Another strong Tejana leaves the open borders Democratic Party to become a Republican. Welcome Kleberg County Attorney Kira Talip Sanchez.
Taxpayers Win Appeal on Amarillo Civic Center Lawsuit. It shows how disgusting and arrogant the city hall and civic cheerleader crowd is to have even files an appeal in this case.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas public college and universities are making a big show of ending D.E.I. programs after such were outlawed by the legislature but, it is easy to see that in many cases it’s all just a rebranding and the use of taxpayer money to promote “progressive” (i.e. Leftist) political ideologies on campus will continue.
- ‘No one is going to lose a job’ in response to DEI ban, UT-Dallas president says – note that he also says: “We’re going to continue doing those things,” Benson said. “And so it’ll go under a different name. But I don’t think anyone would have a problem with the actual actions of what we do.”
- University of Houston’s LGBTQ resource center to close due to DEI ban
And the problem of using taxpayer money to specifically promote Leftist political agendas isn’t limited to colleges, plenty of local governments do the same.
- City of Dallas budget to use taxpayer funds to boost homosexual “pride” events in Big D.
- Why? Because the alphabet homosexual community couldn’t raise enough to pay for their planned “drag queen” political statement event.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Oil and gas rig count falls again nationally but Texas remains even.
Solid Employment Growth in July Leads to More Records in Texas.
Texas State Library to Cut Ties with Communist-led American Library Association.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: It is another Blacklisting of Americans update from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.
Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”
- See all Blacklisted Americans stories here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/
- Find other Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra blacklisting updates here: https://prattontexas.com/?s=blacklist
We also discuss Zimmerman’s latest book: Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space.
This book is a must-read for those who want to understand how wrong the Left is about America’s slavery history as well as how a small part of what became the USA took very wrong decisions which are still at the center of our most difficult societal problems. This book is original, not another rewrite of what others have published. It is also real History written from primary sources.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: The foul stench of local government rises even higher during tax rate and budget setting.
Taxpayers are being abused in so many ways from wasteful spending to promotion of Leftist “woke” ideologies to the easy incompetence that comes when one is spending other people’s money as opposed to one’s own. Here’s just a sampling from today’s press review:
- Lufkin ISD superintendent granted paid admin leave for school year
- Price tag on Wichita Falls City Hall remodel job jumps by $5 million (almost 50%!)
- Fannin Co. Courthouse faces serious fire code violations (they just spent $29 million and ran the job themselves – the Commissioners’ Court!)
- Don’t Let Cities, Counties Chip Away at Legislative Tax Relief
- The Left’s War on Language Strikes the Lone Star State – look at these graphs and how this has grown. Taxpayer money to implement Leftist political programs in our local governments.
- City of Dallas Agency Demands ‘Equity Elements’ in 95% of Projects
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Anti-Wimp update: They hit owner on head, he & employee shot & killed 2 of them.
Democrat district court judge rules against key Texas election law (SB 1750) and state immediately appeals to Supreme Court. The judge said the implementation of the law could cause harm to Harris County’s elections office. What!? The rather recently created office has had one director after another vacate the position due to incompetently run elections. That’s sort of the point of passing SB 1750.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is all about leadership and responsibility in restraining the growth of local government. All too often officials say they must have more money, must grow local government more than inflation and population growth, but guess what? There are always a few across the state who prove that with better management, leadership, and a remembrance that they work for the taxpayers not for government employees one can indeed fully fund local government without raising property taxes.
- No city tax increase expected for El Paso for FY 2024, but adding fire and police
- Hats Off to Tarrant County on its ’24 Budget – an actual tax cut and a new county property tax homestead exemption!
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
Anti-Wimp update: Don’t attack armed people in the BBQ joint restroom.
After seeing, and hearing, the video, I’m even MORE with Rep. Ronny Jackson. Too many police at this moment a girl was in medical distress were infected with I’m-in-charge-here syndrome than with let’s help the girl first. Most media leaves out witnesses involved who said:
Two people who reportedly witnessed the July interaction, Chris and Jodi Jordan, said they were at the rodeo and explained Jackson was trying to help the girl before medics arrived and that the deputies aggressively pulled him away. “We were just appalled,” said Chris Jordan, 48, of Hereford. “The slamming to the ground I didn’t understand whatsoever.”
A big Texas victory over the Leftist ESG movement.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Pornographers (Houston Chronicle calls them “adult entertainment” advocates) sue Texas to fight against HB 1181 which requires age verification to enter the online pornography websites. Additionally, in an absurd assertion, the pornographers claim that pornography is not addictive and want the provisions of the bill that require a warning of such to be ruled unconstitutional. I guess we know where the plaintiffs in this case stand: They appear to want children and youth to have access to their pornography. Could that be because they know it is addictive and getting them early is better for business? That was the claim against the cigarette makers.
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Child dies on an illegal alien voluntary transport bus provided by Texas, State Senator Roland Gutierrez again shows his mental deficiency: “This child died because in all likelihood they were on a bus that they could not get out of.” Really? Getting off a bus (she did get off when EMS were called) stops progression of disease? Gutierrez is a joke.
Lawsuit against Rep. Jeff Leach by Texas Nationalist Movement and group member Morgan McComb dismissed. The filing of the case is one of the reasons I have little respect for this TEXIT movement by TNM and why I keep my distance. Gosh, this case shows them as bad as the worst D.C. Democrat on political liberty and free speech.
Lubbock County commissioners need to learn that people don’t need more government per capita but less through economies of scale. County spending has skyrocketed for years so if the D.A.’s office needs more money: First, make sure it is being effectively run before handing it more money (I’ve been told by judges and attorneys it is very poorly managed by the incumbent D.A.) and second, take money that has put into growing the county government beyond basic functions and move it to the D.A.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Houston,, other cities, have sued the state over Rep. Burrows’ Regulatory Consistency Act. They stupidly call it the “Death Star Bill” but it doesn’t kill anything other than city ordinances that attempt to regulate things that the state regulates.
The state has now put forth arguments, in an effort for dismissal of the case, and the interesting thing is how the bill was constructed using the novel enforcement method put forth in the model Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.No Joke: Oregon SecState BARS Republicans From Running For Re-Election. The lesson, with this story and a huge number of others, is that Texas Republican House Speakers Straus, Bonnen, Phelan are simply stupid idiots when they and their backer cabals argue that we must hand power to Democrats and not punish them for leaving the state on the idea that if the tables were turned such across-the-aisle kindness would be given in the other direction.
Oil and gas rig count falls again. Gasoline prices are up, demand is up, but drilling continues to go down.
Leftist media awakens to the effective nature of Texas’ bussing illegal aliens to big Democrat run cities.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Junk fees and false room rates by hotels is a symptom of an absence of integrity in the industry and the moral decline of our society. The feds, the Texas Attorney General, and customers are fighting it but the hotels don’t care and actually seem to think lying to customers is a game.
- Hotels are returning fire in the “junk fee” war. Don’t be a casualty.
- Office of the Attorney General Sues Travel Reservation Site for Deceptive Trade Practices Regarding the True Price of Hotel Rooms (Booking.com, Priceline.com, and Kayak.com)
- Paxton Secures Agreement with Marriott to End Hidden Hotel Fees and Ensure Transparency
- Paxton Sues Hyatt Hotels for Deceptive Trade Practices Regarding the True Price of Hotel Rooms
I’ve had Platinum status for many years with Wyndham and their La Quinta operator in Brownwood charged us, without advance disclosure, a junk fee we’d have not known about had we not demanded a receipt upon leaving. Terrible lack of integrity.
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Is the “political calculus” of finally banning taxpayer funded lobbying in Texas really changing? My guess is that such might, I stress might, be offered up, and likely watered down, next session as a chosen red meat issue.
Now, because of the Texas House’s impeachment circus we don’t know if this is law enforcement working as it should (which is why impeachment should not have been used – to let law enforcement handle law enforcement) or, a pile-on action to help poison the well just like how magically the securities related suit finally gets a direct court hearing with Paxton present after all these years.
Border Patrol Union rips Rep. Joaquin Castro‘s criticism of Texas Rio Grande water buoys: ‘unhinged diatribe’.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Reportedly, there is Houston-region housing development that caters to illegal aliens with a population of over 22,000 that is “partially funded” by a major donor of Governor Greg Abbott. Is it all this profiting off of illegal immigration that keeps Abbott and legislative leadership from doing more than expensive theater on securing the border such as passing a mandate for Texas employers to use e-Verify as Florida has done under DeSantis?
The Rio Grande Guardian is upset that only three of the Valley’s state reps. signed a very stupid MALC letter to Speaker Phelan asking for Gov. Abbott and Operation Lone Star to be investigate. The headline: Only 3 of Valley’s 8 state Reps sign MALC letter criticizing Abbott’s use of concertina razor wire on Rio Grande – Rio Grande Guardian. It is stupid to sign such a letter given that Biden and the feds use concertina wire all the time on the border!
Also this from the border: EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Increases Migrant Releases as Border Policies Crumble Under Another Surge.
Biden’s war on Texas border buoys reveals what he really thinks about immigration laws.
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Anti-Wimp update: Woman fights off forced head shaving with her handgun.
Local sales taxes up 2.8% over August 2022. Find your city here.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrat Leftists and their homosexual and “trans” activists demonstrated in Denton how they are the enemies of civil public discourse and tolerance. No surprise it happened at Texas Woman’s University that, like neighbor UNT, a hotbed for radical leftist action.
Abbott’s ceremonial bill signing of SB15, “Save Women’s Sports Act,” showed just how strongly the homosexual lobby opposes protections for women. It also shows, once again, how Abbott has done little to nothing to use his political power to appoint university regents to rein in the Leftist chaos on our public campuses. TWU police just citing people, or one person, for Class C assault (a ticket) when spitting upon people and blocking exits can carry higher charges just shows where TWU stands on the matter.
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.
A needed slap down of Dallas-based Southwest Airlines (not the firm it once was) in court over its denigration of religious freedom. And someone did a great job of pointing out the “woke” culture at Fort Worth-based American Airlines. Two previous stories on the Southwest Airlines saga:
- Pushback: Judge rules flight attendant must be rehired by Southwest, but reduces her award significantly
- Pushback: Southwest flight attendant demands Southwest be sanctioned for violating the terms of her court victory
Texas largest county, Harris, has another new mess since the incompetent to govern Leftist Democrats took over the county:
- 22 Harris County Jail victims’ families sue county
- Harris County’s judge and sheriff no-shows meeting with state jail regulators
- Chief of Texas’ Largest County, Lina Hidalgo, Takes Medical Leave for Depression
Hawk and snake story and story on why a phone call to 911 is not a weapon.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Are Aggie jokes true?! If regents are finding it hard to blunt a perception of a Left-liberal agenda at Texas A&M then maybe the jokes are true because, frankly, it’s quite easy to deal with such without getting into the arena of academic freedom, etc. Just stop funding programs that promote Leftist political orthodoxy and campus and you’ll go a long way to solving the problem at A&M, Texas Tech, Texas State, UNT, Houston and so many others. You don’t have to fund conservative-Right programs either – just stop funding and promoting Leftist orthodoxy on campus!
Also on the subject of A&M’s absurd “settlement” with the UT professor it didn’t hire, state Rep. Brian Harrison has it right: “Like hell my constituents should have to pay a DEI activist professor one million dollars for simply not leaving one government job for another government job. She’s still tenured at UT Austin and is getting a $1M bonus? I will demand answers from Texas A&M University, my alma mater.”
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Another all to common example of local media misleading voters on what local government is doing to property taxes out of Lamesa. The local paper says the council “adopts lower tax rate.” The rate doesn’t lower or raise, it gets set anew each year with a different set of base numbers. The truthful and meaningful message would be “Council adopts 2.75 % property tax increase” – that’s a lot different than “adopts lower tax rate.”
More impeachment debacle news. I discuss several issues and specifically mentioned the section about Paxton and Mindy Montford from this DMN story. Also, deadline for more charges has passed so it appears the ongoing House fishing didn’t land a fish.
Democrat liberal Travis County state district judge has substituted herself for a legislature and tried to rewrite Texas’ law restricting abortion and she used woke language too! Her blocking of parts of the law has itself been blocked by the state’s direct appeal to the Supreme Court.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott, not taxpayers, should pay preposterous A&M “settlement” of $1 million for a job the woman walked away from and had no loss because she retained her tenured job at UT-Austin! Abbott appointed all the A&M regents and he should make good the million out of his huge campaign account because it is beyond unethical that taxpayers are put on the hook for this. See also: Texas A&M reaches $1M settlement with Kathleen McElroy – note how the utter dishonestly of the press on this continues.
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TPPF points out City of Lubbock’s own audited data shows a massive increase in spending over the past decade which far, far outpaces inflation and population growth.
Oil price high but Texas suffers another big falloff in oil and gas drilling rigs.
Ballot order set for the 7 November 2023 Constitutional Amendment election.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: When it comes to the border and illegal immigration, Leftists including many officeholders, decry the “rhetoric” of Governor Abbott and the rest of the country claiming such leads to violence. However, it takes only one quick look to see who are the “godless” proponents of chaos and who use rhetoric in the most base, nasty ways.
- Child from Honduras is one of two people dead on or near Texas’ anti-migrant border buoys – read the sinfully base rhetoric throughout this piece and especially at the end and tell me who engages is “hate speech” and who says things in a manner to encourage violence.
- Cops Find Body of Migrant Caught in Texas Border Buoys – graphic photos
- Eagle Pass Rescinds Agreement Allowing Trespass Arrests of Migrants
- Arrests of noncitizens with criminal convictions at border at record highs
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Abilene homosexual advocacy group among several suing Texas and other local governments including City of Abilene and Taylor County. They don’t like a new law that stops sexually lewd performances in front of children.
Local governments in Texas have shown they cannot stop spending beyond the means of their local economies. To fix this, the Legislature should act – a list of suggestions.
Moses Rose’s Hideout bar owner agrees to sell, resolving Alamo eminent domain case and paving way for new Alamo museum.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: What happened to the liberal mantra that goes “If it saves just one life… or, If it prevents just one accident…” any amount of money, loss of liberty, etc. is worth it? They sure don’t act that way about the lawless chaos at the U.S. Mexico border. They’ve been screaming for years about temporary breaking up families who cross illegally but deny the need to get these unknown children away from the adults who may just be using and abusing them to cross as a family unit. Two stories in today’s stack reminded me of the careless indifference U.S. libs have toward these people:
- Texas DPS Has Rescued Over 900 Children from Human Smuggling, Trafficking During Operation Lone Star
- Texas DPS separates families at border in apparent policy shift – the last part of this story is de facto evidence of why many of these people should not be let in.
And, it’s not so good for Biden when even the Washington comPost admits his supposed lowered illegal immigration plan has been all but wiped out by a surge.
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Texas sales tax collections look big but Comptroller Hegar points out the trend I have been mentioning: “The rate of sales tax revenue moderated last month, consistent with a slowing pace of economic growth and declining price inflation,” Hegar said.
House impeachment managers want it both ways, unjustly. I add to my less clear explanation on yesterday’s show.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: In the impeachment fight, historical precedent, is 100% on the side of Paxton’s lawyers as to the process requiring basic American protections found in criminal trials. But, House “managers” want it both ways: If it is purely political, not quasi-criminal, then the “prior term doctrine” should apply. If it is criminal in nature, then the House must provide a Bill of Particulars – meaning the defendant must be charged with things that are specifically against a law with specificity.
The House has lobbed a set of murky and non-specific articles of impeachment at Paxton and says this is okay, though certainly not fair in any sense, because this is not a criminal prosecution but a political one – that sure does tie the word politician into truth not being important! But if it is solely political, then the voters settled the matter in the last election and no charges brought can include things prior the last election of Paxton – that is the prior term doctrine.
- https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/07/28/texas-ag-ken-paxton-says-impeachment-is-a-criminal-trial-experts-say-he-is-wrong/
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/paxton-attorneys-seek-to-dismiss-19-articles-of-impeachment
- https://thetexan.news/paxtons-attorneys-move-to-dismiss-19-of-20-impeachment-articles/
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Only New York and California have more local government debt per person than Texas. Why? Because local officials in Texas, no matter how much their constituents are hurting, cannot seem to stop spending money faster than their local economic growth provides.
- Lubbock‘s city manager should be removed for such a callous proposal as he is making to the city council – a big tax increase.
- Meanwhile, Democrat run El Paso just got rid of old Lubbock city hall insider Tommy Gonzalez, now hired by Midland, and that has El Paso planning no tax increase: City takes first steps toward ‘no-new-revenue tax rate’ in proposed budget.
Dallas Fed: Texas service sector growing, retail remains in the dumps.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Insanity at Texas A&M with regents meeting on Sunday and reportedly wanting to negotiate a “settlement” with the Leftist anti-journalism UT “journalism” prof who walked away from taking the job to run the Aggie journalism school. She walked away – where do the rest of us get on the train for settlements when the parameters of a job offer change and we decide to decline such? Where!?
If anything, A&M should claim that she entered the job negotiations from a fraudulent basis given that her position of what is journalism is more akin to a political propagandist than someone reporting on events. Her position on journalsim is like hiring a math professor who claims that mathematicians don’t need to be able to solve equations correctly to do or teach math!
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The Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey show further contractions of output.
Comment on this slight moment of lucidity of the know-nothing Leftist editorial board members of the Houston Chronicle: Jackson Lee wants to be an ‘education mayor.’ But how?
Who is paying, or rewarding, Texan Will Hurd to “run” for President? I don’t buy that he’s a legitimate candidate at all.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Atheist organization sues Fort Worth and while it my infuriate many, the real solution is to stop local government mission creep. If Fort Worth were focused on basic government services, it would not be in the business of renting out advertising banners on light poles.
Additionally, a very stupid civil rights complaint has been filed against the City of Lubbock by a bunch of Leftist community organizers over zoning. The complaint is part of a current national movement by Democrats and the Biden Administration to find racism in just about everything.
What these braying jackasses ignore is: One, these zoned areas came directly from the political party to which they belong when Democrats created segregation by law; two, that no one has been forced to reside in any of the neighborhoods abutting industrial zoning for generations and yet people still choose to do so, and; three, there are more Hispanics, for example, in other parts of Lubbock than live in the old traditional Hispanic area to which they refer. Thus, if you moved industrial zoning to other areas of the city you could numerically be, if you buy their premise, hurting more minorities than the status quo. They also conveniently forget the historic fact that until recent times, people chose to live near where they worked because they walked to work.
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More on the Texas A&M controversy over its offer to hire a UT-Austin prof to run its new journalism program who believes that journalism should be political activism and leave out facts of stories with which the journalist finds disagreeable. I’ve covered this early and in-depth but Sherry Sylvester did a fine job summarizing the problem with all the hand wringing in Aggieland.
- State Board approves new A&M Journalism degree starting this fall
- Texas A&M Board of Regents meeting to appoint interim president, authorize to ‘negotiate a potential settlement of claims of Kathleen McElroy’
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Former Texas state senator and gubernatorial candidate Don Huffines joins me to talk tax relief, the border crisis and what’s not being done, and about the Huffines Liberty Foundation.
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Showing how ignorant are liberal Democrats, a Gallup poll shows 83% of Democrats deny there is a “crisis” at the border with Mexico. Note how soft Gallup spins the story in their own write up versus how another outlet took it to show the real problem with reality today’s Democrats have. The change from 2019 among Democrats to today is astounding given that the border situation has gotten much worse under the Biden administration.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: A big Dallas Morning News story on a trove of messages between a Paxton campaign official and state Rep. Jeff Leach shows, in my opinion, that personal anger over a policy difference, with a desire to strike back at Paxton, is behind the House’s move to impeach A.G. Paxton. It is disgusting and shameful. Is being “pissed off” a legitimate and thoughtful reason to invoke such extreme and rare action as impeachment?
Also, an important story most of the legacy media has chosen not to cover is about just how bad the impeachment articles are from a constitutional perspective. Many of these things I noticed immediately and mentioned when the list of charges was released from the House.
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Yesterday numerous Texas press outlets ran positive stories of Leftist Austin Congressman Greg Casar’s “thirst strike.” Today, as of midday, those same outlets had nothing to report. Why? Because “Squad” member and Marxist Casar’s stunt is an embarrassment – it’s funny!
Lazy book vendors: Lawsuit Challenges Texas Law Punishing Book Vendors for ‘Explicit’ Materials in Public School Libraries | The Texan. I read four different media accounts of this today and it seems that what these people, who sell books to public school libraries, are saying is that it’s too hard for them to ensure they are not selling pornography and sexually explicit books for little kids to see in schools. That’s quite an admission by school book vendors – that they can’t and won’t review what it is they sell.
Another Anti-Wimp update: Axe-wielding robber arrested after armed homeowner stops him.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: A very long, about seven page, story is out from the Texas Tribune which has been republished by many press outlets in Texas with a headline that hints at big scandal: Texas A&M put professor on leave for allegedly criticizing Dan Patrick. The problem? There is no big scandal and the only folks who did anything questionable, according to the evidence supplied, are Texas A&M bureaucrats and leaders nervous over budgets and legislation. Reading the giant story, it's as if this part never existed: "Ultimately Texas A&M allowed Alonzo to keep her job after an internal investigation could not confirm any wrongdoing." So for all the writing about freedom of speech, do those who had a problem with her speech not have that same freedom? The same folk who think "investigation" was unwarranted and "chilling" are the same types of people who support investigations of conservative speech on campus often.
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New annual registration fee for electric vehicles (EVs) in Texas goes into place on 1 September. $200 per year on top of existing fees to make up for not contributing to the state highway fund by not buying gasoline.
Rep. Ronny Jackson Calls Paxton Impeachment a 'Witch Hunt.'
Southlake Carroll ISD votes to remove extra protections against bullying homosexual students and adds bathroom-use restriction to actual sex. Whatever happened to "just treat us the same as everyone?" When we do that we get screams of horror because these groups crave attention and special status.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott tells Biden and his Dept. of [un-] Justice to pound sand over demands to remove the 1000-foot floating border barrier Texas has placed in the Rio Grande. And while Abbott’s bravado on the subject is fun to watch, it is interesting that the Texas governor would pick this particular issue to fight the feds on given it is likely the weakest legal position of the state, by far, of all the complex issues regarding the border, invasion, and states rights. I think it shows that this is still political theater from Governor Abbott. If Texas were refusing to back down to federal threats over actually stopping people from crossing the border, or arresting them all and then transporting them back across the border, this fight would be fundamental and worth it. Instead, Abbott throws the chest out over a thousand-foot floating barrier that is rather insignificant in the larger picture.
Frankly, the only successful action Abbott has taken, and not begun for a long time and billions spent,is the busing of illegal aliens to Democrat “sanctuary city” jurisdictions. That forces the issue into the news cycles of even Leftwing parts of the country and has more chance of moving voters to demand change that much of anything else.
If we’re are not going to actually stand up and physically stop the invasion as a state, why not massively expand the busing programs and save money on all the stuff that doesn’t work? Answer: Because that other stuff pays political dividends to Abbott and others.
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Analysis and commentary on the three latest Paxton impeachment stories:
- Impeachment lawyers reject Texas AG Ken Paxton’s request to remove Democrats from jury
- Ken Paxton’s far-right billionaire backers are fighting hard to save him – how dare he have backers, especially rich folk! What a corrupt idea being pushed in many parts of the press.
- Houston GOP activist sues over gag order in Paxton impeachment case
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Our Lone Star story of the day: “Will Dan Patrick challenge Greg Abbott for Texas Governor?” I’ve been consciously waiting for this story in the big Texas legacy press and I’m glad it came from Gromer, a good writer.
I’d be on the Patrick side immediately if such happened now but that is because he is the more movement conservative. He’s not perfect on everything, but has proven that he is about moving conservative policy and reform more than he is about promoting a political career – which is the biggest knock against Abbott.
I tend to agree with almost every part of Gromer’s speculation in the later part of the story. Oh, but wouldn’t such a race be epic!?
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Feds will sue Texas over the floating Rio Grande River barrier. IBWC: Abbott does not have permit to erect floating barriers on Rio Grande. Also, more strong evidence Biden’s illegal alien “parole” program is a hoax.
Record jobs and employment growth in Texas, outpacing all other states.
Another big drop in the oil and gas drilling rig count for Texas.
TX19’s Rep. Jodey Arrington cast what I believe to be an “evil” vote – he voted, at the behest of the airline lobby, against requiring airline pilots who lost their jobs for refusing to take the dangerous WuFlu “vaccine.”
Impeachment news: Paxton’s Attorneys Move to Exclude Three Democratic Senators From Impeachment Trial. I don’t think anything will come of this. If fairness mattered the House wouldn’t have impeached as it did!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: "Woke" D.E.I. and similar, under the original titles and with changed names, is going on in major state agencies, not just on college campuses, under Governor Greg Abbott's watch.
TxDOT has been found to be spending money on, and pushing, D.E.I. with all of its awful ideas such as segregation, pronoun usage, and more - because as we all know, you can't maintain Texas' highways if you don't get the pronouns right!
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Texas cities are engaging in "highway robbery" by spending massive money outside of the areas of providing basic city services. Worse, they are leaving citizens with massive debt. Maybe it's time to push constitutional amendments that forever clip the wings of local governments when it comes to spending and mission to creep.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: In Mexico, journalists are now routinely murdered for reporting on the racist ruling party (Morena) and it’s ties to the narcotics cartels. When eminent people in the U.S. point out the devilish corruption, Mexico’s corrupt Presidente tells people who have fled his country how they should vote in Texas and the U.S. El Presidente is a clown, but a dangerous clown.
See the Conservative-U.S.-Mexico Policy Coalition Statement here.
Has Governor Abbott lied to the people of Texas about Operation Lone Star? He said we were working “with” property owners along the border and placing barriers where those owners agreed. But, in a major Hearst story we learn that Texas is placing razor wire and more on private property for which owners have not given permission AND will not indemnify those owners for liability that arises from injury from such!
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CNBC declares Florida, Texas among ‘worst’ in nation to live and work. It’s a sign of how liberalism is homeopathy for being lobotomized! “Only liberals could think all the liberal places everyone is leaving are inherently superior to all the conservative places everyone is going.”
HD87: Amarillo and parts of the Panhandle will have a chance to elect an actual conservative Republican to the Texas House as liberal Republican Four Price is not running for reelection. It’s another loss for the Amarillo Matters and Kel Seliger crowd. Hopefully voters will deny that crowd’s primary choice.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas border enforcement, what little of it there is, blows up in the national press due to a DPS medic who has made all kinds of claims that Texas is being inhumane, etc. The coverage and incendiary Democrat statements, miss the point: Human responsible agency. No one us cut by razor wire unless they try to get through it breaking into the country. No one is pushed back into anything unless those persons first choose to take an illegal and dangerous action.
Also, as I mentioned earlier the biggest problem Abbott has with his floating 1,000-foot border barrier is that it may violate a treaty. If it does, no amount of Fox News chest-beating appearances will change the fact that it will have to come out.
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Anti-Wimp update: Armed robber gets surprise from 7-Eleven clerk.
The impeachment debacle brings us a Discovery Order to stop the House managers from more unethical behavior toward A.G. Ken Paxton; a new Gag Order to stop mostly the pro-impeachment team from trying the case in the press (it is a political case after all) instead of in the Senate, and; a fine example of biased press hypocrisy regarding Paxton and political donations. Tons of outlets ran this but ignored this.
Tax relief passed. I explain why much more must be done before we go for the school district M&O tax phase out.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: An organized Leftwing political campaign in Lubbock, including by Moms Against Gregg Abbott PAC, successfully bullied Sandy Henry at the Science Spectrum to cancel the facility rental for an event at which parents and citizens were to be taught how to find pornographic, sexually explicit, and sexually inappropriate books in school and public libraries. Homewood Suites by Hilton in Lubbock also appears to have done the same.
Is it the position of Homewood Suites or the Science Spectrum that it is good policy to have in our libraries pornographic, sexually explicit, and sexually inappropriate books for children? Or, is it simply that Sandy Henry of the Science Sprectrum and the Homewood Suites stand with the Left on the idea that only Leftist expression is to be protected?
And don’t buy the baloney from Henry about cancelling the event because it is “controversial.” First, science itself is controversial and second, the facility has rented its meeting space for many things that the Left would consider controversial including churches, partisan political debates, and more.
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More lawsuits filed against Texas:
- Group Sues Texas Governor and Others Over the State’s TikTok Ban on Official Devices
- Parents, doctors sue Texas to block transgender minor medical procedure ban
Here’s another big nothing from the liberal press when deconstructed: Attorney General Ken Paxton met with GOP activist he was prosecuting. Oh boy, a politician meets with a political activist for a few minutes two weeks before a primary election – that’s certainly never happened before! The story is classic example of misdirection to the point of being absurd.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Media and White House, all one team, crow about reduced illegal border crossings but it is a “shell game,” says a current Border Patrol agent as well as a former chief of the Border Patrol.
And on the note of the border, will Gov. Abbott and Texas Republican legislators ever bother to pass meaningful illegal immigration legislation such as requiring e-Verify for employment in Texas? They killed just that bill in the Senate during the regular session.
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Watchdog files complaint over concerns on top Air Force Gen. Brown’s diversity hire priorities. Brown is a Texas Tech graduate and part of a serious problem in our nation’s military.
Comptroller distributes $1.1 billion in local sales tax allocations for July, 7.5 percent more than in July 2022. Look up your city here.
Paxton’s Legal Team Says Impeachment Managers ‘Withholding Information,’ Asks for ‘Strict’ Deadlines. And related, new PAC Urges Republicans to ‘Stand With Paxton’.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Two stories in today’s Texas press stack demonstrate the embedded racism in our colleges and universities and those who hold most of the faculty positions. Their desire to propagate a racist, bigoted, victims-forever line will not be stopped by watered down DEI laws; it will only stop when very real, serious penalties are put in place to stop such.
- How Texas universities can pursue diversity without race-based admissions – look at the tactics proposed! My gosh, they actually suggest red lining(!) among other ridiculous ideas.
- Kathleen McElroy will stay at UT-Austin, rejecting A&M journalism offer – based on her own words and career, her entire focus on so-called “journalism” is race based.
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In-state tuition rate for illegal aliens in Texas is legal, appeals court says – a perpetuation of gross injustice.
Houston’s gunshot alert system isn’t curbing violence, data shows – but libs and city bureaucrats want more of it. Fort Worth is expanding its program despite no positive results.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Thanks to Texas Democrats and the old fossil Rep. John Bryan for stepping in it again and bringing today's good news: House and Senate leaders have reached agreement on a property tax relief deal.
It's largely the Senate's plan and it will likely be voted on this Thursday according to state Rep. Carl Tepper who joins us briefly in the last segment.
If all passes, Governor Abbott and Speaker Phelan lost the insider political battle on this one but taxpayers ultimately win and that's what matters. I give full analysis on the show.
And for all that effort of the Dems on proposing their own plan, which got the GOP leaders to work, they got nothing.
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Anti-Wimp: ATM robbery doesn’t go well for robbers.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: On the same day Harris County makes a show of suing the state over new elections law designed to help fix elections in Houston, new damning details were revealed in a court case over the 2022 handling of elections by Harris County. The great Holly Hansen has the story at The Texan.
“The county’s call log indicates that the presiding judges for the Klein Multipurpose Center and the University of Houston Clear Lake locations called at 6:49 a.m. and 7:01 a.m. respectively because they had not been given any ballot paper at all. In another instance, the call center failed to denote the location of a precinct reporting no ballot paper, while others began reporting a shortage of paper before 9 a.m…”
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Anti-Wimp: Armed car thief shot by armed car owner.
Useless committee hearing and an even worse tax relief plan from Democrats in your do little Texas House of Representatives. Note my comments yesterday about this plan and then note from today’s coverage that what it really does is payoff the teachers unions from now on with money you might otherwise get in future tax cuts through school district tax rate compression. In other words, the Democrat plan takes money in future budgets from the tax relief column and moves it to giant annual raises for teachers.
Oil and gas rig count drops again in Texas, rises nationally.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Republicanism is about dispersing power and opposing its concentration in any one person or institution – so why have Texas Republicans, from legislators to the governor to Supreme Court justices, punted so often and been afraid to act on the clear wrongs in the Texas Disaster Act? Is it political cowardice, ignorance, or a desire to have such power? No matter the answer, we are not well served by all the dancing around the fundamental problems shown by Abbott’s use of the Disaster Act, for many years, to amass centralized power.
Brad Johnson, of The Texan, covers this issue as well as it has been covered in: Constitutionality of State Disaster Powers Remains Unaddressed by Texas Supreme Court.
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Texas House Democrats take advantage of Republican in-action on property tax relief with their own vote-buying planthat will get good press. It’s an effective campaign strategy except for one thing: Renters, as a cohort, don’t vote in nearly as significant numbers as do homeowners.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: If you ever doubted how the legacy media thinks of you as ignorant rubes ripe for manipulation, look no further than a set of near-propaganda stories on A.G. Ken Paxton and the impeachment cesspool Texas House members threw us into in a fit over a budget request. I discuss the following:
- Paxton’s Lawyer Says Suspended Attorney General Will Not ‘Dignify’ Impeachment Trial by Testifying. – a straight up story with no bias
- ‘Outside’ report? Law firm that wrote it to defend Ken Paxton was paid $500K by Texas AG. – It has always been known and was never hidden in anyway that the outside law firm’s report was commissioned and paid for the the Office of Attorney General. This is standard practice across the board.
- Embattled Texas AG Paxton secretly went on China junket against advice of staff, docs show. And?! So what, what business is it of staff? That’s where all this stuff began – with staff that thought they were the elected boss and not the actual boss.
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Border news shows just how despicable is the situation of our easy-access border that Leftists and the Democratic Party supports.
Biden loses on “ghost-gun” case in a Texas federal court.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Agriculture Commissioner, and former state rep., Sid Miller talks about his disappointment with the legislature and how is now going on a “RINO hunt!”
Among the key comments in the two-segment interview is this about Governor Abbott failing to get a property tax relief deal done in the Regular Session, then failing in the first Called Session, and then calling a second Called Session for the same thing: “Why call another special session when know you don’t have a deal?” Exactly, and there is much more for Commissioner Miller in the interview.
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Oil and gas rig count falls, again.
More key U.S. Supreme Court decisions out today and the Court announced a key Second Amendment case it would take up in its next term:
- Supreme Court strikes down Biden student-loan forgiveness program
- Supreme Court Sides With Christian Web Designer In Compelled Speech Case
- Justices take up major Second Amendment dispute
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Two U.S. Supreme Court ruling today are of importance. The ban on using race for college admissions is a long sought after stop to today’s Democrat and Leftist backed reverse discrimination to try and somehow settle the score for past injustices (mostly created and enforced oddly enough by the Democratic Party in this country.) The ruling matters and will affect UT-Austin, Rice, SMU, and others shat have openly been using a racist admissions policy. Sherry Sylvester of the TPPF joins us to talk how this ruling relates to our fight to get D.E.I. and similar off of our public university campuses.
The second ruling, Groff v. DeJoy, is even more important for Americans of faith and will affect all employers with 15 or more employees. This religious accommodation ruling rights a bad error in 1977 that gutted much workplace protection of people of faith. First Liberty and others did great work in this case.
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The news of Abbott’s 2nd Called Session of the Legislature is that there is not much news as both the House and Senate seem to be where they were a week ago. However, the Senate did add a big political weapon to its proposed property tax relief package: a big public school teacher pay bonus.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott calls another special session of the legislature after getting nothing from his first called session. This time, Abbott tries to dictate the specific policy lawmakers should take but, that policy has no long term solid plan to ensure it doesn’t fizzle next time there isn’t an abundance of money to spend and, it gives most of us significantly less property tax relief.
I explain why I support the Senate approach now even though I support more strongly the idea of what Governor Abbott is now, at this late date, pushing for.
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Queer homosexual (or alphabet?) group upset that the City of Lubbock will not pass a resolution specifically honoring pride in homosexual behavior. Should we honor swingers, celibates, adulterers, monogamous heterosexuals, fetishists, etc. with resolutions to “acknowledge” them simply because of their sexual behavior? Of course not and we should stop promoting homosexuals and their events too. These people are like all the victimhood grasping people on the Left; they are stuck in adolescence and need constant approval of others to find value with their life (or more likely to assuage the natural guilt they feel from their choices.) Far more concerning than their homosexuality is that these people need the support of politicians to fill fulfilled!
A&M, UNT, UT and others awarding minor degrees in homosexual studies. And don’t doubt that all of these programs are pro-homosexuality as opposed to critical or questioning.
Anti-Wimp: Robbers lose in shootout with armed pregnant woman and her husband.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Polling in Texas shows a massive increase in support for true public school choice with landslide numbers favoring such. And while so many legislators were elected to do little but protect the money flows to the government owned and operated school bureaucracy, people across the nation seem to finally be awakening to the decades of rot that has made traditional public schooling anything but traditional and resulted in it being unpalatable for those with moral and ethical values.
Our friend Robert Zimmerman has penned an essay on this subject that is worth sharing with all: The insidious presence of porn in K-12 public schools.
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Texas named best business climate in the United States. Meanwhile the service and retail sectors are hurting in the Lone Star State.
U.S. Supreme Court stubs its collective toe in yet another muddled decision on states and elections that will only invite more lawsuits.
The Vatican and Lefty-friendly Pope Francis is going after Tyler’s Roman Catholic Bishop who hasn’t surrendered sufficiently to the Leftist secular culture.
Texas college allegedly fired biology professor for teaching sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y. Odd that a public community college, part of the Alamo Community Colleges District, opposed to religious values would be named “Saint” Philips College!
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Charles "Cully" Stimson, along with co-author Zack Smith, explain how the "pro criminal nuts" behind the "Fair and Just Prosecution" movement are using language to bamboozle Americans in local district attorney races to elect George Soros backed candidates who, once elected, choose to go to extremes to NOT effectively prosecute criminals, in their new book: Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America's Communities (Kindle and paperback editions.)
A very short summary of the problem can be found here: George Soros’s prosecutors wage war on law and order. Leftist prosecutors fulfill Soros’s aims by refusing to go after entire categories of crime.
Texas now has several of the district attorneys in office and the cost to Texans is the same as elsewhere in the country: Rising crime rates. In Travis County it has manifested in rising crime while police face prosecution for working to stop riots from getting worse.
This soft under belly of local district attorney elections is the latest vulnerability the radical Left has attacked to sow danger and chaos into our country.
The first segment of my interview with Cully Stimson aired as a segment of Pratt on Texas on 26 June 2023 and then much more detailed discussion continued in a Podcast Extra. I have included the on-air segment as the beginning of the Podcast Extra for those who did not hear the program.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas now has several of the George Soros supported district attorneys in office and the cost to Texans is the same as elsewhere in the country: Rising crime rates. In Travis County it has manifested in rising crime while police face prosecution for working to stop riots from getting worse. This soft under belly of local district attorney elections is the latest vulnerability the radical Left has attacked to sow danger and chaos into our country.
In their new book, Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities (Kindle and paperback editions,) Charles “Cully” Stimson and Zack Smith detail what is happening to America’s criminal justice system one jurisdiction at a time. We visit with Cully Stimson about the issue for one segment of today’s show. A much longer portion of my interview is posted as a Podcast Extra which is the next episode.
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Rep. Burrows launches the idea of a limit of 7.5% property tax increase on any one taxpayer over the previous year as the Senate and House continue to disagree on Texas property tax relief.
Governor Ron DeSantis unveils his border security plan while visiting the Texas border with Mexico.
Texas manufacturing sector activity declined in June; rig count falls again, and; SpaceX’s Starlink gets study from Japan’s defense forces.
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Repeat of part of the Pratt on Texas Texas Hour from Wednesday, 14 June 2023 and from Tuesday, 20 June 2023.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Senate sets rules for the so-called “trial” in the Paxton impeachment debacle that House members knee-jerked us into. You heard it here first (last week with Senator Perry,) it won’t start in August but in September.
The only big surprise is how the Senate split the baby on Senator Paxton, the wife of Ken Paxton. She will not be able to vote but will be on the floor as a member of the “court” and count toward the number of senators present. This is very important as establishment insider Republicans, many long out to ruin Ken Paxton, along with liberal media allies, have been trying to get her seat as well as of another senator not to count so as to lower the number of votes need to get two-thirds to convict.
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Deadly and damaging weather hit Matador, 4 dead, and across Texas Wednesday night – a full update.
Why LULAC, a once reputable organization, is no longer with spit and neither is this KXAN reporting. Texas didn’t end anyone’s water break. The bill in question, not explained, is the one that stops cities from regulating things the state regulates. Read the invective, hateful words of the LULAC chief and then realize that only 2 or 3 municipalities, Austin and San Antonio I think, even had ordinances that the law overrides. And to prove the point that rules are being enforce, including “water breaks” see this story from the Midland paper: OSHA sends inspectors to ensure workers are safe in heat wave.
Much immigration and border related news.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Was Greta Thunberg correct? Of course not, and neither have been the other apocalyptic climate doomsayers been right. Even the models used by the top specialists have been wrong and never close enough to reality in accuracy to justify policy decisions. But it doesn’t matter, the rich West if reordering itself so that the elite few can have control over all and become even richer and more powerful. The rest of the world smiles and plays along but doesn’t really bother other than encouraging the West to bankrupt itself.
The planet’s climate has always been changing, at every moment, and at greatly varying rates of change. All policy should be to enable freedom, free markets, and the innovation that goes with such in order create the technology and wealth needed to adapt to changes, not engage in foolish arrogance of controlling a climate we so little understand that even simple models fail to accurately predict much.
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The Texas Senate did not issue impeachment rules yesterday and was still working on the issue this afternoon.
The most Made in America cars are not from GM or Ford but from a Texas company: Tesla. And Tesla is having a big week with its charging interface moving to be the de facto standard over the government plan Biden is pushing. Also, Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas has reach a milestone in producing 10 million 4680 battery units.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate, still at work unlike the House, puts forth a compromise property tax relief bill that keeps the much larger relief to homestead homeowners and helps business by expanding the Franchise Tax exemption and pushes further school district M&O tax compression Abbott decided he favored at the last moment of the session. Will the House respond favorably? Abbott is still playing with words on the issue.
The House’s version of work is Speaker Phelan creating a committee on property tax reduction! I kid you not! This is something one does to admit defeat or to do nothing. The House and its committees ARE the committees on the subject, it’s laughable that they need some new outside committee – unless of course they are admitting their own incompetence.
And over at the Capitol-insider Quorum Report, both its founder and its editor echo what I have been telling you for years about Abbott and he works with(?) the Legislature. Your Texas political swami strikes again!
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Fresh news from the great Texas impeachment debacle.
The highly accurate legislator right/left ranking guides are out. The Texas Fiscal Responsibility index is here and you can look up each legislator and the bills used in his ranking – nothing is hidden like the politicians would prefer. And here are the rankings for the House from Rice University’s Mark Jones – it’s amazing how closely this academic ranking the media accepts as reliable lines up, each session, with the Texans for Fiscal Responsibility index.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott goes has a veto spree over his inability to get school choice and his promised tax relief ideas passed in the regular session, and now a called session, of the Texas Legislature. It’s all legitimate political gamesmanship but Abbott has vetoed some very good bills that provide serious protections to us. Abbott’s conduct crosses into the line of political petulance and wrongly does harm to the people of Texas. Here is a full list of vetoed bills.
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Once elected and are part of the club, you don’t matter much anymore to many legislators and office holders. State Rep. Justin Holland of Rockkwall demonstrates such in his inherently self-contradictory Twitter screed about the Republican Party of Texas executive committee voting 53 to 11 to condemn the House impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton:
“Nobody (in real TX politics) cares about the SREC or its chair. It’s a defunct organization and needs a total re-haul from the top down. Local parties are AWOL. It’s a mess. The good news is that they are all irrelevant and have no local/state respect. We can win without them.”
My how some elected officials are bothered by criticism!
By the way, SD 28’s SREC members, Lynda Hogue and Steve Evans, both of Lubbock, were among the 11 SREC members voting against the resolution.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott is harming Texans with his fit of vetoes and he’s doing it seemingly to ensure we get the smaller of the two property tax cuts that are on the legislative table! Abbott is wiping out key taxpayer protections in order get the Senate to go along with the House plan that does not deliver nearly as much property tax relief (about half) to the average homeowner. What’s the political upside of this?
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Much ballyhoo on the passing and signing of the Texas D.E.I. ban for college campuses but such is undeserved as the bill is without any enforcement. And as if to demonstrate such, Texas A&M hires a radical Leftist D.E.I. proponent to run its “journalism” program.
Texas has a record number of people working; the May employment numbers are released. Oil and gas drilling rig count is unchanged in Texas from last week.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: A full 88th Legislative Session review with state Senator Charles Perry, SD28.
We talk water issues; juvenile justice reform; drug pricing work; assistance to rural counties for law enforcement; more support to non PUF university systems; residential treatment for offenders, and the Senate versus the House on property tax reform.
On the impeachment trial, Senator Perry predicts the trial being held in the fall, after August and before the end of the calendar year.
“It [the impeachment trial] will be before January, 1, almost certain but, I’m hoping September if we do it this fall,” said Senator Perry.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott has vetoed one of the most important taxpayer protection bills passedby the legislature and it appears to be an act of panic over his inability to fulfill, as of yet, his biggest campaign promise of record property tax relief – ironic almost beyond belief.
As The Texan reports it:
“In an apparent response to this property tax standoff, Abbott vetoed his third bill from the regular session on Tuesday: Senate Bill 2035 by Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) that’d prohibit the kind of cheeky debt maneuver deployed by the City of Amarillo to finance a project voters had rejected two years earlier.
“Bettencourt is the author of the Senate’s property tax plan and, other than Patrick, the most critical of the current compression-only proposal.”
It appears the Governor, who has always had trouble working with the legislature, is in panic mode over headlines like this: DeSantis overshadowing Abbott as leading conservative ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
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In a deplorable decision by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Ken Paxton’s criminal securities-related case will be heard in Democrat-dominated Harris County instead of his home county. On it’s own it is a terrible decision because it sets the idea that the state can venue shop in a criminal case as opposed to the defendant having the ability to be tried by his peers.
The Dallas Morning News reported:
“Judge Sharon Keller disagreed with the majority opinion.
“The Court cites no case supporting its conclusion that a regional presiding judge can vicariously agree to allow the holding of court by a different district judge under the Texas Constitution. Because the law is unsettled, mandamus relief is inappropriate,” wrote Keller, who was joained in her dissent by Judge Mary Lou Keel.
Judge Kevin Yeary also dissented.”
Separately, the case is yet another example of how the wheels of justice were already turning and makes the House’s radical decision to use impeachment in the Paxton case improper. Substituting a bunch of politicians for police and judicial systems, that come with due process and appellate protections, is unwarranted in the Paxton case.
I review more bills Governor Abbott has signed.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: As the odd man out on property tax relief at the moment, Governor Abbott switches tactics and encourages compromise between the Senate and House to get a bill passed giving Texans significant property tax relief. It goes back to what I explained previously: It’s the governor who has the most to lose in not getting a tax relief bill passed, not the speaker or lieutenant governor.
Also, I take a look at bills Governor Abbott has signed. Remember that he doesn’t have to sign a bill for it to become law. If he does not veto a bill and does not sign it after a certain number of days, it becomes law.
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After way, way, way too long, Governor Abbott finally says he’ll let the COVID Disaster Declaration end – Abbott took longer than any other Republican governor AND longer than the Leftist White House!
South Padre Island opens Margaritaville Beach Resort, the first in Texas.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: New developments in the Paxton impeachment debacle should be embarrassing to House members but won’t be. Members haven’t cared about process and doing it right throughout the sordid ordeal.
- Paxton’s Lawyers Take Legal Action Against Impeachment Prosecutors
- Bank records raise questions about home remodel in Attorney General Paxton’s impeachment – Yes, questions as to why this was not properly addressed by the House so-called investigators. But the important part of this story, glossed over by the writers, is this: “A different Austin contractor — not Cupertino Builders — received a federal grand jury subpoena in 2021 for records related to work on Paxton’s home that started in January 2020.” This shows, in yet another example, that law enforcement has long ago looked into this and found not enough evidence to take action.
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Univ. of North Texas funding an office that helps with pseudo sex change: University of North Texas Offers Students Chest Binders and Fake Genitalia.
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Pratt in Brownwood: How to join me at the Pecan Valley Republican Women’s meeting this Thursday, 15 June.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: State Rep. Brian Harrison, former Chief of Staff at Health and Human Services under President Trump, joins me to talk about how Texas House leadership, and many members, turned their backs on Texans on the issue of banning COVID vaccine mandates by private employers. Rep. Harrison is asking Governor Abbott to put the issue on one of his special session calls.
Also on the subject of COVID, Odessa’s doctor, Richard Bartlett, has been proven right on his early treatment of WuFlu, treating inflamation, for which he was denounced by the medical establishment and censored by press outlets.
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What a letdown for those frothing at the mouth to get Ken Paxton. Today’s arraignment on federal charges of Nate Paul, the man the Texas press repeatedly calls central to Paxton’s impeachment, found the FBI charging him with only 8 charges all relating to “overstating his assets and understating his liabilities while seeking loans.” The FBI has been working Paul since 2019 and that itself is at the center of Paul’s seeking help from the Office of Attorney General. These are charges that almost any real estate developer could be charged with from time to time and, in fact, Trump has been accused of such as have many others. Not much to show, so far, for years of FBI investigation and certainly nothing to do with Paxton in this latest move by the Biden DOJ.
Texas oil and gas rig count drops big again this week.
Border news: Abbott orders a 1000 foot floating barrier for the Rio Grande.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: R.I.P. Pat Robertson, leaves this life aged 93-year. The AP obituary is surprisingly good; not what you’d expect given its bias against of conservatives and Christians. I have much to say on Robertson including that I think he, as much as anyone else, is responsible for reawakening Christians to the idea that their faith should openly and strongly inform their political, secular decisions. This tide turning was needed because the 1950’s, ’60’s, and ’70’s were decades of indoctrination that religion was not to play a role in our politics.
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Border and immigration news.
Why the Texas House did not property adjourn for the first called session when it took its toys and went home leaving taxpayers without tax relief.
Meanwhile, showing where leaderships true priorities were, they got the crony corporate giveaway program, replacing the expired Chapter 313, done and Governor Abbott signed it in a closed ceremony. That got that done in the last moments of the session but couldn’t bother with tax relief! It’s better that 313 but its a program we should not have.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick challenges Governor Greg Abbott to a Lincoln-Douglas Debate on which is the better method of delivering property tax relief – Abbott deflects. Meanwhile Patrick and the Senate remain in special session waiting for the petulant House leadership to come back to Austin to work on the people’s business. House staying home will also kill key border security bills.
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The impeachment “show” gets more “star power:” Tony Buzbee to work the show trial on behalf of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Local sales tax receipt numbers: June report.
How the Biden Administration is hiding the number of illegal border crossings – by just declaring many to not be illegal!
- FACT CHECK: DHS Touts Drop in Migrant Encounters After Title 42, Ushers 50K in Through ‘Lawful Pathways’
- US Expands Slots for Asylum App at Land Crossings as Demand Overwhelms Supply
And then there is this: Migrants Attempt Border Rush at Texas Port of Entry.
Big stack of local government stories (with plenty of stench:)
- Fort Worth Mayor Ends Controversial Program Encouraging Kids to Read LGBTQ Books
- In Godley, Texas, a mayor’s actions lead to bogus arrest of a council member
- Mayor Pushes ‘Pride’ in Rural Central Texas (Taylor)
- Harris Co. Judge Lina Hidalgo drops F-bomb during fiery court exchange
- Harris County moves to sue state of Texas over election bill
- Harris Co. judge suggests illegal immigrants could receive universal basic income
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Our Lone Star story of the day: From the City of Dallas forcing employees, and especially supervisors, to actively support homosexuality and so-called “gender transistions” to family venues like Six Flags hosting drag queen shows all month to actively promote homosexual “pride,” the secular, anti-values Left is on the march to revolution. (Would these same venues like Six Flags include shows and marketing to promote monogamous married sexuality? Probably not.)
Another public school, a rural district, has been caught promoting the sex change agenda to students.
There seems to be no slowing of this revolution of forcing sexual perversion and sinful behavior upon all, especially children. Legislators have acted on some of it but will those restrictions be enough? Likely not but such are still important and needed.
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FBI raids locations in Laredo connected to United ISD school board member and Webb Co. chief deputy sheriff Rick Rodriguez.
Bexar County sheriff pushing criminal charges over Florida’s voluntary flight of illegal aliens from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts – pure political B.S. And more in the border news stack.
LIV an PGA to merge just after PGA opened its new HQ campus in Frisco, Texas.
Houston chef wins Best Chef in Texas.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The regular session was 140 days and yet lawmakers were unable to pass tax relief but did find time to continue a spending spree growth of government trend that is far greater than Texas population growth. (Maybe the rush to impeachment was to take the focus away from the huge budget growth and a lack of tax relief? I doubt it but one does wonder.)
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Two celebrity lawyers hired to prosecute impeachment against Attorney General Ken Paxton and already they are trying the case in the press and lamenting that some in the A.G.’s office are defending Paxton.
Big fall in oil and gas drilling in the Baker Hughes report this week. Worse, Comptroller Hegar says that while sales tax is up in today’s report, most of the economy is flat or negative.
An interesting piece at Fox News about Senator Ted Cruz’s comments about what has happened to high school and college debate reminds me that we discussed this in a Podcast Extra with Roy Maynard in 2021.
Texas Scorecard: Starr County Elections Department Raided, Texas Attorney General Investigating Voter Fraud.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: With the 88th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature approaching, I’ll begin to provide more looks at issues and argument to which we’ll be treated in the session. Already an issue, Governor Abbott pushed school choice and parental empowerment in his re-election campaign. Most all admit that overcoming the giant bureaucracies, fears, and habits of thinking make school choice very much an uphill battle.
As expected the public school lobby is trying to get more of your money for schools with less and less accountability. Now they want to get paid for students who don’t even attend!
Also, a key Senate committee has put sent up quite a major flare over the Public Utility Commission of Texas’ electric grid power generation plan. Let’s hope that legislators will stop what’s happening and do what is right: Put the burden of cost for unreliable power generation directly upon the investors of unreliable power as opposed to putting such on rate payers.
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Texas sales tax revenues in November hit an all time record.
Oil and gas rig count report.
More bad border news.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Did the Legislative Budget Board set up legislative leaders to have an excuse to ignore Governor Abbott’s campaign pledge of using half of the projected surplus for serious, historic tax cuts? Sadly it looks as if that may have been the case. A bit of press coverage on Lt. Gov. Patrick’s press conference:
- Lt. Governor Unveils Broad 2023 Priorities, Constitutional Amendment Maneuver to Avoid Busting Spending Cap – by far the best coverage
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Previews Priorities Ahead of Legislature’s Return
- 4 things to know about Dan Patrick’s plans for the Texas Legislature
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Yesterday I spoke at length explaining how CRT and it’s associated canon of thought, of which Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a part, openly seeks to right past injustices, whether real or imagined, with planned and government enforced current and future injustice. I explained how our state colleges and universities, as institutions, are adopting the Marxist Critical Theory positions and advocating, even forcibly, for such with taxpayer money.
Critical Race Theory, CRT, is a pro-discrimination derivative of Marxist Theory and part of a subset called Critical Theory. It is inherently political thought and it, along with the other items in the related canon of ideas, surrounds us in our institutions.
Today, quite presciently and on-cue, political strategist Sherry Sylvester of the Texas Public Policy Foundation published this piece that is a perfect follow-up: What Would Gavin Newsom Do? It’s Time to Stop DEI on Campus.
I’m sadly not convinced we have enough legislators willing to act meaningful on this issue. Regents of our systems have done nothing to stop such. In fact, Regents have allowed all of this to go forward – all regents are Republican gubernatorial appointees!
Kelly Stovall talks about her family’s long association with the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Critical Race Theory, CRT, is a pro-discrimination derivative of Marxist Theory and part of a subset called Critical Theory. It is inherently political thought and it, along with the other items in the related canon of ideas, surrounds us in our institutions.
CRT and it’s associated canon of thought, of which Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a part, openly and as Plan A seeks to right past injustices, whether real or imagined, with planned and government enforced current and future injustice.
All of Critical Theory is as convoluted and immoral, and pernicious, as is all the rest of Marxist thought from which it comes.
Texas Tech and many other taxpayer owned institutions openly and proudly advocate for these political positions even forcing some to take courses of indoctrination into the same.
Why are taxpayer supported institutions allowed to use the public’s money to advocate for political outcomes?
I’m not talking about academic freedom which allows faculty to teach about such things as CRT, I’m pointing out that the institutions themselves are adopting the Marxist Critical Theory positions and advocating, even forcibly, for them and doing so with taxpayer money.
Will Texas legislators have the patriotic gumption to put a stop to this, a stop with teeth that truly stops it?
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Our Lone Star story of the day: What is at issue in the big Texas versus the U.S. case argued today before the U.S. Supreme Court related to enforcement of immigration law? Also, just how clean and pure is the DACA, a.k.a. “Dreamers,” program we’ve been hammered about since Obama? The numbers show the program is giving protection to those with criminal records.
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Kroger, Albertsons bosses go before Senate to defend $25 billion merger.
Dallas Fed: Texas Service Sector Growth Moderates in November; Retail Sales Weaken.
Gov. Abbott shifts leadership for troubled agency Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services.
Avoiding trial to be removed from office, El Paso’s district attorney calls it quits.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Democrat and Republican parties agree that the corporate welfare of Chapter 313 should end and did not renew such in the in the last legislative session. So why are the political insiders to eager, led by Speaker Phelan, to restart this program that ends on 31 December? More importantly, why do school districts love it so much?
“As the appraised property value has been abated, the school district’s appraised value for that property will remain the same for the duration of the abatement. This allows the school district to under report their property values to the state for recapture purposes AKA Robin Hood Taxes.”
School districts appear to love the program, not for economic development, but because it gives them a pot of money, a slush fund, they can spend on new football fields, school buildings, etc. All the while working against the equity model for funding public education.
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Texas Manufacturing Activity Flat, Outlooks Continue to Worsen.
Also, the Biden Administrations double-mindedness on oil and gas continues to roil markets and shows they know the radical anti-oil and gas agenda is an economy buster. Biden wants to shut down domestic production, all while telling oil producers to increase production, yet quietly approves a big Texas oil export terminal. Meanwhile, while enacting policies to hamper domestic production, Biden authorizes Chevron to pump oil with the communist enemies in Venezuala.
Words and how the Left chills free speech by claiming words as their own with new meanings.
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Retired U.S. Army Brigadier General (Retired) John Compere tells us about the history of the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball. Compere is the official historian of the association that maintains this official Texas historical event.
John Milsap Compere is a West Texas rancher and retired U.S. Army Brigadier General, Texas lawyer, U.S. judge and Vietnam-era disabled veteran.
General Compere is a descendant of the Rev. Lee Compere, who came to America as a missionary to the Native Americans.
For half a century, General Compere practiced law as a US Army lawyer and Texas lawyer, mediator and arbitrator in Federal and State Courts. For 4 years, Compere served in Washington D.C. as Chief Judge of the US Army Court of Military Review, a tenured Federal Court position requiring nomination by the President of the United States of America and confirmation by the Senate.
Serving for 26 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, General Compere began as an ROTC cadet at Texas Tech University before beginning active duty as a 101st Airborne Division paratrooper, where he served in Thailand, Vietnam, Honduras, Panama and the USA. Compere retired from the Army as a Brigadier General and Vietnam Era Disabled Veteran.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Department of Public Safety shamefully latches on the “never let a crisis go to waste” model and requests an incredible, absurd $1.2 BILLION training center. And of course, they want the facility on some of the more expensive land in the state. A tenth of that number could construct a world-class training center. Lawmakers should shut this down ASAP but what do you bet many will go with the flow as “supporting law enforcement.” What they’ll be supporting is ridiculous spending by avaricious bureaucrats.
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The City of Lubbock may have a new conservative mayor and couple of councilmembers but you’d not know anything had changed from it’s big-government anti-taxpayer list of legislative priorities.
Two cities, Killeen & Harker Heights, that had pro-drug use ordinances pass on the General Election ballot are wondering how they square the ordinances with state law.
GOP’s McCarthy Threatens to Impeach Mayorkas Over Border. Meanwhile: 40 suspects on FBI’s Terror Watchlist arrested at the border in October and 5,903 known got-aways in the Del Rio Sector alone last week. How many potential terrorists made it through?
Harris County elections certification moved forward but the Supreme Court required late-hours ballots to be counted separately and left open a door to challenge any results caused by these after hours votes.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan has not been terrible for conservatives, as was Joe Straus, but he has not been great either. What does it say about Phelan when the most Republican hating Austin-insider people in the press essentially praise him and condemn conservative challenges?
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Amarillo’s mayor thinks people ignorant over Drag Queen show issue. She might be right about prior restraint but if she and her crowd actually cared, she’d point out state and local lewdness laws and announce that police will be present and will make arrests if what we’ve seen in videos of other such events in Texas takes place.
Granbury ISD bought an airplane that appears to be a toy for administrators to make personal flights on the taxpayer dime.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan trying to ruin the mainstream Republican brand? His comments sound contemptuous of tax reduction and like a back handed slap at a key issue of Governor Abbott’s successful campaign for re-election. If Republicans want to a replay of the 2018 disaster that saw Dems flip some suburban and exurban areas, following the attitude of Phelan will be the way to ensure such happens.
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Texas wins yet again in the courts over the Democrat front group redistricting lawsuits.
Senator Ted Cruz tells group he will run for re-election to the U.S. Senate. Also talks about how Republican senate leadership is unwilling to fight to move a GOP agenda.
Rhonda Weaver talks about the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball and here lifetime of experience with the ball.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas’ jobs report is a record. The Texas Miracle continue in good times and bad. Most recently we’ve set record employment gains for 12-months straight. Most all of the Texas Miracle can be attributed to specific Republican policy and now it’s time for the GOP to make our culture a miracle too by, at minimum, fighting back against the materialist nihilists who seek to oppose Godly living.
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Border news includes a cartel connected arrest in Texas.
An example of the Texas liberal media lying about the oil and gas industry pointed out by Commissioner Wayne Christian.
A bill filing record, by a wide margin, set in first-day-of-filing in the Texas Legislature. Not sure if it means anything at this point.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Pelosi is out as U.S. House Democrat leader, Republicans in the House say they are investigating President Biden’s role with his son Hunter’s business dealings. All that is fine and good but national Republican leadership needs addressing before we blow 2024 but Amber Athey says many seem content to just plod along.
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Texas wins on election integrity, SB1111, at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Much border news and more evidence of a nasty DHS purge of anyone working to stop the crisis at our border with Mexico.
Cross town feud in Abilene between Hardin-Simmons University and McMurry settled and it shows the nasty allegations leveled at HSU over the joint nursing program were, at the minimum, very overstated.
Listener Seth Kenney talks about his family’s experience at the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball – it’s just magical.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It was fun today watching as the Democrat district attorney for Harris County pulled the rug out from under the Democrat-aligned Texas press over Gov. Abbott’s request yesterday that Harris County elections be investigated.
Stories with headlines like “State GOP Leaders At Odds With Harris County Officials Over Election Issues Announce Investigations” lost power today with this: Harris County elections: DA Ogg will investigate voting issues. She’s even asked for the Texas Rangers, as did Abbott, to conduct the investigation(s). And then you have the type of thing to would indicate maybe there is bad stuff going on: [Harris Co.] Judge Hidalgo Calls State Investigation of Harris County Elections ‘Harassment,’ Dangerous. Frankly all government activity should always be open to audit and investigation.
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Trump is running in 2024. Can he stay focused? There’s not much evidence of late that he can. I’m in agreement with Rick Perry on “show me what you got.”
Answer to yesterday’s question “More border bull from Abbott or, real action?” sadly appears to be more border bull. Two more press releases (1 & 2) poured out from Abbott’s office but it appears nothing is changing. More interestingly is the Border Patrol’s request for Texas to allow its agents to enforce state law. Let state assets enforce federal immigration law and we can talk!
Rep. Patterson’s make Austin a state district tweet upset liberals.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Border crisis bull-bleep, or real action by Gov. Abbott? Abbott says he’s invoked the invasion clause of the U.S. and Texas constitutions but hasn’t actually executed any new policy that repels the invasion – and people have noticed. Meanwhile in D.C., the insanity gets worse with DHS Secretary Mayorkas saying there is no border crisis!
- Texas Governor Invokes Invasion Clause to Push Back Migrants Crossing Border
- Abbott, county judges at odds over what ‘repelling invasion’ looks like
- Gov. Greg Abbott Invokes Invasion Clauses But Changes Nothing
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By any measure Rep. Tinderholt’s Texas House speaker bid is a long shot. However, this piece makes clear that Tinderholt is putting the good of Texas, and Republican voters above, personal ambition as doing what is right will deeply wound his political career in the House.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: As the election results are seen by more Americans, and the petty name calling of allies begins again, Republicans nationally and in Texas are beginning to look more to Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis to lead the party than Donald Trump.
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A Darwin Award nominee from Houston!
It’s hard for AP to do it, but it has admitted its propaganda about election integrity bills stopping people from voting turned out to be untrue.
Governor Abbott says he wants investigation of Harris County’s election problems. It’s all political but he’s right to press the point. However, the people of Harris County have chosen to be run by incompetent Democrat officials so they get what they vote for.
Amarillo’s leadership shows, again, that it is morally bankrupt.
Anti-Wimp: San Antonio home invader won’t do it again.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: What is the problem with elections? Could it be that it is the erosion of a point-in-time decision into a season of uncertainty – before and after so-called Election Day?
- Republicans need to figure out mail-in voting
- Delayed Results Are Killing Americans’ Trust In Elections
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Anti-Wimp Update: Man uses home invader’s gun to permanently end a career in crime.
The usual scapegoating begins as Texas Democrats attempt to deal with their terrible losses. They’ll blame everything from strategy to each other before accepting that their worldview is simply not shared by a majority.
Oil and gas rotary drilling rig count up this week.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Republicans, conservatives, did very well in State Board of Education races. Media coverage continues to focus on a canard that Republicans are gaining support for their opposition to something that doesn't exist in schools: Critical Race Theory and other Critical Theory. If media claims are correct and there is no CRT in Texas public schools or in proposed curriculum the board will have influence over then, what is the problem? If it doesn't exist then Republicans stopping such can't harm anyone!
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Abilene's mayor will not seek reelection.
The fraud of "diversity, equity and inclusion" is rampant in Texas public colleges and universities and the legislature needs to force a stop.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Republicans trounced Democrats in statewide races. Fewer gains however were made in other areas including the legislature. There were great bright spots such as picking up one of three Congressional seats in the Rio Grande Valley and holding a Southside of San Antonio House seat for the first time. However, for the future the losses in Harris County are very bad and help move Texas in the direction we see in other states where a few Democrat-run cities and counties control the elections where a huge percentage of the state’s votes come from.
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Local sales tax numbers are out.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is General Election Day 2022 and I’ll tell you what races in Texas to look for tonight and in the morning beyond the statewide races. Will Texas Dems get hammered with a reversal of gains from 2018 in the Legislature or will they hang on to the numbers they have?
Just how non-Texan and Leftwing is the Democratic statewide ticket? Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian’s race demonstrates how radically anti-Texan the modern Dem Party is.
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Hobbs, NM defies the Leftwing Santa Fe Democrats and corrupt Gov. Lujan Grisham to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance.
Time is proving I was right on most everything associated with the Waco Twin Peaks shootings and the police and prosecution boondoggles associated with the event.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The election is tomorrow and Texas big cities will mostly, or completely, carry Democrats by big margins. It is up to the rest of in conservative Texas to carry the day but some voting turnout numbers are cause for concern. Polls are NOT votes, you must get out and vote and, as an aside, do the country a favor by ending Betosim.
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Brandon Patschke, Precinct 1, High Plains Underground Water District #1.
Mattress Mack sets record with net $75 million sportsbook win in Houston Astro’s World Series victory!
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Interview with Brandon Patschke who is running for Precinct 1 of the High Plains Underground Water District #1. This precinct covers Lubbock, Lynn, and part of Crosby counties.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Voters in Abilene, Athens, Plainview, and San Angelo are voting on sanctuary city for the unborn ordinances. This is a battle for our souls and voters are shamefully being misled by media and local officials - some of whom even claim to be pro-life.
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State Rep. Tinderholt has decided to challenge Phelan for Texas House Speaker. I like Tinderholt and wish him luck but it is very doubtful he'll have any traction unless Phelan has a huge bungle before mid-January.
Oil and gas rig count up.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: For decades business people and others have routinely asked me, and others, how all the local Leftist activists pay their bills between running for office and similar.. I’ve explained before and I’ve another example of the answer out of today’s news: Often these activists live, and live well in many cases, off of your tax money. See the latest and it involves some Lubbock activists too.
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Much in the silly season stack of campaign news including an “anti-Abbott” group giving the mass murderer the notoriety he sought.
More lawless border news.
Uvalde mass murder seems to be a full-time political show for Democrats these days with scapegoating at every turn and promises of money from the pockets of people who had no responsibility for the poor performance of the Uvalde CISD police department. And while all the bloviating goes on, DPS is doing serious investigation.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Will Abilene Christian University correct students siding with sin, as we are commanded to do, or will leaders cave just a little more to those turning their backs to God’s Word? What is the point of having religious affiliated schools if not to inculcate the religion’s values and teachings in students? And what amazing arrogance these students exhibit in their constant challenge of Biblical authority – why do they attend a “Christian” school if they will not submit to Christian doctrine? ACU continues to be a battleground to see whether institutions that claim to be Christian will actually side with God’s Word or the secularists. Frankly, many of these advocates of sin need to be expelled if they will not repent or should, at minimum, be on some form of probation. This isn’t about free speech, they are free to say and believe whatever they want but somewhere else. When they choose to affiliate with a church school they have an obligation to respect its canon of doctrine.
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Illegal border crossing continues to get worse by big numbers and, as you’d expect, the ACLU is opposed to Border Patrol protecting themselves and the country with even non-lethal force.
Much in the campaign stack.
An innocent man, convicted of killing his wife and children, on the path to having the injustice overturned by exoneration in Midland.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Despite programming the message of most state media, about every subject, Democrats are cruising toward a possible double-digit loss if Republicans show up to vote this week and next Tuesday and that loss includes fake Hispanic Beto Pancho O’Rourke. How bad must it be for Dems to bring in socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont to rally the voters as their big draw during early voting?
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More blatant hypocrisy from Democrats in our border news stack. Report: ISIS Tried to Recruit New Members in Mexico.
Dallas Fed’s service and retail sector report.
Several sports related stories including the lawsuit over the purchase of the Houston Astros, the new XFL in Texas, possible new sale of, and new stadium for, the San Antonio Missions, and driver shortages affecting busing to high school football games.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Have you seen the media hoopla about how “polling is broken?” Don’t buy it. Polling has always been hard and always has depended upon assumption that can, and often do, turn out wrong. Additionally, the idea of depending upon statistical sampling alone is a progessivist/Lefist idea anyway.
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Texas Manufacturing Output Grows, but New Orders Decline and Outlooks Worsen.
O’Rourke’s latest TV ad on abortion and more from the political stack.
Podcast-Extra: Abilene’s propositions with Doug Offermann including a false argument being made about malpractice insurance from opponents of the Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance.
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Douglas Offermann, Abilene political activist and GOP precinct chairman, joins me in a Podcast-Extra to discuss the propositions on the City of Abilene ballot including the Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance, bond debt, and city charter changes.
The pro-abortion and fake pro-life folk have come up with a ridiculous and novel argument: Passing the Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance will increase insurance costs for physicians and thus run them out of tow. First, that has not happened elsewhere including in the big medical center of Lubbock which passed the ordinance. Second, it's an assertion with zero evidence. Third, given that abortion is now illegal under state law, how would a local ordinance that has the same prohibitions and mechanisms as state law create a situation unique to Abilene in regard to doctor malpractice insurance? It's a false argument given to create confusion and fear.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: When it becomes generally controversial to protect children from sexualization and to have limits on things such as pornography for youth and children, a society has devolved into the nihilist cesspool desired by the anti-God Left. Are we there? What side of the fight will you find yourself in protecting children?
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LULAC loses at the Fifth Circuit in its risible case against a Texas voter integrity law involving registering to vote with a post office box.
Biden Spikes Migrant Population by 3 Million to 48 Million. “Biden’s rush of illegal migrants is one-and-half-times the inflow of legal immigrants, the report notes.”
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Amarillo case shows how badly we have lost our sense of civic integrity and shows that it’s not just Leftwing Democrat leadership and cities that have civic cancer. And related to that case, lawmakers must tighten laws to stop the abuse of taxpayers.
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Why should Texas DPS Director McCraw resign over what happened at Uvalde ISD? Is it because that’s the easy way for politicians to do little but appear to have done much? Rep. Tony Gonzalez and others’ calls for McCraw to step down are beyond ridiculous. McCraw says internal investigations over actions of his agency’s people at Uvalde will be completed by the end of the year.
Free political, and to some degree religious, speech is at issue in a defamation case against Mark Lee Dickson by abortion groups heard this week by the Texas Supreme Court.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus is another example of how Democrats have played minorities for decades.
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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 here: https://www.house.texas.gov/_media/pdf/committees/reports/87interim/Robb-Elementary-Investigative-Committee-Report.pdf
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On Monday, 18 July 2022, I covered other aspects of the report – listen to that show here.
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Matt Crow tells of how he came to work in the Reagan Administration.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: More in-depth polling is out and it again demonstrates what I said about O’Rourke way back – his seriously negative rating with key groups prevents him from being the strong candidate Dems think he is. Plus, O’Rourke and other Texas Dems are less trusted on almost all key issues than are Republican candidates. Texas Dems just keep living in their fantasy world by having socialist Bernie Sanders come down for political rallies.
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Texas doubles previous month’s job gains. Unemployment rate down to 4%. Oil and gas drilling rig count up.
Now Harris County wants federal (Biden) DOJ election watchers to watch the State of Texas watchers! Why would one worry about the state watchers unless there were plans not exactly follow state law, again?
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The woe-is-us stories, and there are many, in the Texas press over voting by mail troubles points not to strict laws, as the writers claim, but rather to too many incompetent county elections departments around the state.
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An important local race in Lubbock, Lynn, and part of Crosby counties: Precinct 1 of the High Plains Underground Water District #1. We visit with candidate Dustin Eggleston. Full interview is a Podcast-Extra.
An Abilene doctor is working hard to ensure voters in the Key City do not pass the Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance; she makes a lot of specious claims. Mark Lee Dickson responds.
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Interview with Dustin Eggleston who is running for Precinct 1 of the High Plains Underground Water District #1. This precinct covers Lubbock, Lynn, and part of Crosby counties.
Out today and so I'm re-airing this May 2021 interview:
I interviewed our friend, scholar Dr. Stephen Balch, about his piece at American Greatness: Toward a National Liberation Movement | The goal isn’t civil war, it’s the redemption of our republic from alien servitude and inching obliteration.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Around the world and here in Texas, Leftists openly attack the concept and practice of free speech and expression while claiming their free expression should have no boundaries. Yes, it is absurdly contradictory but it plays out everywhere including in small town Texas.
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It is easier than you think for county commissioners to block property tax increases each year; it only takes two commissioners to do so. So why do so few, who often talk a big game against taxes at election time, have so little courage to actually do so. Some are standing for taxpayers.
What’s with all the shady “game rooms” around Texas and why do so many jurisdictions do little to nothing to shut the places down? I think that in many cases there is a certain amount of corruption among officials causing them to put enforcement low on their priority lists.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats are losing their own voters and “independents” over the border and lack of control over immigration. A majority now support building a physical wall. Also, the White House is a mess over the incompetent officials it has has running the border show. Also see last week’s show on Mayorkas.
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Trump to hold rally in Robstown at the fairgrounds this coming Saturday.
Harris County judge race is among the most important of the cycle statewide. Meanwhile, Harris County’s two GOP commissioners appear to be standing firm against the property tax increase pushed by Hidalgo and the two Democrat commissioners.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: If busing migrants to DC, Chicago, NYC and Martha’s Vineyard is political theater, Democrats have decided to jump on the same stage with investigations and abuse of authority. The miscalculation they make is that they are simply bringing more attention to the border crisis which is exactly what the busing did and what made them furious. Also, how is dangling special U-Visas as in incentive to these people, and no doubt other things, not the same thing these officials are accusing others of doing?
Obama’s border chief says Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas is a “scumbag!”
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Oil and gas rig count rises in Texas.
A.G. Paxton says his Democrat opponent is a “human trafficking lawyer.”
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Roy Maynard discusses his TPPF piece on school choice, or parent empowerment, titled: Rural Routes and Dirt Roads: Every Child Deserves a Quality Education. There is a ridiculous but comment knee-jerk reaction that true school choice will badly damage public education in rural Texas. We talk about a few of the failures of that argument.
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Anti-Wimp update: Naked man trying to steal cat(?) shot by homeowner
Much in the campaign stack.
Also, a commentary by Peter Van Buren, The left thinks social media is reality, at The Spectator World ties in well with much I've said over the years about confusing one's alternate reality with the real world. It also lines up with my election edition column for the Buffalo Gap Round-Up New about not confusing polling with actually voting.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The campaign stack includes disclosure that arrogant Leftist Democrat Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins once put on blackface to scare college girls. Why does this overt racist action not end the careers of liberal Democrats? Also, back the three Latina Republicans bringing the election fight to the Rio Grande Valley. The Democrats are at war with each other and claiming the DCCC isn’t doing enough to hold the south Texas congressional seats.
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Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation discusses the discovery that Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas deliberately allowed the American people, and world, to be mislead into believe that our Border Patrol agents, mounted on horse, had whipped illegal aliens at the Rio Grande.
Local sales tax numbers are in and once again show that most jurisdictions didn’t need a property tax increase as sales tax receipts are enough to cover inflationary pressures.
Harris County Republican commissioners are still standing strong to stop a tax increase.
The beating of a Plano restaurant manager shows how awful our society has become and why you need to be armed and practiced everywhere.
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Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.
Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”
In this episode we look at blacklisted Americans and those who are fighting back against this tyranny. We also discuss the sad patterns we find in all of this including an unwillingness to put a stop to such.
Stories discussed include:
- Black playwright blackballed because he honestly told the story of racism in the Jim Crow south
- The rising federal Gestapo
- UNT professor fired for making joke wins $165K settlement from university
- Arrested in 2020 for letting her kids play in park, a mom is still being prosecuted by Idaho Republicans
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The campaign stack today includes gubernatorial fundraising numbers; an example of how media, in this case the same newspaper, covers a Republican event versus how it covers a Democrat event. And, the three Republican “Latinas” of South Texas are getting much national attention. There are other races too such as HD118 on the south side of San Antonio which will tell us much after the election. However, these races, whether won or lost by Republicans, will not evidence a solid trend in Hispanic voting. What we need to use them for is a study in what type of candidate and what type of campaign works best in Texas to flip these seats from Democrat to Republican.
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Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com, famed space historian and science writer, talks about the burgeoning private-sector space industry in Texas – it goes way beyond SpaceX and Blue Origin. In fact, another Texas company just got its rocket into orbit which is something Bezo’s Blue Origin has yet to do in all its years.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: What to do with the last of the “Covidians?” David Marcus covers the subject spectacularly well in this column. Also, did you catch the junk-science being reported by media that Republicans were more likely to die from WuFlu than Democrats? They conveniently forgot to tell you that Republicans tend to be older demographically than Democrats (older and wiser?) and so it only follows that GOP-leaning counties also had older populations.
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A story to which all political activists in Texas need pay much attention so you don’t end up being prosecuted and convicted of a crime.
FBI massively undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents. And the City of Houston works to make the Bayou City less safe, with its already high crime rate, by getting guns out of the hands of law abiding people who could use such to stop crime.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Oh! Now the open border and illegal immigration is an "emergency." After calling us racists, bigots, and xenophobes for years, NYC declare an emergency over the subject - sort of.
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Much on oil & gas. Biden goes to enemies to get more oil while working to reduce the productivity of U.S. oil and gas production. Congressman Pfluger says policy should be Odessa over OPEC and Midland over Moscow.
O'Rourke says he'll somehow make marijuana legal in Texas if elected governor. Meanwhile Biden announces he'll let federal prisoners convicted on pot charges out of prison.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton gets court win over Biden Administration rules attempting to force “gender” fluidity upon Texans. Plus, Texas argues an important case at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals today. LULAC sued over SB1111 which simply makes sure people are registered to vote in the precinct in which they reside – why is LULAC against this unless it wants people voting where they do not reside?
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DACA declared illegal and the Democrats, who could have easily at multiple times solved the problem by changing law, continue to play these so-called “Dreamers” and blame Republicans for their plight. El Paso, a Democrat-led city, busing thousands to NYC and other locations yet the press doesn’t equate such, generally, with the state doing the same. And, more in the border stack.
O’Rourke and Texas Democrats see the polls are bad for them so they’ve decided to go all-out anti-personal safety and anti-Second Amendment for gun control and blaming Republicans for school shootings? I wonder what Republican is the cause of the mass school shooting in Thailand today?
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Stench of local government: Trial over Amarillo’s end-run around taxpayers to rebuild its civic center is underway. Also, Fort Worth’s city manager in hot water for taking private jet trip with folks with business before the city. And, transportation outfit setup by Austin seems to be spending much more money on itself than implementing the city’s giant long term transport plan.
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Three important Second Amendment stories in the stack
Polling and other campaign news.
Border news including more “hypocrisy” from the Biden Administration.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court began its fall term of hearing argument this week and several cases on the docket are important to Texas and Texans. Moore v. Harper and Sackett v. EPA are two big examples. I’ll explain about the theory the “independent state legislature” when it comes to elections for federal office.
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The Alamo Trust acquires major collection of artifacts, artwork by Donald Yena.
Texas sales tax take up 17.2% over September of 2021. That does not mean the retail sector is doing well. In fact, spending on restaurants and similar have not even kept up with inflation.
Good news: Montgomery County Justice of the Peace Opening Prayer, Chaplain Program Upheld by Fifth Circuit.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: While the governor race debate Friday night was as dull as I predicted, saving you from having to endure it, the so-called “fact checkers” at Texas media outlets were even more predictable – to the point of absurdity.
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Governor Abbott appoints John P. Scott, a Texas Tech graduate, as the new Chief of School Safety and Security within the Texas Education Agency.
Another Texas rocket firm gets to orbit.
Many items in the border news stack including that a source says confirmed “gotaways” in the federal fiscal year just ended were 599,000 – that’s 1,500 per day!
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Chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, Lubbock Chapter, Victor Flores joins me for a Pratt on Texas Podcast-Extra.
Victor was born in Mexico and was brought to Texas by his mother when he was a child. He was a beneficiary of the amnesty that was signed by President Ronald Reagan and is truly an American success story.
Among his many business interests is the Lubbock Pratt on Texas affiliate Walk by Faith Radio, KWBF, 98.7 FM and 1420 AM.
After stories of Victor's young years, we spent much time on immigration policy and the border.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: With polls showing no significant undecided likely voters left in the Texas governor race, Abbott and O’Rourke “debate” on TV tonight. Why, all of the sudden, is O’Rourke so worried that there is no live audience for the debate when he agreed to such months ago? Could it be that his message is so worn our Leftist that he needs shouters in the crowd to generate excitement?
And some Lefties have a fairly good drinking game for the debate.
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Oil and gas rig count, petro and other economic news of Texas.
Another Leftist media hit piece out on A.G. Ken Paxton, this time from the reliably anti-conservative AP.
Texas gets a win at the 5th Circuit related to cleaning up voter rolls.
Victor Flores talks about the upcoming Republican National Hispanic Assembly, Lubbock Chapter Annual Hispanic Heritage Gala.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Harris County’s 2 Republican commissioners are playing hardball in fighting for taxpayers and so are the Leftist Democrats there. Isn’t it shameful that many of your local GOP nominated officials will not truly go to bat for you opposing tax increases when they don’t even have to worry about the consequences from local Democrats with power?
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Latest Quinnipiac poll lines up with others except it shows the GOP (Abbott by proxy) most trusted on gun related issues.
How can, after claiming such dire financial damage due to the big Texas freeze, San Antonio’s CPS Energy now be so over loaded with cash that it has to hand out big rebates to customers? I think it shows that while the costs were real to some in the big freeze, there was also a lot insincere bickering.
More border related new including a big expense by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News that was a complete bust.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Court of Criminal Appeals rules against the legislature in upholding its earlier ruling that the state constitution does not allow the legislature to delegate prosecution of election crimes to the Office of Attorney General. This law was passed when Democrats had a firm hold on the legislature in 1985. Yet today, the press stories are all that this is a court strike down of A.G. Ken Paxton – do these dream of Paxton?
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Border news stack just shows that things keep going from disastrous to more disastrous with even little toddlers being used in the human smuggling the porous border so easily allows. Also, an inspector general audit says ICE wasted $17 million on hotels to not house illegal foreign nationals through a company with a no-bid contract whose executive for federal contracts had been a Biden Administration official.
TX15, Beto Pancho and Lefty college students, and more from the campaign trail.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas press and other liberals and Leftist Democrats so viscerally hate Attorney General Ken Paxton they are now cooking up absurd stories about him. Full comment in the show. His opponent is a radical Leftist.
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New polls out yesterday and today show fake Hispanic Robert Francis O’Rourke (Beto Pancho) gaining no ground on Abbott. Latest poll shows what I explained when this journey began: O’Rourke comes with too high of a built in “unfavorability rating.”
Port of Houston making big gains as shipments move to the Gulf of Mexico and East Coast ports due to problems in the west. Also, Texas manufacturing, service, and retail sectors are now facing problems.
Democrats tried to use a special meeting of the State Board of Education yesterday to insert Leftist tripe in the social studies curriculum. The effort failed.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Former Fox News host, MSNBC anchor, and NBC News reporter John Gibson joins us to talk about his career, media, and his mystery fiction books.
The latest release is Death in the Reeds.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas DPS appeals federal court decision allowing 18 to 20-year-olds to carry a handgun. This is a wrong decision by DPS as Texas doesn’t have 2nd Class citizens. Also, Robert Henneke makes the case that “raising age to buy rifles in Texas won’t prevent mass shootings.”
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Biden’s War on Texas is not just about damaging the energy industry, now he’s going after efforts to desalinate sea water.
To some, if you don’t agree to sexualized shows for children you are the “radical” and maybe even a “Christian fascist.”
More sloppiness and lying by omission at Reuters.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: From cancelling Dilbert cartoons to Univ. of North Texas firing a math professor for an extremely mild bit of free expression, “woke” culture is an abuse of everything that underpins freedom. Now Texas school board members and administrators are being trained, with your money, to support, hide, and defend woke brainwashing in our public schools.
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Anti-Wimp update.
Governor Abbott putting the focus of Operation Lone Star where it should be, because it can be most effective without federal interference, on dismantling the Mexican terrorist cartels.
More polling shows Republican leads growing statewide.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Back to the border, again.
Jonathan Turley takes apart the much hyped class-action lawsuit against DeSantis for flying illegal aliens from Venezuela to Martha’s Vineyard. “The complaint is stronger on rhetoric than supporting facts or law,” Turley wrote.
Governor Abbott’s Operation Lone Star continues to cost huge money while suffering complete failure at deterring illegal crossing, something the Governor specifically stated it would do, and suffering court loss after court loss mainly due to poor planning. There’s really no excuse for these legal problems except shoddy planning given that Abbott is a former Supreme Court justice and attorney general.
Texas Monthly writes a long hit piece on an Hispanic female Texan, just named head of Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valle, because she dared support what the Left calls “Trump’s Family Separation Policy.” They seem upset that under Biden she was promoted. So much for the Left championing the advancement of women and minorities!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: First LULAC puts out a bounty on a private citizen then, Bexar County's sheriff says he's investigating but has no specific suspects or knowledge of what, if any, crime has been committed. The Democrats have become unhinged over shifting a tiny percentage of the illegal alien problem from Texas to their northern playgrounds. I'll tell you who is being "lured," it's these Dems being lured by DeSantis and Abbott into showing their top-to-bottom hypocrisy!
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Big ruling against the overtly political State Bar of Texas' attempt to go after Attorney General Paxton and his staff for filing lawsuits over the 2020 election the libs at the Bar don't like.
Judge rules one can purchase a firearm while under felony indictment which federal law currently prohibits. In arguing the case the government inadvertently shows why this is actually no big deal from a public safety standpoint.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The campaign stack is full from ridiculously early speculation that Rep. Ronny Jackson of Amarillo is planning to run for Senate in 2026 (the Cornyn seat) to a new poll out that shows Republicans solidifying and expanding statewide leads over Democrats. Also troubling for the Left is that a majority favors real school choice in Texas.
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Texas Attorney General Paxton gets a big win against Big Tech censorship at the 5th Circuit.
LULAC appears to be going after a private citizen in Texas, offering up a bounty, $5,000 reward, for the identification of a woman it claims committed crimes in getting illegal aliens to agree to fly to Martha’s Vineyard!
Petition to remove El Paso’s district attorney moves forward.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: You’ll be surprised at the ballot box this fall when you don’t see people you expect to vote for on the ballot. Another bad change in the big election integrity bill has been found out and it needs fixing in the next legislative session. Lubbock Co. treasurer and former Lubbock Co. Republican Party chairman Chris Winn discusses.
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7-year-old politically motivated case against Ken Paxton from political enemies to see depositions taken in late November.
Surprise, surprise: Making ethanol to put in our gasoline pollutes more than just keeping it all petroleum!
The societal sewer we are in is well exemplified by Amarillo’s civic leadership. Don’t blame Washington when you fertilize and grow the same at home.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Does Texas need a “digital bill of rights?” I’m skeptical of the effectiveness of such and most people volunteer their information in return for free software and services. What the latest disclosure, from D.O.J. whistleblowers, about Meta/Facebook tells us is that while the companies are bad actors it is government most able to truly hurt us in misusing our digital information.
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A random act of journalism happens in the Houston Chronicle forcefully admitting that “gun buy backs” do not affect crime. And if you read the story you’ll note that Harris County’s program is the same old trick of the powerful: Disarm the weak, poor, and those most likely to need SELF defense.
Stench of Local Government: More local government misleading taxpayers over property taxes. This time from Midland.
Border news.
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In the last decade Gun Owners of America has become active "on the ground" in Texas. It's new Texas state director is Brady native Wes Virdell.
In this interview we talk about GOA's troubling past, troubling to me and others who were on the ground working for gun rights, its new activism in Texas, and what the primary legislative goals will be next year for the organization.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It began with two newly elected Lubbock County commissioners who actually bothered to read the law but fell apart in that supposedly conservative county as one commissioner chickened out the next time around. Now Harris County’s two Republican commissioners are again following that great Lubbock example and saving the people from a huge Democrat tax increase by denying a quorum at the meeting to set the property tax rate for next year. The hypocritical Democrats are fighting back hard to not lose their big grab of the people’s money.
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R.I.P. Judge Kenneth Starr.
Two new statewide polls are out showing slim but firm GOP leads.
Texas Monthly publishes another excruciating long story in which the writer implies that when only accusations are made at a conservative Republican, A.G. Ken Paxton, it means he is guilty and how dare voters keep supporting him. Funny how that viewpoint doesn’t exist when it’s Dems accused, and sometimes convicted or caught red handed, breaking the law.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Fighting the Left's modern implementation of racial and ethnic segregation, a UT-Austin professor has filed suit against a program at Texas A&M that appears clearly to violate federal law and discriminate against white and Asian males. Even the name of the program gives it away: Accountability, Climate, Equity and Scholarship Faculty Fellows Program, or ACES. Yes, Texas A&M has become a hotbed of Leftism from the top down and like other state systems, Governor Abbott appears to have done little to nothing to change regents into those who will work to block Leftist activism with our money and our young people.
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R.I.P. Lowry Mays, a great Texan and founder of Clear Channel.
City of El Paso ups its spending on busing aliens to New York City and much more from the border news stack.
The satellite launched by SpaceX Saturday was a made-in-Midland device.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is campaign season and here come the nervous border region Democrats claiming a Republican victory is due to election theft. Those in the know realize that’s a bit rich coming from RGV Dems but if things turnout well in November for Republicans along the border you can expect much more silliness. When Democrats win it’s always a valid, pure, and legitimate election but when Republicans win, especially in Democrat areas, it’s because they “stole” the election.
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Anti-Wimp update as Harris County teen saves others from home invasion using a shotgun. Also, the anti-Second Amendment crowd makes progress in getting gun and ammunition purchases specially coded with credit card use.
Vice President Kamala Harris is so crazy that even other certified crazy lefties are amazed – especially when it comes to border security.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: On July 6th, I reported: School teacher turnover is not high despite media reports. But the reports of turnover and teacher shortage crises in the Texas press, from data sent out by teacher unions, hasn’t slowed. Today, The Texan has taken a look at the data and showed, once again, these stories are not factual about a general shortage and seem to be concocted by unions.
From the story:
In the 2021-2022 school year, the teacher attrition rate jumped from 9.34 percent to 11.57 percent, with 42,839 teachers leaving. However, the newly hired teachers that year exceed those that left the profession.
The total number of teachers in Texas eclipsed 375,000 in June, a 10-year increase of around 50,000 and the highest number of teachers employed in Texas history.
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Oil and gas rig count. Beware “green” energy policies, the Swiss can be sent to jail this year for “overheating” homes and that’s only 66 degrees Fahrenheit.
Big Chicagoland hypocrisy over busing of illegal aliens and other border news.
Group called “mysterious” and “shadowy” begins over $6 million television advertising buy in Texas against Governor Abbott.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas' future is at stake in electric grid generation and distribution decisions. Those setting policy must completely avoid the economic cancer of scarcity theory but, it appears that those working the problem are letting that camel's-nose under the tent. The second half of this story in The Texan is highly informative. Related stories I cover are: British PM Lifts Fracking Ban To Combat Energy Crisis; Blame Government and the Greens for Europe's Energy Crisis, and; German Who Laughed at Trump at UN Won’t Comment on President’s Warning Coming True
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New statewide polling out has top Republicans holding consistent leads.
Local sales tax numbers for September are out.
Texas [liberal] Monthly writer published very long piece that seems to be based upon a rather stupid idea: Parental Control and real school choice are separate issues.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Elections matter: Lubbock city council’s new members tentatively amend proposed property tax rate to the No New Revenue Rate defeating a proposed tax increase. Big thanks to new Councilman Mark McBrayer, Councilwoman Jennifer Wilson, Councilwoman Christy Martinez-Garcia, and Mayor Tray Payne (all new to the council.) It’s not a deal yet with a 2nd reading ahead and only one vote to spare. Those voting for higher taxes were Latrelle Joy, Steve Massengale, and Shelia Patterson Harris. And by the way, why do neither of these stories (AJ, KCBD) tell you who voted what way? Is not that among the most important items a news organization should cover?)
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DPS has the state’s inspector general investigating several of its officers over the Uvalde school shooting.
Beto Pancho O’Rourke talks out of both sides of his mouth on the border.
Big AP hit-piece on Oath Keepers is out. If Oath Keepers was truly an “extremist” group then why do the stories not document factual positions of the organization?
Houston about to lose place with tallest building in Texas to, yuck, Austin!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Two people I have told the audience for years are fake Republicans say they are voting for the Democrat for Lieutenant Governor. Okay, so what else is NOT news with Senator Kel Seliger and Tarrant Co. Judge Whitley?
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What is the university model for, if not to examine differing ideas with intellectual rigor? Poli-Tech is hosting a major debate on abortion on the Texas Tech campus and has faced significant “resistance” to such.
Biden continues the War on Texas with an EPA reversal on a major oil export facility 21 nautical miles off coast from Corpus Christi and for flimsy reasons.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden attacks Americans with whom he and Democrats disagree on policy as “threats to the country.” Then on Friday morning he claimed the opposite. Commentator Auron MacIntyre had the best line: Biden “may legitimately not remember that he gave a speech last night.”
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I have a serious question: Why is it “racist” for Texas to bus illegal aliens to Chicago, or anywhere, but not racist for the federal government, cities, counties, and other NGOs to do exactly the same with the same people? Explain that please Chicago Mayor Lightfoot?
Oil and gas drilling rig count plummets this week.
Texas sales tax revenue exceeds all projections for the fiscal year ended 8/31.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The trans-sexual (aka trans-gender) movement is one of the Left’s big causes of the moment. So why is supposedly conservative Texas House leadership so weak on the issue? Also, over at Child Protective Services, who in their right mind thinks someone should be charged with protecting children from abuse when the same person doesn’t see adults putting little children through sex change therapies as abuse?
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Abbott begins sending illegal aliens to sanctuary city Chicago by bus.
O’Rourke wants more debates with Abbott and wants them hosted by anti-Republican, Leftist media outlets. Meanwhile Abbott says at least half of the state surplus should be returned to us by buying down local property taxes. And more in the political campaign stack including the Leftist Texas Tribune Festival announcing their big closing guest as loser Liz Cheney – what a joke!
Texas State Teachers Association union blasts parents for opposing Leftist indoctrination in public school curriculum.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Just how ignorant are top Democrats in DC about the border crisis? White House spokeswoman claims illegal aliens are not simply walking across the border when in actuality they do, by the hundreds and thousands, daily. The excuse making and ignorance should cost these people their power but the real story is that they know, and think of, their base as being too stupid to know the difference.
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Census Bureau Admits Under Counting Texas, Florida, more. Hans von Spakovsky explains.
Anti-wimp update shows just why we should be able to carry handguns. The firearm is the great equalizer and a woman saved another woman in Pasadena by being armed.
El Paso’s district attorney under attack politically and it relates to the horrible Walmart mass shooting there.
A big win for Texas as public pressure results in the SBOE putting off a revamp of Texas’ schools social studies curriculum.
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In a Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra, Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation shares with us the disturbing news, news that certainly will not be amplified much by the Left-leaning media, that the Census Bureau admits it grossly under counted Texas, Florida and other Republican states and over counted several Democrat states.
Key Takeaways
- Those costly errors will distort congressional representation and the Electoral College.
- The states whose populations were undercounted were Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
- Congress needs to use its oversight authority to investigate and determine why these errors happened, particularly since they didn’t occur in the 2010 census.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Don’t buy the dismissive stories from the Leftist media, there are serious problems at the State Board of Education related to the revamp of Texas public school social studies (history) curriculum. TPPF’s Greg Sindelar and Dr. Ben Carson write: Texas State Board of Education Should Give TEKS Draft a Failing Grade. The Texan points out many of the flaws with the proposed standards in a story headlined: Proposed Texas K-12 Social Studies Standards Accused of Violating State’s CRT Ban.
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Fascinating story out of Loving County in which a J.P., sheriff, and constable arrested fellow citizens over the very weak argument of residency. It smells like corruption.
Biden’s bad economy hitting Texas: Texas Service Sector Growth Weakens in August.
Important 5th Circuit ruling on religious healthcare providers and sinful procedures such as abortion or sex change work.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: After billions over budget, and a decade late, NASA had to scrub the launch of the SLS rocket today. The entire project is a waste of taxpayer resources and has been a boondoggle from the start. Esteemed space historian Robert Zimmerman joins us to talk about the rocket without an honest mission.
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Biden’s economy is now taking a toll on manufacturing in Texas.
Fascinating polling out on “new” Texas registered voters and it should please Republicans and frighten Democrats.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: See no evil, hear no evil, and if it is there and we paid to put it there, tough luck! That’s my take on Abilene city council’s announced library policy and it’s basically a kick in the groin to Abilene parents.
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In border news, a major news wire tries to set a narrative that Texas’ sending illegal aliens to NYC, DC is uniquely putting them in danger of harm. That narrative ignores that such people have long been flown and driven to such locales by local governments and non-profits which are reimbursed by the federal government.
Second Amendment ruling in Texas by a federal judge says 18 to 20 year olds cannot be prohibited from carrying handguns just due to their age.
Rig count.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Human Life Protection Act went into effect today and Texas Democrats' top-of-the-ticket candidate, Beto Pancho the fake Hispanic, dropped an advertising buy that calls saving the lives of babies "too extreme" for Texas. What he, and those in the ads, are advocating is the idea that it's okay to murder some babies because of the feelings of the mother.
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Uvalde CISD finally fires its police chief. The chief's lawyer puts out a very long statement, 17 pages, that essentially, though not intentionally, makes the case for why Arredondo needed firing - it's a screed of the type who will not take responsibility.
Semiconductor maker Micron considering the Austin-area (Lockhart / Caldwell County) for $20-plus billion chip plant investment.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Former Border Patrol agent echoes me: Operation Lone Star is ineffective and is costing Texans huge money. Governor Abbott may get a lot of national media attention by having Texas taxpayer bus a relative tiny number of illegal aliens to New York City or DC but the huge effort at the border he champions has simply not resulted in the deterrence of illegal crossing.
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Is H-E-B and its liberal owner trying to now hide the fact that it officially sponsored a sexualized “drag show” for “all ages” at which children were present?
Biden’s student lone political ploy costs each American taxpayer more than $2000.
Key pro-life news.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It looks like some lame ducks on the State Board of Education may let the Democrats destroy Texas’ social studies curriculum with Leftism for 12 years. Action is needed now.
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RIP: Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly’s Drummer, Dies At 82 (we have some great example’s of JI’s work in the bumpers of the radio version of the show today.) And, Gary Gaines, famed ‘Friday Night Lights’ coach, dead at 73.
Six Texas cities are in court trying to stop the state from sending sales tax revenue 0n some purchases to the jurisdiction where the buyer is – all to protect their questionable “economic development” deals with big companies. The Texan’s Brad Johnson has an update.
Comptroller Hegar says Harris County may be breaking new laws preventing police defunding in its proposed budget.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Local government officials, especially city councils and county commissioner courts, are set to fleece Texas taxpayers on property taxes across the state. And, don’t buy that it’s all about core services either, in many, if not most cases, officials are giving themselves and others pay raises. If you can be expected to live on less next year, why can’t they?
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Could the Texas Tech system add Stephen F. Austin University to its family? SFA is courting systems to join.
Much border related news including withdrawing border patrol from patrolling simply to mind the overflowing detention centers. Also, the San Antonio Express-News goes after local residents for being upset over an illegal alien center the city stuck in a neighborhood and that has been causing problems.
The DOJ and FBI raid on Trump’s home continues to expose how out of whack are these federal agencies.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Campaign and political stories including three stories (1, 2 & 3) regarding A.G. Ken Paxton; update on the defamation lawsuit against Beto Pancho O’Rourke; Democrat Congressman in the Valley facing a huge election in November turns out to have been getting homestead property tax exemptions on two house, cheating taxpayers, and more.
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July 2022 Marks Lowest Unemployment Rate (4.0%) Since Pre-Pandemic, State Adds 72,800 Jobs: The Amarillo and Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) recorded July’s lowest unemployment rates among Texas MSAs with a not seasonally adjusted rate of 3.1 percent each, followed by College Station-Bryan and Midland both at 3.5 percent, then Abilene and San Angelo each at 3.6 percent.
Abilene leaders make a big deal, and much criticism of concerned citizens, over a city charter change they claim is a “non-issue” and had no “outside group” recommending the gender language changes. If it’s no big deal then drop it!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Leftwing Texas Monthly panics over ERCOT grid planning, afraid wind and solar will be left out. Texas leads the nation in wind and solar electric generation and the ratio of that to reliable generation on the grid is the root of the ERCOT problem. And it appears that despite lower generation costs for wind and solar, the infrastructure costs incurred to get that power to market is costing ratepayers more than the savings in Texas.
- If Wind and Solar are so Cheap, Why are Texans Paying More for Electricity?
- Pushed To The Brink: The 2021 Electric Grid Crisis and How Texas is Responding
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The national motto “In God We Trust” is going up in Texas schools.
Harris County’s new elections administrator owes over $100,000 to the IRS and it’s an “attack” that Republicans dare to notice and say something.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: From the “Unintended Consequences” file: Abbott’s busing to illegal aliens to New York appears to greatly increase their chances of being granted asylum as opposed to appearing before immigration judges in Texas.
From a story by Benjamin Wermund in the Houston Chronicle / Hearst:
In Texas’ largest immigration courts, in Houston, judges are notoriously hard on asylum cases. Since October, they have denied 83 percent of them, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The courts in New York City, meanwhile, have approved 82 percent of asylum cases in that time, well above the national average of roughly 50 percent.
“Abbott is practically ensuring that these migrants will be allowed to stay in the country,” said Austin Kocher, a Syracuse University professor who studies immigration data. “He’s doing them a favor.”
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Liz Cheney has gone the way of a full narcissist and doesn’t seem to know it.
Texas new MAGA group (Mothers Against Greg Abbott) gets much media attention but has a vapid, utopian message on issues such as school shootings: If we didn’t have Abbott and had just a few gun control tweaks, there would be no school shootings. Shameful.
Six Flags (used to be include Over Texas) decides it doesn’t want poorer people in its parks!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Government folk have largely lost the “public service” ethos over the past couple of generations. The happenings at the Tarrant Appraisal District as well as the board’s reaction to such are a strong example of how out of line has become the attitude of government officials and employees in relation to the people they are payed to serve.
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Are Texas elections officials truly being harassed to the point they cannot do their job? There is likely some rudeness and nastiness from citizens that is unwarranted but I can tell you that some of these officials bring much of it upon themselves. And do not forget, it was county elections officials who unilaterally implemented, without legal authority, drive-through voting, 24-hour voting, multiple ballot drop boxes, etc. Is it a case of reaping what they sowed?
- Threats, stalking lead to election office resignation | Fredericksburg Standard
- Bexar County elections official says she and her staff are ‘under attack’
It’s defeat Liz Cheney day in Wyoming. Texans gave her almost a million dollars – much more than she raised in her own state. What Republican Party is it that she believes she is fighting for?
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Education Agency finally releases school district and campus report cards after skipping such for WuFlu. One standout is that is that Abilene ISD is a very poor performer even when compared to other NW Texas city districts. See you district here: txschools.gov
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Much polling to discuss. Despite my belief that the UT-Tyler/Dallas Morning News poll is among the least reliable, O’Rourke has a problem as even this poll shows Democrat turn-out to be likely less than Republican in November as a percentage. Then figure there are more Republicans than Dems in Texas and it doesn’t look so good for the fake Hispanic Beto Pancho.
“ESG” – why it is sinister. It’s a good thing Texas legislators, attorney general, and comptroller are fighting this terrible idea.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business advocates and promotes “woke” Leftism asking professors to do the same in the classroom. And, Don Huffines, says Texas should stop giving public medical school and graduate lots to Chinese communists.
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David Markus points out the lie and fraud of New York City’s mayor blaming Texas for an illegal immigrant problem. And despite billions of Texan’s money being spent, Gov. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star isn’t doing much good as Breitbart reports today “118K Migrants Apprehended in July in Texas-Based Border Sectors.”
Clay County tax assessor arrested.
Oil and gas rig count down this week.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Esteemed scholar Victor Davis Hanson says the FBI has become dangerous to Americans and an immediate threat to democracy and the rule of law. He’s right and the press isn’t much better.
Today I cover new things being reported on the FBI/DOJ records raid on Trump’s Florida home as well as how the language of what is reported is ignored even by those writing the stories.
Two key stories I breakdown are these: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where and Questions grow about Trump raid after revelation of grand jury subpoena, extensive cooperation.
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Texas electric grid report; I wouldn’t be too fired up about this media speculation, yet. 7 to 5 hardly gives legislators an idea of a “mandate.”
Here is a link to the report I mentioned but did not have time to cover on Hispanic dissatisfaction with Democrats and predicting continued gains for the GOP among such.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is a vacancy on Texas Seventh Court of Appeals by the current GOP nominee. Due to the timing, local county Republican precinct chairmen from across the district will soon choose a nominee for the November ballot. This is a good reminder of why it is important to run for precinct chairman.
What do the courts of appeals do and what is the work like? We spend three segments with Justice Brian Quinn, chief justice of the 7th Court of Appeals which sits in Amarillo.
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Local sales tax number released in August report.
Another example of why Chapter 313 needs to expire without being replaced.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The raid on Trump’s home is a new level of federal abuse and political use of law enforcement. Because it is unprecedented does not in anyway grant such action legitimacy, despite what many pundits claim, and it’s up to Biden and D.O.J. to immediately show the American people why such was justified. Certainly the Clintons did not get similar treatment for Hillary’s illegal home server that held “classified” documents.
Charles C.W. Cooke asks the right questions in his piece at National Review. If we are to survive as a nation the people must have some reliable faith in their institutions so as Cooke asks: What happens if the Trump raid business was not justified? Who pays a price and what price? This is very important.
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Texas’ Public Utility Commission (PUC) appears to be doing all it can do to prove the incompetence of the commission, its commissioners, and its staff in Texas Universal Service Fund massive tax/fee increase. Read more here and here.
Houston ISD’s top cop says his department needs many, many more guns and other supplies plus training. I guess he understands the good-guy-with-a-gun fact that the libs wish to deny.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Abbott’s voluntary busing of illegal aliens to DC and NYC is gaining media attention but will suddenly Leftist mayors change their politics on the border issue? Arizona’s GOP nominee for governor, Kari Lake calls Abbott’s busing ploy a “cute photo op” and points out that the buses should be going the other direction. Much more on the border including couple of vapid feature stories on such by the state’s lib press.
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Monkeypox is the latest scare but CDC data (aren’t we supposed to trust the CDC with everything!?) shows once again the disease is related mostly to homosexuality. CDC data gives a glimpse into the all-sex-all-the-time “lifestyle” which appears to be responsible for the rapid spread so, why weren’t those events “shutdown” like all of our lives were for WuFlu? Homosexuals and homosexuality in practice are protected things by the Left, that’s why.
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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 I’m glad to have the TPPF reporting on it now.
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It turns out that the Uvalde CISD police chief had a fairly bad employment history with other area agencies but did school district officials do much checking before announcing his hiring? (Oh, but we’re never to question school officials because they are all in “for the children!”)
Border: Senator Cruz has a great bill titled: Asylum Accountability Act. Texas now busing, voluntarily, illegal aliens to New York City. And a story out of Friona, Texas shows how the people smuggling crime reaches hundreds of miles from the border, and more.
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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.
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A host of local government stories from Harris Co. suing the state to prevent an audit of its elections operation to cutting the salaries of judges who don’t move cases (Dallas Co.) and City of Houston bribery and corruption uncovered (again) to misleading the press and public on property tax increases calling such cuts. And then there is the City of Wylie once again adopting the No-New-Revenue-Rate, for the 5th year when others say such is impossible.
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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 “minority” issue is with this law?
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City of San Antonio, despite all it’s Leftist leadership and propaganda, is trying to get the feds to limit the number of illegal aliens sent there – even suggesting they might bus people back to Laredo, Del Rio and elsewhere.
City of Hondo council, all but one, folds to anti-freedom agitators using the Uvalde school shootings to get the city to cancel its agreement for the local Friends of the NRA annual event to be held in a city managed facility. The Friends of the NRA is the not-for-profit arm of NRA that raises money for the proven and lauded Eddie Eagle gun safety program for children. Read about it here.
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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 isn’t a clear threat to fundamental free political speech.
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Governor Abbott invites the DC and NYC mayors to come to the Texas-Mexico border and learn what is a real “crisis.”
State Representative Harrison reminds local governments that any tax rate set above the no-new-revenue-rate is a tax increase.
Collin Co. Republican Party votes to censure Senator Cornyn.
Sales tax revenue sets a new record but looking at the detail will dispel the idea of a booming economy. And, how much of the increase is simply a function of inflation?
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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 fundamentally still the party of Jim Crow, the KKK, slavery, whites-only primaries, and general bigotry – but it’s mostly minority Dems doing so!
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Houston’s guns for gift cards (it isn’t a “buyback!”) event this weekend was huge but it likely violated laws, made it harder to prosecute criminals, and spoiled witness testimony. I wonder how many gun thefts it sparked and how many criminals it aided.
A long Texas Tribune story on Abbott and the border is getting much republication but it’s an empty piece and not worth your time.
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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?
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Biden, facing mid-term worries in Arizona, agrees to complete some gaps in the Trump-built border wall on the grounds of life safety for Border Patrol agents and crossing illegal aliens. But wait! If walls don’t work then how can the sections protect people in the way the Administration says such will?
Uvalde update: School principal reinstated to duties despite a broad spectrum of failures on campus security under her watch. And, a liberal UT professor vexed over the fact the House fact-finding report didn’t contain, and focus upon, a bunch of ancillary Democrat shibboleths as well as cast indirect blame on Governor Abbott via the DPS.
7th Court of Appeals vacancy on the ballot to be filled by party precinct chairmen at a meeting in Plainview on 20 August.
“Anti-public education” now simply means opposing using public schools for Leftist political action and many are foolish enough to go along with this line.
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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 similar.
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Border news has Senator Ted Cruz showing the utter ridiculousness of Democrats such as the mayor of D.C.
Are Democrats really interested in “inclusion and diversity” when they insist on attacking the cultural roots of Spanish speaking Latinos?
An “Independent” files to run in TX 19 against Rep. Arrington.
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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 tell you if locals are raising your property taxes; About those appraisals and your property taxes, and; more here.
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Former Texas Speaker of the House Pete Laney’s grandson is new Texas Tech SGA president. He supports the Leftist agenda according to an interview.
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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 way of climate so-called science – it’s no longer about “truth” but about money.
Dr. Mary Bowden’s new $25 million lawsuit against Houston Methodist Hospital is all part of the same. The hospital seems to have punished her for simply treating WuFlu patients in a way that keeps most out of the hospital. Could money have anything to do with that?
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Economic news isn’t great in the Dallas Fed’s manufacturing, service, and retail sector reports.
Uvalde update: Robb Elementary principal suspended and school board delayed the meeting to consider firing the district police chief.
Rare good news out of the Texas House GOP Caucus.
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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 here: https://www.house.texas.gov/_media/pdf/committees/reports/87interim/Robb-Elementary-Investigative-Committee-Report.pdf
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On Monday, 18 July 2022, I covered other aspects of the report – listen to that show here.
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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.
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Texas June Job Gains Hit a Monthly High for 2022, Unemployment Rate Drops Again. Texas leads nation in employment growth.
Austin tries to adopt city policy on abortion that contradicts state law – and more on the subject.
O’Rourke tells one lie after another speaking in Lubbock and Snyder showing he makes a fine Democrat.
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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.
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Border news.
Georgetown officials refuse to learn from their “green energy” mistakes.
Bribing companies with taxpayer money to relocate is bad policy and frankly letting a few stay in other places might be good – it would keep more of those folks there as opposed to here!
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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 gains.
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Homosexual marriage, Obergefell vs. Hodges, and a Congress intent on taking away the right of the people of the states to decide their own laws.
More Uvalda massacre fallout.
Crime, guns, and…. COVID? Austin crime report shows guns aren’t really the problem but does lay some blame at the un-American lockdowns for high violent crime rates.
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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 most basic responsibility of self-protection? Why does hailing a “good guy with a gun” or “good Samaritan” who saves innocent lives with a firearm enrage so many? Is their political view of themselves more important than effectively dealing with the ever-present evil of rape, robbery, and murder?
DPS launches internal investigation into its officers actions at the Uvalde school massacre.
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Big announcement: The 2022 Hunters’ Banquet & Auction from the Lubbock Sportsman’s Club is set for Saturday, 27 August and hated-by-the-Left Rep. Ronny Jackson (TX13) will be there with us. Tickets are now on sale here,
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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 most media:)
- Our open border played a big role due to the “crying wolf” syndrome.
- While the ISD had a “good” active shooter plan on paper, it was not used in practice which is what happens to much expensive planning done by bureaucracies.
- Special law enforcement training may be a good but such training didn’t make much of a difference at the scene in Uvalde. (Same for teachers on campus security.)
- Our secular and Leftist culture is a BIG part of the problem, not in just forming these killers, but in everyone else not reacting to clear signs of problems. This “don’t judge others” culture intimidates people into a social blindness and in this case “the attacker,” as the report calls him, was a flashing strobe light of concern for this exact crime.
- And this is an old one but still true: When seconds count, police are minutes away. This leads to the idea that the only way to truly mitigate the actions of evil killers is to have a tool on one’s person that stands a good chance of stopping them at the place and time they initiate an attack.
There are many more points to ponder in coming days.
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The Texas Democrat Convention was largely a bust – they couldn’t even keep a quorum on a Saturday to pass the platform. About all they did that gained attention was (illegally?) remove a conservative-leaning media outlet from the event. (video)
“I went to the Democratic convention in Texas this week and the delegates got really drunk and left without giving us a platform.“
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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 when it comes to financial repercussions — it can put a hold on candidates’ and elected officials’ financial accounts with the state, if they have them — but unlike other states, it can’t levy tax liens or garnish wages. If that isn’t effective, it must decide whether to file a civil suit requesting a judge to order payment.
“Even this, Texas’ most aggressive tool for pursuing delinquent filers, is seldom effective…”
So much for the narrative the headline and upper portion try to set. These cases are largely a waste of taxpayer resources.
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TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester jumps on one of the longest running topics from Pratt on Texas: The Texas Media War Against Texas.
While Lt. Governor Patrick reacts to the massively increase revenue estimate for the state from the comptroller of public accounts with: “Our first priority is to send money back to the taxpayers of Texas,” it remains to be seen of Governor Abbott will actually work to get us the size of tax cuts we need. Patrick has good suggestions and one that deserves immediate passage is the huge increase in the homestead exemption.
Beto Pancho O’Rourke, the fake Hispanic rich kid from El Paso who is actually named Robert Francis, set singe reporting term fundraising record for a Texas candidate. Don’t read too much into it.
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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.
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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 judge its value as opposed to being like Democrats and only being willing to judge such by the expressed intent?
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IPI’s Dr. Merrill Matthews on where have all the government workers gone and on gasoline prices and the Biden Administration.
Will Governor Abbott actually work with legislators to push the significant property tax relief (replacing local school property taxes with state funds) he claims to support or, will he have yet another session where once the idea is announced, Abbott and his staff go closed mouthed and refuse to give needed behind the scenes guidance to lawmakers making passage of the bill, in good form, more difficult?
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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 accountable as the House committee already announced it would meet with the families and show the video, as well as go through their investigation with those families, and then release all to the press and public in a matter of days.
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New statewide poll out from University of Houston showing Repubs leading Dems by about the expected margins. Among Dems O’Rourke is the only Democrat on the ballot most Dems know. And it gets much worse for Senator Cornyn, seems he’s the least liked Republican around at the moment – lower approval numbers than Pelosi or Kamala Harris!
GOP Congresswoman from Brownsville, Myra Florez, says hypocritical Democrats want her deported since she won the seat.
The Texas power grid and what legislators MUST do to save the Texas economy and standard of living.
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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.
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Polling shows when Republicans know details about Senator Cornyn’s “bipartisan” gun control legislation fewer like it. But even more importantly, Republican voters would elect Ken Paxton over Cornyn for U.S. Senate if the primary were held today.
Jill Biden did, well, a Biden in San Antonio with her taco comment but, the big problem is not what she said but with the reflexive “offense” taken by others over such an innocuous comment.
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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 requiring much more dispatchable power on the grid and so-called renewables providers need to shoulder a big bit of the costs.
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Much on the Port of Brownsville.
Border news – biggest groups of people appear to be crossing in places where Gov. Abbott has Operation Lone Star in force for the longest.
Given history and the world as it stands, why are Jewish synagogue worshipers, at least in places like Texas where it is possible, among the most armed people on earth? It’s hardly as if Jewish teaching and history is one of pacifism.
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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 expense of secure transportation onto the shoulders of Texas taxpayers. It’s yet another move that does nothing to reduce or discourage illegal immigration. Currently our Operation Lone Star operatives do nothing but help the folks up out of the river safely and around the few theater barriers we have constructed and hold them in groups for the feds to pick up. Now we’ll pay to transport them back to ports of entry to turn them over to the feds!
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Oil & gas rig count and Biden selling some of our strategic reserve to China connected company to which his son is connected.
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is a loss for the West. His commitment to stop China from invading Taiwan and other aggression was second to no one of importance in the region. America lost an important friend.
RIP Ty Cooke.
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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.
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Local sales tax receipts see yet another big jump across Texas.
The “preliminary” report out on the Uvalde school massacre gets much attention but doesn’t provide much we didn’t already know. I’m not sure we should be releasing “preliminary” reports – it might be wise to wait until the investigations are completed.
Biden making you pay to take illegal aliens to other states so that they can obtain abortions.
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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 stories trying to raise teacher pay turnover of Texas public school teachers is actually very low compared to other sectors of the economy and even very low when compared to general government employee turnover.
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As expected, Biden’s political DOJ going after Gov. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. Meanwhile border counties are asking for more than theater border security – which is what Abbott’s OLS is to this point.
Dirty pool played by Amarillo leadership.
When it comes to State Veterans Cemeteries, the state needs to maintain them and leave local government out of the picture.
New polling shows Abbott ahead of O’Rourke by 6 points and shows Sen. Cornyn with lower approval ratings than Joe Biden in Texas!
Update on two A.G. Paxton legal issues.
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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 – thousands of years in recorded history before there were firearms.
Our Anti-Wimp update demonstrates the neutrality of the firearm and how it can be used for either good or bad just like anything else.
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Texas Supreme Court allows enforcement of existing law against abortion, putting a temporary stop the order from the Houston judge last week.
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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 changes are likely coming to the Texas SBOE on charter schools and hopefully the public will also begin to understand what full school choice is as opposed to what it is not.
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Sales tax revenue up big again in Texas, oil & gas rig count drops and the Biden Administration is working to kill off the oil business despite high gasoline prices.
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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.
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Two big U.S. Supreme Court decisions, in which Texas was a party, were released today. One was a big win on EPA overreach and the other a loss when it comes to border policy however, I think the Court got it right despite the fact that I disagree with the policy.
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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 data as a solution.
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Ridiculous claims on illegal immigration pour out from the Left and its media propagandists after the latest embarrassment in San Antonio. Please liberals, tell us this: What and where are those “strict” border policies you talk about? See: 1, 2, or 3.
Over a million voters have switched to the GOP over the last 12 months.
John Cooper well points out that it’s not that sleepy Biden doesn’t have a plan – this, this pain and suffering, is the Biden plan.
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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, well, just about anything. The president and his administration continue to stumble from one crisis to another, solving nothing and, indeed, often overseeing crises that just get worse.
…Because of course Biden doesn’t have a plan to solve these crises—the crises are the point. The pain we’ve all been experiencing for almost 18 months is the plan.
John and I discuss the issue including a bit of talk about why so many people don’t seem to hear it when candidates such as Biden tell them, in advance, what they plan to do. Once again we have an example of a large plurality of the people having ignored the Democrats’ plans until it hits them in the pocketbook.
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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.
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Biden is making another effort to slow oil production in Texas.
Much of the Democrat redistricting lawsuit effort has failed but the Texas Supreme Court does allow the “county line” rule issue to move forward.
Illegal immigration tragedy strikes again in San Antonio yet the White House claims the border is closed.
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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 “reproductive choice.” The call for a general “sex strike” against men is welcome because: First we don’t need to create new liberals and second, because it shows where authentic “reproductive choice” and “control over my body” exists which is in the decision to have sexual relations.
Also, the comments of Texas Democrats on the Court’s ruling demonstrates ignorance and stupidity along with a reminder of their dangerous idea that might makes right.
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Texas manufacturing outlook worsens and Sherman, in North Texas, gets even better economic news.
HD61 (Collin Co.) GOP nominee for state rep., Frederick Frazier, a police officer and former McKinney city councilman, indicted on felony charges that relate to the alleged sign stealing during the Republican Primary election.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a great opinion today in the case of the coach fired by a public school for engaging in prayer.
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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 Dobbs case opinion not only restores power to the people, it clearly explains why Roe, and its follow-up Casey, were so wrong from a constitutional perspective. The justices also provided a very good summary on why precedent, stare decisis, cannot be held to be an “inexorable command” and why it is appropriate in this case to completely overturn precedents set in Roe and Casey.
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Despite many statements and press accounts, Texas new trigger law does not go into effect within 30-days from today. Here is what the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, explained, in part:
Today, the Court issued its opinion reversing Roe, but it has yet to issue its judgment. A judgment is a legal document distinct from the Court’s opinion. The Court will issue its judgment only after the window for the litigants to file a motion for rehearing has closed. A judgment can issue in about a month, or longer if the Court considers a motion for rehearing. So while it is clear that the Act will take effect, we cannot calculate exactly when until the Court issues its judgment. My office will publicly announce an effective date for the Act as soon as possible—and we look forward to doing so.
Upon taking effect, the Act provides that a person “may not knowingly perform, induce, or attempt an abortion” except under limited circumstances, such as a life-threatening condition to the mother caused by the pregnancy. A person who violates the Act commits a first-degree felony if an unborn child dies as a result and incurs civil penalties of not less than $100,000 for each violation.4 My office is specifically authorized to pursue and recover those civil penalties, and I will strictly enforce this law. Further, we will assist any local prosecutor who pursues criminal charges. Additionally, state licensing authorities are required to revoke any applicable license or permit of a health care professional who performs or attempts to perform an abortion in violation of the Act.
What’s more, some prosecutors may choose to immediately pursue criminal prosecutions based on violations of Texas abortion prohibitions predating Roe that were never repealed by the Texas Legislature.7 Although these statutes were unenforceable while Roe was on the books, they are still Texas law. Under these pre-Roe statutes, abortion providers could be criminally liable for providing abortions starting today.
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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 to show “need” to a government official to enjoy the any of the rights enshrined in our constitution.
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Upcoming ruling on the EPA could dial back federal overreach on climate change regulation.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been busy.
More horrible border and immigration related news.
Uvalde CISD police chief placed on leave. And, it’s clear many in the “education” lobby don’t truly want to take actions that would stop mass murder. Instead they want to live in the fantasy land of non real world action.
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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 but about what went wrong so, hopefully, systems and training can attempt to stop such error in the future.
Also, I have a deep seated but hard to express problem with tearing down the school just because the massacre happened therein – I think this trend is symptomatic of a very bad trend in our culture.
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Anti-Wimp update: Robbing Houston gun store with knife gets perp killed.
RIP: Former state Rep. Bob Turner dead at 87.
Rep. Mayra Flores’ inaugural speech on the U.S. House floor.
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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.
- Texas Top Cop: Uvalde Police Could’ve Ended Rampage Early On
- DPS Director Steve McCraw says officers in Uvalde could have taken down gunman within 3 minutes had commander not hesitated
- First Image From Inside Texas School Shooting Released Ahead of Senate Hearing
- Classroom Door in Uvalde School Shooting Was Not Locked, Official Says
- Police Officers Chose Not to Shoot Texas Gunman: Deputy
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Fortunately for Texas, State Board of Education District 15’s Jay Johnson lost the GOP primary in his re-elect bid. He and another Republican, along with Democrats, are doing harm to school choice in Texas. Also, it is clear that it is teacher unions not parents and students that matter to some on the SBOE.
Why, other than owing his office to Democrats, is Speaker Phelan opposed to having Republicans serve as chairmen of all House committees?
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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:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bogus-civics-bill-will-push-crt-on-states/
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Amazing claim on the Uvalde school massacre surfaces in the press over the weekend that if true is despicable.
Victor Davis Hanson: Biden and Oil: Destroy America in Order to Save It
Texas GOP Convention summary.
Texas taxpayers to build charging stations (effectively gas stations) for electric cars despite electric cars only making up 1% of vehicles on the road - those owners already cheat by not paying the gasoline taxes that build and maintain our highways!
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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?
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Texas GOP Convention news includes good and right words from Chairman Rinaldi.
Oil and gas rotary drilling rig count and related news.
Texas unemployment numbers, the rate fell by by a 10th in May.
The problem with the “mental health” catch all to stop mass violence.
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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.
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Kuddos to state Rep. Jared Patterson for talking about the a problem in our society as it relates to school shootings and other violence: The breakdown of the family, which the Left advocates for, and especially the absence of strong fathers.
Abilene residents voted a tax upon themselves with a sunset. As predicted local officials want to keep it going and raise the fees. And note, the money collected didn’t make a dent in the street maintenance problem they decry.
Polling in the Texas gubernatorial race shows O’Rourke behind Abbott but the media ignored the poll this week that shows Beto Pancho way back but is promoting the poll showing it much closer.
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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.
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Mayor Joven gets it right with Odessa’s water outage: Basic infrastructure maintenance should have always been the highest priority. But, it isn’t anywhere because such is not politically “sexy” to office holders.
Caterpillar moving global HQ from Chicagoland to Irving, Texas.
Border news.
The Uvalde school massacre and the petulant tribal behavior of some politicians. Also, the Texas leader response doesn’t seem much better than that of the feds (see Monday’s show.)
Texas Supreme Court rightly rules on vote by mail “solicitation.”
U.S. Supreme Court wrongly rules on Indian reservation bingo in Texas.
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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 history? Bob Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com walks us through the latest.
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This week Texas Republicans meet in convention in Houston. I talk with two more candidates for the State Republican Executive Committee, Senate District 28. Lynda Hogue of Lubbock and Lyleann Mcclellan Thee of San Angelo.
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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 the percentage of people in “poverty,” or in this case crime rates.
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ERCOT’s big heat test the past few days set a new record but does show the need for policy change on wind and solar generation on the grid.
Governor Abbott once again demonstrates his commitment to the fighting the far Left is only poll deep. His regent appointees to UNT ignore the deep problems there.
Texas wins, Biden loses on ICE policy on deportations, again.
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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 Week, But the Problems Are Not Fixed
- Why Energy Companies Won’t Produce
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A lengthy story in the Texas Tribune on the Uvalde school massacre demonstrates, among many glaring things, how spending taxpayer money on things like school police departments does not mean taxpayers get what they think they are paying for.
Lawyers file petition to remove Midland County D.A. on behalf of David Wilson – and rightfully so.
The Republican Party of Texas will be in convention next week. We visit with Senate District 28 Committeewoman candidate Joni Matthews.
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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 refused to take responsibility for the world as it is. And too many conservatives fall into the trap of utopianism as well by thinking the right policy or throwing money at, for example, mental health services, will somehow significantly stop evil and murderous criminal behavior. It’s time to put the policy blame where it belongs: School districts have largely ignored and not implemented the programs Texas legislators have given them that would put an armed response to evil in most buildings if not every classroom.
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Texas Tribune headline makes it appear that the U.S. House has approved the “Ike Dike” but the House did not fund the huge program it just authorized agencies to study and plan for the massive civil engineering project.
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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 says we need to do. It is as if he is unaware that we already have background check for gun purchases and that people who commit crimes already get punished – with jail and even the death penalty.
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CDC data shows that “vaccine” boosted Americans show higher COVID-19 infections compared to unboosted. Also brave Texas doctor sues the FDA over its untruthful propaganda about Ivermectin.
Sales tax collections for local cities continues to be high and well ahead of last year.
While a federal judge considers levying fines on Texas over its foster care programs, Senator Charles Perry expresses frustration that Child Protective Services has not made the reforms the Legislature passed.
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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 to take responsibility for the world as it is.
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Border news remains bad.
Update on recounts in Democrat primaries for Congress in the Rio Grande Valley.
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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 class, an American aristocracy, that only doles out the freedom they want the people to have. We cannot be free and yet take away freedoms for future crime, for things someone has not yet done – this is a fundamental, fatal problem with most suggestions around the issue of gun control.
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Oil and gas rotary drilling rig count.
We remember D-Day and Rudder’s Rangers.
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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 administrations.
Matt is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area who went to college at Nevada-Reno and got to Texas as soon as he could, but it took a while.
He worked on Capitol Hill for a decade as a communications director and when he just couldn’t it take anymore, he came to Lubbock - and we are all glad he did.
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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.”
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The Texas economy is feeling the Biden pinch and inflation is eating away at gains.
TX15 Democratic Primary race is an example of how public sector unions have outsized control of union politics and how the AFL-CIO ignores its own members to push the agenda of radical AFT and other public sector unions.
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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 leader.
Among many distinguished positions, Mr. Figueres has served as CEO and executive director of the World Economic Forum.
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Pratt on Texas from Costa Rica with Dr. Sivlia Zuñiga of DentoCare in Escazu.
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A special edition of Pratt on Texas from the Gonzales Memorial Museum sitting 10 feet from the “Come and Take It” canon with museum director Gary Schurig.
Originally aired on 3 May 2022.
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This a repeat show from August of 2021: I interview our friend, scholar Dr. Stephen Balch, about his, and John Eastman’s, piece at American Greatness: How States Could Constitutionally Assume Abandoned Responsibilities of the National Government.
Timing and the right issues are central to the reassertion of rights under the doctrine of “protective resumption” and the border crisis is a key opportunity.
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Today’s special edition of Pratt on Texas is an interview with our good friend, true conservative, and guest host Matt Crow and how Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey and others took back the U.S. Houses for Republicans after 40 years in the minority with the Contract for America.
Matt was part of the Ronald Reagan re-elect effort (1984) and then the administration in the 2nd term. He also served in both the Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations.
Matt is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area who went to college at Nevada-Reno and got to Texas as soon as he could, but it took a while.
He worked on Capitol Hill for a decade as a communications director and when he just couldn’t it take anymore, he came to Lubbock – and we are all glad he did.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Primary runoff election results settle some office and set others up for big November battles. A couple of Rio Grande Valley congressional Democrat runoffs are still too close to call. Beto Pancho O'Rourke is in full nasty Leftist campaign mode as he crashed and interrupted Governor Abbott's press conference in Uvalde today. The Dallas Morning News reported that Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin shouted back at Beto Pancho: “Sir, you’re out of line. I can’t believe you’re a sick son of a bitch who would come here to make a political issue.”
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An interview with HD84 GOP runoff victor Carl Tepper.
If it is not a murderer's responsibility then why do we arrest them, try them, imprison or even kill them? Guns no more entice or cause murder than does, say, Facebook or other social media or video games. In fact, it seems it's public infamy that drives many of these sick and/or evil persons. I've not come across a case in which the person's weapons were said to have talked him into committing murder.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Finally, after months of doing nothing, the Texas Association of School Boards is leaving the national group because of the report released on its politicking with the Biden White House comparing parents who speak up at school board meetings to “domestic terrorists.” Others left right away so why did TASB wait half-a-year to do so? Could it be their own connection to the infamous letter?
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Texas Public Policy Foundation takes on abusive ETJ – extraterritorial jurisdiction in which cities you cannot vote in can control your property.
Texas tornadoes, topless beach parties, and more make world news.
Feds foil assassination attempt on George W. Bush in Dallas.
Beware media narratives telling you what party runoff results mean.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas legislators should find coffers overflowing next year when writing a new budget. Worries about an economic downturn shouldn’t focus as much on protecting government as it should upon protecting Texas – by returning substantial funds to them.
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Border news: Photos of Abbott’s razor wire once again show that even at the central location of expensive Operation Lone Star it’s all show. They keep crossing and we just help turn them over to the feds. Notice what side of the wire the illegal aliens are standing upon.
Pre-election runoff day comment. Here’s a bitter Democrat statewide runoff to watch – both are lackluster candidates.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Short and sweet(?) Senator John Cornyn, you are the embarrassment. Plus Dr. Merrill Matthews speculates as to the share of the “Hispanic” vote need for the GOP to dominate national politics.
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Zack Smith of Heritage talks about “rogue” district attorneys and the turning of prosecutorial discretion into district attorneys operating as one-man legislatures. The recall efforts are only part of a solution.
Wildfire updates.
WuFlu update: As predicted by non-politicized scientists, mRNA vaccines are not living up to the hype some are giving them.
Border news.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Harris County once again trying to break Texas election law and the Harris Co. Republican Party is fighting back. And no surprise, the latest attempt would give hand picked people of the disgraced, outgoing election administrator custody of ballots and numbers outside of public view - which of course is what someone would want if cheating were intended. Read the story here: https://thetexan.news/state-gop-claims-harris-countys-election-day-procedures-violate-state-law/
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Runoff news includes Controversy, Conflict Define Sarah Stogner’s Weird and Wild Bid for Texas Railroad Commission as well as news from the race for attorney general.
Leftist lawyers trying the same B.S. thing on Senator Ted Cruz they did on A.G. Ken Paxton.
Anti-Wimp update out of Lubbock.
Wildfire updates.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: A good example of why the cult of mythical green energy Left cannot be trusted with Texas policy, economy, or electricity is found in a column in the Houston Chronicle. And by the way, why is the main newspaper for Energy Capital of the West, Houston, dedicated to killing off the legitimate petroleum energy industry?
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Dishonest and “yellow journalism” from the Houston Chronicle and Hearst trying to link Senator Ted Cruz to the Buffalo, NY mass killer just because they, and others, use the same word to describe something? The Chronicle uses the same words and phrases on environmental issues as some eco-terrorists so should they call themselves out?
Space industry historian and writer Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com joins us for an update on the happenings at SpaceX’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas facility.
Wildfire updates.
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PART 2 of 2: Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.
Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”
In this two-part episode we look at blacklisted Americans and those who are fighting back against this tyranny. Stories discussed include:
- College fires director of its free speech institute for advocating free speech
- School district investigates three children for using wrong pronouns
- Arizona parents sue over school board’s attempt to silence and intimidate them
- College in Illinois establishes black-men-only academy, no others need apply
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PART 1 OF 2: Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.
Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”
In this two-part episode we look at blacklisted Americans and those who are fighting back against this tyranny. Stories discussed include:
- College fires director of its free speech institute for advocating free speech
- School district investigates three children for using wrong pronouns
- Arizona parents sue over school board’s attempt to silence and intimidate them
- College in Illinois establishes black-men-only academy, no others need apply
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Uber hypocrisy discovered in the campaign of take-her-top-off Sarah Stogner in the GOP runoff for Railroad Commission. While she's beat up Wayne Christian, whom I fully endorse for reelection, over taking campaign donations from interests with business that comes before the Commission, as they all do, Stogner's entire campaign appears to be backed by a "transgender" rancher with business before the Commission who has business before it as well. $2 million worth of funding!
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Grayson Quay writes: Here's to the Christian knuckle-draggers. Incidental to the main topic of the piece is this truthful (in context) and key line: "The purpose of nuance and dialogue is never to increase mutual understanding. It’s to pull you further to the left."
Poll shows astounding ignorance on Texas property taxes.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Early voting begins today in the Texas political party primary runoff elections (Election Day is Tuesday, 24 May.) A review of my recommendations and other election news including some polling out over the weekend.
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An item in a statewide poll shows why local elected officials (schools, counties, cities, etc.) find it easy to mislead the public about property taxes. 60% of Democrats, 26% of Republicans, 34% of independents (overall 40%) blame “Governor Abbott and Texas legislators” for “high property taxes in Texas” when the state does not even levy any property taxes! All property taxes levied by local government officials for local government spending.
Senator Cruz gets a big win at the U.S. Supreme Court for free political speech.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Thank you to George P. Bush for telling all in a Lubbock event that he is what I have said he is for years. He criticized Paxton for going to court to stop illegal local government COVID mandates and teaching of CRT in schools calling the CRT issue “overly politicized.” He’s a squish who is openly admitting that he will not work hard to enforce Texas law much less fight for the conservative and Republican agenda if elected Texas Attorney General.
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Texas Supreme Court rules that the Department of Family and Protective Services may continue to investigate child sex change activity as child abuse.
In a look at local races, we visit with Lubbock County Court at Law #2 GOP runoff candidate Bob Nebb.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: What’s behind all the stories on a baby formula shortage? It has to do with the Biden Administration’s utter incompetence and even powerful Democrat Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut says so. So much for Biden’s promise of a more competent, bigger government.
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Governor Abbott says he’s against declaring the border invasion an “invasion.” Maybe he’s right, maybe he’s wrong but the reasons he gave on KURV are so weak as to suggest that he really hasn’t given it the thought he claims.
Voter fraud case portrayed by the Houston Chronicle as fizzling out and therefore an embarrassment to Texas Republicans is anything but and the story shows such. The story document the longtime, widespread practice of illegal ballot harvesting and yet tries to tell us the Republicans are making a big deal of nothing. You can bet that if these were primarily Republican ballots being harvested the story would be different.
New GOP primary runoff polling.
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Thomas Jipping of Heritage discusses the problem with Roe vs. Wade that all Americans should agree with no matter their position on abortion.
Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, which is part of the Institute for Constitutional Government at Heritage.
Tom joined Heritage in May 2018 after 15 years on the staff of U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), including several as his chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He spent the previous 13 years at two public policy organizations: Concerned Women for America, where he was senior fellow in legal studies; and the Free Congress Foundation, where Tom served as Vice President for Policy and Director of the Center for Law and Democracy.
Tom has developed a national reputation, among both liberals and conservatives, as an expert in the federal judiciary and, in particular, the appointment of federal judges. The Nation magazine, for example, has dubbed him “the right’s ablest analyst of confirmation fights.” At Tom’s final meeting of the Judiciary Committee in April 2018, Senator Hatch said that Tom is a “true expert” who “knows everything there is to know about nominations.”
Tom’s scholarship includes articles in law and public policy journals as well as hundreds of op-eds and articles in both print and online publications. He has presented papers at conferences including the American Political Science Association and testified before legislative committees in the U.S. Senate and House and in several states.
Tom received a B.A. with honors from Calvin College and both an M.A. in political science and a J.D., cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo. While at SUNY-Buffalo Law School, Tom was a founding member of the Buffalo Federalist Society and served as the Head Note and Comment Editor of the Buffalo Law Review. Before coming to Washington, Tom clerked for Judge William D. Hutchinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Tom lives in Fairfax, Virginia, and is an active member of New Hope Presbyterian Church.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: A classic want to have your cake but eat it too story out of Lubbock GOP runoff for Texas House District 84. Man inserts himself into a political race and stars in a candidates TV commercial that runs constantly in which he disparages the other candidate, Carl Tepper, and then when Mr. Tepper mentions something about him, he cries to the lawyers. Read more here.
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Thomas Jipping of Heritage discusses the problem with Roe vs. Wade that all Americans should agree with no matter their position on abortion.
Local sales tax numbers continue to show Texas cities enjoying much more year-to-date revenue than last year which should mean they don’t need to raise property taxes on you.
A new border security coalition presents a roadmap for the new Congress on how to deal with the Biden border crisis and illegal immigration. It is loaded with right items.
Abbott’s knee-jerk border inspection program that blew up on him may cost Texas millions if not billions in trade in future years.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: What about the idea that conservatives should let up the pressure on legislators because they had a “good session” (and it was) for conservative priorities? We talk with Anthony Holm on his op-ed in the Houston Chronicle: Conservatives, let’s keep winning, not fight each other.
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Governor Greg Abbott comes out for full school choice but will it all just be posing to catch the political winds? Abbott’s rhetoric doesn’t match his recent actions in endorsing several strongly anti-school choice legislators in primary runoffs.
An idea for lowering local crime rates: Start doing warrant roundups weekly, or even daily.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Conservative activist and big donor Dr. Steven Hotze appears to be in serious trouble over the election cheating investigation he was overseeing in Houston in 2020. New evidence out suggests his criminal indictment may indeed have merit. It’s a sad tale and one that shows how emotions can get away with us at election time.
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Election roundup and comment.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Old fashioned brass knuckles Texas politics: Attorney General’s office opens investigation into the Texas State Bar Foundation after the State Bar goes after A.G. Paxton because they don’t like his politics. Good summaries here and here.
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Oil and gas rig count falls by one in Texas. How do you explain such? There are a huge number of previously drilled wells awaiting “completion” and that is what is going on – existing wells are being completed and production is increasing without an extra huge deployment of drilling rigs.
Texas Tribune sees “skepticism” and local election competition in normally “sleepy” races to be “threats to Democracy” and wants people to provide them of stories of such!
Saturday’s election has two constitutional amendments that deserve a “for” vote. Also, I address the rather empty and odd charges leveled at Lubbock city council District 5 candidate Dr. Jennifer Wilson by people who should know better.
Judy Kelly’s great column at American Greatness: Roe Ruling: Making Protest Lawful Again.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: If the Supreme Court reasserts robust Federalism in its upcoming abortion decision, it may open the door to challenges to other Federal overreach cases including Plyler vs. Doe which required Texas to provide free public education for those residing here illegally. Governor Abbott is saying Texas might just “resurrect” that case.
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Comptroller Glenn Hegar talks about Texas booming economy and the very real challenges inflation poses to state coffers.
Abortion exceptions for rape deny the value of human life and one woman wants you to know that though she was conceived in the rape of her 11-year-old mother, her life has value!
Cinco de Mayo matters and the victor of the Battle of Puebla was born in Goliad, Texas! See photos here.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is a win for Federalism the right way to handle abortion at the Supreme Court? While it is great to learn that after decades of work we may have the votes to overturn Roe vs. Wade, which is an awful decision from many angles, how is it "constitutional" to let states decide by vote that the lives of little babies in the womb can be taken for the convenience of those who copulated to create them? This is a good, short piece on the subject: https://bigjolly.com/the-leaked-dobbs-draft-decision-is-a-disaster/
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Lubbock's District 5 city council race kerfuffle has many candidates and supporters saying things my experience tells me they wouldn't be saying if they were the campy with big PAC support. There is little to the story except that Dr. Jennifer Wilson, whose husband is a firefighter, is getting huge financial support in the city's toughest race from firefighters. And since when did Lubbock have a beef with its firefighters politically? Where did all this fear of firefighters having a friend on the council become a problem?
Anti-Wimp update.
Don't believe those, especially elected officials, who simply assert it (CRT, homosexual, or any other radical Leftist agenda) "isn't happening here" unless they can demonstrate that they have seriously investigated. We've just found out the Employee Retirement System of Texas has been voting shareholder votes for pro-Leftist radical environmental issues that target our oil and gas industry. This stuff seems to be going on most everywhere and we must have the guts to look deeply, even locally, to ensure that such is stopped or not happening to begin with.
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A special edition of Pratt on Texas from the Gonzales Memorial Museum sitting 10 feet from the “Come and Take It” canon with museum director Gary Schurig.
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Today's show is a special edition of Pratt on Texas in which I interview Ken Adams, a longtime Pratt on Texas listener who now hosts his own show on my Lubbock affiliate KWBF 98.7 FM and 1420 AM.
Learn about The Thin Line with Ken Adams at his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/thethinlinewithkenadams/
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Harris County Democrats, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times go after Crime Stoppers in Houston because,… wait for it…, because Crime Stoppers is being vocal about stopping crime Houston and Harris County! Holly Hansen joins us to discuss this risible situation in the Bayou City.
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Abilene ISD candidate Jeff Carr talks about the documented dishonestly of the ISD’s administration and unrest among faculty.
Rig count goes down despite exports of West Texas Intermediate crude oil increasing to Europe.
City of Dallas is looking at limiting who and what can buy homes and how many!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: So what’s in one of these books media and other Leftists are so committed to keeping in our public school libraries? Sherry Sylvester takes a look at the almost always cited “Gender Queer” and says you should too. All through these debates the Left is accusing “censorship” but in reality all that’s being pushed is appropriateness.
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Lubbock ISD, District 4 candidate Bethany Luna goes off in a Facebook Live session on conservative Christians and LISD board members who do not share her commitment to the homosexual social agenda. If you listen to the entire thing what is clear is the norm: It’s wrong for anyone other than people who share her views to have differing views enacted into policy.
Abilene city council punts pro-life ordinance to the voters.
Abbott asks for public donations to run his free for the illegals travel agency booking trips to D.C. And, lawyers sue Texas over Abbott’s arrest-and-jail policy which in reality is nothing more than a delay in handing folks over to the feds for release.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Are your local tax dollars going to fund the Texas or American Library Association? If so, you are paying for organizations that have chosen to place advocacy for Leftism, sexual perversion, and even Marxism at the top of their agenda and are using libraries for such. Many school districts and city or county libraries pay the dues for their librarians and even fund trips to the conventions. Find out if you local government is doing so and if so, work to turn off the spigot.
- Self-Described ‘Marxist Lesbian’ Elected Next President of American Library Association
- Texas Library Association Features ‘Drag Performer’ and ‘Antiracist’ at Annual Conference
- Texas Library Association Hosts Critical Race Theory Speaker
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Texas wins again as best state for business, 18 years in a row! Plus a big stack of other business news.
Good news on the pro-life front from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Beware what you read in reporting about A.G. Paxton versus the Texas Whistleblower Act. The press would be making opposite arguments, and they'd be right, if the A.G. were a beloved Democrat. Rightly, Lieutenant Governor Patrick and Governor Abbott have urged the Texas Supreme Court to take up the issue involving Paxton. The Democrat 3rd Court of Appeals was seriously wrong in ruling Paxton's top aides had protection under the Act as they are inferior officers hired directly by an elected official answerable to the people. Representative government cannot work if elected people are not able to pick and choose, hire and fire, people to move their, the official's, policy agenda.
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Anti-Wimp update.
Interview with Pat Kelly, Lubbock city council District 1 candidate.
Interview with Charles Byrn, Abilene city council candidate for Place 6.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Voting begins today for the May 7th uniform election date which is normally only local government non-partisan positions on the ballot. But due to work this past summer in special sessions of the Texas legislature, we have two Texas constitutional amendments on the ballot. I explain what proposition 1 is all about.
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Texas A&M is in the middle of a culture war and the media is pushing for the Leftists. But what they miss in the reporting is that a public university has no more business sponsoring a drag queen show than it does sponsoring a sexual fetish festival.
A Texas National Guardsman lost his life saving illegal border crossers from drowning. The supreme sacrifice was for a mission that does nothing to inhibit illegal aliens from entering the country. Governor Abbott’s border action is aimed at fooling the ill-informed into thinking he’s a tough guy on the border but in reality nothing he has done is helping stop illegal entry.
Texas manufacturing activity still growing but slower.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Former chief of staff for Gov. Greg Abbott now a high paid lobbyist for the Left. Why did Abbott have such a key staff member who was comfortable promoting the filth of the Left and how much good legislation did the person use his influence to kill over the years?
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Property taxes and appraisals -don’t let the ignorant and the liars fool you. If they claim that aggregate appraisal increases raised your taxes, ask them: Who forced local officials (city council members, county commissioners, etc.) to set an annual tax rate above the No New Revenue Rate? Force an answer.
A look at local races with Adam Hernandez running for Lubbock mayor with the backing of the de facto Democrat machine.
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This Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra is from a candidate forum held by the Lubbock Chapter of the Hispanic Republican National Assembly, Victor Flores, chairman, on Tuesday, 29 March 2022. The event was sponsored and hosted by the Lubbock Auto Auction charitable foundation. The Lubbock Auto Auction is the 2nd oldest auto auction in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River.
This segment is for Lubbock City Council Candidates for District 5, a big race with an incumbent running for re-election. The segment is moderated by Ken Adams, host of The Thin Line by Ken Adams, airing weekdays at Noon on Walk By Faith Radio and Ally Phillips host of the Morning Show airing weekdays 7 to 10 a.m. on KWBF, 98.7 FM and 1420 AM in Lubbock.
The two candidates appearing are: Keri Thomas, Jennifer Wilson, Randy Christian(incumbent), Bill Felton, and Chase Head.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Harris County District Attorney, Democrat Kim Ogg, is using the criminal courts to attempt to freeze Texans from investigating vote fraud in choosing to persuade a grand jury to indict conservative donor and leader Dr. Steven Hotze for the criminal actions of a third party, a former Houston police captain. It is now DA Ogg who should be facing serious consequences for playing politics with our criminal law.
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Texas Democrats want an even earlier primary so they can profit off of being one of the first presidential primaries. Bad idea.
Fauci’s Texas Lab Signed a ‘Confidential’ Deal With Wuhan Colleagues Enabling ‘Destroying Secret Files, Materials.’
Celebrating San Jacinto Day with Battle of San Jacinto from The Silent Generation by The Dimes. Hear the song here: https://thedimes.bandcamp.com/track/battle-of-san-jacinto
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This Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra is from a candidate forum held by the Lubbock Chapter of the Hispanic Republican National Assembly, Victor Flores, chairman, on Tuesday, 29 March 2022. The event was sponsored and hosted by the Lubbock Auto Auction charitable foundation. The Lubbock Auto Auction is the 2nd oldest auto auction in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River.
This segment is for Lubbock City Council Candidates for District 1, an open seat. The segment is moderated by Ken Adams, host of The Thin Line by Ken Adams, airing weekdays at Noon on Walk By Faith Radio, KWBF, 98.7 FM and 1420 AM in Lubbock.
The two candidates are Christy Martinez-Garcia and Pat Kelly.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Wendy Davis continues her crusade to make the killing of babies in the womb easy and commonplace with a lawsuit against State Rep. Cain and other private individuals over the Texas Fetal Heartbeat bill. Odd thing is that her lawsuit is circular in that it engages in what she claims is wrong with the law.
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Candidate interviews with two of several hopefuls for Lubbock City Council District 5: Chase Head and Keri Thomas.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Almost everyone but Gov. Abbott agrees the border crisis has risen to the level of invasion. But instead of take actions that actually reduce illegal crossing, Greg Abbott seems dedicated, at present, to gimmicks and chimeras that make him look tough but accomplish nothing more than boosting his image. Texans are spending billions on the border and deserve actions that are effective.
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Farm Bureau AgFund endorses Carl Tepper in HD84 GOP runoff election.
Far Leftist woman, Jessical Cisneros, in TX 28 is top fundraiser of Texas federal candidates in her bid to defeat centrist Democrat Henry Cuellar.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Headline in the Houston Chronicle, “Harris County Dems call GOP’s runoff voting map ‘disturbingly racist,’ say it threatens more election issues” is a lesson for Republicans on how they will rarely get a fair shake from the media even when all the facts are on their side. So now it is “racist” to want more polling places as opposed to fewer!
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Texas public colleges and universities are mostly institutionally dedicated to advocating for Leftist orthodoxy. UT’s liberals killed off a center for the study of Western Civilization years ago and now they are doing the same to a center for classical education that questions Leftist dogma.
Unemployment numbers extremely low across Texas.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Library associations show they are not about running efficient libraries but are instead Leftist social revolutionary Democrat front groups. Is your city, county, or school district picking up the tab for librarians to be members of these groups?
- Texas Library Association Features ‘Drag Performer’ and ‘Antiracist’ at Annual Conference
- Texas school librarian group fights against parents’ requests for age-appropriate book boundaries
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Senator Cruz endorses against Gov. Abbott’s picks in several state house races. We talk with one of those people Cruz is backing: HD60 GOP runoff candidate Mike Olcott.
Oil & gas drilling rig report out.
Anti-Wimp Update!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott should stop expensive to the taxpayer border security theater and, if spending our money, implement policies that measurably, effectively, and significantly slow illegal immigration into Texas. The idea that Abbott should be praised for doing things that bring political points but do not have an effect on actual illegal crossing into Texas is immoral and akin to the typical liberal demand on things “that we just do something” even if that something doesn’t work.
Today he’s trying to claw his way out of his latest ill-advised truck safety inspection order that has slowed trade to a crawl further adding to inflation and the supply chain disruption that are harming Texans daily.
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Finally a judge rules that Texas cannot give illegal aliens in-state tuition discounts while making lawful Americans from out of state pay much more.
Railroad Commission member Wayne Christian talks about U.S. energy independence as well as how his GOP Primary Runoff opponent is a Lefty.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott has done it again. He has poorly planned and poorly executed another border security issue. Is he simply incompetent at actually running something other than a political operation?
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Space expert says Abbott’s expressed effort to keep SpaceX launches in Texas at Boca Chica beach is “weak” and I fully agree.
An example of the appropriate and the non-appropriate use of taxpayer resources from the City of Lubbock: Hosting and promoting at taxpayer expense an Earth Day celebration is wrong. Hosting and promoting a city cemetery clean up day is right. Who in city government is so shockingly ignorant that they do not know that Earth Day is both a Leftist political event and an anti-religious, secular humanist event? When is the city going to host and promote a Pro-Life event on Broadway?
In a look at local races, Lubbock city council candidate, District 5, Jennifer Wilson joins us.
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Douglas Blair joined me in a Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra to discuss his piece in The Daily Signal: Woke Disney Hates America. It Wasn’t Always This Way.
Blair is an administrative assistant for communications at The Heritage Foundation and a contributor for The Daily Signal.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Indictments issued for Harris Co. Judge Lina Hidalgo’s top staffers in the COVID outreach contract scandal.
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Abilene City Council to consider Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance petition this week.
HD60 runoff candidate Mike Olcott gets endorsement of Ted Cruz. Abbott endorsed the first term RINO incumbent Glenn Rogers.
HD84: Lubbock Association of Realtors PAC endorses Carl Tepper in the big runoff for the state house in Lubbock.
Excerpts from a Podcast Extra interview I did with Douglass Blair of Heritage on “woke” Disney and other anti-American American companies. Along with that, why is Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan hostile to stopping the movement to sexualize our children as well as push the homosexual/transsexual political agenda?
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Post primary election and pre-runoff work uncovers much incompetence by local government election officials in huge Dallas and Harris counties. The Harris County situation is by far the worst and local Democrat commissioners don’t even seem to care much about the rules. Holly Hansen has a new story on Harris County’s mess.
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Interviews with Abilene ISD school board candidates Reini King, Place 4andJeff Carr, Place 5.
Oil and gas drilling rig count jumps in the double digits in Texas.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Gov. Abbott announces another round of expensive but ineffective theater border security.
His pledge to send illegal aliens to the nation’s capitol is near a lie – it requires them to volunteer(!) for such and it’s only people already processed by the feds who are allowed to remain the country.
As to the “razor wire,” we’ve already seen this and all our people do is help the folks get through it.
Then to the vehicle safety inspections: Why in the world was this not done many years ago when we more than doubled spending on DPS specifically for the border build up? This was the type of thing we were told then Texas would be doing. Texans should be furious at Abbott playing them for fools.
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Big reports out on the number of mail-in ballots rejected in the Texas primary elections for not complying with new ID requirements. The disparity of the rejection rates from one large county to another raises serious questions.
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rules 5 to 4 in favor of a Texas law on harassment by email and other electronic communications. I agree with the minority that the law interferes with freedom of speech. The case will likely move to federal courts now.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Polling from the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation is quite interesting and should frighten Democrats. Getting much attention is the dislike of George P. Bush however the polling data shows large pluralities who are fully aware of his poor performance at the Land Office meaning it’s not just the unpopularity of the Bush name as some would lead you to believe.
State Senator Beverly Powell simply quits, handing SD10 to Republican Phil King. She lost her lawsuit over the redrawn lines of the district and says she’ll withdraw from the ballot!
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Show I was right on 30 March, press reports out today show there is a push to get Gov. Greg Abbott to move to a position of real action on the border with Mexico. But as you’d expect, Abbott won’t use the term “invasion” in a constitutional context. Well guv, if it’s not an invasion then what is it?
Sales tax receipts for Texas taxing districts show huge growth which means cities shouldn’t be raising property taxes next year.
Another few moments pointing out that rising appraisals do not, in general, raise your property taxes. Taxes only go up when local government officials set a new tax rate for the next year that brings in more money from existing property (property taxed in the last year) than in the previous budget year.
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This is a Pratt on Texas podcast extra interview Konni Burton, founder of The Texan and a former state senator, on her efforts to provide straight news in a world of "advocacy journalism."
From my perspective the interesting issue is how straight news reporting avoids being classified as "right-wing" or "niche" by the Leftist leaning traditional media. How do outlets such as The Texan begin to be seen by the public as "mainstream?"
Recorded 5 April 2022.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Senator Bob Hall is rightly calling for much needed reforms of the Texas Medical Board. The problems have long existed, and in many ways are quite un-American, but it is WuFlu that has made those problems know to a wider audience. Holly Hansen at The Texan has provided excellent coverage of the issue.
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A visit with Konni Burton, founder of The Texan and a former state senator, on her efforts to provide straight news in a world of “advocacy journalism.”
Texas Democratic Party fight for chairman heats up with allegations of “workplace violence.”
Some Tarrant County “Republicans” want a Democrat County judge because the Republican nominee is actually a conservative.
Lt. Gov. Patrick wants a Texas version of Florida’s new law to prevent schools from sexualizing young children. Texas press runs the Leftist propaganda phrase “don’t say ‘gay'” in headlines even though the bill has no such requirement.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Anti-Second Amendment and self-defense advocates, Biden included, use California mass shooting to push for gun control already in effect in, where else?, California! Rep. Ronny Jackson making federal moves to stop some California action that taxes exercising one’s Second Amendment rights.
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Texas sales taxes continue to rise in a big way.
Lt. Gov. Patrick releases interim charges for state senators.
Texas Lyceum poll is as bad as always but another real poll on the GOP primary runoff has interesting numbers. Abbott polls very bad in this poll as a GOP presidential nominee.
And after getting your vote, Governor Abbott endorses the non-conservatives in runoffs for the Texas House – including two endorsed by the uber-Left American Federation of Teachers union.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Little by little Texas legislators have fought local governments to force better honesty with voters on taxes. Tax raisers want you to be fooled but never forget that there is no free money, bond issues raise taxes and usually do so for decades.
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Another round of “woe is us” from the press about Texas teachers.
Grand jury got it right in the no bill of Kyle Carruth.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The push to “normalize” homosexuality rolled most like a tsunami. Now it’s the tidal wave to convince you that girls and boys are not actually females and males. Will you be cowered into submission fearing a Leftist society more than you fear and respect God? And, what of these legislators who last session tried to tell us this movement of transsexualization wasn’t a real issue and was simply being pushed by a few radical conservative group?
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HD12 runoff featuring RINO state Rep. Kacal and a challenge from Ben Bius gives evidence to my long running admonition that often our office holders are among the least informed on the politics of the state and country.
Enforcement of restrictive Texas “drone” photography law partly stopped by federal court just as I predicted years ago.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: With state spending at an all time high, by a multiple, on border security, some in the legislature seem to be moving to attempt to force the governor’s hand in apply real border security as opposed to the theater security we currently have with Operation Lone Star. Good for them but I doubt most legislative leadership has the stomach to challenge the feds and start truly stopping the invasion.
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Lubbock city council candidates know crime is the big issue but their campaign talk isn’t very clear or focused on the subject.
Federal Election Commission fines the DNC and the 2016 Hillary campaign over hiding, in finance filings, the purpose of their expenditure for the debunked Russian “dossier” on Trump. Too bad the damage is already done.
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Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.
The blacklisting goes beyond absurdity as mindless Leftist followers work to shut down a pro-civil rights opera because a writer is white and a second grader is harassed for openly talking about Jesus and Christianity at school, plus more.
Zimmerman discusses how the seeds of today's problems were planted some time ago.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats and liberals, especially in media, never stop telling Republicans what Republicans should say, believe, and do with their political party. Most folks see this clearly for what it is but there are always the dupes and sadly that sometimes includes putative Republicans. The Dallas Morning News and resume builder and Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker are an example.
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Behindtheblack.com’s Bob Zimmerman on the Biden Administration’s seeming effort too kill off SpaceX’s monumental work in Texas with Starship.
Retail and service sector economic report from the Dallas Fed.
Another installment on how Politifact and similar are not “fact checkers” but part of the Leftist propaganda effort; this time it’s the Hunter Biden laptop emails.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is property tax appraisal notice season and the same old tricks will be used to make you think your taxes went up just because property values increased – it’s not true. Taxes go up because elected officials at the local level set new year tax rates above the No New Revenue, or effective, Rate. A fine piece in The Texan reminds of that uncomfortable for local officials fact.
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Wildfires rage across Texas and the next day or so will likely bring worsening conditions.
Texas manufacturing outlook and other economic news.
Trump may have had a “mouth,” or tweet, problem but it pales in comparison to “gaffe machine” Biden when it comes to the danger of such.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden and Democrats have the gasoline and oil price just where the want it. Really. They’ve said as much in the campaign and it’s all to kill off our robust energy industry. Rig count and more in a petro update.
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Governor Abbott bragging about building a border wall but it’s only 2 miles long and the next is also only 2 miles long. The border between Texas and Mexico is over 1200 miles long and hundreds of miles are currently seeing massive illegal crossing. Much border news.
Stories on Southlake show what you should learn: Any act of “democracy” that does not further empower the Left is not celebrated but is characterized as some form of evil.
County border mistake(?) between Kaufman and Henderson counties has created a big problem for over 180 property tax payers.
Former San Angelo police chief found guilty on bribery charges in Lubbock federal court.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: From crocodile tears to absurd positions on the role of the press, HD84’s Glasheen backer Lewis and attorney take some rather odd positions on and about free political speech in a press conference today. As with the Left, it seems things are only acceptable if it supports their position. Also, Mr. Lewis seems to have no problem making unfounded accusations about Tepper either.
What we really found out in today’s press conference was that Lewis has had a long running feud with Tepper over disagreements as to the significance of military veterans in the chronically homeless population and took it to the Glasheen campaign, using their money to attack Tepper in the HD84 race.
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U.S. Supreme Court says Texas must let clergy pray with prisoner, and lay on hands if wished, in the execution chamber.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Harris County judge and staff now under serious investigation for steering COVID-related contract to a Hillary Clinton political operative – $11 million to a woman’s company with one employee, herself, operating out of an apartment in the Montrose-area. This scheme gives you an idea of how these Leftist Dems seem to be able to live the high life years in between big campaign gigs.
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More top brass leave the Texas National Guard demonstrating what I said all along: Abbott’s border plan was poorly put together but only after the primary was he willing to deal with it. The problem is that it is the plan itself, from the Governor, that is faulty and playing musical chairs with leadership changes nothing unless the mission is changed.
Former San Angelo police chief testifies in his federal trial on a bribery charge. It’s all about the band, man…
Three different rocket business stories related to Texas as well as Navistar’s new San Antonio plant and more self-driving taxis being tested.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Leftists administrators at University of North Texas have lost yet another round in which they’ve claimed immunity from personal responsibility for their political viewpoint actions against UNT faculty. Great, but where is Governor Abbott on this continued bad behavior? He appoints the regents who govern these places.
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Wildfire, blizzard, tornadoes, and flooding: Texas begins spring with Texas weather.
Robert Francis (Beto Pancho) O’Rourke flip flops on issues depending upon where he is talking in the state. He also has a big Ukraine problem.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Leftists, of course that includes much of the Texas media, are wailing about A.G. Ken Paxton. What did he do that is so wrong now? He referred to a male as a man. And by the way, why did George P. Bush’s campaign remain silent on the issue unless P. is a supporter of this calling men women and women men stuff?
And the entire bubbling issue in Texas over “parents” who are facilitating transsexualism with their children shows how wrong some legislators were who justified inaction on the subject by claiming it was not happening and was a “made up” issue by some conservative groups.
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Answering Listener Club member questions about “at-large” districts as well as county political party “precinct chairmen.”
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Our Lone Star story of the day: “The DeSantis Doctrine” by Kurt Schlichter is a great look at what how an authentic conservative leader governs. “It’s the DeSantis Doctrine, and it’s summed up this way: Your garbage institutions don’t mean Schiff to me. I am going to ruthlessly wield my power to protect normal people from your depredations. And I’m going to smile doing it,” writes Schlichter. “But here’s the basic underpinning of the DeSantis Doctrine: A conservative principle that results in conservatives being less free is a pretty crappy principle. ”
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Candidate interviews:
- HD95 Republican nominee Taylor Mondick
- Abilene city council candidate Charles Byrn
- Abilene ISD Place 6 hopeful Justin Anderson
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Our Lone Star story of the day: There sure is a lot of fightback on Texas rules protecting children from so-called sex changes to not be a “real issue” as some legislators claimed last legislative session. The fightback proves that children are indeed being abused.
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Gov. Abbott says his border effort is going to start doing, sometime soon, what he’d already led people to believe it was doing from the beginning. He needs to go another direction but instead, using our money, he’s putting very expensive lipstick on a failed pig.
R.I.P. Lauro Cavazos.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Three stories in the press review stack show there is a culture of corruption of one kind or another in our Texas public schools. It certainly isn’t everyone but it is widespread and people beginning to notice such is why school board races are heating up, not just the conservative Republican fightback against the Left’s promotion of sin to our children.
- SEC charges Crosby ISD, former CFO with misleading investors as it sold $20M in bonds
- Panel Exposes Disconnect Between School Bond Promoters and Property Taxpayers
- More Texas Parents Find Pornographic Books in Their Children’s School Libraries
- Texas’ traditionally sleepy school board races are suddenly attracting attention — and money
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More absurdity on the Harris County elections debacle. Now resigned administrator says her staff members were too tired to count ballots (it’s done by computer) and giving evidence that the League of Women Voters is not a respectable organization it chooses to honor this disgraced elections administrator.
Tacitly admitting reported problems with the Texas National Guard Operation Lone Star border deployment were genuine, Gov. Abbott replaces Texas' top general - post election.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Despite the constant media and Democrat narrative that January 6th 2021 was a threat to democracy, and even Ted Cruz calling the event at the Capitol terrorism, the actual facts do not support such hyperbole.
We’re going to end up with a generation of people who are not sure what December 7th, 1941 is all about but will think January 6th, 2021 was a great day of infamy in which our republic was seriously threatened.
All of this is preposterous and especially so when one considers the shootings of 5 representatives on the House floor and multiple bombings of the Capitol which were actual events of violence for seditious purposes. (You hear little of those real seditious events because such were propagated by Leftists that Democrats admire.)
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IPI’s Merrill Matthews on putting price controls on Congress!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Beto Pancho O’Rourke going out of his way to Wendy Davis the gubernatorial election for Democrats? No, he’s really just that ignorant, sinful, and anti-Constitution.
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Lt. Gov. Patrick appoints a Senate Special Committee on Child Protective Services. No policy will stop human sin but a good top to bottom review of the agency is needed.
Segment 2 is a replay of some of my comments on Democrats and Biden would rather fund enemies than let Texas’ oil & gas industry flourish from March 7th.
Segment 3 and 4 is a replay of my interview with strategist Sherry Sylvester on the Texas primary in which she called the GOP runoff for Attorney General the “war of the baggage.”
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaker of the Texas House Phelan issues interim charges to members which are a good signpost of his priorities. Some of the items are fine and needed but what is missing appears to indicate that Phelan supports the immoral societal agenda of the Left.
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Texas Supreme Court rules properly that the plain language of Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat Bill does not allow the state, including medical licensing boards, to enforce the bill. This is a big loss for the abortion/baby killing industry and the case returns to the federal 5th Circuit.
Behindtheblack.com’s Bob Zimmerman on how the Biden administration is putting the future of SpaceX’s giant South Texas facility and investment at risk.
Judge Janis Jack and other progressives fool themselves that one can out-policy sinful human behavior in dealing with the foster care system.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. and Mexico border crisis is worse than ever; Texas is spending huge amounts of our money and yet that spending has proven largely ineffectual, and; D.C. Democrats just passed an giant omnibus spending bill that provides massive border security funding, not for us but, for other countries like Libya, Jordan, Egypt and more!
Abbott’s Operation Lone Star is finally being expanded beyond two counties but not by much and the whole thing has inarguably done nothing to discourage illegal crossings as we keep setting new “record levels.”
We just lock some of them up and get them fed and healthy with taxpayer funded medical care and meals and then turn them over to the feds who release them into the country. This is not sound policy. If it worked it would be great but it has not worked and thus is wasting huge amounts of our money.
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Local sales tax numbers are out and such numbers show how ridiculous it is that most local municipalities raised property taxes for this year’s budget.
A bit more on inflation and information on Russian oil.
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On today's Pratt on Texas, I talk with economist Vance Ginn on the dangers of inflation. This originally aired on 17 December 2021.
Vance Ginn, PhD, is the chief economist at the Foundation. Ginn works to unlock poverty through relational, inclusive changes in institutions that expand opportunities to let people prosper. He is a prolific writer and a leading free market economist.
Ginn works on many policy areas that support human flourishing. He leads the Foundation’s development of policy recommendations to limit government spending and eliminate burdensome regulations so that taxpayer dollars can be directed to effective programs and to those targeted for help, while strengthening inclusive institutions at the state, local, and federal levels. Ginn also develops and leads a multi-state welfare improvement initiative, known as the Opportunity Project.
During four Texas legislative sessions, Ginn fought for and won many good-government reforms to let people prosper: several Conservative Texas Budgets, stronger spending limits, lower business margin tax, property tax relief, and fewer occupational licensing barriers.
Ginn was the associate director for economic policy of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the Executive Office of the President during the Trump administration. In this capacity, he advised the OMB’s director on economic and fiscal policy matters. He managed a team who sought evidence of good government and modeled the economic assumptions in the president’s FY 2021 budget. They proposed to cut a record $4.6 trillion in debt over a decade, made the Trump tax cuts permanent, and noted the need for a fiscal rule. Ginn also provided in-depth analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to his work as an economist, Ginn taught multiple economics courses at Sam Houston State University and at Texas Tech University, where he won a teaching award.
Ginn earned his doctorate in economics and a BBA in economics and accounting from Texas Tech University. He received the Defender of the American Dream award from Americans for Prosperity—Texas; the Champion of Freedom award from Grassroots America—We The People; and the Bob Williams Award for Outstanding Policy Achievement from the State Policy Network.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott has tasked the TEA commissioner to assemble a task force to look into public school teacher shortages. Why now? We began the last school year with a record number of teachers employed, as well as administrators, and the lowest attrition level in a decade. The Democrats, in the press, are using this as a reason to call for more money for teachers but districts are mostly awash in cash. How about a competitive market instead of the government socialist market for education which would benefit teachers as well as students and their families?
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In the “War of the baggage” that is the GOP runoff for attorney general, P. Bush just added a steamer trunk sized bit to what’s weighing him down.
Is Kelsey Warren’s lawsuit again O’Rourke warranted? It raises serious legal questions about free political speech and private citizens.
Harris County’s election debacle has Dems and Republicans screaming for change in the state’s most populous county.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: President Biden and many Democrats would rather fund our enemies than let Texas and the domestic oil and gas industry flourish. Even in the threat of war these people practice their cultish “green energy” faith. Biden is coming to Texas tomorrow but not to cheer on the oil and gas industry and encourage it to produce more so we don’t have to fund Putin’s takeover of Ukraine by buying Russian oil, nope, he’s coming to Fort Worth to talk about some VA healthcare issue.
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Anti-Wimp update: Longview burglar picks the wrong woman’s house.
Attorney General Paxton gets a big runoff endorsement from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Harris County botched the primary elections worse than we already know. Not only did they take almost 30 hours to count the vote, we now know that they left 10,000 ballots out of the count.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today's press review contains examples of how the Texas press will completely mischaracterize a story to attack Republican officials. During a primary runoff in which Attorney General Ken Paxton is a candidate, the Hearst papers have run a headline that dishonestly paints Paxton as having engaged in fraud when in reality the story is one of the state getting a big win over Medicaid cheats. Then, after much criticism of Paxton for having the state sue Twitter, the state press doesn't bother to report Twitter's second loss in its counter suit claiming the case is merely political retribution.
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In a look toward the May 7th uniform election date, I interview Tray Payne, candidate for mayor of the City of Lubbock.
Oddly the Texas rig count fell this week.
Another La Joya ISD official pleads guilty to corruption. And, the Dimmit County sheriff has been arrested on several charges.
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Podcast Extra: More interview with Tray Payne, candidate for Lubbock mayor. Here the first two segments of the interview in the podcast of the Pratt on Texas show for 3/4/2022.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Strategist Sherry Sylvester, a key person in years past behind Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, joins me for a high altitude look at the Republican Primary result - what happened and maybe more importantly what did not happen Tuesday.
Even today the Texas press contains stories about how Senate Bill 1, the voter integrity law, kept people from voting but it's simply untrue and Sylvester points out that turnout was equal to historical norms.
And, Sylvester terms the GOP runoff for Attorney General the "war of the baggage" in which we'll have to see which candidate is weighed down the most.
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TX3: The wages of sin are political death for U.S. Rep. Van Taylor as he is forced into a runoff for the GOP nomination and then withdraws as he admits an affair with a former ISIS jihadist!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Primary election review with an interview from election night with state Senator Charles Perry (SD28) on the amazingly expensive House District 84 race which is headed to a runoff.
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State sales tax collections up again.
It is Texas Independence Day and we celebrate in song and word. In the 4th segment I read the Texas Declaration of Independence.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: On primary election day Democrats are doing what Democrats do: Cheat and claim voters are being disenfranchised. In Maverick Co. Dems lied and told Republicans there were no candidates on the GOP ballot forcing them to vote in the Democrat primary. In the RGV, Dems are attacking each other claiming disenfranchisement of local voters. And, all along Democrats (that’s the folk in the press too) tell Republicans to stop talking about fraud and cheating.
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Today is Texas political party primary election day. I explain again why I believe the Texas GOP needs a gubernatorial runoff. You’ve until 7pm to vote.
Texas wins Site Selection magazine’s Governor’s Cup for the 10th year in a row for corporate relocations. That and other economic news.
More evidence those convention center hotels taxpayers are subsidizing are not a good idea.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Tomorrow is Texas political party primary election day and if and how you vote will help determine what kind of people we will be. A rundown of recommendations and an interview with HD84 candidate Carl Tepper.
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This is PART 2: "Most of the past forty-eight hours have been spent either in, or en route to and from, the Midland-Odessa region. Far out in west Texas’s Permian Basin, the two cities — towns, really — have a relationship that I still can’t quite unpack. On my last visit, which turned out to be the first time I ever actually set foot in Odessa, a woman told me: “Midland is where you raise families. Odessa is where you raise hell.” She was from Odessa," began a column by Joshua Treviño that was heavily focused on the spirit of small business oil and gas risk taking in the Permian Basin.
This two part if podcast is a discussion of that piece and the subject in general.
Joshua Treviño is the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in which role he explores pathways for future Foundation action and develops forecasts for Texas and the nation. Prior to his service as CIO, he was vice president of strategy at the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago. Prior to that, he was vice president of communications at the Foundation for six years. His other experience includes an independent media consultancy, a consultancy at Booz Allen Hamilton, vice president of policy at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, service as both a speechwriter and an international-health professional in the administration of George W. Bush, and a United States Army officer.
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This is PART 1:
"Most of the past forty-eight hours have been spent either in, or en route to and from, the Midland-Odessa region. Far out in west Texas’s Permian Basin, the two cities — towns, really — have a relationship that I still can’t quite unpack. On my last visit, which turned out to be the first time I ever actually set foot in Odessa, a woman told me: “Midland is where you raise families. Odessa is where you raise hell.” She was from Odessa," began a column by Joshua Treviño that was heavily focused on the spirit of small business oil and gas risk taking in the Permian Basin.
This two part if podcast is a discussion of that piece and the subject in general.
Joshua Treviño is the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in which role he explores pathways for future Foundation action and develops forecasts for Texas and the nation. Prior to his service as CIO, he was vice president of strategy at the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago. Prior to that, he was vice president of communications at the Foundation for six years. His other experience includes an independent media consultancy, a consultancy at Booz Allen Hamilton, vice president of policy at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, service as both a speechwriter and an international-health professional in the administration of George W. Bush, and a United States Army officer.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Listener Club member asks: How do you know the primary elections in which David Glasheen [HD84 race] did or did not vote? Is this public information? I answer and explain that yes it is public information and that if the records are correct Mr. Glasheen has not officially been a Texas Republican since 2008. See the full detail here: Listener: How do you know when Glasheen did and did not vote? David Glasheen’s voting record.
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AG Paxton sues Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for unlawfully prohibiting firearm supressors in Texas as provided for in HB957 passed this last session.
I replay our latest interviews with the two battling it out for Lubbock Co. commissioner, Precinct 4: Incumbent Chad Seay and challenger Jordan Rackler. Remember that all candidate interviews can be found here.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House District 84 race in Lubbock county sees astronomical spending and yet leaves me befuddled as to just what type of “Republican” is the big spender, trial lawyer David Glasheen. Glasheen’s wife Mary is featured in ads telling all her husband a “real Republican and true conservative.” How would Mary know? According to records she’s not voted in the Republican Primary but did vote in the 2016 Democratic Primary – who for, Bernie or Hillary? Then David, the “real Republican and true conservative” appears not to have bothered voting in Republican Primaries from 2012 all the way through 2020! That’s skipping out on some major elections including the Beto vs. Ted Cruz race!
Brad Johnson of The Texan has a good write-up on the HD84 race.
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San Antonio’s money losing convention headquarters hotel, the Grand Hyatt, to be sold to stop the bleeding of taxpayer money. If the state’s top convention city can’t make a taxpayer subsidized convention center hotel pay, how in the world is it to work in places like Amarillo, Lubbock, Wichita Falls, Midland, or Abilene?
Other campaign news including gubernatorial finance numbers.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Governor Greg Abbott gets blamed for many things for which it is doubtful he did wrong, as do most leaders, but he also gets a pass from too many Texans for things he didn’t do. He rarely chooses to lead but simply waits to see what the fallout is for actual leaders and then moves. Abbott is a follower for the purpose of political positioning. It doesn’t make him a bad person or a bad governor in all things but it does keep Texas from moving forward on issues even Abbott eventually, sometimes years later, signs on to. The issue of child “sex changes” and the border are perfect examples of Abbott’s stalling and waiting game.
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Liberal publication claims new election integrity laws are making “advocates struggle” with “new voting barriers” in Texas. What do any of us care about “advocates” and then as usual the story doesn’t actually document what are these barriers to voting. Changes in procedures are not barriers to voting any more than moving a voting location is a barrier.
Abilene citizens turn in over 10,000 petition signatures to get a Sanctuary for the Unborn pro-life ordinance passed in the Key City.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: San Antonio leading the way in Texas local governments actively working to subvert and undermine immigration law. Not only this, by handing out these library card ID’s they are jeopardizing public safety as it seems people take these as official ID’s and there are not background checks on the people to whom they are issued. This must be stopped by the legislature just as it had to stop cities from refusing to cooperate with federal immigration agencies.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton issues opinion that shouldn’t have been necessary in sane or moral society: Sex change drugs or surgery on children is child abuse under Texas law. Read more here.
The shredding of freedom and right to protest under “progressive” tyranny isn’t just in Canada, the same is underway in the USA.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Maybe we have lost, like Canada, our fundamental commitment to freedom and liberty if a story from WFAA out of Colleyville is any measure. Since when is speech itself, even if nasty, hateful, and vile, a “hate crime” in the USA?! Bigots have as much right to call me a “white devil” as I have a right to call them bigots. The answer to speech with which you disagree is more speech – better, more persuasive speech.
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Electric vehicle owners are not paying their share of road taxes because such are levied on gasoline. That must end now and also, we don’t need to subsidize “charging stations” for them as that’s a job for existing businesses such as gas stations and convenience stores.
Anti-Wimp update out of Dallas.
Piano: Nina Lelchuk Memorial Concert from New York City, Lubbock’s David Weinberg (my good friend) is supposed to be first on the program. It streams at 6pm Central at this link: https://youtu.be/oucp3lpnQag
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Tribune publishes major story on the Texas capitol power structure focused upon Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in which it is reported that Patrick, I guess as unhappy with Abbott as many other conservatives, attempted to recruit former Gov. Rick Perry to challenge Abbott this time around. Other than that bit, the story is a cogent account of things already known such as Patrick leads on conservative issues and makes life hard on senators who act as RINOs and has real problems with the anti-conservatism of House leadership and Speaker Phelan.
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More candidate interviews. Today we feature Senate District 31 candidate, and Trump’s pick, Kevin Sparks of Midland. This is the seat being vacated by RINO Kel Seliger of Amarillo. Also we have a first time visit with Samuel Weatherby who is challenging House District 71 Rep. Stan Lambert of Abilene.
Travis County’s far-Left radical George Soros District Attorney gets a Grand Jury from the Leftist county to indict 19 cops for their work in stopping mob riots related to the George Floyd case.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is one paramount reason Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been under attack constantly since his election to the state senate and even greater since becoming attorney general: He fights, fights, fights to move the conservative agenda forward. Obviously the Democrat/Liberal media and pols hate such but so do the power-crowd Republicans who never want someone to “rock the boat.”
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In the big Lubbock race for House District 84, Carl Tepper, in comments made on Pratt on Texas and to me for decades, shows why he alone is the true limited government conservative voters should elect. It all goes back to a theme the two of us have shared over the years: Leave us alone!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The HD81 race in Odessa gets heated at forum between Rep. Brooks Landgraf and challenger Casey Gray. And the coverage in the Odessa American by Kim Smith is the type of coverage most local newspapers used to give but no longer provide – take it as an example of valuable content. Some comment on the ridiculous, offensive and unwarranted allegations being made in the HD84 race in Lubbock by David Glasheen’s campaign against Carl Tepper.
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Danny Harrison, GOP candidate for governor joins us and I ask him if he is the Anti-Republican Republican due to his stances on so many key issues.
A.G. Paxton gets a big win against the Biden Admin. on key energy policy.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is a disturbing trend across the grassroots of the Texas Republican Party related to Greg Abbott and it is dangerous for our future in beating Democrats in November elections. HD81 Brooks Landgraf scandal and more primary race updates.
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Lubbock’s county commissioner race for Precinct 4 heating to red hot. We talk with challenger Jordan Rackler about the latest.
Stench of local government covered in two stories today.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats and weak judges continue to harass Texan voters over vote integrity. The latest comes from the long bothersome Judge (federal) Xavier Rodriguez who issued a stupid preliminary ruling on Friday evening on one small part of Texas mail-in ballot voting reforms.
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The 2022 Pratt on Texas voter recommendations with some explanation.
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Podcast includes all three candidates for Lubbock County Court at Law #2 interviewed by Pratt as heard on Pratt on Texas: Tom Brummett, Chris Wanner, and Bob Nebb. Also included is the appearance of all three candidates at a forum held on 25 February 2022 by the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, Lubbock Chapter.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Big campaign stack today as early voting begins Monday across Texas. Big endorsement in HD84 race for Carl Tepper; possible big scandal in HD81 with Rep. Brooks Landgraf of Odessa; AOC in Texas to work for the defeat of Democrats who are not-communist-enough; Abbott & O'Rourke both campaigned in San Antonio yesterday, and; more.
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Oil & gas drilling takes a big leap we've not seen in some time.
The flow over the border continues and the Biden Administration continues to work to make it easier for illegal aliens to stay in the U.S. Meanwhile Texas taxpayers are footing a giant bill for border security and it seems to be doing nothing, even in the Del Rio Sector where state efforts are focused, to retard the rate of illegal inflow and smuggling.
Comment on Elon Musk's major press conference and Q&A in South Texas last night.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County has two elections this primary that play a big role in the statewide battle between RINOs who, despite what they say, support near unlimited growth and taxing by local governments and true Republican conservatives who favor limited, efficient local government. The race, a rematch, for Lubbock County Judge is a proxy vote on the High Plains between those forces and it has just become far more interesting with Precinct 2 County Commissioner, the most reliable conservative on the court, endorsing challenger Gary Boren for county judge. And even more telling, a fabulous bit of journalism by James Clark at the local Nexstar TV stations: Is the city influencing county elections? Questions come after campaign cash contributions. (Focus on Tyler Technology, Dan Pope, and the money involved more than the part about city officials.)
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Dems, press included, keep telling us election fraud doesn’t really exist so how about the big Brownsville ISD having an election canceled by a judge for election fraud involving, wait for it…. mail-in ballots?!
Are you “fringe” and a “fascist” simply because you hold the idea that Republican Texas legislators should not hand unearned power to Democrats in Austin? The power insiders say so.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: An update on the status of Texas lawsuits against the Biden Administration vaccine mandates. Also, why common claims about Texas hospitals being filled with the “unvaccinated” are likely false and certainly not provable with official data.
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Local sales tax revenue numbers for cities – February report.
Candidate for the Republican nomination to the Texas Railroad Commission, Marvin “Sarge” Summers, killed in Midland-area crash.
Much from the campaign stack including comment on a major endorsement for Ken Paxon for A.G. and the endorsement of Carl Tepper by HD83 state Rep. Dustin Burrows in the HD84 race.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It seems cancel culture, or blacklisting, hasn’t slowed down one bit but more and more, like yours truly with your help, are fighting back. We get a blacklisted American update along with a pushback update from Robert Zimmerman of BehindtheBlack.com. Also in the last segment a space update on Blue Origin and more.
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As discussed yesterday, Obama’s radicals began work in 2010 to stop Republican state legislatures from redistricting in a way that benefited Republicans. Democrats on the other hand are running around gerrymandering at full speed to help their party because, as usual, it’s never the same rules for the Left. Good news today is that the U.S. Supreme Court has blocked the order for Alabama to redraw its Congressional districts ahead of the coming election. Hopefully this is a signal the North Carolina GOP-majority legislature will be able to prevail over that state’s supreme court.
Comment on Governor Abbott’s very late moves to protect the Texas National Guard from federal vaccine mandates.
Air Force ordered to pay $230 million over Sutherland Springs Baptist Church mass murder in 2017.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Obama’s radicals began work in 2010 to stop Republican state legislatures from redistricting in a way that benefited Republicans. Democrats on the other hand are running around gerrymandering at full speed to help their party because, as usual, it’s never the same rules for the Left. Rules are to be used to deceive and then cast off like trash when such don’t add to your immediate power.
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Instead of applauding Governor Greg Abbott, Univ. of Houston and Texas Tech concerned voters should be asking why he has no interest in leading when it comes to changing the Permanent University Fund (PUF) so that giant, rich Texas can have more than two “flagship” universities.
Poor Beto Pancho and the Texas press: The electric grid did just fine. So, of course now it’s: This freeze wasn’t a legitimate test!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is a sad day for the Leftist Democrat press in Texas as they were clearly hoping for an ERCOT grid collapse in the cold weather. So much for all the hyperbole.
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CDC finally admits acquired immunity is equal or better than a vaccine.
Look at local race: Two candidates for Lubbock County Court at Law #2 join me in separate interviews: Tom Brummett and Chris Wanner.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: After Texas finally got a corporate giveaway program stopped (Chapter 313,) Speaker of the House Dade Phelan is talking about bringing it back!
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In a look at local races, Lubbock County Commissioner, Precinct 4, Chad Seay joins us to discuss his re-elect race.
Harris County violent crime is rampant but the Democrat sheriff is wasting time telling deputies to check for proper pronoun usage – not with the public but with their fellow law enforcement folk in the department.
We remember Buddy Holly of Lubbock and J. P. Richardson, the Big Bopper, of Beaumont on this “the day the music died.” See Paul McCartney’s The Real Buddy Holly Story here. The Real Buddy Holly Story song from Sonny Curtis can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L17SueZY-eo&feature=youtu.be
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Panel of federal judges denies Democrat state senators request to redraw Senate District 10 for the March 1st Texas primary election. Sen. Kel Seliger testified for the Democrat. All you need do to understand the Democrat redistricting objections are all about political power is look at states in which their party dominates. They’ve no problem with massive Gerrymandering in those states.
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Ag. Commissioner Sid Miller should be praised for his part in a lawsuit to stop USDA’s institutionally racist ARPA money distribution but instead, he is criticized by fellow Republican James White. White’s claims are empty because none of Miller’s actions as commissioner have any parallel or similarity to the racist USDA plan.
More from the campaign stack including the Harris Co. judge race; Geo. W. Bush reverting to full Bush family anti-conservative form, and; more.
Johns Hopkins study shows lockdowns don’t work and actually caused serious problems. You know, it’s not hindsight. Many of us explained these things in the beginning.
Texas sales tax receipts continue to grow plus other business news.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: What does Texas ERCOT electric grid, severe cold or hot weather, and Texas public school STAAR tests have to do with each other? A lot more than you might think and it’s time the anti-accountability in public education people drop their “high stakes testing” and other rhetoric and grow up. Life if full of “high stakes” situations at every level and if everyone else must be at work to prevent loss of lives, teachers and students are little different.
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Newest statewide polling, there are two out, show no real surprises. That and more in the campaign stack.
Texas law related to boycotts of Israel suffers predicted problem in federal court.
Texas manufacturing, service, and retail sector economic update from the Dallas Fed.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump continues to fascinate and unbalance the press. His Conroe rally Saturday night was called a “partisan lovefest” by the Houston Chronicle and Heart papers. What’s an election rally supposed to be?
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In a look at local races, I interview challenger for Lubbock County judge Gary Boren.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is being challenged by state Rep. James White. I spend two segments with Rep. White on his race.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: After way too much time has passed, the Texas DMV board has finally changed the rules in order to cut down on the millions of fraudulent vehicle registration paper temporary tags being issued. The issue has made Texas a “laughingstock” around the country and it has cost us much tax revenue – so why has it taken so long to act?
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House District 84 hopeful David Glasheen joins us for the second half of the program to discuss his campaign and views.
Keller ISD stacks book review committees with district personnel and then requires citizen members to sign Non Disclosure Agreements to keep names and opinions secret!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: A petulant state Senator, and always RINO, Kel Seliger aids Democrats in redistricting lawsuits over his own disgruntled situation. But, he provides nothing substantial and admits he didn’t even author the statement he signed that was used in federal court by a Democrat seeking to overturn the legislature’s redistricting maps. It’s all very consistent with for Seliger -a small man in politics with a reputation to match.
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Abilene’s leaders claim Christian faith and a pro-life stance but seem afraid to stand for the Word of God for fear of disturbing their earthly Caesars. An in-depth look into the hold up in Abilene on banning abortion: https://thetexan.news/attorneys-and-activists-inside-the-push-to-ban-abortion-in-abilene/
Much in the WuFlu and border news stacks.
An update from the Texas House District 88 campaign trail from challenger Ted Hutto in the final segment.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: House District 84 candidates addressed school choice in a forum I moderated last night. In the answers you can learn much about the candidates. Why is it that some Republicans claim to support school choice but deliver the misleading rhetoric of the government school monopoly?
And does Governor Greg Abbott support parental rights? He’s no pushing issues to which he has given the cold shoulder for years. This a must read on the issue: https://thsc.org/does-governor-abbott-support-parental-rights/
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Arrest made for providing a gun to the terrorist who took Texas Jews hostage in their synagogue in Colleyville.
Justice Breyer to retire and a bit on “respect” of the office, etc.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Our good friend Dr. Stephen Balch has been chosen for an unpaid position to help review Texas’ Social Studies standards by the State Board of Education and Leftists, including those in the press, are screaming because he dares hold views with which they disagree!
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Two segment interview with Big Spring businesswoman Stormy Bradley, candidate for Republican nomination for Texas Senate District 31.
In a look at local races I interview Bob Nebb who is a candidate for judge of Lubbock County Court at Law #2.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: “Ending the Misuse of Energy Savings Performance Contracts by Local Governments,” is the headline of a piece by state Senator Hinojosa. What experience, and an FBI investigation, shows us is that we should all be looking out for these deals in our cities, counties, schools, and special utility districts.
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Much in the campaign stack including a Tarrant County straw poll which provides no real statewide race surprises except that for Land Commissioner.
Ken Paxton and Sid Miller holding their own despite a years-long media onslaught.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: An interview with Don Huffines, Republican challenger to Gov. Greg Abbott on the 2022 primary. We cover Abbott’s failing and half-hearted border efforts, property tax reform, and moral issues such as the drive by “parents” to change the sex of their children and Abbott’s hesitance to deal with such.
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Big pro-life news: Supreme Court again allows case against Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat Act remain with the federal appellate court. And, Planned Parenthood drops its appeal to stop Lubbock’s Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance! Praise God for those who acted on their Christian faith in Lubbock and didn’t hide such for fear of displeasing their caesars.
Texas at record employment but not a record low unemployment rate.
From the Democrat It Doesn’t Happen File: An East Texas county elected official, a Democrat, has pleaded guilty to vote fraud – but is still running for re-election because the charges are not felony level!
An interview with Mitch Hickman running for Precinct 2 Commissioner in the Republican Primary in Scurry County.
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Mitch Hickman: Scurry Co. commissioner Pct. 2 candidate. Full interview including extra time that did not air on radio.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott’s knee-jerk Operation Lone Star to police the border with Mexico has been one problem after another, mostly problems that proper planning would have eliminated. But now, we learn that the heart of Abbott’s plan, “catch and arrest” is now actually helping some illegal aliens remain in the country and avoid immediate expulsion. Texans are spending a fortune for state border protection and should demand thoughtful, effective use of their money.
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Texas Attorney General GOP race fundraising numbers – Gohmert didn’t come near that $1 million in 10 days he said would cause him to get in the race but he got in anyway.
FBI liars. They knew all along the Colleyville terrorist hostage taking of Jews at synagogue was indeed anti-Jewish and anti-USA terror.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Campaign trail 2022 includes a key endorsement in the HD84 race in Lubbock; do little property tax plan from Abbott; dangerous guilt by association in the Ag. Commissioner race, and; outright misleading and questionable ethics of a state rep race (HD84.)
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We’ve and Anti-Wimp Update today.
I warned you of the propaganda press on Texas new voting integrity laws for mail-in voting. Such is now in full swing and it just shows our laws are working.
Look at local races: Clay Mize, candidate for Scurry County judge interview.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Why have our GOP “conservative” Texas governors not gotten our public universities in proper shape through the regent appointment process? University of North Texas (UNT) has been so out of control Leftist that it just lost in federal court in its effort to intimidate Young Conservatives of Texas student members. Governors have ultimate control by appointing regents so why are so many of our big taxpayer supported schools allowed to be so hostile to free speech?
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Legal issue with Texas Fetal Heartbeat law gets sent to the Texas Supreme Court by the federal appellate court. And polling shows young folk are trending heavily toward pro-life thinking and particularly support the premise of the Texas Fetal Heartbeat law.
Much in the campaign stack including funds raised by gubernatorial candidates, comment on HD84 race, and more.
Houston physician fighting back against Houston Methodist Hospital that ditched her for holding opinions on WuFlu hospital brass disagree with.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Not-an-Islamic-terrorist took Texas Jews hostage in a synagogue in Colleyville on the Sabbath and demand the release of a convict (Siddiqui) who plotted to kill U.S. citizens and who was reportedly married to “Ammar Al Baluchi, the nephew of terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Al Baluch is accused of helping finance the 9/11 attack. He has long been held at Guantanamo,” WFAA reported.
But, what does our fallen FBI declare? “FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno “said the hostage taker was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community…”
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An interview with Lance Cansino, Justice of the Peace, Lubbock County Precinct 4 about his contested primary race. (Segment 2 of the show.)
An interview with Carl Tepper, candidate for Texas House District 84, on issues he wishes to address if elected state representative for this entirely inside Lubbock County house seat. (Segments 3 and 4 of the show.)
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Beware the current scare over voter absentee ballot requests being denied in huge numbers. This is little more than a political propaganda attack from Democrat election officials and their media allies much like we had time and again over voter I.D.
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About that poll showing Abbott at 32% and West higher – and much more from the GOP gubernatorial race.
Vaccine mandate news. UMC in Lubbock vs. Midland Health shows a real difference on standing up for hospital employees over the vaccine mandate.
Despite Abbott claim, pay issues remain for national guard at the border.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is the “American Governors’ Border Strike Force” just more political positioning? Why now? We’ve had a crisis with the feds refusing to do much since the Obama years. It is time to judge Arizona’s Ducey, Texas’ Abbott, and others by results not words – especially given the amount of tax money we are spending on the border in Texas. The porous and unenforced border is a facilitator of the nastiness human sin including modern day slavery. People who do not want a well enforced, orderly border are taking the side of the Devil on the issue – irrespective of whether they wear clerical garb.
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I call “B.S.” on the latest Texas media ERCOT grid / natural gas supply scare.
House District 88’s RINO incumbent gets a GOP challenger from Pampa: Ted Hutto. The second half of the show is an interview with Hutto on the race.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The operator of Lubbock Chick-fil-A locations sees his frustrations with Biden's WuFlu vaccine mandates make national news. The important part is what a Lubbock store employee was quoted as saying because it shows how soft tyranny works. That and more in the WuFlu stack.
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Biden and Congressional Democrats push for a federal takeover of state voting rules. What they call "voting rights" legislation is actually a move to ensure that states have little to no rights to ensure the integrity of elections so that Democrats can cheat forever. Senator Cornyn went up against lying weasel Schumer on the Senate floor on the issue.
Local sales tax numbers released by the Texas Comptroller.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The campaign trail heats up in the GOP race for Texas Agriculture Commissioner; George P. Bush has another showing of his incompetence at the GLO; press has the Abbott campaign all about insider GOP clout; O’Rourke offers nothing but the same old more welfare and kill the babies with abortion voters, and; Lee Merritt, attorney general candidate in the Democrat primary demonstrates what’s wrong that party, it’s refusal to see that America, and Americans, are not mostly bigoted and centered on race.
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Young Conservatives of Texas legislative rankings show just how bad, relative to others in region’s delegation, are HD88’s Rep. Ken King and HD60’s Rep. Glenn Rogers.
After discovery of its inability to pay deployed guardsmen on-time as well as other serious problems with the Operation Lone Star border deployment, the Texas Military Department leans on guardsmen to not talk to the press.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: An Omicron symptom and treatment update from Dr. John Thomas. 64% of Texans taking the COVID test are negative – only 36%, and that is a record high, are testing positive. So why are so many using up the tests? Government and media propaganda have them scared beyond reason and it is costing us all. Know the symptoms.
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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals en banc ruling on Dallas bail case appears that it may pull the rug out from under Harris County’s settlement with Leftists on bail. If so, it’s a great win for Texas.
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Too many people are in panic over fear they have WuFlu. Last week’s Texas data showed 64% of those who went and got tested, tested negative - only 34% were positive.
Dr. John Thomas explains what symptoms to look for to determine if you need treatment for COVID - not to go get a test but to get treatment.
This short interview will appear in Pratt on Texas today but it is so important for so many that I’ve decided to post it early as a separate podcast so that you can easily share it.
We’re out of, and running out of tests, because media and government have propagandized people into such a fearful state that some are taking COVID tests every time they have the sniffles. Stop. Listen to Dr. Thomas and go by symptoms and then get real treatment for those symptoms.
Recorded on Monday, 10 January 2022.
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PART 2. This interview with Texas House District 17 Republican primary candidate Jennifer Bezner was recorded on 30 December 2021.
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Interview is in two parts.
PART 1. This interview with Texas House District 17 Republican primary candidate Jennifer Bezner was recorded on 30 December 2021.
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Interview is in two parts.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on both the OSHA and healthcare worker vaccine mandates and the three very liberal justices are shocked anyone questions the government authority to force a medical procedure or drug as a condition of employment. Meanwhile, the all-Dem Texas 3rd Court of Appeals rules Governor Abbott cannot stop counties from doing things like mandating masks. We’re now in a terrible position because legislators were too timid to act.
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Finally, years late, Texans are getting voting systems with a voter verified paper trail.
Bad blood in the Valley? Region’s state reps endorse newcomer to fill all important senate seat (SD27) giving the cold shoulder to their colleague state Rep. Alex Dominguez of Brownsville.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Despite the constant media and Democrat narrative that January 6th 2021 was a threat to democracy, and even Ted Cruz calling the event at the Capitol terrorism, the actual facts do not support such hyperbole.
We’re going to end up with a generation of people who are not sure what December 7th, 1941 is all about but will think January 6th, 2021 was a great day of infamy in which our republic was seriously threatened.
All of this is preposterous and especially so when one considers the shootings of 5 representatives on the House floor and multiple bombings of the Capitol which were actual events of violence for seditious purposes. (You hear little of those real seditious events because such were propagated by Leftists that Democrats admire.)
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IPI’s Merrill Matthews on putting price controls on Congress!
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Our Lone Star story of the day: ERCOT says the Texas electric grid is ready for winter weather after completing inspections of 300 sites but learn this: You’ll freeze in winter and boil in summer if the feds, Democrats, or environmentalists continue to have their way on electric generation. Wind and solar simply cannot fill the bill for reliable generation.
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GOP governor race heats up over flying flags at half staff for Nevada’s Harry Reid and over suicide deaths of national guard troops working the border.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion asking the Court of Criminal Appeals to reverse its odd decision that the Office of Attorney General cannot be the prosecutor of first resort for election fraud cases. The A.G.’s motion makes it quite clear that the CCA’s specific reasoning doesn’t fit with a hundred years of Texas Supreme Court Precedent. Given the two courts are equal in standing, I wonder how a conflict between them is handled.
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The border continues to be out of control and Biden re-nominates Harris County Sheriff Gonzalez to head ICE – it likely is not going to pass muster in the Senate for good reasons.
In the WuFlu stack we get another example of how Governor Abbott doesn’t lead but waits until there is momentum on an issue to which he can attach himself. The Houston Chronicle continues to be among the worst tabloid style newspapers in the country when it comes to the Chinese virus.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Left and Right are out with stories about the Phase 1 progress report on Texas’ full forensic 2020 General Election audit of Dallas, Harris, Tarrant, and Collin counties. All I’ve seen try and make something of the numbers presented which is not the key discovery. The key discovery is how foot dragging by local election officials prevents removing non-citizens voters for an entire election cycle.
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Another Texas win in federal court over Biden WuFlu mandates – school Headstart program mask requirement.
Indictment for murder finally handed down to Shawn Adkins for the killing of 13-year-old Hailey Dunn of Colorado City in 2010.
Look at Local Races: Today Phil Crowley joins us to talk about his GOP primary race for County Judge of Taylor County.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: A look back at how Republican Party priorities fared in the Texas Legislature including the multiple special sessions. Some good was done but far too many important items were left undone and it leaves us to wonder if that was due to a deal with Democrats to obtain the speaker’s gavel.
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The U.S. / Mexico border situation degraded further in 2021. Over half-a-million “get aways” made it into the country illegally along with about 2 million that were arrested with many of those being released into the country by the feds.
2021 saw media members and media companies continue to dive headfirst into the sewer.
Candidate for Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas, Dr. Jon Spiers joined Pratt on Texas to talk about his race for the open seat of land commissioner.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Will Texas fix its paper license plate problem or just continue to let tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, drive vehicles without paying their share and being registered? The problem has been reported on for a good while and yet a legislator says we need to study it?
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Sid Miller gets endorsement from Donald Trump in his re-elect bid for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture.
Bob Zimmerman on the Lefts bigots and racists. (The full two part interview is here.)
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PART 2 of 2: Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.
The bigots and racists of the Left dominate this two part Blacklisted Americans update. Also we have a discussion about the false science of “settled science.”
Recorded 27 December 2021. www.PrattonTexas.com
PART 1 of 2: Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.
The bigots and racists of the Left dominate this two part Blacklisted Americans update. Also we have a discussion about the false science of “settled science.”
Recorded 27 December 2021. www.PrattonTexas.com
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Biden Administration shuts down lifesaving treatment for WuFlu patients for a reason discredited by its own agencies. It is more of the sordid political manner in which COVID is being used.
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Two Texas Democrats go to federal court trying to get laws on mail-in ballot applications stopped as they absurdly claim that such laws are a violation of their free speech rights. What it really shows is that Democrats know that cheating the system in ways to boost Democrat turnout is their path to victory in Texas.
In a Look at Local Races, I interview Jordan Rackler who is challenging an incumbent for Lubbock County Commissioner, Precinct 4.
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72nd District Court race: Interview with challenger John Grace. 72nd covers Lubbock and Crosby counties. Grace is challenging gubernatorial appointee, Judge Ann-Marie Carruth in the Republican primary. First third of this interview aired on Pratt on Texas on 12/28/2021, balance of interview is only available in this podcast.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Media goes nuts over the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles withdrawing 25 clemency recommendations to Governor Abbott including one for George Floyd. Chairman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, David Gutierrez, spoke with me to explain what is happening and why he is taking a serious look at the clemency division to ensure that rules are being followed. He believes the rules were not followed.
Here is a good write-up from The Texan that provides a base of knowledge that I will build upon: https://thetexan.news/texas-parole-board-withdraws-25-clemency-recommendations-including-george-floyd/
Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.72nd District Court race: Interview with challenger John Grace. 72nd covers Lubbock and Crosby counties. Grace is challenging gubernatorial appointee, Judge Ann-Marie Carruth in the Republican primary.
Bexar County sheriff fires, arbiter upholds firing, of deputy who was simply near the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021. I hope she sues and wins big bucks from Bexar County.
Lubbock County to build new medical examiner facility and begin charging for body storage for any time over five days.
Dallas Morning News editors demand Texas stop reviewing the voter list to flag possible illegal, non-citizen voters. Can the DMN get any lower? Sure and its editorial board will.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas has been the U.S. leader in economic growth and jobs, through boom and bust, for about 25 years now but can it continue with a culture that fights the very things necessary for such? The Democratic Party and its pressure groups are openly hostile to oil and gas production, materials mining, and even manufacturing and this has infected our society mostly under the guise of climate change. Mom and dad may have come to Texas for a good job but after cultural indoctrination at every turn, including in our schools, will the following generations do what we’ve seen in California and other places and vote for policies that destroy economic expansion?
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Why is McMurry University praising Sarah Weddington at her death? Her “trailblazing” was to make sure it is legal to kill millions of babies in the womb for the convenience of those who created them.
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Hardin-Simmons University President Eric Bruntmeyer joined me for an in-depth, about an hour, interview on the university and the challenges he and trustees have faced in making sure the school is on the right track to ensure its future.
I ask him about faculty and staff cuts, degree program cuts, and about the controversial closure of Logsdon Seminary.
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Hardin-Simmons University President Eric Bruntmeyer joined me for an in-depth, about an hour, interview on the university and the challenges he and trustees have faced in making sure the school is on the right track to ensure its future.
I ask him about faculty and staff cuts, degree program cuts, and about the controversial closure of Logsdon Seminary.
The interview is in two parts.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: U.S. Supreme Court fast-tracks hearing on federal WuFlu vaccine mandates. Oral arguments to be heard on 7 January. Meanwhile in Texas today, A.G. Paxton gets a win for us all as a U.S. District Judge grants an injunction on the healthcare worker vaccine mandate specifically covering Texas.
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Look at local races: Interview with T.J. McAuley challenging a Republican incumbent in the GOP primary for Lubbock County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4.
Polk County deputy sheriffs save disabled man from burning house. Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=413143350545441
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Our Lone Star story of the day: New Texan Elon Musk has the ear of many of the younger techies and he is giving them good lessons on government policy. Also, Robert Zimmerman of BehindtheBlack.com joins us for a space industry updated including comment on the James Webb Telescope set for launch on Friday; Blue Origin's orbital engine delays, and; much on Elon Musk's SpaceX including developments at the firm's Texas launch facility in Cameron County.
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A few campaign stack items.
Did anyone expect there wouldn't be tons, over a $100 billion, in fraud from knee-jerk government spending programs justified by WuFlu policy?
R.I.P. Hans Mark.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The campaign stack has some odd items including the strange, and getting more strange, story of HD68 candidate Craig Carter’s arrest and his allegations of a criminal organization behind his arrest and the car wreck that killed his daughter and mother-in-law. Also, RINO state Rep. Ken King of HD88 gets a GOP primary challenger. And, George P. Bush talks about land owners shooting illegal aliens in a bid to get noticed in his bid for attorney general.
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Slaton, Texas outlaws abortion.
Texas Tribune tells us of the oppressiveness of Texas restrictions on abortion to the “transgender” cohort.
Austin ISD’s superintendent, or just -intendent as there is little “super” about her, shows the arrogance that plagues government service these days. She thinks that she and others at the school should decide what’s best for our children and that state government checking to see if state law if followed by her school district is “inappropriate.”
WuFlu news on vaccine mandates.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott showed off Texas new border wall construction Saturday in Starr County and there is much we need to review and consider about Texas’ efforts on the border. One thing we must evaluate is the effectiveness of programs Texas has already implemented. How can we claim the “arrest and jail” policy is working when it has not proved a deterrent to illegal crossing? That was the promise, that as many would not come if they knew they’d be jailed but we are jailing them and yet seeing all-time records in illegal crossings. As to the wall, is it likely to make much of a difference giving it will not connect to federal segments and sits a mile away from the Rio Grande?
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Texas solicitor general sides with land owners in the case before the Supreme Court of the Texas Central high speed railway using eminent domain to acquire land.
HD68 GOP candidate arrested on assault with a deadly weapon charges and much more from the campaign stack.
What did Trump say to elicit boos and jeers in his Texas appearances?
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On today's Pratt on Texas, I talk with economist Vance Ginn on the dangers of inflation.
Vance Ginn, PhD, is the chief economist at the Foundation. Ginn works to unlock poverty through relational, inclusive changes in institutions that expand opportunities to let people prosper. He is a prolific writer and a leading free market economist.
Ginn works on many policy areas that support human flourishing. He leads the Foundation’s development of policy recommendations to limit government spending and eliminate burdensome regulations so that taxpayer dollars can be directed to effective programs and to those targeted for help, while strengthening inclusive institutions at the state, local, and federal levels. Ginn also develops and leads a multi-state welfare improvement initiative, known as the Opportunity Project.
During four Texas legislative sessions, Ginn fought for and won many good-government reforms to let people prosper: several Conservative Texas Budgets, stronger spending limits, lower business margin tax, property tax relief, and fewer occupational licensing barriers.
Ginn was the associate director for economic policy of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the Executive Office of the President during the Trump administration. In this capacity, he advised the OMB’s director on economic and fiscal policy matters. He managed a team who sought evidence of good government and modeled the economic assumptions in the president’s FY 2021 budget. They proposed to cut a record $4.6 trillion in debt over a decade, made the Trump tax cuts permanent, and noted the need for a fiscal rule. Ginn also provided in-depth analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to his work as an economist, Ginn taught multiple economics courses at Sam Houston State University and at Texas Tech University, where he won a teaching award.
Ginn earned his doctorate in economics and a BBA in economics and accounting from Texas Tech University. He received the Defender of the American Dream award from Americans for Prosperity—Texas; the Champion of Freedom award from Grassroots America—We The People; and the Bob Williams Award for Outstanding Policy Achievement from the State Policy Network.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, our supreme court for criminal law matters, rules that the Texas Attorney General may not prosecute election fraud cases without a referral from local prosecutors. While the decision is sound constitutionally, it guts prosecuting election fraud in much of Texas because local Leftist district attorneys will not look at cases and certainly will not refer them to the A.G. for prosecution. The issue is easily fixed by Abbott calling a Special Session of the legislature to pass a constitutional amendment that will then need a vote of the people. Will Abbott lead and take care of this or will he let it slide by effectively ending most prosecution of election fraud in the 2022 November election?
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The Dallas Morning News editorial board comes out with an extra-stupid position: “Texas election audit undermines democracy.”
The Houston Chronicle’s editorial board suggests putting people in prison for not locking up their weapons which would render them useless for rapid self-defense.
Abbott’s border “barrier” of razor wire and shipping containers proves to be nothing but theater. I’m all for spending the money we’re spending but only for effective border control and we are not getting such despite Abbott’s national grandstanding on the issue.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The press is full of stories of how others are going to use the Texas “mechanism” of private enforcement through lawsuits for the Fetal Heartbeat law to go after gun rights and other issues. It’s all balderdash. These are stories to frighten people into opposing the Texas law on abortions. The “mechanism” of private enforcement only relates to breaking a law and won’t even apply in the case of abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected if that law is struck down by the courts. It simply cannot be used to enforce something that is not a legally passed and binding law. For example, California can’t simply decide that citizens can sue gun makers for the use of guns in crimes because such is counter the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. Any such cases would not stand review by courts if they attempt to punish someone for something protected by law. And in the case of abortion, despite what many think, there is no federal law making abortion legal.
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The hubris, and ignorance, of Lubbock city council members continues to amaze. It is really beyond shocking that such stupid things are said by people who should know better.
Texas Child Protective Services, CPS, moves to adopt new rules that protect its bureaucracy by restricting the ability of advocacy groups to help families being acted upon by the agency. The legislature passed CPS reform bills this last session that became effective on 1 September. By October new rules were introduced by the parent agency of CPS to punish those who have successfully pointed out failures and abuses of CPS. Read more here.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas political party primary election filing has ended and GOP voters will have plenty of choice. One headline today read: “Texas Republicans swarm 2022 primaries while Democrats lament lack of battleground races.” A full review on today’s show.
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Abbott’s container border barrier and razor wire proves worthless.
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Interview with Carl Tepper, candidate for the Republican Party nomination for state representative, Texas House District 84 which is completely within Lubbock County. https://tepperfortexas.com/
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat bill and the Dobbs case out of Mississippi have all sides poised for big changes from the Supreme Court on abortion. I visit with Prudence Robertson of Susan B. Anthony List about what is happening and what we expect may happen on abortion at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Texas House District 84 lies all within Lubbock County and is vacant with Rep. John Frullo not running for re-election. Will voters in the district elect a conservative to serve them in Austin or, will another serve-the-local-governments-crowd be elected out of otherwise conservative northwest Texas? I interview HD84 hopeful Carl Tepper.
Gordon Ramsey moves his U.S. restaurant HQ to Irving’s Las Colinas and more business news.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat bill remain in effect after U.S. Supreme Court refuses to stop it. Abortionists are “apoplectic” but the court did allow for some challenges to the law to continue in federal and state court. Meanwhile a state district judge has left the law in effect but ruled against the citizen lawsuit enforcement mechanism which means that issue will climb the ladder to the state supreme court.
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So much for the so-called “vaccine” that is supposedly “effective” as all the propaganda insists. CDC data says about 75% of those with the new Omicron mutation are fully vaccinated.
Much in the border news stack including more evidence of a sickening sense of entitlement by those entering the U.S. illegally.
A good statement from Texas Speaker of the House Phelan on backing real civil forfeiture reform in the next session.
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PART 2 of an interview with Clay Kahler on his excellent piece published by Pursuit Magazine: Preventing Tragedy: The Four Universal Firearm Safety Laws.
Clay A. Kahler, B.A., M.Rs, M.A., Ph.D. brings an extensive background of military police and civilian law enforcement experience. He has earned degrees in Biblical Studies and Theology. He is an author, instructor, professor, lecturer and pastor. Clay also holds OSHA certifications in “Basic Accident Investigation” and “Effective Accident Investigation” as well as numerous certifications from the Federal Emergency Management Administration.
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PART 1 of an interview with Clay Kahler on his excellent piece published by Pursuit Magazine: Preventing Tragedy: The Four Universal Firearm Safety Laws.
Clay A. Kahler, B.A., M.Rs, M.A., Ph.D. brings an extensive background of military police and civilian law enforcement experience. He has earned degrees in Biblical Studies and Theology. He is an author, instructor, professor, lecturer and pastor. Clay also holds OSHA certifications in “Basic Accident Investigation” and “Effective Accident Investigation” as well as numerous certifications from the Federal Emergency Management Administration.
You can read more of Clay's work at Pursuit Magazine here.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Those ever “oh so broke” public school districts in Texas did it again! With enrollment down significantly, they hired more teachers and administrators to work than ever before – in the thousands! Read the detail here.
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Vaccine mandates, Governor Abbott, and the Texas National Guard. Governor’s new hotline to report employer vaccine mandates is: 800-939-6631.
Work continues by the PUC and the Railroad Commission on ensuring a reliable power grid. PUC says only 13 generating sites out of 850 missed the December 1 winter readiness report deadline. Those 13 make up less than 1% of grid generating capacity. Also RRC inspectors have visited more than 2,550 facilities so far related to natural gas infrastructure.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Did Texas officials, Governor Abbott included, bind much of the state to following Biden “executive orders” in taking WuFlu ARPA funds? Confusion abounds but it looks fairly clear in the federal terms and conditions and almost 70 municipalities have turned the funds down because they can read – maybe better than can legislators and governors? Read more here.
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December local sales tax number report.
It’s Official: Every Single One of Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandates Have Been Blocked Nationwide.
Public radio reporter Joy Diaz running for Democrat nomination for Texas governor. Says she was motivated because she and her young son got COVID. That’s a reason to run for governor?! Why didn’t influenza motivate her given that it kills far more school aged children than COVID?
Retired ICE Special Agent Victor Avila running in Republican Primary for Texas Land Commissioner.
Huffines rightly hits Abbott over not protecting our state guard troops from federal vaccine mandate.
Comments by Lubbock council members Joy and Christian show authoritarian leftist inclinations and arrogance. Both criticize voters for voting in their own interests and accuse them of “territorialism or tribalism” all because they voted down a bond package. The comments, and situation that created such, are an example of how far local civic service has devolved over the past couple of decades.
Tennessee’s governor sending more guard troops to the Texas border with Mexico in Q1 of next year.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: While media attempt to paint conservatives and concerned parents as brown-shirt NAZI book burners, the truth is coming out across Texas: Public schools have let book publishers (those selling the books) and associations with political and social agendas define what is “age appropriate” for public school libraries. Districts simply have not been reviewing the content of books they push upon children so no wonder there is more and more trash, or “pervasively vulgar,” on the shelves.
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Democrat Matthew Dowd withdraws from running for the Dem nomination for Lt. Governor so that more diverse candidates can run. Hmmm, I didn’t know his running prevented other, more diverse, folk from running! And more in the campaign stack.
Twitter censors mainline researchers associated with the American Heart Association because they dare present questions about the WuFlu “vaccine” and heart inflammation.
We remember the attack on the U.S. by the Empire of Japan at Pearl Harbor with radio news flashes heard by American on 7 December 1941.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lawsuit filed against Texas and its redistricting maps by the highly political and Leftist U.S. Department of Justice. The lawsuit, joining with many Democrat groups, was expected but media coverage would make you think it's an indictment of Texas' Republican legislative majority when in reality it's nothing more than the same old politics of the Left.
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Arrogance at Lubbock County, and possibly a desire to keep big scandals like the computing conversion failures from the press, has taken us to a situation whereby voters can easily have their county commissioner, their representative, rendered unable to put items on the commissioners court agenda for public consideration and vote. Commissioner Jason Corley, Precinct 2, explains the latest self-imposed scandal.
Wichita Falls media works to get out the full story on the arrest of Clay County's sheriff.
We remember Bob Dole, RIP.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lawless arrogance? Despite Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that leaves in-place Gov. Abbott’s ban on school mask mandates, Houston ISD and others are enforcing such on students and staff. And, as if that were not bad enough, several Texas Republicans in Congress voted for a bill that includes a national vaccine database so that the government can track you!
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Stench of local government stories from Lubbock County and Austin’s Capitol Metro. And, Texas local government debt just keeps growing as local pols cannot seem to say “no” to spending.
Abbott says Texas Department of Family and Protective Services reclassifying the use of puberty blockers and chemical castration on minors as child abuse is waiting in the wings. Isn’t primary competition wonderful? Huffines has pushed Abbott into action on numerous things he was ignoring.
AP has a huge piece out headlined: ‘We Just Feel It’: Racism Plagues US Military Academies. I explain why the problem is less any racism and more a lack of education about recovering from a Civil, brother against brother, War.
Texas Public Utility Commission moves to lower price cap for distributors on the ERCOT grid.
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Jason Isaac of the Life:Powered initiative talks about the misdirection of Texas media on where the problem lies with the Texas power grid and how to avoid shortages of electricity. I asked Isaac back on the program due to a nasty and very misdirected Houston Chronicle editorial which blames the Texas Railroad Commission, which doesn’t regulate the grid, electric generators, or electricity market, for Texas’ Big Freeze and calls on commissioners to resign.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Biden Administration has all the time in the world to find new ways to clamp down on the freedom of Americans over a virus but is uninterested in stopping the flood of millions across our border. We remain at record highs when it comes to illegal aliens crossing the border so where is the concern about the virus entering the country there? There is none and it’s a disconnect most Americans can plainly see.
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Jason Isaac of the Life:Powered talks about the misdirection of Texas media on where the problem lies with the Texas power grid and how to avoid shortages of electricity.
Judge blocks Texas free speech on social media law saying it infringes on the free speech of the social media companies. But, it does no such thing. Those companies are free to say, or not say, anything they wish under the law. What the law does is force some form of accountability on those firms for their restrictions on the free speech of their users. It’s just fine to say they have every right to moderate content on their platforms but only if they step outside of the special liability protections given them under federal law for being “neutral” platforms. Deciding what gets to stay online, gets promoted, or get outright banned seems a violation of being a neutral platform.
Texas sales tax collections continue to grow (watch out though because some of these growth numbers are due to inflation and not real growth.)
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Federal judge issues a nationwide stop to the Biden Administration’s healthcare worker COVID vaccine mandate. Has your local heavy-fisted hospital management announced a stop to the mandate yet?
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Senator Larry Taylor to retire because state Rep. Mays Middleton is planning to run for the same senate seat. WaPo all bothered because of an unrelated Middleton running for Texas state representative. And more from the campaign stack.
Texas Supreme court hears arguments over the “Save Chick-fil-A” law which is actually SB 1978 and protects all businesses from local government discrimination over their support for religious charities.
Texas Railroad Commission makes it much tougher for natural gas providers to electric power plants to avoid weatherization action.
Elon Musk shakes up Raptor rocket engine management.
Trouble at South San Antonio ISD and Round Rock ISD.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Do not believe the deceitful deniers, Marxist-based Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its poisonous pro-racism and pro-discrimination is being used in Texas school districts and by other local governments. The press keeps lying to people about what CRT is and they tell the Big Lies.
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More candidates running in HD84 and SD31. In Lubbock it appears the lobbyists and tax raising city crew, Dan Pope included, who opposed the city’s pro-life ordinance introduced their candidate for HD84. And a former FBI special agent gets in the SD31 race to replace Seliger but campaign issues sound don’t sound very conservative. Amarillo attorney Quackenbush is in the race too but finds himself in a bind over professions of being pro-life but opposing the Texas Fetal Heartbeat law.
Texas retail and service sectors seeing growth but wage and cost pressures are troubling. And, good news out of the TWC: Unemployment taxes (UI) on Texas businesses to remain at 2021 rate in 2022.
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I interview John Compere, Historian, for the Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball Association about the 2021 Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball.
A Christmas ball was held in 1885 at Anson to honor area cowboys, their ladies and families. This old-time Texas winter holiday gathering is a historic western heritage celebration continuing today. The Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball in Anson is the annual re-enactment of that original frontier gala 136 years ago.
This year's Ball is December 16, 17 & 18 and features classic western music, dancing, listening and fellowship. Traditionally held the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before December 25th, this festive family event is open to the public and remains a bucket-list bonus for western history lovers.
The Ball is an official state historical event designated by the Texas Historical Commission to promote its preservation and celebrate its history. Anson's historic Pioneer Hall has been the home of the Ball since its construction over 80 years ago.
On permanent display in the Hall are miniature replicas of Anson's 1885 Morning Star Hotel where the original Ball was held and the 19th Century Jones County ranch home of the Ball's famous poet-rancher, Larry Chittenden.
“Way out in Western Texas, where the Clear Fork's waters flow'
where the cattle are 'a-browzin', and the Spanish ponies grow...
...Where the antelope is grazin' and the lonely plovers call -
It was there that I attended 'The Cowboys' Christmas Ball'...
...Oh...I sha'nt forget yer, and I'll oftentimes recall,
that lively-gaited sworray – 'The Cowboys' Christmas Ball'.”
- from Larry Chittenden's “Ranch Verses”
Website: https://texasccb.com/
The Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball Association hosts the annual 3 night Ball, owns and maintains Pioneer Hall. The Association is a 1939 Texas non-profit corporation, a federal 501(3)(c) tax-exempt historical charity, and composed of area members and volunteers who freely contribute their time, service and resources. The “Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball” trademark was copyrighted in 1937 and remains exclusive Association property. Anson High School students are responsible for the hat/coat check booth, concession stand and nightly clean-up with all proceeds, donations and an Association contribution going for their school projects.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Lubbock shooting death of Chad Read by Kyle Carruth has made headlines around the world due to a video of the incident being released. People are upset over much but I say “Hold on!” The system is working as it should. By the way, the Mudslide, had as good a summary of the facts as we know them here: https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/2021/11/26/chad-read-shooting-kyle-carruth-lubbock-judge-case-investigation/8765295002/
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Texas manufacturing expanding but so are labor and materials costs. And, while Biden blames oil companies for expensive gasoline, his administration has “proposed a slew of changes on Friday to the federal oil and gas leasing program including hiking royalty rates drillers must pay on their production and limiting areas that can be developed in order to protect wildlife and cultural zones,” according to Reuters news service.
Actor Matthew McConaughey says he will not run for Texas governor. Why did so many care?
The COVID fearmongers are in full court press over the new “omicron” variant despite South African doctor saying it appears to be quite mild.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The next set of COVID panic stories is upon us. At what point will people recognize that it is a type of virus, like cold and flu, that will continue to mutate and no government program, panic, restriction, or attitude will stop it? When will we recognize the futility, for most people, of the ever changing vaccine “boosters” and realize it’s like a dog chasing it’s tail, we’ll never be ahead of the viral mutations?
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Biden Administration has effectively made the entire country a “no enforcement zone” for immigration law.
Dallas PD helicopter surveillance leaked onto the Internet should cause concern about privacy for all Texans.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Remember all the joyous hoopla in the Texas media after the federal judge ruled that Texas cannot force school districts to refrain from student mask mandates? The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals put a “stay” on that ruling this morning returning rightful authority, for now, to the State of Texas. Also, why are so many on hospital boards and in elected office afraid to fight for their employees and against Biden’s healthcare worker vaccine mandate? It is shameful how most are hiding out acting as if they couldn’t do anything. Actually they’ve simply chosen not to do anything.
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SBOE District 15 will have a GOP primary election challenge. Actor Matthew McConaughey says strange things about running for Texas governor and says he’ll make an announcement on running soon.
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Podcast of show is further down below. Here are the couple of items I could not include in the podcast due to licensing rules that were heard on radio:
WKRP Turkey Drop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFtV6-ALoQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt
Thank You by Gregory Porter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRZK43gfyE
Truly, thanks to our God and thanks to all of you who have kept us in business this year after the wrong done us and the show! Evil does not always win friends.
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PART 2:
I hope you enjoy this two-part long form interview I conducted with Roy Maynard who currently is the Editor of The Cannon Online at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In the interview I called it "self-indulgent" on my part mainly because I, like Roy, am fascinated and motivated by the subject.
Roy's piece, Classical Education Changed My Life—and Formed My Children, begins with this:
"“Trainwreck” isn’t a bad description of my academic career. Bored, more interested in reading real books than textbooks, not caring about the things I was expected to in junior high and high school—athletics and social status—I ignored assignments, skipped classes and eventually dropped out. I got nothing from Mesquite High School, and to be fair, MHS got even less from me."
Despite being a high school dropout, Roy was in the news industry for more than 30 years. Most recently he was Senior Editor of the Tyler Morning Telegraph. Prior to that, he was Senior Writer and Special Issues Editor for World magazine, a conservative news weekly. He has also written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle and many other publications. He is also an author.
Roy and his wife Sara coached the debate program at Good Shepherd School in Tyler. The program sent debaters to Nationals in 18 of its 20 seasons.
I hope you enjoy this two-part long form interview I conducted with Roy Maynard who currently is the Editor of The Cannon Online at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In the interview I called it "self-indulgent" on my part mainly because I, like Roy, am fascinated and motivated by the subject.
Roy's piece, Classical Education Changed My Life—and Formed My Children, begins with this:
"“Trainwreck” isn’t a bad description of my academic career. Bored, more interested in reading real books than textbooks, not caring about the things I was expected to in junior high and high school—athletics and social status—I ignored assignments, skipped classes and eventually dropped out. I got nothing from Mesquite High School, and to be fair, MHS got even less from me."
Despite being a high school dropout, Roy was in the news industry for more than 30 years. Most recently he was Senior Editor of the Tyler Morning Telegraph. Prior to that, he was Senior Writer and Special Issues Editor for World magazine, a conservative news weekly. He has also written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle and many other publications. He is also an author.
Roy and his wife Sara coached the debate program at Good Shepherd School in Tyler. The program sent debaters to Nationals in 18 of its 20 seasons.
Enjoy the interview, it is in two parts.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Tech professor of medicine, Gilbert Berdine, MD, explains why Biden’s vaccine mandates are not needed, will not work, and why the benefits of more vaccinated Americans are “very small.” This is a must read and share story.
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Gov. Abbott issues a bizarre social media post where in Leftist-like fashion he claims he did not do something major that he did do!
Congressman Louie Gohmert in the Texas race for Attorney General and Matt Krause leaves the race to run for Tarrant Co. District Attorney.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is "woke racialism" a clear and present danger to the nation? Sure it is and Beto Pancho O'Rourke is as much a part of the immature Leftist mob as A.O.C. He's doubling-down on taking away Texan's sporting rifles (that is all an AR-15 is, it doesn't work differently from pretty wooden stock rifles) and claiming people other than the perpetrators of violence are responsible for such. O'Rourke's gun confiscation, as well as many of the rules of the Left, rely on creating an informer society which will destroy even a pretense of justice for all.
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Texas to conduct a major forensic election audit that should be good for finding errors in policy and execution of the election process.
Much in the campaign stack including Lt. Gov. Patrick running for reelection, HD84 hopeful Carl Tepper's endorsement by Senator Charles Perry, and EBJ finally retiring from Congress after three decades of embarrassment she was too unaware to notice.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Decades ago Texas’ legislature passed several laws allowing big tax breaks to be handed out by local governments in the state. However, while some of these programs have received much attention and have well defined limits others do not. A major piece in the Houston Chronicle details the problems with Chapter (Local Gov’t Code) 380 and 381 handouts. The lack of limits and transparency is shocking. Senator Bettencourt and others are moving to reign in the abusive programs which, in my opinion, simply let politically connected developers tap the public coffers at the local level.
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The FERC report on Texas’ Big Freeze should be taken with a bit of skepticism. Would FERC, which has long detested Texas having its own intrastate grid with limited federal control, never color its report in any way? And, gas companies sell a commodity to the global market with generators being a specific customer. It seems more appropriate that electric generators themselves should be the parties responsible for ensuring their supply, not the producer of the raw commodity. This is all a bit like making BHP Billiton, or similar, responsible to ensure its mines never have a production or transport problem in order protect a far off steel maker from having production issues due to ore or coke shortages.
Texas unemployment numbers are in (and getting better.)
Much in our border news stack including renewed concern that for all of what looks like state action the border, we are actually doing little but increasing the cost on state taxpayers.
An action by a coach in Anson ISD toward a student which is no less uncalled for than what we see from the “woke” Leftists.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Don’t be fooled by the Texas Tribune’s reporting on what seems Texas Democratic Party hypocrisy on “diversity.” If it were a straight story it would have run when filing closed. Instead it’s a story from the AOC-style Left to try and get more “diverse”candidates to file in the primary. Also, it is another in a long line of stories that make it seem that Republicans are just getting serious about outreach to minorities in the last few years. The Texas GOP has been working hard on such, not always very well I’ll admit, since the late 1980’s and heavily since the early 1990’s. Also, Fifth in Texas House seniority, Rep. Garnet Coleman (HD147) has announce that he will not run again. That makes 23 House members not running for reelection.
Lubbock’s race for HD84 could be the most robust race the city’s seen since retiring state Rep. John Frullo orginally ran. Self-described “pro-life, pro-liberty Republican” David Glasheen held a well attended campaign launch this week ensuring a race between strong candidates who are both military veterans.
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Texas State Board of Education making right moves on “health” textbooks but many on the Left, including the media, are purposefully confusing health books with materials on sex education which is a separate issue under Texas law.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: More proof that even in your local markets, "news" outlets are actively training employees to forget objectivity in news coverage and replace it with social justice and other Leftists propaganda.
And, how the media misleads you using the Netflix comedian controversy as an example.
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The White House shifts so fast on inflation you could get dizzy but what actually will floor you is how Biden officials claim spending trillions will help the fight against inflation.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: As filing for primary elections has opened and at least 21 opens seats existing in the Texas legislature, will voters finally elect a solid GOP caucus House majority that does not let Democrat members call some of the shots? And with Beto Pancho having proven the ability to run a strong turnout game, will that affect key House races even after new district lines were drawn.
Guest host Carl Tepper officially announces a GOP run House District 84 in Lubbock. He filed to run on Saturday.
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OSHA vaccine mandate cases will all be heard in the Sixth Court of Appeals.
Harris County’s WuFlu contract with the Democrat operative fell apart after it was publicized. Now the Harris Co. D.A. has a grand jury investigating the matter.
Parents and voters got a big win at the ballot box in Carroll ISD over the Leftists to stop CRT and other student indoctrination so here comes Biden’s Dept. of Education “investigating” the district over unspecified civil rights matters.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton goes to court to fight for Texans filing a motion to stop Biden’s federal contractor vaccine mandate and filing an original lawsuit to stop the vaccine mandate on healthcare workers imposed through the CMS. I give full review of this original lawsuit filed in the Amarillo court of the Northern District of Texas.
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Campaign news has a another liberal Democrat getting in that party’s race for Lt. Governor and more. Beto Pancho begins his campaign stressing is ties to the big unions, especially the AFL-CIO which is quite odd given that even in Democrat dominating days in Texas union support was never a big winner back when the unions were much more powerful.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Beto Pancho O’Rourke gives Democrats a thrill by announcing a run for Texas governor. He has a tough road ahead and is no magic candidate with higher negatives and weaker positions than last time around but, the run must be taken quite seriously because mid-terms are very much turnout elections and he’s proven he knows how to work that model.
Republican and conservative voters had better not depend upon others, whether candidates, parties, or groups, to ensure defeat for the radical Left in Texas. Conservative voters need to identify friends, associates, and others in their orbits who are like minded and ensure they are registered to vote at their current addresses AND make sure to bug them enough to get them to the polls come election time.
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South Texas Democrat state legislator switches to the Republican Party. While not unexpected, the move is a blow to Texas Dems.
Federal courts are skeptical of the Biden Administration vaccine mandates so why are so many local and state officials, as well as big business folk, so quick to jump aboard? It will take your pressure, at the right pressure points, to slow down this dangerous and unprecedented attack upon Liberty.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Texas a “Potemkin Village” for conservatives? I don’t think so but it is true that many of our chest-thumping “conservative” political leaders seem to favor words over action rejecting the great motto: Acta Non Verba. Critical Race Theory, or components of it, are in our schools and public institutions. Also parents not content to trust the “experts” are busy turning up grossly inappropriate books from our school libraries. I think the lesson is a reminder that depending upon politicians too much is utter folly and that real action always starts with plain citizens action – the politicians jump on the bandwagon once it’s underway and getting attention.
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The oil and gas industry is beginning to turn the economic corner, adding jobs, adding drilling rigs, and digging firms out of near, or full, bankruptcy. But, what is the focus of Democrats and Biden? Putting the petroleum industry out of business completely.
Those in positions of power had better wake up to the situation they put people in with vaccine mandates and similar. It is terribly dangerous to back people into corners from which they feel they have no alternative except to lash out for survival.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Jerk of a judge, Lee Yeakel, a W. bush appointee, once again shows you don’t have to be super bright to make it to the federal bench. His ruling that Texas is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by preventing schools (and schools only mind you) from ordering face masks on staff and students is sloppy thinking at best and a ridiculous intrusion upon states’ ability to govern their own affairs.
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Democrats claim there is little election fraud but actually there is quite a lot that has made it through the courts. Parts of my interview with Hans von Spakovsky on his book Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote.
Having our border with Mexico essentially open with little ability to stop the inflow of millions is dangerous enough but experience in Texas shows we have many dangerous criminals coming across as well as people from countries that are declared to pose a risk for terrorism.
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Paul Bedard, in his Washington Secrets column, wrote: "It used to be that the media were obsessed with voter fraud and messy elections. As recently as 1999, Pulitzer Prizes were handed out to newspapers that dug into rigged elections and wrongly elected candidates.
"But when former President Donald Trump made it one of his top issues, claiming his 2020 reelection was stolen in extensive fraud, the media looked away and even defended the systems they once investigated."
Bedard went on to mention that our friend Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund have authored yet another book detailing the prevalence of proven vote fraud around the country titled: Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Harris County’s (and Houston’s) plunge into Leftwing, disfunction shows what happens when voters give Democrats a majority vote on local governing bodies. Dems in Houston are praising and copying policies of places which have caused thousands to flee – and ironically enough, move to places like Houston and its surroundings.
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Appeals court, as expected, rules against Gov. Abbott on local mask mandates; the issue will be decided at the Texas Supreme Court.
D.C. Democrats double-down on the move to pay illegal aliens hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
Much in the campaign announcement stack including Gohmert’s sort-of announcement for a run for Texas Attorney General. I like Gohmert but voters deserve better than this gamesmanship as do East Texas locals when it comes to whether or not his Congressional seat will be open.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: What is Lubbock County's sheriff and D.A.'s office hiding in the in-custody death by suicide of Jordan Wade Woolf? Why has Lubbock County fought release of materials related to that death to the point of hiring outside counsel to argue such, and lose, in court. And why has the county asked the Texas Commission on Jail Standards to withhold information from Woolf's family that it assembled during its investigation? Attorney Dean Malone joins Pratt on Texas to discuss the issue.
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Texas now has over 17 million registered voters with large Democrat counties seeing the most gains. About 20% of these voters have never cast a Texas ballot before 2014 showing shallow, or no, roots in Texas culture or what has made Texas work which has, in large part, due to removing Democrats from control of the state.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lawsuit filed over the ballot language of recently passed Proposition 2, a Texas Constitutional Amendment. The plaintiffs are right even if they don’t get traction in Texas courts; the legislature acted to trick Texans to support an item they voted down a decade ago.
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Much in the border news stack including evidence that the “caravans” headed our way are full of violent, lawless people. Also, Biden supports the big payouts to illegal alien families that a week ago he thought was “garbage” fake news.
The pivot is on toward forever masking and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals puts a nationwide emergency stay in place to block the OSHA/Biden mandate for employers to require employees to take a WuFlu vaccine.
Critical Race Theory is real but it is also a catch-all rallying cry for a litany of Leftist “equity” and “social justice” programs. CRT has spawned from the college campus to much of our public education system for children and it’s up to parents to save us and all of Western Civilization.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: More embarrassment for Gov. Abbott and Texas as Don Huffines exposes that the Department of State Health Services has been requiring Marxist Critical Race Theory for all employees.
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Biden’s D.O.J. files a lawsuit against Texas election integrity law and it is a set of dubious claims at best.
Oil and gas rig count, another firm leaves Left Coast for Texas, and Texas official revenue estimate jumps again in Comptroller’s estimate.
Much border related news.
WuFlu vaccine mandates prompts lawsuit from Texas and many others. Abbott challenger West holds press conference with doctors opposed to vaccine mandates.
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Historian, science writer, author, and keeper of BehindTheBlack.com, Robert Zimmerman joined Pratt on Texas for another update in his daily blacklisted Americans documentation.
The cases are more frequent, insidious, and perversely absurd.
In this update we discuss a surgeon and another doctor seemingly fired for simply speaking up about mask mandates and WuFlu treatments. We look at two teachers harmed and a formerly prestigious science body that denied giving awards because all nominees were white males and that's not all.
See a full list of Today's Blacklisted American posts here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Turns out Harris County cheated again and used drive-through voting for the November 2nd election. The new elections office in Harris County has proven as incompetent and integrity challenged as the clerks running the show before it.
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State Rep. John Frullo, HD84, says he will not seek re-election as does state Senator Eddie Lucio.
The Brandon [aka Biden] Administration has finalized its tyrannical WuFlu vaccine mandate rules. Lawsuits are filed and some experts say the OSHA rules will not stand the legal test but, does it matter what some court says in the future if you are dead or suffering disease due to a side effect from a vaccine that is so unlike a vaccine that the CDC had to change its definition of such to make it qualify.
Texas media is writing about how Texas Republicans can learn from and use the public school issues that were big in Virginia. Texas Republicans are already ahead of that game.
Hale County was the fastest shrinking county in Texas over the past decade.
A sample from our Blacklisted Americans update podcast interview with Robert Zimmerman.
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A long form post legislative session interview with Texas state Senator Charles Perry, SD28.
On the massive state spending for border security Perry said: “We are currently going to build a $750 million chain link fence… A $45 set of bolt cutters can make hay of that fence pretty quickly.” Perry said that many colleagues, including Democrats, believe an “offensive posture” by the USA is all that will get our border with Mexico back under control.
We also talk a good bit about the difference between Senate and House leadership and why so much is stalling on the west side of the capitol.
Senator Perry discusses his ultimately successful effort to protect girls and girl's sports in Texas despite constant and continuing media criticism that borders on the fantastical.
Property tax reform and the challenges such have been for legislators is discussed.
Senator Perry also talks about the new lines of SD28 and how he believes the district is now more aligned from an economic interest perspective.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texans pass all constitutional amendments as expected including one that will allow more local property tax increase. Voters demonstrated curious, often contradictory, behavior in some spots. I review the more interesting local items that were on yesterday’s ballot around the Lone Star State.
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More from my interview with Texas state Senator Charles Perry, SD28. We talk the difference between Senate and House leadership and about Senator Perry’s successful effort to protect girls and girl’s sports in Texas despite constant and continuing media criticism that borders on the fantastical.
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The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas state Senator Charles Perry, SD28, on the massive state spending for border security: “We are currently going to build a $750 million chain link fence… A $45 set of bolt cutters can make hay of that fence pretty quickly.” In an excerpt from a long form interview done with Senator Perry today by Pratt on Texas which will be podcast uncut soon, Perry said that many colleagues believe an “offensive posture” by the USA is all that will get our border with Mexico back under control.
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Texas sales tax collections up substantially over the same period in both 2020 and 2019.
It is election day and almost $11 billion is on various ballots for debt which is essentially voting property tax increases on yourself. What will you do?
BehindtheBlack.com’s Bob Zimmerman joins us for a short Texas space industry update as well as mention of Mars’ rover activity. It’s also keep BehindtheBlack.com independent time if you can help out.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court held three hours of oral arguments today related to the Texas Fetal Heartbeat law, S.B. 8, but the cases before the justices are more about who has standing to sue Texas in federal court than about the law itself.
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NAACP says professional athletes and their families are not safe in Texas and seeks to persuade free agents from signing contracts with Texas teams. The absurd claims of the NAACP show just how low the organization has gone.
Poll says if it’s Abbott versus Beto Pancho O’Rourke for governor, they are about tied. Interestingly it says in the GOP primary, at this moment, Ken Paxton could beat Eva Guzman, Matt Krause, and Geo. P. Bush without a runoff. It’s all fairly meaningless at this point but does show that this early it seems to be all about name I.D. with voters and that most challengers are simply unknown to voters.
Texas has a new Supreme Court justice to replace Eva Guzman.
The “Let’s go Brandon” story related to Southwest Airlines gets a lot of press but there are serious problems with the claims of the AP reporter. Also “The media’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ lunacy” in The Spectator World is worth a read.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: I don’t need fantasy, gore, or an Edgar Allan Poe story for Halloween fright in 2021. Reality has given me a big stack that will rightly scare you more than any haunted house or story. Strap in and be prepared to be truly frightened by the reality in which we all find ourselves at present!
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Border news, some of it seeming incredible!
Oil and gas drilling rig count.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 20 other attorneys general challenge Biden Administration’s planned federal contractor WuFlu vaccine mandate. Meanwhile Odessa College makes a mockery of COVID emergency relief funding. And while we watch our basic human rights fly away forever justified by a virus outbreak, just how bad is COVID-19, really?
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Trump backs Dawn Buckingham in GOP race for Texas Land Commissioner.
Press coverage over lawmaker investigation into the books in our public school libraries is designed to make one think it’s a radical witch hunt and prelude to book burning. It’s not and it turns out some big school districts have been found to have a nasty, explicit book on the shelves.
More bad polling numbers for Texas Democrats; it seems people support the new election integrity laws by a big margin.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is little doubt that recent polling on Texas Fetal Heartbeat law will surprise many – in both the pro-life and abortion camps. The U.S. Supreme court is looking at two aspects of the law that are not specifically related to the issue of abortion being illegal past the detection of a fetal heartbeat.
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What will the Public Utility Commission of Texas do on levying costs to ensure a more reliable electric grid? We talk with Brent Bennet about on thing they should do: Make the variable generators pay to support more reliable service in the event of generation down turns.
WuFlu news including a Clinton appointed federal judge ruling against Southwest Airlines employees saying the business has a right to make them take the experimental vaccine. Meanwhile Texans seem miffed that Abbott and legislators don’t want to fight the feds and protect us from this grossly immoral mandate.
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This is my full interview with Brent Bennett, Ph.D. of the Texas Public Policy Foundation about "improving the ERCOT Grid Through a Reliability Requirement for Variable Generation." The question is: What should the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) do to ensure that direct costs for more generation reliability are placed upon the right actors. Will they put the costs created by variable generators, like wind and solar, on those entities or assign such costs directly to ratepayers further distorting the market?
From Dr. Bennett: Texas is increasingly relying on wind and solar to meet its growing electricity demand, but the lack of a reliability standard for these resources is contributing to an increasing risk of shortages, such as what Texans experienced during Winter Storm Uri.
Key points:
- The Texas electric grid is experiencing more frequent reliability problems, as evidenced by tight summer conditions from 2018 to 2021 and most of all during Winter Storm Uri.
- An increasing reliance on wind and solar generation, which is directing investment and revenue away from dispatchable generation and reliability measures, is the primary cause of these shortages.
- Placing reliability costs on ratepayers, as the Texas model has done to date, provides an implicit subsidy for less reliable generators. The necessary solution to improve reliability is to redirect investment away from variable generation and toward reliability measures.
- A requirement for variable generators to provide a minimum amount of electricity during high-demand periods will improve reliability while minimizing overall costs and impact on the rest of the competitive market.
- This requirement could provide nearly 5 GW of reliable backup resources at a cost of less than $500 million annually, far less than the billions of dollars that Texas ratepayers have paid over the past several years through increased scarcity prices.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Gov. Abbott signs redistricting bills into law and the Democrat lawsuits continue to be files all because Texas Republicans chose not to draw district maps that help more Democrats be elected. See: Republican-drawn Political Districts Are Most Always Branded as Racist, and It’s a Big Catch-22.
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Texas retail sales slacken but service sector grows – all fighting increasing labor costs.
Much border news including a letter from Congressman Jodey Arrington of TX19 questioning changes to crime numbers from the Border Patrol.
Eva Guzman, Republican candidate for Texas Attorney General, seems to be quite unreliable on the issue of vaccine mandates. Her type of fence sitting almost always defaults to the non-conservative, non-Liberty side when action is required.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas lawmaker says vaccine mandate ban has no support from Governor Abbott and that’s why such didn’t pass. Meanwhile, Attorney General Ken Paxton is standing up for Texans promising to sue the feds for any state agency over any vaccine mandates pushed on them from Washington.
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Lubbock County’s costly IT vendor change, agreed to by a lame duck commissioners court continues to cost taxpayers massively and to cost people their freedom (which also increases jail costs.) When will this boondoggle end? When voters give the precinct two and four commissioners a conservative ally with a backbone.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick endorses Kevin Sparks in the Republican Primary for state Senate District 31 to replace the now retiring RINO Kel Seliger.
Lincoln Project weirdos tell The Hill they will file an “ethics” complaint on Governor Abbott with the Texas [Un-]Ethics Commission.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Sherry Sylvester gets it right: Texas Media Leads Nation in ‘One-Siderism’ News Coverage. Much of it is exemplified by what is not covered by the media – including, as Sherry points out, issues that poll as the most important to Texan. What does that say about all the self-serving talk you get from media outlets about “serving the community?”
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What the U. S. Supreme Court did today in regard to the Texas Fetal Heartbeat Act and what it didn’t do and why.
Texas and Missouri Attorneys General file suit against the Biden Administration over not building border wall that Congress funded. Plus, for all of Abbott’s bluster and the money the legislature appropriated, the counties that are cooperating in the state fight along the border claim they are not getting the resources they need.
And again, sadly, Florida is getting leadership on protecting basic human rights while Texas’ top officials dither.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Where is the Texas leadership? Florida Governor DeSantis is calling a legislative special session to enact a ban on forced vaccines and more. But in Texas, Gov. Abbott seems uninterested. Lt. Gov. Patrick wants a 4th called session, but not for a ban on employer mandated vaccines, and the Texas GOP wants a session for the vaccine ban and more including fixing the election integrity bill passed in the regular session. But again, Governor Abbott’s office says such isn’t needed. What happened to all that bluster about standing up the federal government and the Biden Administration?
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Third Court of Appeals sides with former A.G. employees claim that they should be entitled to protection under the Texas Whistleblower Act, as I predicted. As we’ve known all along, the issue will be decided by the Texas Supreme Court.
Senator Ted Cruz makes a good point to Leftist cities across America in filing a proposal to place illegal immigrant detention centers in their areas. Border apprehensions continue to sky rocket while Biden does nothing to curtail the invasion.
Texas made arguments to the Supreme Court on the Fetal Heartbeat Act this morning.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Headline is right: Abbott, conservatives at odds over property tax reform. And it’s not just Abbott but many weak legislators and other officials. Oh, they’ll all decry ever rising property taxes at election time but many actually support the ever growing spending by local governments who raise your property taxes. Not only do many of the elected see local government officials as their constituents, as opposed to you the voter, they support a perverted form of “local control” that says local civic cheerleaders should have full access to your family’s resources to carry out all those never ending “good ideas” that bloat local government spending. Wanting a new football stadium or a “marketing” director for a city is not the same as needing such to provide quality services to taxpayers.
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Great news: Amarillo’s fake Republican state senator is out! Kel Seliger says he will not run again but rest assured the Amarillo RINO crowd will recruit and fund another just like him so watch out. More campaign news.
There is demand, just see what the employees of Southwest Airlines have done, to get a state ban on vaccine mandates passed but don’t expect much more from Abbott or legislators because many of them value donations from the couldn’t-care-less-about-liberty-or-precendent business crowd more than they value the your basic human rights, liberty, or future of Texas and the country.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again the Texas legislature quits early leaving critical issues unheard by the people’s representatives. Redistricting is accomplished and in a good way (and of course Democrat front groups are already filing lawsuits.) But legislators left town without passing meaningful property tax relief and, more importantly and damnable, they didn’t vote to take on the federal government over employer mandated medical procedures. This is a sellout of your fundamental human rights and sets a precedent that government can order that you have whatever medical procedure or take whatever drug it demands in order to have a right to work and provide for yourself and your family. It is immoral, damnable, and without excuse.
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With redistricting done, campaign announcements are piling up. Rep. Glen Rogers already has a conservative opponent for his new Texas house district lines.
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