Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes: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?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.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.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: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.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 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.More about our big listener trip to the Texas’ Cowboys’ Christmas Ball.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: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?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.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.”And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: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.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.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.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: (Originally aired 25 July 2022)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.pdfOur 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.On Monday, 18 July 2022, I covered other aspects of the report – listen to that show here.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

 Matt Crow tells of working in the Reagan Administration.www.PrattonTexas.com

Matt Crow tells of how he came to work in the Reagan Administration.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: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.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 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?And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: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.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.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.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com