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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Excuses from the U.S. Secret Service chief, the big Leftist DEI proponent, for the agency’s deadly failure Saturday now reach a level of extreme absurdity.
If a very slightly sloped barn roof is too big of a “safety” issue for the Secret Service then we don’t need this particular agency because it will have become worthless from a practical sense. Maybe it’s just the DEI hires of U.S. Secret Service Chief Kimberly Cheatle that can’t stand on an easily walkable roof. See also: Secret Service Blasted: ‘Go After DEI, You End Up With DIE’

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 Attorney General Ken Paxton pushes forward investigating El Paso NGO Annunciation House his office accuses of directly aiding illegal immigration. Mainstream press stories decrying Paxton’s investigation have left out much of the story including: According to Annunciation House’s in-court admissions, its employees enter Mexico to retrieve aliens, including aliens who have been denied entry by Border Patrol, to bring them into the United States.”

The pros and cons of VP J.D. Vance – The Spectator World.

Elon Musk to donate $45 million a month to new Donald Trump super PAC.

Abbott campaign breaks fundraising record with over $51 million cash on hand.

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In the extension of the show (15 July 2025) I have more comment on the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump; cover some Texas headlines, and: cover three important stories about Space X. 

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Our Lone Star story of the day: I explain why my immediate personal re-action to the attempt to murder, to assassinate, President Trump was not one of shock or surprise – differing from even close friends. It has much to do with the Soviet-style bizzaro opposite world in which we’ve been living.

Roger Kimball said it almost the same way in a column as I would have in a written piece: Who’s the real threat to democracy? – The Spectator World.

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.

Trump picks Ohio’s U.S. Senator J.D. Vance for his vice presidential running mate. This is an interesting story leading up to the pick: Donald Trump Jr. Is Battling Rupert Murdoch Over VP Pick.

Judge Tosses Documents Case Against Trump; Jack Smith Appointment Unconstitutional. Leftist McQuade: Judge Cannon’s dismissal ‘Blessing in Disguise,’ case can be appealed immediately.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Reuters, and much other press, is factually wrong carrying Biden’s propaganda that his administration is deporting more illegal aliens than did the Trump administration. Not only is it not close, the data also shows the Biden is specifically coddling, benefiting criminal aliens.

I also comment on Biden’s staged press conference from last evening. And from that, you must see: WHCA President Says Press Doesn’t Coordinate With WH (People Have Questions and Pics.)

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Great news for wanna-be bootleggers – well sort of: U.S. ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge rules. Beware it isn’t legal yet!

Carroll ISD Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Title IX Rule Protecting ‘Gender Identity‘. A.G. Paxton wins similar case in different federal court too!

Sit ALL the Way Down! Ted Cruz Shuts DOWN Climate Change Loons Who Try Protesting Him – from Twitchy.

Kamala Harris’ Sorority Sisters Get Homosexual Men Evicted From Dallas Hotel. Despite how media descriptions try and tone it down, “Daddlyland” is an all out sex party and this Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown hosts it often. Isabel and I made the mistake of entering that hotel once when such an event was wrapping up. It was grotesque to say the least.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Man was I right?! CenterPoint, and Entergy to a lesser extent, are becoming the public scapegoat for the unpleasantness following weak Hurricane Beryl. Interestingly, the Houston Police Dept. did not even think it needed to go on full mobilization until 24 hours after the hurricane hit and I agree with them, it wasn’t needed.

Clearly the move up and East for landfall made it very difficult to have private sector crews stationed in the right places. And, let’s think about the criticism that would have come from the same quarters if the storm had rapidly intensified and recovery crews and their had become casualties.

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.

Biden Campaign Deathwatch: Frenzy behind the Scenes. Will he bow out this evening?

University of Houston’s Satan statue beheaded during the hurricane – officials and media blame pro-lifers – that’s a blame I’d be happy to carry all the way into the courthouse!

Despite rumors to the contrary and Ken Paxton saying it was so, it doesn’t look as if the Texas House Star Chamber is actually meeting next week to launch another impeachment attempt. This story does get the background of the shameful House Investigative Committee right.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: President Biden woke up long enough to do an “exclusive” interview with the leftwing Houston Chronicle in which he claimed he had tried hard but could not reach Governor Abbott or Lieutenant Governor Patrick about FEMA relief for Hurricane Beryl. It is a lie and also, we haven’t needed the FEMA supplies yet.

Also, a review of the media shows that CenterPoint is being branded, rightly or wrongly, the scapegoat for problems with the hurricane. There is much more than the story I provided but I have to laugh at the idea that their online outage map is such a big deal. Yes, it is nice to have but it has nothing to do with how quickly the firm works to get power back on. We didn’t even have such things a few years back and yet today, you’d think an outage map was the central issue to saving lives and property – it’s preposterous.

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.

Local sales tax collections in July report are down statewide. Look up your city here.

U.S. House Judiciary Committee shows anti-trust style collusion between major advertisers to kill off media that even slightly leans conservative. Quotes also show that the movement is more generally anti-United States and its exceptional constitutional protections.

New report gives a much better look at how United Supermarkets, West Texas, and New Mexico will be treated if the Kroger takeover of Albertson’s goes through.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A federal judge asked great questions of the Biden Administration’s lawyer, and had a perfect retort, in hearing the case Carroll ISD has brought against the Department of Education and its new perverted Title IX rules. Kim Roberts at The Texan had the write-up.

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.

Coleman County is another caught in audit undervaluing property for taxing purposes but correcting such does not, as the press reports, automatically mean tax increases. See: Annual Property Tax Misrepresentation Season Begins. And more: Columns and more on Texas property taxes.

Pew study says GOP has its first-ever advantage over Democrats in party identification.

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In this Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra, I interview marine biologist turned entrepreneur Bart Reid about his new book, out from Texas Tech University Press, about his successful, then not successful, efforts at commercially raising shrimp in the trans-Pecos desert of West Texas.

This is one of the most enjoyable and interesting interviews I have done in many years and I’m sure you’ll find it so as well.

This is a link to the local news story I mentioned in the interview: https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/staying-afloat-last-shrimp-farmer-in-west-texas/513-50237083-448f-4339-bd1c-7b0748455333

Order for Kindle or paperback from Amazon here.  (It helps the show a tiny bit financially when you use my link to Amazon to order.)

You may also order Shrimping West Texas: The rise & fall of the Permian Sea Shrimp Company from the TTU Press here: https://www.ttupress.org/9781682832110/shrimping-west-texas/ 

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Senator Hughes right, does Texas’ abortion law need “further clarity” in the next legislative session? No, and the data demonstrate that Hughes is wrong. Like many he’s falling victim to politicized hospitals and pro-abortion doctors who want little more than to loosen Texas abortion laws that are now saving the lives of tens of thousands of innocent human beings and effectively protecting the health of pregnant women. It’s Senator Hughes who needs “further clarity.”

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 Texas-based rocket firm had a successful launch last week: Firefly’s Alpha rocket launches eight smallsats into orbit. Also, SpaceX has released more video from the latest Starship and Superheavy test launch.

Is a new poll a worry for Senator Ted Cruz and Texas Republicans or, is it an outlier to be ignored? Either way it’s time Texans learn how Leftwing is Democrat Colin Allred.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacates panel’s previous order pushing dirty books back into Llano County’s public library and announces it will hear the case en banc.

Oil and gas rig count up last week. See the Baker Hughes Rig Count here.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: We don’t have a shortage of water in Texas, like most places we have too much water in some places and not enough in others – just like with milk, oil, bread, etc. Which is more likely to assure plentiful, properly priced distribution of water: Government programs or, a free market of water resources?  Read: Water Markets in Texas

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.

The effective loss of a Texas legend? Saks owner to purchase Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion, according to reports.

Biden’s election year deal to close the Darian Gap is B.S. The new president of Panama ran on closing the Gap, it’s not a Biden effort.

Cameron County touts SpaceX’s economic impact – it’s huge!

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