Gov. Greg Abbott issued three executive orders last week targeting the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, The Dallas Morning News reported Abbott said the orders were intended to protect Texans of Chinese descent from “harassment and intimidation” by the Chinese Communist Party and government, and to fight threats to state security.
Back in 1621, when the Pilgrims celebrated their first thanksgiving – that year’s planting harvest had gone well – little did they know what lay in store for the free country they would help found.
Take me back to a gentler time when people used a rope and a ferry to get across the Rio Grande. No, wait, such a thing still exists — the Los Ebanos Ferry, the last hand-operated ferry on the Rio Grande, just three miles off Expressway 83/I-2 near Sullivan City on FM 886. The days of the bootleggers have given way to drug smugglers but the historical ambience is still there.
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