Bashing the reputation of a dead South Texas lawman, Tom Mayfield, after whom a local San Juan municipal park is named, decrying hangings at the old San Juan Hotel, of which there is no valid historical evidence, that’s what some people are currently doing, led by a female associate professor of Mexican American Studies at UTRGV.
Okay, seriously, you’re a Republican, and you believe that always supporting Gov. Greg Abbott is part of the gig. In most quarters you’d be right. Start attending a GOP state convention with an open bar, and start talking down the guv, or even Trump, and see how long you last.
Bryan Malinowski was director of the Little Rock airport (and the highest paid civil official in the state of Arkansas). He was also a coin collector and a gun collector. Officials of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms decided that the 150 guns he had bought in recent years at gun shows had produced enough trading and sales so that he should have purchased a $200 federal firearms license.
If you’re going to be on the road this Memorial Day weekend, be careful. Drive some kind of armored vehicle if you can get your hands on one.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke last weekend at the NRA national convention in Dallas. Although his main emphasis was on (as one would expect) the Second Amendment, he spent plenty of time examining Texas’ actions to secure its border.
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