House Speaker Dade Phelan withdrew last week from seeking another term leading that chamber. After three rounds of voting on Saturday, state Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield emerged as the preference of most House Republicans.
We are living in a nation where there are close to 30 million alcoholics, including millions of teenagers. In the last year, nearly 700,000 marriages and families were torn apart by divorce. There were over one million babies that had their lives taken from them inside their mother’s womb. There were almost 20,000 of our fellow citizens that were murdered in cold blood in their homes, on the streets or other places. And if that is not enough, upwards of almost 7,000 churches closed their doors.
“When hate feels easy, be very wary, lest your hate becomes greater than the one who is hated. Because it is at that point you turn the corner toward evil.”
The state’s construction industry is voicing concern that President-elect Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants would cause major labor shortfalls, according to the Texas Standard. “It would devastate our industry, we wouldn’t finish our highways, we wouldn’t finish our schools,” said Stan Marek, CEO of Marek, a Houston-based commercial and residential construction giant. “Housing would disappear. I think they’d lose half their labor.”
My husband, Peter, told me about the unlikely friendship.
During America’s bloody civil war, while tens of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers were dying on battlefields, President Abraham Lincoln looked through the haze of war and still saw the good in America. In October 1863 he drafted a proclamation that still aects us 161 years later. He etched out the divine blessings our young nation still had, even in the face of deathly division and the evils of slavery.
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