When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.
Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
It is hard to describe seeing an entire community flattened,
I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
I worry more about the strains on family life in our state. I worry more about communities being hard hit already, preparing for yet another storm. Such is the physical loss of property and psychological aspect of this, it wears you down.
People had ample time to prepare. It isn't that hard to get 72 hours worth of food and water,
ask hard questions as to how this expensive feat can be achieved without pulling the financial rug out from under other priority conservation projects.
It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.
It's kind of hard to be arguing to conserve gasoline when you're driving around in a Ford Expedition that guzzles it down at a six- to eight-mile-per-gallon clip,
The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.