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Fault Lines on the Durand Line: Why Pakistan and Afghanistan Are Fighting — and How It Could Be Contained
The latest round of fighting between Pakistan and Taliban-run Afghanistan marks the most serious escalation between the two neighbors since the U.S. withdrawal.
lhpgop
Feb 273 min read


America First in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The American system of federalism further complicates the matter. Utility regulation, environmental review, water rights, and zoning authority are distributed across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. Requiring AI firms to construct generation capacity respects this layered authority rather than overriding it.
lhpgop
Feb 254 min read


Governor Shapiro’s “19 Wins” Claim Is Political Messaging — Not Legal Reality
Governor Shapiro’s claim creates the impression
lhpgop
Feb 233 min read


Let’s Get Rid of the Billionaires… But Which Ones?
The modern call to eliminate billionaires reflects an underlying anxiety about the direction of contemporary civilization. Yet the problem is not simply the existence of great wealth. It is the cultural and economic order that produces particular forms of wealth and rewards particular forms of human activity.
lhpgop
Feb 235 min read


The Veterans Compact Under Strain: What the VA Disability Controversy Reveals About America’s Promise to Its Service Members
A sustainable veterans policy must therefore balance fiscal responsibility with moral obligation, administrative order with individual justice, and functional assessment with recognition of permanent sacrifice.
lhpgop
Feb 228 min read


TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR 2.0 — The Train Kept Rolling
The “pay back tariffs” narrative is therefore less a statement of law than a simplification — one that converts a technical warning about litigation risk into a dramatic economic scare.
lhpgop
Feb 203 min read


Climate Litigation and Institutional Incentives: Examining the EPA Lawsuit and the Political Economy of the “Green Agenda”
Many of the organizations involved operate within a policy environment where climate regulation is closely tied to their institutional growth, funding streams, and influence.
lhpgop
Feb 195 min read


Another Legal Blackeye for Philadelphia: Placards Back Up — But Columbus and Rizzo Still Out
The episode highlights the growing role courts play in disputes over historical interpretation and public memory. It also ensures that debates over civic identity, government authority, and the presentation of history will continue to shape Philadelphia’s public landscape for years to come.
lhpgop
Feb 197 min read


Christian Identity Politics and Its Pitfalls: Fragmentation, Radicalization, and the Politics of Religious Identity
Identity-centered religious frameworks are not unique to Christian Identity theology. Some strands of Black Hebrew Israelite movements, for example, employ similar mechanisms of ethnic chosenness, sacred struggle, and boundary formation, though with entirely different identity claims.
lhpgop
Feb 166 min read


The U.S. Midterm Elections: A Very Possible Outcome
Given the extremely narrow margins in Congress, such differences may not merely reduce losses or gains. They could determine control of the House and influence the Senate balance with only modest seat changes.
lhpgop
Feb 144 min read


Why Does the State of Florida Have a Problem With the First Amendment?
In other words, Florida’s legislative process currently rewards overreach and relies on vigilance to fix it later.
That should worry conservatives most of all. The First Amendment does not exist to protect popular speech, approved industries, or friendly officials. It exists to protect criticism—especially criticism of those with power.
lhpgop
Feb 103 min read


Civilizational Regression: From Logos to Rite
he technologies change. The pattern does not.
Rome, Weimar, Maoist China, revolutionary France—all exhibited early ritualization before overt collapse. Modern societies are not exempt simply because they are technologically advanced.
lhpgop
Feb 93 min read


Institutions of Islam Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution.
This limitation preserves, rather than diminishes, religious freedom by maintaining one civil law, equally applied
lhpgop
Feb 64 min read


FLORIDA VS. A WEAPONIZED CENSUS
Florida does not need Congress to act—and does not need to challenge the Census itself.
lhpgop
Feb 32 min read


WHO RUNS MITCH MCCONNELL
With Mitch McConnell showing visible decline and no longer serving as party leader, the old assumption — that one man is personally directing every strategic pause — no longer fits the facts. What remains is a familiar Washington pattern: power disperses to those who control time and money.
lhpgop
Feb 23 min read


When “Reform” Becomes Sabotage: How Congress Is Trying to Nullify Immigration Law Without Repealing It
What is being sold to the public as “civil-rights reform” is, in reality, something far more troubling: an effort to use procedural burdens, funding conditions, and selective restrictions to obstruct the execution of federal law, without ever voting to change that law. This is not reform. It is constitutional evasion.
lhpgop
Feb 25 min read


THE "STRUGGLE" JUNKIES. THE MODERN PROTESTER IS STRUGGLING WITH STRUGGLE
To those of the younger generation who refuse to mistake noise for numbers and chaos for consensus: take heart. The destructive voices you see amplified daily are not the majority—they only appear so because outrage is rewarded and restraint is ignored.
lhpgop
Jan 315 min read


When a Governor Crosses the Line from Protest to Obstruction
Governors are free to criticize federal policy. They are free to sue. They are free to campaign. What they are not free to do is convert state power into an operational tool against federal law enforcement.
lhpgop
Jan 303 min read


PHILLY DA LARRY KRASNER IS A CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATOR?
One of the most enduring lessons of the Jim Crow era is that civil-rights violations often do not arise from openly unlawful statutes, but from selective enforcement by officials cloaked in discretion.
lhpgop
Jan 303 min read


When Faith Becomes Political Infrastructure, the Public Purse Must Close
Across the United States, some religious organizations and clergy have moved beyond moral advocacy into operational interference with federal immigration enforcement, including physically blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. These actions are defended as faith-based witness.
lhpgop
Jan 294 min read
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