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Why Everything Feels Expensive
When consumers experience higher prices in everyday life, they are usually witnessing the combined effect of several forces.
lhpgop
Mar 106 min read


The Pill and the Rewriting of Western Civilization
Few people at the time imagined that this small tablet would eventually reshape the timing of adulthood, alter the incentives surrounding relationships, and contribute to demographic changes that now affect the future of entire nations.
lhpgop
Mar 76 min read


Power, Credibility, and the Cost of Public Office: The Fall of Kristi Noem
he Noem controversy illustrates how quickly reputations can collapse when oversight reveals questionable decisions.
lhpgop
Mar 54 min read


We Surrender… and Fight On. Explaining the Duality of Iran’s Military
The Islamic Republic was designed not merely to wage war but to survive political shocks, including military defeat
lhpgop
Mar 45 min read


IS THE POTENTIAL FALL OF IRAN THE WORK OF QUR'AN-IC JUSTICE?
Under Islamic theology, persistent violation of these principles undermines claims to divine legitimacy and places a regime within the Qur’anic pattern of rulers warned of eventual downfall.
lhpgop
Mar 15 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


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


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


Venezuela Status Report (as of Feb 11, 2026)
What you’re seeing is consistent with a real ramp-up in sanctioned-but-authorized energy activity:
lhpgop
Feb 113 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


The Quiet Coalition Defending the Fed
The Senate’s reaction—freezing nominations, demanding investigations be dropped rather than concluded, and admitting there may be no procedural path forward—signals how intolerable that reframing would be to the current order.
lhpgop
Feb 33 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 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


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


Where the Narrative Breaks: Misread Voters, Manufactured Majorities, and the Limits of Perception Politics
The midterm landscape is not best understood as a binary contest between mobilized majorities and reactionary minorities. It is better understood as a system under strain from perception management, institutional opacity, and misread silence.
lhpgop
Jan 264 min read


TAKING AIM AT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S CIVIL RIGHTS DOUBLE JEOPARDY.
The cumulative effect was a measurable increase in civil rights investigations that appeared asymmetrically distributed across politically salient incidents rather than proportionally tied to objective indicators of criminality.
lhpgop
Jan 246 min read
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