U.S. News/Policy

GCC’s Lawrence W, Reed’s Born of Ideas argues that America’s founding was rooted not in battlefield glory but in a covenantal tradition of faith, liberty, and personal responsibility stretching back to the Mayflower Compact.

The only accurate prediction I see this year is everyone in politics will make a prediction about the midterm election. The primary season shows how well everyone is doing.

Let me tell you something that keeps me up at night.

Every single year, I watch a kid walk into my classroom — a kid who “passed” the prerequisite with a 65, maybe a 68 — and I can tell within the first week that they have absolutely no foundation for what I am about to teach them. None. Zero.

On August 8, 2026, the United States Senate held a cloture vote on a stripped-down version of the SAVE America Act. Senator Husted had trimmed it down to voter photo identification. Just that. Nothing else.

The vote was 52 to 46.

Sixty were required.

The actual day-to-day experience of feeling genuinely ALIVE and well — also routes through different chemical pathways in male and female brains.
Same engine. Completely different fuel.

The biology did not just see it coming. The biology is now measuring it in cancer rates. In serial murder statistics. In the wreckage of a generation of women handed a pill and told it was freedom. The numbers are devastating. Every single one of them.

If your stated goal is fewer people dying in encounters with federal agents, and someone hands you a tool specifically engineered to end a physical struggle WITHOUT a firearm, do you say “thank you,” or do you hold a press conference to kill it?