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IRAN: OPERATION EPIC FURY 2/28.26 (AS OF 16:35 EST)
Current operational emphasis remains kinetic and decapitation-oriented rather than territorial control or governance.
lhpgop
Feb 283 min read


THOMAS MASSIE WILL STOP THE "WAR" IN IRAN?
America First does not mean America paralyzed. The President, as Commander in Chief, possesses long-recognized authority to conduct limited military actions, especially when deterrence or immediate national security interests are involved. That authority has been exercised by Democrats and Republicans alike for decades, often with Congress responding afterward through funding or targeted authorizations.
lhpgop
Feb 282 min read


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


THE DEATH OF EL MENCHO
A pre-dawn operation by Army special forces + National Guard, with airborne surveillance/support and U.S. intelligence assistance for confirmation/overwatch, attempted to capture him.
lhpgop
Feb 244 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


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


Why So Many Young Men Follow Online Influencers Today or “Why so many guys are lowkey obsessed with influencers rn”
The popularity of these figures reflects a larger social reality: many young men are searching for guidance about success, identity, and purpose.
Traditional sources of direction — community institutions, stable career paths, and clear social expectations — have weakened.
lhpgop
Feb 166 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


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


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


The Places Beijing Overreached: A Sun Tzu Audit of China’s Taiwan Stratagem
Beijing’s propaganda often assumes the United States must choose between direct war in the Strait or abandonment.
lhpgop
Feb 54 min read


GERMANY WANTS A NUCLEAR ARSENAL
German leaders publicly framing NPT / Two Plus Four as “obsolete” or conditional
New German budget lines for fuel-cycle expansion, enrichment capacity growth tied to sovereign control, or weapons-adjacent R&D
lhpgop
Feb 44 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
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