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Florida’s Three Proposed Constitutional Amendments for 2026A Hamiltonian, Federalist and Reaganite Interpretation
Florida voters will consider three proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution during the November 3, 2026 general election. Each amendment must receive at least 60 percent of the votes cast on that particular measure to become part of the state Constitution.
lhpgop
14 hours ago6 min read


Ocean Shield: Making the American Flag Worth Flying How insurance, protection and strategic cargo could rebuild the U.S. merchant fleet
The next maritime crisis will not wait for Washington to create an insurance portal, identify eligible ships, find escorts, negotiate policy language and determine which cargo should move first.
lhpgop
4 days ago7 min read


Beyond Cheap Gas: Is the Venezuela Agreement a New Model of American Economic Power?
The most important feature of the Venezuela agreement may not be the number of barrels underground. It may be the range of choices those barrels could give the United States.
They could provide domestic price insurance, military fuel, refinery feedstock, diplomatic barter, sanctions resilience, investment income and leverage against both China and OPEC.
lhpgop
5 days ago9 min read


Hochul at the Brink: When Noncooperation With ICE Becomes a Hostile Environment
If that message helps turn protest into interdiction—or hostility into injury—Hochul will not bear the criminal responsibility of the attacker. But neither will she be an innocent spectator. She will be a political leader who constructed the environment, received warnings about its consequences and continued moving toward the brink.
lhpgop
Aug 269 min read


State of the StraitWeek Ending Tuesday, August 25, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz remains legally open but commercially constricted. This week, Iran moved beyond threatening ships in general and began identifying specific vessels it claims violated Iranian transit rules—an effort to transform temporary wartime coercion into a lasting system of permissions, penalties and selective access.
lhpgop
Aug 2512 min read


WILL TRUMP BE ENDING THE KOREAN WAR?
A Trump announcement proposing an end-of-war process is a high and rising possibility. A political declaration after a Trump–Kim meeting is plausible. A complete treaty, detailed verification regime and durable economic settlement would require much longer negotiations.
lhpgop
Aug 249 min read


STEPPING STONES TO SECURITY. Evaluating Temporary International Administration of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb as a Maritime Security Option.
The broader strategic challenge remains unchanged: preserving freedom of navigation while reducing incentives for repeated militarization of disputed territory.
lhpgop
Aug 215 min read


Contracts Before CombatRethinking American Strategy in Africa
The United States should arrive in Africa offering contracts before combat, commerce space before battlespace, and partnership before prescription. That approach does not ask America to surrender its own interests; it recognizes that American interests can be advanced by creating relationships in which African countries, African businesses, American companies, and American workers all have something tangible to gain from stability.
lhpgop
Aug 2013 min read


Leverage Without Rupture: Trump’s Multi-Track Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
South Korea continues to receive an American security commitment while facing pressure to contribute more to both its own defense and wider allied objectives.
lhpgop
Aug 195 min read


A Moneyball Strategy for America's Shipbuilding Crisis
The real challenge facing the United States is not where every ship is constructed. It is whether America possesses the industrial capacity to build, repair, modernize, and sustain the fleet required to compete with China over the coming decades. Framing the debate solely around geography risks overlooking the far larger strategic problem: the steady erosion of America's maritime industrial base.
lhpgop
Aug 177 min read


Beyond the Courtroom: What Is Really Driving the Fight to Preserve Temporary Protected Status?
They argue that TPS recipients have developed families, careers, businesses, and community ties within the United States and deserve the full protection of the judicial system before those protections are withdrawn.
lhpgop
Jul 274 min read


Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?The Dark Side of the U.S.–Iran Peace Process
Yet beneath the headlines lies a more uncomfortable question:
Is this actually a peace agreement, or merely an operational pause between rounds of a conflict that neither side has truly resolved?
lhpgop
Jun 155 min read


"LESS THAN ZERO" CALIFORNIA ELECTION HIJINX AND THE SPENCER PRATT DEBACLE
If Spencer Pratt truly received zero votes in a large batch while his opponents received tens of thousands, the event would be statistically extraordinary.
The probability would be so small as to effectively approach zero.
lhpgop
Jun 63 min read


The Petro Factor: Will Colombia's Election Be Accepted as Legitimately Democratic?
hroughout Latin America, democratic legitimacy increasingly depends not on procedures alone but on public trust.
lhpgop
Jun 14 min read


WHAT TRUMP MAY BE GETTING WRONG WITH IRAN
If internal Iranian leadership remains stable enough to even honor long-term commitments.
That is an extraordinary number of assumptions upon which to build a strategic settlement.
The problem many critics see is not merely the possibility that Iran could openly “break” an agreement.
lhpgop
May 254 min read


Why the Old Guard Republicans Are Against MAGA Restitution
f both parties defend the same systems during moments of political conflict, voters naturally begin to question whether genuine opposition still exists inside the establishment structure.
lhpgop
May 243 min read


SPOTLIGHT ON MALI. Terror, Dependency, and the Legacy of French Withdrawal
Today Mali stands exhausted between competing failures:failed modernization,failed counterterrorism,failed regional stabilization,and failed post-colonial transition.
lhpgop
May 224 min read


THE MANY FACES OF "CUBA LIBRE!"
The political consequences inside the United States could endure for years.
That means any serious Cuba policy must contain two parallel tracks simultaneously:pressure against authoritarian structures,and preparation for humanitarian and institutional stabilization if those structures weaken or fail.
lhpgop
May 164 min read


The “CIA Raid” Story, Tulsi Gabbard, and the Return of MKUltra Questions
here is currently no confirmed evidence that the CIA “raided” the office of the DNI.
There is evidence that:
whistleblowers raised concerns,
documents were reportedly reclaimed,
and disputes may exist over declassification authority.
lhpgop
May 144 min read


Unit 4000: Iran’s Shadow Network Exposed
Rather than functioning like a classic terrorist organization, it seems better understood as a covert operational architecture designed to:
intimidate adversaries,
disrupt infrastructure,
retaliate asymmetrically,
and project Iranian influence globally without direct conventional confrontation.
lhpgop
May 125 min read
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