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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


China’s Great Green Lie: What “World Leader in Renewables” Really Means
China is not leading a clean-energy revolution. It is leading a numbers revolution.
lhpgop
Feb 44 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 “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


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


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


Speaking From the State: Why Officials Who Legitimize Violence Must Be Held Accountable
Officials in power already enjoy structural advantages: a microphone, institutional credibility, and the ability to frame legality for millions of people who are not lawyers. With those advantages should come responsibility
lhpgop
Jan 246 min read


James Fishback and the Sins of Omission in a Gubernatorial CampaignPLUS SOME ADVICE FOR BYRON DONALDS
In Florida, the risk is that this dynamic siphons attention and trust away from viable Republican leadership—most notably Byron Donalds—creating conditions that advantage Democrats.
lhpgop
Jan 233 min read


The Minnesota “Union Walkout” Ahead of January 23
January 23 has not yet arrived—but the narrative is already being written.
If organizers and media continue to rely on implication rather than disclosure, they should not be surprised when workers, contractors, and the public start asking whether this “walkout” is less about labor—and more about manufacturing consent through ambiguity.
lhpgop
Jan 223 min read


PAPER DRAGON. A Structural Assessment of PRC Power, Vulnerability, and Strategic Overstatement
Intelligence professionals must be trained to see through the shimmer—and to recognize that systems built on opacity, coercion, and external dependence rarely perform well when exposed to time, pressure, and friction.
lhpgop
Jan 225 min read


OVERHAULING THE US LABOR FORCE
The political coalition for such a reform is broader than its opponents assume. Citizens gain mobility, dignity, and wage protection; employers gain legal labor and predictability; sending states gain structured remittance flows; and immigration hawks gain real enforcement. The losers are the actors who profit from illegality: shadow intermediaries, labor brokers, and political rent extractors.
lhpgop
Jan 214 min read


OPERATION. ARCTIC SPRING. HOW THE OBAMA COULD HAVE TAKEN GREENLAND
Think of it as a fusion of Arab Spring tradecraft, Cold War IO doctrine, and modern NGO-media-platform dynamics, with Greenland as the test case
lhpgop
Jan 1916 min read


THE MACHADO HURDLE: NAVIGATING VENEZUELA’S NEXT POLITICAL TEST UNDER TRUMP
The Venezuelan transition is entering its most precarious phase. Machado is a player, but not the center of gravity.
lhpgop
Jan 195 min read


The Trump 10% Credit Cap Is a Start — But Real Reform Requires Ending Lifelong Debt
The lifelong debt model is a relatively new invention — a late-1990s to 2000s engineering project built on FICO scores, securitization, minimum payment formulas, and behavioral gamification
lhpgop
Jan 174 min read


TALES FROM FENTYLAND. 10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT...
Revelation / Inference supported by reporting:Spain took roughly two years to finally extradite Carvajal to the U.S., despite the charges and U.S. pressure. Commentators in Europe and Latin America have openly speculated that left parties allegedly funded by Venezuela had zero interest in Carvajal testifying on their money trails.
lhpgop
Jan 165 min read


Greenland, Europe, China, and the Arctic Monroe Doctrine: A Strategic Reframing of Western Hemisphere Arctic Security
Europe attempted to preempt American primacy.
PRC attempted to indirectly derail American consolidation.
Inuit nationalism aligned with the United States.
The United States reasserted hierarchical reality, using energy rather than war.
lhpgop
Jan 144 min read


The Private Nations Doctrine: Why Sovereignty Belongs to Citizens, Not Billionaire Technocrats
The greatest encroachments on the sovereignty of the American citizen no longer originate in the White House, or Congress, or even the alphabet soup of administrative agencies. They originate in Silicon Valley server farms, philanthropic foundations in Manhattan, and transnational NGO archipelagos operating under the polite euphemism of “civil society.”
lhpgop
Jan 136 min read


The NGO Problem: When Philanthropy Becomes Political Warfare
Congress has spent decades treating NGOs as a philanthropic category rather than a governing category. That assumption no longer holds. In the U.S. and internationally, segments of the NGO ecosystem now function as political and operational actors—intermediating migration flows, influencing foreign policy, financing domestic activism, and shaping enforcement outcomes.
lhpgop
Jan 113 min read
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