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What Happens to Germany When America Stays—But Pulls Back?
Germany may discover that America’s partial pullback is politically more uncomfortable than a full departure.
lhpgop
May 13 min read


Hormuz Update: Pressure, Perception, and the Real Chokepoint
Restore flow too broadly and leverage may dissipate before the central dispute is addressed. Maintain maximum pressure indefinitely and coalition cohesion, domestic economic tolerance, and global energy stability may erode.
lhpgop
Apr 273 min read


The SPLC Problem: When Fighting Hate Becomes a Business Model
For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has occupied a privileged place in American public life. It has been cited by policymakers, relied upon by journalists, and platformed by major media outlets—including appearances and references across networks like CNN—as an authoritative voice on extremism in the United States. That authority is now under strain. With a federal indictment reportedly centered on fraud and the use of paid informants embedded in extremist groups, th
lhpgop
Apr 234 min read


FLORIDA REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL SCORECARD.
Viewed through this framework, the most striking observation is that none of the three campaigns are yet fully optimized for Independents or for Republicans who do not identify strongly with either major factional label.
lhpgop
Apr 205 min read


MICHIGAN IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW. #FAFO
The United States has long insisted—correctly—that both access to the ballot and the integrity of the ballot are essential to a functioning democracy. These are not competing values. They are mutually reinforcing.
lhpgop
Apr 204 min read


CITIZEN TRUMP. WHY TAX THE RICH? OR ANYONE AT ALL?
An economy that produces more domestically, captures more value externally, and leverages national assets more effectively begins to loosen its dependence on taxing internal productivity.
lhpgop
Apr 166 min read


THE DOWNFALL OF PAM BONDI. A LEGACY OF EXPECTATIONS UNFULFILLED
Much of the media narrative surrounding Bondi’s tenure has focused on her loyalty to the President. This framing misses the essential point
lhpgop
Apr 34 min read


Fear of an AI Planet: What Will Humanity Do With All Its Free Time?
For generations, identity has been tied to occupation. The question “What do you do?” has served as shorthand for purpose and place.
lhpgop
Mar 306 min read


A Scholar’s Guide to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
it remains alive not because its language changes, but because the human problems it addresses do not disappear.
lhpgop
Mar 2316 min read


Nixon’s Iran Policy — Is It Still Relevant?
Few American presidents thought about the Middle East as strategically as Richard Nixon. Long before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Nixon viewed Iran as the central geopolitical pivot of the Persian Gulf.
lhpgop
Mar 114 min read


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


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


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


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
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