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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
2 days ago4 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
3 days ago6 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
6 days ago6 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


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


Strategic Signaling, Not War: Understanding Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Iran
Neoconservatives tend to view military power as meaningful only when used kinetically. If bombs are not falling, they assume weakness or indecision.
lhpgop
Feb 23 min read


The Real Game Behind the GameHow Money Is Actually Made in the NBA and Premier League Soccer
Professional sports today are not just competitions. They are attention businesses.
lhpgop
Jan 294 min read


WHERE IS "El CID"? A Decree Against the Nation: How Spain’s Leaders Turned Their Backs on the People
Spain is not a blank slate.It is not a spreadsheet.It is not a laboratory for ideological fantasies.
A nation is a shared inheritance: economic, cultural, and civic. It survives only when change happens with consent, at a pace people can absorb, and in service of those who already belong to it.
lhpgop
Jan 273 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
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