Yearly Archives: 2026

The Art of Malacca

The Donroe Doctrine Goes Global Two developments landed on Monday, and the symmetry was no accident. While the U.S. Navy enforced a blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas in the Strait of Hormuz—targeting vessels entering or exiting Iranian-controlled waters after peace talks collapsed—Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood alongside Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin at the Pentagon and announced the elevation of bilateral ties to a Major Defense Cooperation Partnership (MDCP). This new framework establishes a guiding structure for defense modernization, joint training, operational collaboration, interoperability, and enhanced maritime domain awareness, subsurface and autonomous systems, and special forces cooperation—all while…

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The Impeachment Hoaxers Lied

Declassified Records Reveal Coordinated Ukraine Impeachment Hoax Seven months after the July 2025 “Lied” series exposed how the Obama administration, elements of the Intelligence Community, and legacy media deliberately manufactured the Russiagate hoax to undermine Donald Trump’s legitimate 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, the same damning pattern has now been laid bare in the 2019 Ukraine impeachment episode. DNI Tulsi Gabbard and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford released two long-classified HPSCI transcripts from September 19 and October 4, 2019, along with more than 350 pages of supporting documents detailing closed-door briefings with then-Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael…

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From Strait Crisis to Strategic Edge

Why the Hormuz Blockade Targets Beijing Too In the desert of the Middle East, oil is the spice. Control its flow and you control the game. Right now, the Iranian regime is learning that lesson the hard way. After the talks in Pakistan collapsed without a nuclear deal, Iran figured they still held the whip hand over the Strait of Hormuz. They thought they could keep disrupting shipping, demand concessions, and keep the oil money flowing to fund their missiles, their proxies, and their march toward a nuclear weapon. Instead, President Trump did what smart leaders do: he flipped the script.…

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The Runaway Scrape

Terror, Mud, and the Flight for Life, 190 Years On Imagine the panic sweeping across Texas settlements in late March and early April 1836. News of the Alamo’s fall and the Goliad Massacre traveled faster than any courier. “Santa Anna is coming — he will show no mercy!” Families abandoned homes in haste, loading wagons with whatever they could carry while burning crops and cabins to deny supplies to the enemy. Rain turned roads into rivers of mud. Children cried. Women drove oxen through flooded crossings. Disease stalked every camp. This was the Runaway Scrape — the desperate eastward exodus of…

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A Texas Tanker Convoy

How Iranian Mines and American Realpolitik Made the Spice Flow Again A wave of empty VLCCs heading for Corpus Christi and Houston isn’t just a dramatic map—it’s living proof that pragmatic Hemisphere-first statecraft turned a Persian Gulf crisis into U.S. energy strength, cheaper domestic natural gas for our factories, and a cautionary tale about choosing politics over production. That map stopped me cold the first time I saw it. Dozens of empty supertankers streaming westward across the Atlantic and Caribbean like a disciplined blue-water convoy, all making straight for the loading terminals at Corpus Christi, Freeport, and Houston. It’s not random…

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Why the DIGNIDAD Act Must Die

From Lies and Loopholes to Chattel Management In my column, “Lies, Loopholes, and Legalization,” I went through H.R. 4393 — Rep. María Elvira Salazar’s so-called DIGNIDAD Act — section by section. I called it what it is: an awful amnesty bill full of lies, slicker and roughly four times larger than the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli scam. It grants protected legal status and work authorization to roughly 11–12 million people who were here illegally before 2021, offers Dreamers a clear path to green cards and citizenship, waters down criminal and gang bars, accelerates chain migration through hardship presumptions, and sells the whole thing…

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Lies, Loopholes, and Legalization

Why the DIGNIDAD Act is a Worse Amnesty Than 1986 A couple of months ago, I wrote about the recurring trap of so-called “comprehensive immigration reform” — the same old song where tough-sounding border talk gets paired with large-scale legalization that functions as backdoor amnesty. Well, here it is in black and white: H.R. 4393, the “DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025.” Introduced last July by Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), this 261-page bill is still sitting in committee. It has picked up around 39 cosponsors — roughly split between Republicans and Democrats — and endorsements from…

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Antithesis in the Persian Gulf

Transactional Sovereignty in the Strait "The spice must flow." In Frank Herbert’s Dune, that iron law sustained an interstellar empire. In April 2026, it governs the real world. The Strait of Hormuz — the narrow chokepoint through which roughly one-fifth of global oil and LNG supplies have historically passed — stands severely restricted amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. Tanker traffic has plummeted. Brent crude has surged past $100–$110 per barrel, with spikes higher in recent weeks. Gas prices are climbing in the United States and far more painfully elsewhere. Thousands of vessels sit idle or reroute at enormous cost.…

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Good Friday, 2026

It’s Friday… But Sunday’s Comin’ The sky darkened over Golgotha as the weight of the world pressed down on a single wooden cross. Nails had pierced hands and feet. Blood and sweat mingled with dust. A crown of thorns pressed into a brow that once rested in a manger. On this solemn day we call Good Friday, we stand in the quiet ache of Jesus’ crucifixion—the brutal culmination of His Passion. The air feels heavy. The silence, deafening. And yet, even in the deepest shadow, a whisper carries forward: It is finished. The Weight of the Cross Picture the scenes the…

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The Unifying Confirmation Fight We Need

Nominate Ron DeSantis for Attorney General Theodore Roosevelt captured it best: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” That’s the mindset that matters right now at the Department of Justice. On Thursday, President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. She’s heading to the private sector after months of frustration over the pace of key priorities and, most glaringly, the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Deputy AG Todd Blanche, Trump’s former defense attorney, steps in as acting AG. The move was abrupt but not surprising. The DOJ has a credibility problem that’s been festering for over a…

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