Analysis

Jimmy Carter’s Lasting Damage

The Hubris That Betrayed Us Amy Curtis nailed it. This man did more damage to the world and the country than we will ever fully comprehend. https://t.co/p3VQPLeqMT— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 14, 2026 It started early. Just two weeks into his presidency, on February 2, 1977, Jimmy Carter delivered a fireside chat from the White House, sitting comfortably in a beige cardigan sweater. With the nation facing natural gas shortages and a brutal winter, he urged Americans to turn down their thermostats to 65 degrees by day and 55 at night as a patriotic act of conservation and sacrifice. The image…

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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…

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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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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 with deceptive…

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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 business groups, faith…

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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. President Trump’s…

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A Once-in-a-Generation Constitutional Trifecta

Three Supreme Court Cases That Could Restore the Foundations of Self-Government In most Supreme Court terms, we see important cases that refine doctrine or settle discrete disputes. But every so often, perhaps once in a generation, the docket aligns on questions that strike at the structural pillars of how Americans choose their representatives, conduct their elections, and define membership in the polity. The 2025–2026 term appears poised to deliver exactly that kind of moment with three pending cases: Louisiana v. Callais, Watson v. RNC, and Trump v. Barbara. In essence, these cases ask: May race predominate in drawing congressional districts to…

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Why Mike Johnson’s Stand Matters

The House Fidelity to Framers’ Design In the raging battle over DHS funding and border enforcement, Speaker Mike Johnson is not merely holding a tough line; he is leading the House of Representatives to fulfill its precise constitutional purpose: acting as the energetic, popularly accountable check against a Senate that the 17th Amendment has nationalized and detached from the states the Framers intended it to protect. The fresh events of this weekend have laid the drama bare for anyone willing to see it. In a rare overnight session, the Senate under Majority Leader John Thune passed a unanimous consent deal that…

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Day Means Day

The Supreme Court Just Reminded America What Election Day Actually Is The New York Times dropped its predictable hit piece this weekend, and it was textbook left-wing spin from start to finish. Headline screaming that the Supreme Court “Could Make It Harder to Vote by Mail in the Midterms.” Sub-head claiming the RNC wants to “toss ballots” and disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of mostly Democratic votes. The whole piece painted President Trump as obsessed, the fraud concerns as “baseless,” and the 2020 “red mirage” as some innocent optical illusion. Make no mistake: that’s gaslighting, pure and simple. The Real Story from…

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