Category: Politics

Even if Trump lacks substance on his policy ideas, people are fed up with the establishment Republicans’ lack of fight on various issues.

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), the first female veteran to be elected to the U.S. Senate, agreed to an exclusive interview with SOFREP.

Brian Mast likes to use the Israeli slang word achi. The Hebrew equivalent of “bro,” an endearment among young men, it’s not something one would expect to hear in conversation with a United States Congressional candidate. Mast, however, is not your usual aspiring American politician. A Republican running in Florida’s 18th Congressional District, Mast picked up achi and a few other […]

Seventeen months before he was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Ambassador Chris Stevens was seriously considering leaving the country as its civil war widened. The ambassador’s concerns are reflected in emails sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s inner circle. The emails were released by the […]

Featured photo courtesy of Boston Dynamics Little noticed amid the daily news bulletins about the Islamic State and Syria, the Pentagon has begun a push for exotic new weapons that can deter Russia and China. Pentagon officials have started talking openly about using the latest tools of artificial intelligence and machine learning to create robot […]

Washington was more than the myths we have created, and his impact on our lives has echoed through the centuries.

Sen. John McCain Monday slammed Donald Trump’s comments over the weekend praising the merits of waterboarding, saying that that anyone who claims the extreme interrogation technique is a way to get useful information is lying. “This is a near-death experience,” McCain said on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” program, which his daughter, Meghan, co-hosts. “They will tell that person […]

Defense hawks introduced legislation on Thursday that would end troop cuts for the Army and Marine Corps. The bill, introduced by Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.), comes two days after the administration released its 2017 budget request that includes reducing the Army to 460,000 active duty forces by the end of next […]

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday abruptly halted President Obama’s controversial new power plant regulations, dealing a blow to the administration’s sweeping plan to address global warming. In a 5-4 decision, the court halted enforcement of the plan until after legal challenges are resolved. The surprising move is a victory for the coalition of 27 […]

In her New Hampshire primary concession speech, Hillary compared herself to first responders and the armed forces, asserting that she has led a “life of service” and her work is “heroic.” Her actions tell a different story.

MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin has scrambled thousands of troops and hundreds of warplanes across southwestern Russia for large-scale military drills intended to test the troops’ readiness amid continuing tensions with the West. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that military units were put on combat alert early Monday, marking the launch of the exercise that […]

A one party system ran the United States, and the United States ran the world. The US had checks and balances – governing required consensus, and the people were freed from kings. To protect speech, the framers left out a rule against conspiracies to monopolize the vote. Political parties formed to monopolize the vote. The […]