Trump’s huge budget means huge deficits

Dead On Arrival The President has proposed a budget for 2021 as is his duty, but don’t expect it to pass unscathed. The Left is already pronouncing it “DOA” and there is enough in the proposal to make just about everybody mad at him. The fundamental flaw, which stands out immediately, is that it requires […]

The aftermath of the impeachment trial

After the impeachment of President Clinton ended in February 1999 with an acquittal, he appeared before the cameras to make an act of contrition: “I want to say again to the American People how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events, and the great burden these have imposed […]

In defense of Roger Stone

Defending the Indefensible I hate having to defend Roger Stone, but I have to. Sometimes you have to defend the seemingly indefensible for a good reason. Recently, four federal prosecutors resigned after the Department of Justice overrode their filed sentencing recommendation for the sentencing phase of Roger Stone’s trial. For those unacquainted with Mr. Stone, […]

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman: From zero to hero and back again

From Zero to Hero It wasn’t too long ago that the President’s foes, broadly known as “The Resistance” were saying that anyone serving on Trump’s White House staff are traitors.  Try not to be surprised that the Resistance is now outraged that the President dismissed two Army Colonels on detail to the White House NSC […]

American warfighters keep dying in Afghanistan, what do politicians say?

In light of the recent Green-on-Blue attack in Nangarhar Province Afghanistan which claimed the lives of two Special Forces members and wounded several more, it may surprise you to know that both the President and the Democrats seeking their party’s nomination in the upcoming November elections all seem to be in rhetorical agreement. The U.S. […]

Op-Ed: Are we a divided society?

Canings, Stabbings, and Shootings Whig party member John Giddings of Ohio wanted to include into the Congressional Record his opposition to certain slavery measures; doing so would put him up against a Gag Rule passed by House Democrats from the South. They had tired of the anti-slavery harangues of the Whig party.  Edward Black of […]

North Korea: President Trump standby for message

According to reports, both the U.S. military and the nation’s intelligence apparatus are preparing for North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to launch some sort of a weapons test — likely a nuclear capable ICBM — later this week. The assumption is based on repeated threats from North Korea that the nation would be sending the United […]

SAS operators rescue British orphans from ISIS in Syria

A Special Air Service (SAS) team rescued three orphans born to parents fighting for the Islamic State (ISIS). The parents of the three children had been killed during a Coalition airstrike earlier this year. The rescue operation took place sometime during the last two months. The SAS element was accompanied by a few Foreign Office […]

The Afghan Papers, Trump, and the political establishment

Editor’s note: Article originally published at El Confidencial and translated into English for SOFREP. Thursday night was one of the longest ones. Regardless of it being Thursday or close to Christmas, last night was The Longest Night for democrats and republicans. For more than 15 hours they’d been locked up inside the House Judiciary Committee, where […]

‘Tricked’: High-level defector warns Trump on Kim, nukes

A high-level defector from Kim Jong-un’s regime has sent a letter to President Trump warning that he has been “tricked” into believing the North Korean leader will ever denuclearize and that Washington should instead ramp up a “psychological warfare campaign” aimed at inspiring North Korea’s elites to replace the young dictator from within. The U.S. […]