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Jed Babbin
American Spectator contributing editor Jed Babbin served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in the George H. W. Bush administration. He writes the “Loose Canons” column for The American Spectator and often appears as a talking warhead on television and radio. He is coauthor (with Herbert London) of the book The BDS War Against Israel. He is also the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse Than You Think. You can follow him on Twitter@jedbabbin.
by | Mar 17, 2024

If you compare the way President Biden treats Americans with the ways he treats citizens of foreign countries, it’s hard not to conclude that he doesn’t like us very much. Biden — who could secure our borders by reversing the…

by | Mar 10, 2024

If you listened to President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Thursday night, you were treated to a stack of lies and half-truths that was higher than the Washington Monument. They were shouted by an angry old man determined…

by | Mar 3, 2024

On Saturday, an unnamed source in the Biden administration said that the Israelis had “essentially” endorsed a “framework” for a long-term cease fire in the Gaza Strip. The deal reportedly would result in the release of some of the hostages…

by | Feb 25, 2024

On February 24th,  the Russian war to conquer Ukraine passed the two-year mark. Actually, no. It marked — imprecisely — the tenth anniversary of Russia’s military takeover and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula as well as the date on which…

by | Feb 18, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin loves to mock the United States and everything we do. His poker-faced announcement that he has endorsed Joe Biden in the 2024 election was more than just mockery. Putin’s statement was a factual condemnation of Biden’s…

by | Feb 11, 2024

Just whose side is President Biden on? That’s the question that has to be asked after President Biden’s conduct over the past week. Biden and his minions have been pressuring the Israelis for weeks now, seeking their consent to a…

by | Feb 4, 2024

About three months ago, after months of drone strikes and other attacks on our ships and troops in the Middle East, this column asked how President Biden would respond when one of those attacks took the life of a U.S….

by | Jan 28, 2024

Senate Republicans have reportedly agreed to a bill that would encompass both aid to Ukraine and Israel and some purportedly new authorities for President Biden to increase security at our southern border. Let’s set aside the foreign aid questions for…

by | Jan 21, 2024

When we talk about “the Swamp” — the vast, immovable and unaccountable federal bureaucracy — the conversation always focuses on how it often thwarts presidential actions. But that’s only half the problem with the Swamp. The other half is in…

by | Jan 14, 2024

Republicans’ harrumphing at the temporary disappearance of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are missing the point amidst the Biden administration’s clown show this week. That, coupled with the U.S. and U.K. strikes on the Houthis, Biden’s green-lighting a Chinese attack on…

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