Jed Babbin
Ronald Reagan used to joke, “Hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?” No one will accuse President Joe Biden of working hard. His work schedule reportedly only requires his attention six hours a day and…
We’ve all become accustomed to the calming — almost soporific — euphemisms that arrived with space exploration back in the 1960s. The euphemisms went along with the smiling, stoic bravery of the astronauts. Everything was “nominal,” until it wasn’t. At…
Twenty-one-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira may have joined Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and Reality Winner in the ranks of infamous leakers. Teixeira has been charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of defense information in violation of the Espionage…
There are no discernible principles behind President Joe Biden’s policy decisions except to undo everything that former President Donald Trump accomplished and to blame Trump for whatever may go badly. Last week featured two perfect examples: Biden’s new offer of…
The only thing left unsaid about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump is that it’s almost certainly not the only indictment that will be issued against Trump before the 2024 election. A Georgia grand jury’s report —…
Twenty years and one week ago, American forces invaded Iraq. By the time then-President Barack Obama withdrew our troops in October 2011, they had suffered about 4,000 deaths, including combat and noncombat casualties, plus about 32,000 wounded. Our British allies,…
On Dec. 5, for a fraction of a second, a man-made star was created at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. The occasion was an experiment in nuclear fusion that succeeded in…
President Joe Biden’s budget plan for fiscal year 2024 was unveiled last week. Despite what you hear from the usual suspects in the media, his plan won’t reduce the nation’s debt or the deficit despite the enormous increases in taxes…
In a 1940 speech, President Franklin Roosevelt labeled Detroit the “arsenal of democracy.” During World War II, Detroit alone built tens of thousands of tanks and other ground vehicles, aircraft, bombs, and guns. Much of the rest of our economy…
