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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 | Dec 19, 2022

At last count, there were 18 federal agencies gathering and analyzing intelligence. Sitting atop this massive bureaucracy is another: the Director of National Intelligence, which neither sows nor reaps nor does anything of discernible value. The purpose of all these…

by | Dec 12, 2022

There is a lot to be said about the way President Joe Biden runs our military affairs and foreign policy, none of it good. A big part of the problem is how he is failing to maintain our deterrence of…

by | Dec 6, 2022

It seems as though the only people who aren’t bored with the war in Ukraine are the Russians and the Ukrainians. Too many Americans don’t understand that wars aren’t entertainment. The European Union is trying to convince itself that it…

by | Nov 27, 2022

Since May, the fashion among ecoterrorists has been to try to destroy famous works of art in sacrifice to their religion of global warming. In the May event, in the Louvre Museum in Paris, a transgender “woman,” protesting government inaction…

by | Nov 21, 2022

Friday’s appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate and prosecute former President Donald Trump was an attempt by Attorney General Merrick Garland to prevent any such prosecution from being labeled political. That attempt will fail because, thanks to…

by | Nov 14, 2022

Basking in the results of last week’s elections, President Biden has flown across the world to exercise his diplomatic expertise again. It could have been worse. Arriving in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt, to attend the latest UN conference on global warming, Biden…

by | Nov 7, 2022

Since he was inaugurated, Biden has spent about $4 trillion through legislation and executive orders. Biden’s reckless overspending is the principal reason our nation is now suffering an inflation rate of over 8 percent, which isn’t — as Biden said…

by | Oct 31, 2022

How many Americans don’t fit into one of the categories of depressed, frustrated, angry, or maybe all three? The people who are truly delusional — including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — seem to have convinced much…

by | Oct 24, 2022

We’re not the only nation that will hold a significant election in the next couple of weeks. As we inevitably drift into our preelection solipsism, we should at least pay attention to the elections in the United Kingdom and Israel…

by | Oct 16, 2022

No one messes with him, Biden declares, when everyone knows everyone does and how!

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