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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 | Aug 9, 2022

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi floated the idea that she would visit Taiwan, a member of China’s Communist regime said that the country might shoot down the aircraft she’d ride in on. China, of course, regards Taiwan as a renegade…

by | Jul 18, 2022

At about the time President Joe Biden left for his trip to the Middle East, rapper Snoop Dogg advertised his new brand of cannabis called “Sleepy Joe OG,” which features a picture of a befuddled Biden on the label. It…

by | Jul 12, 2022

In his 2020 campaign, President Joe Biden proposed a $2 trillion green energy plan that promised to convert America’s infrastructure and push us to buy electric cars, trucks, and buses. It’s Biden’s Holy Grail, which he is pursuing radically by…

by | Jul 4, 2022

Asked how American families who can’t afford to pay $5 per gallon of gasoline can survive, Biden’s National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said, “This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm.”…

by | Jun 27, 2022

Xi Jinping’s China, which is Vladimir Putin’s silent partner in Ukraine, is penetrating global finance, agriculture, energy, and government systems in order to amass data on a hitherto unknown scale. Machine learning — which is well short of real artificial…

by | Jun 20, 2022

You need to see his face and hear his voice. Addressing a pro-abortion rally outside the Supreme Court on March 4, 2020, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was talking about upcoming Supreme Court decisions that could overturn the Roe…

by | Jun 14, 2022

Three times in the past year, President Joe Biden has said we would defend Taiwan with military force, which would be a major shift in U.S. defense policy. Every time he has said that, his Cabinet and White House advisers…

by | Jun 5, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has now passed the 100-day mark with no end in sight. Fighting is intense in the eastern Donbas region while Russian forces try to interdict weapons shipments coming in from Poland and other nations. Russia occupies…

by | May 29, 2022

Another school shooting, another horror that on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, took the lives of nineteen children and two adults. The reason these monstrous crimes continue to happen is that America refuses to learn the lessons that reality forces upon…

by | May 22, 2022

After sixteen months of mal- and mis-government by Joe Biden and his team, it’s hard to believe that they haven’t run out of things to do to damage our economy and our national security. But Biden & Co. seem to…

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