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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, 2021

Last week Vladimir Putin’s Russia issued a series of demands to NATO that go far beyond what it has already demanded of President Biden in talks about Russia’s intention to conquer the rest of Ukraine. Russians didn’t invent paranoia but…

by | Dec 12, 2021

Concerns about the wars that Russia and China may soon start over Ukraine and Taiwan are bringing out the worst in some conservatives. Libertarians, who don’t know better, are almost uniformly isolationist. Some conservatives are having kneejerk reactions to those…

by | Dec 5, 2021

It’s impossible to feel sorry for actor Alec Baldwin who killed one person and wounded another in a movie set gun accident on October 21. It’s impossible because, though he claims to feel great sadness and regret, Baldwin refuses to…

by | Nov 28, 2021

Last week, the Israeli government warned President Biden that the new U.S. approach to Iran, seeking to revive former president Obama’s 2015 nuclear weapons deal with the ayatollahs, is exceedingly dangerous. The Israelis warn of a “less for less” deal…

by | Nov 21, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal is a dramatic affirmation of the right to self-defense and a huge blow to the gun control movement.  This drama is a long way from over. If people such as Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and BLM activist…

by | Nov 14, 2021

On Friday, President Biden said that the border crisis was of “great concern.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t referring to the crisis he created on our southern border but the one on the border between Poland and Belarus. He said that those…

by | Nov 7, 2021

There’s so much celebration and analysis of the 2021 election, especially in Virginia, that it has become hard to separate one from the other. Some Republican congressman are reportedly already calling House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy “Mr. Speaker.” That’s a…

by | Oct 31, 2021

October was an eventful month in the sense that it was filled with events, most of which weren’t consequential. Those that were — the White House’s amnesia about the Americans still held in Afghanistan, President Biden’s continued border crisis, the…

by | Oct 24, 2021

President Biden is still campaigning for his $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill and his $3.5 trillion absurdly-labeled “build back better” bill that would transform our nation and its economy into something only a socialist could love. And he continues to insist…

by | Oct 17, 2021

Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on August 15, there has been very little news about the hundreds of American civilians abandoned by President Joe Biden to the mercies of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. One report last week said…

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