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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 | 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

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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…

by | Jan 7, 2024

Israel is fighting for its life. The Hamas war means that terrorist rockets are still raining down on Israeli civilians. The war may yet spread to Lebanon thanks to Iran’s other main Iranian proxy force, Hizballah, which has been making…

by | Dec 31, 2023

The year 2023 is gone, and good riddance to it. It was a year that saw an almost immeasurable amount of incompetence and political chicanery that, shockingly, was common even outside the Biden White House. January American companies removed Aunt…

by | Dec 25, 2023

Much has been written — and much more will be – about the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision holding that former president Donald Trump must be denied a place on the state’s primary election ballot in the 2024 election on the…

by | Dec 17, 2023

It was another bad week for Ukraine and the Western nations seeking to aid it in its fight against the nearly two-year war of conquest Vladimir Putin is waging against it. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington to try to…

by | Dec 10, 2023

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by | Dec 3, 2023

Over the past week President Biden and his administration have made it clear that they do not want Israel to win the war Hamas terrorists started on October 7. Biden and Tony Blinken, his secretary of state, don’t want Israel…

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