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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 | Mar 7, 2021

When Chinese President Xi Jinping isn’t eating President Biden’s lunch, other notable bad guys drop by metaphorically to grab a bite or two. This week, some actually had to wait their turn at the table. Iran and the Taliban each…

by | Feb 28, 2021

Last week 30 House Democrats wrote President Biden a letter asserting that the president shouldn’t have exclusive control over nuclear launch codes and that the authority to order a nuclear strike should be shared with the vice president and speaker…

by | Feb 21, 2021

Last month New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo seemed to be cruising to a comfortable reelection in 2022 with favorable poll numbers around 56 percent. He’s slipped a little in the most recent polling, but, given the fact that New York…

by | Feb 16, 2021

I am usually happiest when, hunkering down in my national security/foreign policy foxhole, I’m able to ignore most of the Left’s insanity. But once in a long while I have to jump out of the foxhole to attack something so…

by | Feb 14, 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping greatly impressed President Joe Biden in their two-hour telephone conversation this week. That’s not entirely a good thing. Biden, briefing reporters on the Wednesday call, said, “Last night, I was on the phone for two straight…

by | Feb 7, 2021

Most presidents’ approach to foreign policy is labeled their “doctrine.” President Biden’s Thursday speech at the State Department was the preview of a “Biden Doctrine,” which the president painted as an admixture of virtue signaling, liberal talking points, and signals…

by | Feb 4, 2021

It has been seven decades since the founding of Israel, more than a century since the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, and about fourteen hundred years since the death of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed led to the split between Sunni and…

by | Jan 31, 2021

It’s less than two weeks since Joe Biden was inaugurated, and if you listen to the media, it’s an even greater “morning in America” than Ronald Reagan proclaimed four decades ago. The illusion of a honeymoon for Biden the Democrat–Media…

by | Jan 24, 2021

What is it about Sir Winston Churchill that so intimidates Democrat presidents? Perhaps it is the personal courage he showed in 1941 when he stood, almost alone, against the appeasers demanding peace with Hitler, and quite literally saved freedom.   A…

by | Jan 17, 2021

Among the characteristics that distinguish conservatives from liberals is that we have a pretty firm grip on reality while liberals keep insisting on fantasies such as, “We don’t know whether socialism works because it’s never really been tried.” Reality, as…

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