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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 | Nov 2, 2020

It’s well-nigh impossible to believe that any sentient voter is undecided between President Trump and former Vice President Biden. Anyone who is still undecided is either too uninformed or too stupid to be enfranchised. Those of us who believe national…

by | Oct 26, 2020

Most presidents are tested by a foreign policy crisis soon after they are elected. On April 1, 2001 — less than three months into George W. Bush’s first term — a Chinese fighter, after making two dangerously close passes, rammed…

by | Oct 19, 2020

Last week’s New York Post stories revealed a web of corruption that began with Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and ended by implicating the presidential candidate in regard to Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company, and CEFC, a Chinese energy company….

by | Oct 12, 2020

It’s an accident of history that both North Korea and the Republic of China (aka Taiwan) both venerate the date of October 10. It’s a coincidence that President Trump, a few days before Ten-Ten, tweeted that he’d bring all our…

by | Oct 5, 2020

She’s old, obsolete, and irrelevant, but when you search for who’s at the bottom of almost any political corruption, Hillary Clinton always manages to slither back into the spotlight. The September 29 letter from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe…

by | Sep 28, 2020

The discovery of nine mail-in ballots sent by military members and discarded by someone in Philadelphia raises the quadrennial concern about the honest handling of military absentee ballots. The fact that all nine were reportedly votes for President Trump raises…

by | Sep 21, 2020

Three elections ago — all the way back in 2008 — Joe Biden talked a lot about “kitchen table issues,” the questions that faced American families that were so important that they talked about them around the kitchen table. They…

by | Sep 14, 2020

The Middle East may be beginning a historic realignment more significant than the “Arab spring” or anything else that has happened in the region since World War II. That beginning came about because two Sunni Muslim nations — the United…

by | Sep 7, 2020

Charlie Hebdo is a left-wing atheist French magazine that publishes news and satire. It became famous in 2012 when it published a dozen editorial cartoons mocking Islam’s Prophet Mohammed and again in 2015 when two Islamic terrorists barged into its…

by | Aug 31, 2020

Seventy former national security officials who had served in past Republican administrations have written a letter and taken out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to declare that President Trump is “dangerously unfit” to serve a second term…

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