Jed Babbin
There are few people in American history less deserving of a presidential pardon than Moscow resident Edward Snowden. Then why on Earth is President Trump considering one for him? On August 15, Trump told a press conference that while he…
The Babylon Bee reported last week that presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he couldn’t wait to find out who he’d picked for a running mate. Neither can we, because the element of truth underlying the Bee’s report is…
COVID-19 hasn’t finished wreaking havoc on the world. Its physical, economic, and political effects will linger and affect the world for years to come. Because those effects are changing the world, we should begin to analyze how our foreign policy…
Last week the Beijing puppet government of Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam postponed parliamentary elections for a year supposedly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese police continue to arrest pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong under China’s new law, which…
The four-day fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard has put the ship out of action for months, perhaps permanently. It came at a time when Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Congress are wrestling over the Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan….
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” is a father’s lesson to his son on how to be a man. It begins, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you … ” That seems…
There’s an element of chance that affects the lives of men and nations. You can make your own luck or suffer what the world imposes on you. Napoleon, always one to make his own luck, once was criticized that he…
About a dozen Army bases are named for Confederate generals including Robert E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, John Bell Hood, and A. P. Hill. That fact enrages the professionally offended. The “woke” crowd — which ranges from congressional Democrats to the…
According to a string of New York Times and Washington Post stories that have been published since June 26, we’re supposed to be shocked that Russia would be paying bounties for Taliban fighters to kill American and coalition troops in…
