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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 3, 2020

Friday’s Senate vote rejecting Democrats’ demands to call witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial makes the president’s acquittal inevitable. But for the Senate bloviators’ desire to make more pointless speeches, the acquittal — which is scheduled for Wednesday — would…

by | Jan 27, 2020

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Former Vice President Joe Biden never measures up to that standard. In 2014, Bob Gates, who served as President Obama’s first secretary of defense, said that Biden had been wrong on…

by | Jan 20, 2020

In what the Justice Department has labeled a terrorist attack, on December 6 Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed al-Shamrani shot and killed three U.S. Navy sailors. That attack led to the serious vetting of all Saudi military members being trained…

by | Jan 17, 2020

On Monday, tens of thousands of people will flock to Richmond to participate in “Lobby Day” to oppose the Democrats’ headlong assault against our Second Amendment rights. Gov. Ralph Northam and his anti-gun team are setting the stage to ensure…

by | Jan 13, 2020

Calling the state Legislature into session last Wednesday, Gov. Ralph Northam could not have been more elated. His Democrats have taken over the state Legislature and are giddily preparing to exercise every ounce of their newfound powers. Northam’s expansive legislative…

by | Jan 6, 2020

The American drone strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani has severely shocked the Tehran regime. President Trump and the Iranians are exchanging taunts and threats of military action. Soleimani’s death at American hands has shaken the ayatollahs’ regime to…

by | Dec 31, 2019

If we could rate years by their IQ, 2019 would rate somewhere between a member of Congress and a tree stump which, I’ll grant you, is a very narrow range. It was a year to remember if only for the…

by | Dec 27, 2019

Rosemary Collyer is the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (the “FISC”). FISC is the judicial body that issues surveillance warrants to our intelligence agencies, principally the FBI, authorizing the interception of electronic communications of people located in…

by | Dec 23, 2019

The abject failure of anti-gun policies — in California, Chicago, New York, Baltimore, and wherever else they are enacted — never deters Democrats from pursuing them. Since they won control of the commonwealth’s Legislature, Virginia Democrats have been planning how…

by | Dec 16, 2019

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resounding win in last week’s United Kingdom elections is the rough equivalent of winning the U.S. presidency by a margin of 10 percent. That’s a landslide by anyone’s measure. Johnson campaigned on the slogan of “Get…

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