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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 | Sep 1, 2024

By now everyone who is paying attention knows that Vice President Kamala Harris intends to be elected president without saying anything other than, “I’m not Donald Trump.” She won’t answer questions about the policies she would pursue as president because…

by | Aug 25, 2024

Secretary of State Tony Blinken visited the Middle East again last week, proclaiming that it was the last chance for the Israelis and Hamas to make a cease-fire deal and recover the hostages that Hamas took during its October 7th…

by | Aug 18, 2024

Like the lamest of lame ducks, President Biden is still quacking about the unlikely cease-fire he’s been trying to engineer in the Hamas-Israel war in the Gaza Strip. In his latest warning, Biden said that “no-one in the region should…

by | Aug 11, 2024

The Democrats and the media (please pardon the redundancy) claim that Donald Trump is a radical who would topple our democracy. Last November CNN attempted to rev up the anti-Trumpers with an article portraying Trump as someone whose radical actions…

by | Aug 4, 2024

On 31 July, Iran’s “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Khamenei, ordered an attack on Israel in response to the presumed Israeli assassination in Tehran of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the terrorist network Hamas. Hamas is, of course, a proxy force…

by | Jul 28, 2024

Former president Trump will have to hang all of these facts around Harris’s neck in the coming campaign. Both he and vice-presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance must do so relentlessly.

by | Jul 21, 2024

Have you not noticed that over the past few weeks President Biden and his minions have been very quiet about pressuring Israel for a cease-fire in Gaza? Israeli forces have taken the fight into Hamas’s last stronghold — the city…

by | Jul 15, 2024

The phrase “Putin’s murderers” has two meanings. One is to label people who want to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin and haven’t yet undertaken that task. The second is to label the people that Putin sends to kill his opponents,…

by | Jul 14, 2024

When Napoleon was picking his top generals, he is reputed to always ask the person recommending the general to him, “I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?” Donald Trump is a very lucky man and we should…

by | Jul 7, 2024

By now you’ve read dozens of analyses of President Biden’s disastrous debate performance against former president Trump. Old, slow Joe is still defending himself against any demands that he drop out of the race but even the White House is…

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