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Jed Babbin

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 | Aug 17, 2010

The veteran conservative commentator died yesterday. There was a time when he and William F. Buckley Jr. were practically the…

by | Aug 16, 2010

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — the Izod Ayatollah who, clad in a cool golf shirt, tan slacks and blue blazer,…

by | Aug 9, 2010

DATELINE JLB’S BLACKBERRY STORM — Threats by the Saudi and United Arab Emirates governments to cut off access to the…

by | Aug 3, 2010

Call it nation-building, call it counterinsurgency, the neocon way of war is based on the antihistorical idea that the conflicts…

by | Aug 2, 2010

Announcing that Gen. David Petraeus would replace the defenestrated Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of the war in Afghanistan, President…

by | Sep 3, 2008

This article appears in the new September 2008 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition,…

by | Jan 22, 2007

Next Sunday morning, I’ll settle in front of my computer and — as always — tune in Chris Wallace and…

by | Jan 16, 2007

President Bush’s plan — to surge another 21,500 American troops into Iraq and give the Maliki government another chance to…

by | Jan 14, 2007

So 2006 was a lousy year. The war went badly, the Dems won the election and life is lousy, right?…

by | Jan 8, 2007

According to the Beeb, the makers of the Taser electronic stun gun announced that they’re about to market a new,…

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