Photo, above: Berta Soler with His Holinees Pope Francis. See: Hour 3, Block C: Mary O’Grady, WSJ THE AMERICAS, on: Havana in Black and White; the dissident Berta Soler takes a big risk by telling the truth about racism and repression in Cuba. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Gordon Chang, Forbes....
Photo, above: Californian, the ship that did not rescue Titanic. See: Hour 2, Block B: Charles Pellegrino, author and explorer, on 14 April 1912: the Californian incident as Titanic was sinking. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour...
Photo, above: comic relief: China decides it needs to have gravitas, so sticks its nose into Middle East policy, offering cash to Abbas, who smiles warmly. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 6 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long...
Photo, above: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands meets dignitaries as she arrives with Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Princess Maxima of the Netherlands during the ceremony for her Act of Abdication in the Moseszaal at the Royal Palace on April 30, 2013 in Amsterdam. Beatrix formally...
Photo, above: Mussolini in Trieste, 1935. The Italian General Alessandro Pirzio Biroli and Commander of the Bersaglieri in Ethiopia WWII, with Benito Mussolini in civilian clothes and several high-ranking general grade officers also visible in this photograph, which was taken on the occasion of...
Photo, above: Vermont State Archivist Gregory Sanford stands among the stacks of stored records in Middlesex. The man responsible for ensuring that Vermonters are able to keep in touch with the state's history is retiring. AP/Toby Talbot. See: Hour 4, Block A, below - Alison Cowan, NYT, on...
Photo, above: See Hour 1, Block D, Jillian Kay Melchior, NRO, on Turtle Island JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 2 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Edward Hayes, criminal defense attorney par excellence, in re: Reading Miranda rights to Dzhoshkhar Tsarnaev after sixteen hours of highly...
Photo, above: bees and neonictoinoids; see Hour 3, Block D, David Jolly, Europe Bans Pesticides Thought Harmful to Bees JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 1 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Toshi Yoshihara, John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Naval War College and co-author...
Photo, above: Chinese ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley are a vital demographic component of the region and the San Gabriel Valley has achieved international prominence as a hub of overseas Chinese or hua qiao. Although Chinese immigrants were a noteworthy presence in the establishment of...