Photo, left: Tensions along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border have intensified from September 24, with skirmishes including the use of heavy artillery by both sides. Tensions have grown to a level where the danger of a large-scale confrontation should...
Photo, left: His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America. Op-ed from today's Wall Street Journal: One Year After the Iran Nuclear Deal Don’t be fooled. The Iran we have long known—hostile, expansionist, violent—is alive and well. ...
Photo, left: Recep Tayyip Erdogan's thug bodyguards moments before they attacked peaceful Kurdish protesters and American journalists outside Brookings Institution in Washington. The District police and Seekies were thunderstruck. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal...
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Daily Beast. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 30 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim Holmes, Naval War College & former surface warfare officer, in re: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/03/24/...
Photo, left: La gauche caviar (Limousine Liberals). See: Victor Davis Hanson: Europe is hopeless. Lost. French Leftist: “I’m for a liberal socialism.” French Rightist: [Whereas] “I’m for a social liberalism.” JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media...
Photo, left: Hungarian stamp from 2007 with Laika; text reads, Sputnik 1 Oct. 4 1957. Sputnik 2 Nov.3 1957. Laika (Russian: Лайка; c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the...
Photo, left: Theodore Roosevelt runs on the Bull Moose Party, 1912 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 26 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self (1 of 4) Saturday 26 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block B: All in...
Map, left: Murmansk, Russia and Bodø, Norway. The time that an SR-71 made an emergency landing in Norway —From Foxtrot Alpha (jalopnik) . . . THE EMERGENCY After transiting Murmansk and while hooked up with the tankers during the fourth refueling, I saw a flicker of the Master Warning light...
Image, left: Ludwig von Mises crest. Prediction markets (also known as predictive markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures, event derivatives, or virtual markets) are exchange-traded markets created for the purpose of trading the outcome of events. The market prices can...
Photo, left: Several of the bright, determined, mop-headed children who, using a vehicle named Scholarism, are saving democracy in Hong Kong. Joshua Wong (left) and Agnes Chow (right). JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Daily Beast. Hour One Wednesday 23 March 2016...