Photo, above: Combat, 24 August 1944: "French troops enter the liberated capital" "after four years of hope and struggle." "DeGaulle will be in Paris today [In Rennes,] his car was covered with flowers by the population" "A day of battles and a night of enthusiasm in free Paris." "Lyon and...
Photo, above: The pod-rooms at Endémico, one of the new hotels in the wine region of Valle de Guadalupe, are perched above the valley. See Hour 4, Block D, Damian Cave, NYT, on A Rustic Paradise, Open for Development The Guadalupe Valley is Mexico’s Tuscany. We're south of the border and in from...
Photo, above: Penang, Nineteenth Century postcard. See Hour 1, Block C, Sadanand Dhume, AEI. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 12 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker,...
Photo, above: Trouble and flight in the Central African Republic. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 11 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist at RAND Corporation, in re:...
Photo, above: Mary Barra, new GM president. Bravissima! JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Tuesday 10 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: LouAnn Hammond, DrivingtheNation.com, in re: Mary Barra Named GM CEO, Automaker's First Female Chief At long last, Detroit is getting some girl power: automaker...
Photo: Onboard USS Enterprise during the Battle of Midway, June, 1942. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 2 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: AQAP says assault on Yemen's Defense Ministry targeted...
Photo, above: Philippines, 1944 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 8 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 by Stanley Weintraub (1 of 4) Sunday 8 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 by Stanley...
Photo, above: Barnes Museum, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 7 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Law of the Desert Born (Graphic Novel): A Graphic Novel by Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour, Kathy Nolan, and Charles Santino (1 of 2) Saturday 7 December 2013 / Hour 1,...
Photo, above: DoD 2013 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 6 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A:9:00 Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View Obamacare the product: what kind of product are people getting? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/obamacare-s-new-goal-stay-alive-until-2015.html http://www...
Photo, above: When Nelson Mandela turned 95 he also marked 15 years of marriage to Graça Machel. .. .. .. During the last six weeks Machel kept a near round-the-clock vigil at her husband's hospital bedside, leaving to attend Mandela's charity events or visit their Johannesburg home. But then...