Photo, above: Kurds celebrate Nowruz (New Year) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 23 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, & Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Ansar al Islam claims attacks against Iraqi military, police Ansar al Islam,...
Painting, above: Thayendanegea, Chief of the Six Nations, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Thayendanegea, "he sets or places together two bets," was born in the spring of 1742 in what today is Ohio on the banks of the Muskingum River. His father, a prominent warrior, died when his son was an infant...
Photo, above: From Hour 3, Block A, Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War by Dale Maharidge. US Marine Corps photo from Okinawa in World War II. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 21 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: A Death in San Pietro: The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle, John...
Photo, above: Irukandji jellyfish are small and extremely venomous jellyfish that inhabit marine waters of Australia and which are able to fire their stingers into their victim, causing symptoms collectively known as Irukandji syndrome. Their size is roughly a cubic centimetre (1 cm3). There are...
Photo, above: Windows 98 on an IBM PC 5150.png See Hour 1, Block D, Francis Rose of Federal News Radio, where it's mentioned that the IRS is still using Windows 98 in some of its work. Lost emails? Jettisoned hard drives? No problem. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street...
Photo, above: RIMPAC 2014, see 1o Hour, Block A. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday / Hour 1, Block A: Gordon Chang, Harry Kazianis, managing editor of the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at the China Policy Institute, on these: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-...
Photo, above: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 17 June 2014/ Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, CNBC. James Pethokoukis, AEI.amzn.com/k/3GAUfqxXQ_-6… A total cessation of American innovation would have sent the Continent into a long slump.Here...
Photo, above: The fall of Saigon, April, 1975. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: David Drucker, Washington Examiner. Francis Rose, Federal News Radio. Thaddeus McCotter, WJR. Darrell Issa subpoenas IRS commissioner over lost Lois Lerner emails http...
Photo, above: USS Cheng Ho (IX-52), named for Cheng He (1371–1433), a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming Dynasty. Cheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433. Cheng He...
Photo, above: Woodrow Wilson accepting the Democratic nomination, 1916 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 14 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Wilson by A. Scott Berg (1 of 12) Saturday 14 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Wilson by A. Scott Berg (2 of 12) Saturday 14 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block C:...