Photo, left: Malcolm X in March 1964. Today would have been his ninety-first birthday. Malcolm Little was born May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of seven children of Grenada-born Louise Helen Little (née Norton) and Georgia-born Earl Little. Earl was an outspoken Baptist lay speaker,...
Photo, left: Chinese Shenyang J-11B fighter intercepting an American P-8. The photo was taken by the crew of the P-8. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Daily Beast. Hour One Wednesday 18 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Harry Kazianis, senior Fellow for Defense...
Photo, left: St Herman's Cave in Belize. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 17 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Sudeep Reddy, economics editor, Wall Street Journal Washington; in re: U.S. Worse Off Now than in 1960s?...
Photo, left: The Sykes-Picot agreement was signed on 16 May 1916, and was exposed to the public in Izvestia and Pravda on 23 November 1917 and in the British Guardian on November 26, 1917. "George Curzon said the Great Powers were still committed to the Reglement Organique Agreement, which...
Photo, left: Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (Hebrew: דניאל "דני" מארק לוין ; ; May 14, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded the internet company Akamai Technologies. He died in the September 11 attacks. A passenger on American Airlines...
Engraving, left: Jefferson Davis—Benedict Arnold Treason Cartoon 1865 Texts: REASON TODDY, 1869 on the cauldron PROPER FAMILY RE-UNION “Welcome Davis. Thou shalt be warmly received by thy father “I feel proud of my American sons—Benedict and Jeff” [the Devil] “Well, Arnold, the...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 13 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Liz Peek, Fiscal Time and Fox, in re: The push-back to Trump from the conservative wing of the GOP is part ideological, part snobbery and part plain old peeve. The National Review went all out last January,...
Map, left, in commemortion of the hundredth anniversary of the agreement that's largely generated today's Middle Eastern chaos: The Sykes-Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French...
Photo, left: The pro-independence opposition candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Tsai Ing-wen (59), has been elected the first female and fourteenth president of Taiwan JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Daily Beast. Captain Jerry Hendrix (USN ret...
Photo, left: Members and associates of the Algonquin Round Table: (l-r) Art Samuels, Charles MacArthur, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott The Algonquin Round Table was a celebrated group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical...