Photo, above:Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 28 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: The Putin Temptation WONDER LAND By Daniel Henninger Admiring a demagogue because he looks 'decisive' is dangerous. Friday 28 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block B...
Photo, above: Photo: Typhoon Ita approach Australia. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 27 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: You have to have a scape goat. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning. Immigration reform. Thursday 27 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Ed Hayes. de Blasio’s strange...
Photo, above: After a Bangladesh storm and flood, this old man in despair sits on a fallen tree in front of his house that got damaged from another tree collapse during the storm at Mohammadpur. Hour 2, Block D, Gardiner Harris, NYT, concerning: When a powerful storm destroyed her riverside home in...
. Photo, above: The French president, Francois Hollande, has named Manuel Valls as France's new Prime Minister. Sacré bleu – un socialiste du droit? "du côté de l'offre"? . . . In other words, the choice of Manuel Valls as new Prime Minister could be seen as a sign of Hollande's renewed...
Photo, above: Singer Ruslana Lyzhychko of Ukraine holds a Ukrainian national flag during an interview with Agence France-Presse at the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 4. (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad) Note URL correction: http://www.ruslana.ua JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus...
Photo, above: The Energy Policy Act of 1992 opened development of renewable energy projects on American Indian reservations. Since then wind and solar projects have provided power to pump water and electrify homes of Native Americans both on and off the grid. While not perfect, solar provides jobs...
Photo, above: The Burning of Smyrna as seen from HMS King George V The Burning of Smyrna, taken from the forebridge of HMS King George V: HMS Iron Duke stands in the foreground against "an unbroken wall of fire, two miles long". This photograph was published as the centrefold (pp. 504–505) in The...
Photo, above: Sheldon G. Adelson together with his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, at the construction site of the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in 2007 in Singapore. The election's most generous donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, were Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. They spent at...
Photo, above: Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, heir-apparent to the Saudi throne, carries an unidentified child Emir during the traditional Saudi dance known as ''Arda'' at the Janadriya culture festival at Der'iya in Riyadh, February 18, 2014. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street...
Photo, above: Warlordism returns to China as generals swear an oath of fealty - not to the Chinese people, or the Chinese state, or Confucian morality, or the profundity of the Tao family, or even to Sun-tze's strategic philosophy; rather, to the imperious, shaky, deeply worried leader of a...