Photo, above: America's Cup: Emirates Team New Zealand vs. Luna Rossa Challenge (Italy) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 20 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Sr Congressional...
Photo, above: A Historical Outline of the Deen Instituted by the Jahmites, and Subsequently Adopted by the Mu'tazilah, Ash'ariyyah and Maturidiyyah. See: Hour 2, Block C, Robert R Reilly, Academia [dot] edu, book review, The Closing of the Muslim Mind. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 19...
Photo, above: Will Change Come Fast Enough for Mississippi River Floodplain Policy? Jun 12th, 2013 flooding on the Mississippi River. This spring a 45-foot swing in water levels took the Mississippi River from near-dry in places, to near-historic crests in just a few months. Two years ago,...
Photo, above: Blitzkrieg. A symbol of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, emerges from the flames during one of the most devastating raids on 29 December 1940. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 17 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941 by...
Photo, above: Women sell food in front of a poster for presidential candidate Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Bamako, July 16, 2013. The poster reads, "For the happiness of Mali." See: Hour 2, Block B, Adam Nossiter, NYT, in re: In Mali’s Election, Dashes of Optimism and Realism JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW...
Photo: member of an Iranian navy special forces group known as Takavaran wearing a uniform similar to that worn by the US military and holding an Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun stands guard at the Iranian Corvette Admiral Naghdi as it docks in the Red Sea Sudanese town of Port Sudan. The visit of...
Photo, above: On Aug. 9, the Japanese Ministry of Defense held a naming ceremony for the Izumo, the latest ship to join the Maritime Self-Defense Forces. Officially a “helicopter carrier-type escort/destroyer,” Izumo was built at the Japan Marine United shipyards at Yokohama. Although publicly...
Picture, above: ET3, or Evacuated Tube Transport Technology. Last year at an event in Los Angeles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed he'd come up with the idea for an entirely new form of transportation. He called it the Hyperloop, and here's how he described it: . . . How would you like something...
Photo, above: Annual Perseid meteor shower in aurora. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 12 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: the al Qaeda conference call, as reported on the Daily Beast. We...
Photo, above: His Holines the Fourteenth Dalai Lama at a teaching. Background: tankas, sacred scrolls in the Tibetan/Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Photo below: a parliament of owls. Sunday 11 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Natalie Angier, in re: owls. (1 of 2) ...