Photo, left:  ISIS in Schengen. (The Schengen Area is the area comprising 26 European countries that have abolished passport and any other type of border control at their common borders, also referred to as internal borders.)
See Hour 1, Block C, Kori Schake, Hoover, in re:  . . . 65% regard the IS, ISIS, Da'isgh, as a US national security threat.  However, seven years down the road, 57% of Americans now endorse boots on the ground in Iraq and Syria.  It's always a good idea to buy long on the stock of the American people.  My mom sees these are barbarians and civilization feels threatened. Our govt is uniquely able to [enforce] what’s normative, but it's doing nothing This Administration has a faculty-lounge discussion as Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Somalia, et al., fall. Once ISIS is in Italy, it’s everywhere in the Schengen Union.  Our allies in this fight: this will be won or lost by moderate Muslims around the world.  . . .  We need both chicken and egg – we're overdue to kill a bunch of those guys to remove the panache they have; however, those managing this best are the govts of Jordan and Tunisia.  They ask us not to call it Islamic. Need every Muslim govt to say, "These creatures are not real Muslims."  A guy name Ulyanov planned to kill the Tsar, succeeded, was himself killed. He was the elder brother of Lenin.  What we're seeing here is a seed.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents.
 
Hour One
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com; in re:  Illinois. . . .  The president's unusual ruling; will go to the Fifth Circuit. Why would the GOP threaten to close down an essential part of he govt, to wit, DHS, just to make a political point against the president?  "It's a struggle to deal with the Republican Party. When faced with overwhelming success, there's always a way to defeat; or, at last, a setback."  / We're maintaining zero interest rates without a [benchmark] of what we're trying to accomplish. Mary Kissel and Prof John Cochran discussed. Grand monetary experiment; dunno whither it'll go.
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 1, Block B:  Edward W Hayes, criminal defense attorney par excellence, in re: The current mayor of New York, Mr de Blasio vs Mr Giuliani about a remark the contentious Giuliani made.  Mr de Blasio, with a foot in a bucket, tried to increase his limited base, thinking that anyone anti-Giuliani is likely to be pro-de Blasio. "What'll I call these people when they call themselves the Islamic State?  'The Lutheran state'?"  De Blasio must think Giuliani is a fascist monster; Giuliani must think that de Blasio is _____.  Does de Blasio weigh in because of elections? He wants a fight.  . . .   De Blasio does, yes, dream of being president. 
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 1, Block C: Kori Schake, Hoover, in re:  . . . 65% regard the IS, ISIS, Da'isgh, as a US national security threat.  However, seven years down the road, 57% of Americans now endorse boots on the ground in Iraq and Syria.  It's always a good idea to buy long on the stock of the American people.  My mom sees these are barbarians and civilization feels threatened. Our govt is uniquely able to [enforce] what’s normative, but it's doing nothing This Administration has a faculty-lounge discussion as Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Somalia, et al., fall. Once ISIS is in Italy, it’s everywhere in the Schengen Union.  Our allies in this fight: this will be won or lost by moderate Muslims around the world.  . . .  We need both chicken and egg – we're overdue to kill a bunch of those guys to remove the panache they have; however, those managing this best are the govts of Jordan and Tunisia.  They ask us not to call it Islamic. Need every Muslim govt to say, "These creatures are not real Muslims."  A guy name Ulyanov planned to kill the Tsar, succeeded, was himself killed. He was the elder brother of Lenin.  What we're seeing here is a seed.
 
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 1, Block D: Brett Healey, pres, The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy; in re:  Gov Scott Walker  of Wisconsin: a freshman English teacher at U Wisconsin Whitewater gives extra credit to her students to protest Gov Walker's budget. When do they give up and see that he cant be beaten? Never.   / Gov Walker was trying to implement common-sense collective-bargaining reforms; reactions over the top – took over state capitol bldg, issued death threats vs Gov Walker and his family. 
Hour Two
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 2, Block A:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Was just n Vienna' IAEA is most concerned abut the Iranian nuclear facilities that Teheran has kept off-limits to IAEA inspections, Missile launchers, a  series of re-entry vehicles with improved targetting; increased regional aggression, incl in Turkey with Mashaal abut Hamas, and explicitly speaks of exporting the Iranian revolution, incl in the Gulf and across North Africa.  very aggressive programs.  Israeli official Cohen meets with Susan Rice, Secy Kerry, and Wendy Sherman; he'll convey assessment of the best reports available. Rouhani said Iran had made important progress in nukes even during negotiation.   White House insists that it's sharing info on the US-Iranian negotiations – but the real issue is the quality of the info: extremely thin and  . . .   Are there deals being cooked up?  There are plenty of secret arrangement Egypt and other countries are saying point-blank that the Washington-Teheran negotiations are [not good].   Hezbollah and its predation.  Iran rampaging throughout the Middle East, creating three fronts with Israel. Shiite militias are over 100,000.  Huge billboards over all Iran portraying Khamenei, and Mashaal; dictating the terms required of Hamas to get back in the good graces of Iran. UN now expressing alarm about Hamas's rebldg its rocketry capacity. 
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 2, Block B: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Under Pres al Sisi, Egypt has committed itself to securing its borders. reported that ISIS is recruiting strongly in the Sinai.  ISIS also claims to have its own province in Libya.   Cairo is getting maybe $30bil from the UAE to salvage its economy, in return provides manpower/troops, incl on Saudi/Yemeni border, [others].  Working with Russia, Most exercised by the fact that the White House invited Moslem Brothers to visit.  Egyptian troops went into _ about missiles.  ISIS has members across the region, its growth persistently expands past estimates. Italy is genuinely worried. Europe is directly threatened.   IS threatens to conquer Rome, "break up your crosses and take away your women."   Now 57% of Americans favor  US ground troops vs ISIS.   Americans are rightly fearful; IS burnt 45 people live in Iraq.   . . . Christian Palestinians in Gaza who haven't yet fled re fearful to the point of begging to eave as they see ISIS entering Gaza. Utterly terrified.  Other groups also facing this in the future of Gaza. It’s all linked.  If we don’t deal with this immediately we'll just be feeding the very hungry animal.
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 2, Block C:  Eli Lake, Bloomberg Politics, in re: DECLASSIFIED  Islamic State of Boredom.  "What makes these 17-year-old kids pick up an AK-47 instead of trying to start a business?"  This is an affliction that preys on the bourgeois and he educated. Nott products of poverty and backwardness.  Among the 9/11 attackers, all but Zarqawi had advanced education. This is not like American gang violence of poor youth; rather, coming from a rich or middle-class background is a risk factor.    "The People's Will" in St Petersburg in 1979: the youth assassinated Tsar Alexander; the long process led to the rise of the Communist state. (What defeated Communism was state power over decades.)  Pres Obama has withdrawn from Middle Eastern politics. Does he look as though he'd put forth a Marshall Plan for here? Mitt Romney favored that; Pres Obama simply says that American power is the root of the problem.   Pres Obama treats this as another seminar.   There are 3,000 American in Iraq; need more than that for trainers, and doing more than training.  Pres Obama is still committed to providing any help for Kurds, Yazidis, others, through Baghdad [which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Iran].   http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-18/islamic-state-of-boredom-how-jihadis-recruit-western-youth
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 2, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com, in re:  Work stalls on Mars One robotic missions  Mars One, the company that just this week announced the 100 finalists in its competition to send 24 people on a one-way trip to Mars, has quietly suspended all work on two robotic missions heralded as precursors to that manned mission.  These facts just add weight to my conviction that the Mars One competition is at the moment nothing more than a reality television show. It is a cool idea for a television show, but journalists should stop selling it as anything more than that.
A dozen launches for Arianespace in 2015?  The competition heats up: Arianespace’s launch manifest for 2015 predicts a busy year, with a hoped for pace of one launch per month. What I like most in the article, however, is:  The launch provider won nine contracts for geostationary satellites in 2014, and eight of them are the right size to ride in the Ariane 5’s lower berth, [said Stephane Israel, Arianespace’s chairman and CEO] in an interview with Spaceflight Now.
SpaceX has emerged as the chief rival to the veteran French-based launch company, which started the commercial launch business when it was founded in 1980. SpaceX and Arianespace cinched the same number of commercial launch contracts last year. Partly in response to SpaceX’s bargain prices and partly as an initiative to ensure the Ariane 5 has a steady balance of heavier and lighter payloads, Arianespace cut prices for customers with smaller satellites.
I love how competition has lowered costs while simultaneously increasing the launch rate for multiple companies. Before SpaceX arrived to challenge established companies like Arianespace the accepted wisdom in the launch industry was that it was foolish to have more rockets capable of launching at lower costs, because there simply wasn’t enough business to justify it. You’d supposedly end up with idle facilities costing money with no payloads to launch. I always thought that theory was hogwash. Elon Musk and SpaceX have definitely proven it so.
Hour Three
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 3, Block A: Daniel Henninger, WSJ WONDER LAND; in re:  Obama’s Brutal Foreign Policy
Left-wing realpolitik has no interest in the world beyond America’s borders.
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 3, Block B: Francis Rose, Federal News Radio, in re: http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/management/agency/2015/02/19/veterans-affairs-fired/23685169/
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 3, Block C: Michael McConnell, Wall Street Journal, in re:  Why Obama’s Immigration Order Was Blocked
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 3, Block D:   Jed Babbin, American Spectator, in re: Who Wars Against Us? The Fight Against ISIS | London Center for Policy Research
Hour Four
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 4, Block A: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society by Julian E. Zelizer (1 of 4)
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 4, Block B: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society by Julian E. Zelizer (2 of 4)
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 4, Block C: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society by Julian E. Zelizer (3 of 4)
Thursday  19 February 2015  / Hour 4, Block D: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society by Julian E. Zelizer (4 of 4)
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