Picture, above: American taxpayers currently hand out about $23 billion annually to farmers, and not the fellow trying to make ends meet with six chickens and an acre of corn. Mostly, those monies go to well-financed, prosperous farm households. Vincent Smith, in a report for the Mercatus Center,...
Photo, above: British Spitfires delivered to Iran Air Force, 1941-45. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 18 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Sr...
Photo, above: (See: Hour 2, Block C, Gordon Chang) From a YouTube video of a 12-year-old kid talking politics on the streets of Cairo. Young Ali Ahmed became a global Internet star this week, as footage went viral of him standing by a political demonstration and articulately denouncing...
Photo, above: Iranian tankers illegally reflagged, many flying a false flag of Tanzania or Zanzibar, then carrying weapons systems across the world ocean to rogue regimes, including North Sudan, al Qaeda in West Africa, supplies to and from North Korea, perhaps nuclear material to South America....
Photo, above: Alberto Nisman, Argentine hero. See Hour 2, Block C: Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica. Argentina under Kirchner is moving toward close alliance with the Iranian mullahs, and so is covering up specific evidence of Hassan Rohani's work in the 1994 mass-murder in Buenos Aires. As a sign...
Picture, above: Prise de la Bastille, by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel (Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789) Congratualtions: today is Bastille Day. The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the...
Photo, above: World War I tank JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 13 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham by Steven H. Jaffe (1 of 4) Saturday 13 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and...
Photo, above: a Bantu people known as Bamilekè, of Bandjoun in Cameroon, at a ceremony. See: Hour Four for American compatriots whose ancestors hailed from here. The Bamilekè live in the grass fields in the western providence of Cameroon. They were known as “the people down there,” associated with...
Photo, above: From the ISS: Cairo to Tel Aviv to Beirut. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 11 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index, in re: headlines of the day;...
Photo, above: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show Hour One Wednesday 10 July 2013/ Hour 1, Block A: Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, in re:...