Monday 27 January 2014
Photo, above: Drought Califonia.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re:
Al Qaeda head addresses infighting in Syria
January 23, 2014
By THOMAS JOSCELYN
Ayman al Zawahiri has released an audio message addressing the infighting between various jihadist factions inside Syria. Although Zawahiri does not address any group or individual by name, his message was clearly aimed at the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), one of al Qaeda's two official branches fighting inside Syria.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/#ixzz2rX2zFOQh
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re:
US drone strike targets AQAP in central Yemen
January 24, 2014
By BILL ROGGIO
Four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in a town that is known to serve as a base for the Yemen Soldiers Brigade.
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Lara M Brown, political analyst and author, and Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review & Pirates fan, in re:
Will: “Shrinkage” of Presidency
Obama left with only minor initiatives.
Merger of Clinton, Obama teams formidable.
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, in re:
Pick up a newspaper in California and it’s hard to ignore the talk of a robust economic and fiscal “comeback”—the Golden State adding jobs, while state government, after years of massive budget deficits and painful spending cuts, at last having a surplus to reinvest in government programs. There’s only one problem with such a narrative—well, two if you include the fact that California’s recovery is shallow compared to others past. And that would be a sober realization that the same champagne giddiness shared by politicians and reporters covering them hasn’t affected California voters…
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/166036
Hour Two
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block A: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Sr Congressional correspondent, and John Fund, National Review Online, in re:
Sen. Ted Cruz: Obama should say sorry for Obamacare ... Republicans betting they'll face Hillary Clinton in 2016 presidential ...
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block B: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Sr Congressional correspondent, and John Fund, National Review Online, in re:
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block C: THE AMERICAS By Mary Anastasia O'Grady O'Grady: Guatemala's Stranded Orphans
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block D: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in re: Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, is reporting that Jang Song Thaek's relatives have been executed. See this: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2014/01/26/4/0401000000AEN201...
Jang had many supporters in North Korea, from Pyongyang down to most villages. A wide-ranging purge would destablize North Korea because the supporters know they face either death or the camps. That means they have little choice but to fight or to flee.
Hour Three
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Mona Charen, NRO, Struggle with the Truth Wendy Davis’s false heroic tale. Mona Charen Comments (125)
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block B: John Bolton, AEI, We can only hope that skeptics in Congress and the public will take Obama’s measure on Iran, because under whatever metrics one can imagine, we are on a course toward failure, a failure with potentially mortal consequences for Israel and other U.S. friends, and ultimately even for America itself. If the Geneva Joint Plan of Action does not yet quite measure up to Munich 1938, it will soon be a close second. -- Mr. Bolton is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He is the author of Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad.
Click here to read this article online.
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Carl Zimmer, NYT, Seeing X Chromosomes in a New Light By CARL ZIMMER
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block D: Kate Galbraith, Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/24/california-may-have-its-driest-season-in-500-years.html
Hour Four
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block A: Eric Trager, Washington Institute, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116340/tahrir-square-anniversary-revolutionary-spirit-has-been-snuffed
There's Only One Real Law Now in Egypt—And It's Not Clear Washington Understands It
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Reza Khalili, Daily Caller, Iranian official confirms country sought to build nuclear weapons Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/26/iranian-official-confirms-country-sought-to-build-nuclear-weapons/#ixzz2reOYBaNJ
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block C: Seth Lipsky, WSJ, Seth Lipsky: Utah's Marriage Battles and the Ghost of Brigham Young
Monday 27 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block D: Coral Davenport, NYT Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change By CORAL DAVENPORT Coca-Cola and other corporations are starting to see global warming as an economically disruptive force affecting commodity costs and supply chains.
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Music
Hour 1: Invasion; Mozart.
Hour 2: Mozart; Ides of March; Aviator.
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