Photo above: Two members of the U.S. Army Rangers, Special Operations, Special Forces, 1st Battalion, 75th Regiment, communicate with other soldiers either in the field or at headquarters using a miniature laptop computer, a collapsible antenna, and a wireless connection that operates via satellite...
(Photo: The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. [1] In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second "bill of rights". Roosevelt's argument...
Photo, above: In this Aug. 28, 1968 file photo, Mayor Richard J. Daley pumps his fist as he speaks from the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In the years since 1968, a second Mayor Daley has come and gone. Former Mayor Richard M. Daley, who took over the city 10 years after...
Photo, above: shelf clouds, Minnesota. Credit: Roger Jensen JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Friday 905P Eastern Time: Jim McTague, Barron's, Washington, in re: today's jobs number*. Added in August: 96,000 jobs. [Need 165K to keep abreast of new entrants to job market; need 200K to begin to catch up to...
our: Hidalgo Photo above: Jerusalem as the capital of Israel: floor fight at the convention on Wednesday. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board Thursday 905P Eastern Time: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: Students are now so deeply in debt - $1...
Photo above: "This is the latest wacky and wonderful experiment from Dr Bill Lumsden, head of whisky distilling and creation at Ardbeg. Trying to understand the complex interactions taking place in the cask during maturation is like trying to understand Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time...
Photo above: Democratic National Convention, Missouri 1876 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Tuesday 905P Eastern Time: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC, and WABC Radio, in re: world economic news – gold got to $1,700/oz; gold at $32.43; ISM at 46, third straight month below 50 – while FedEx (which...
(Photo, above: Clarence Darrow raises his fist during the Scopes trial, July 1925, Dayton, Tennessee.) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Monday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time): Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 by Jack L. Goldsmith; 1 of 2 Monday 920P Eastern Time (620P...
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Sunday 905PM Eastern (605P Pacific): Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig; 1 of 2 Sunday 920PM Eastern (620P Pacific): Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig; 2 of 2 The National...
Photo, above: Alexis de Tocqueville observed that in the fledgling United States, liberty and religion were intertwined. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societies by Marcello Pera; 1 of 2 Saturday 920P Eastern...