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War of the Worlds, The Early Years »

By John Batchelor on Nov 5, 2009 in Current Affairs | 8 Comments

Reprinted from the blog for my syndicated radio show.

Russian Defeat.    

The facts of the end of the Cold War support the short and astonishing version that Ronald Reagan’s imagination and style won out over American and Allied doubt and the sadistic and stupid Soviet empire.  I learned from Martin and Annalise Anderson, Hoover, that [...]

The Last Days of the GOP »

By John Batchelor on Nov 3, 2009 in Current Affairs | 192 Comments

BUMPED UP FROM Sunday for today’s Election Day || Reprinted from The Daily Beast with the express permission of John Batchelor.
On Saturday, Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava suspended her bid in the special election, citing a lack of funds. John Batchelor on the ugly food fight for a New York House seat and why the [...]

GOP Lifeless, Commissars Lively »

By John Batchelor on Oct 25, 2009 in Current Affairs | 32 Comments

23rd NY Disaster.  

John Bussey, WSJ, reports that the Republicans are showing energy on fund-raising in the latest report by the party. The Democrats remain ahead overall, more in the bank, but there is clearly a burst of giving to the GOP. Why?
A possible explanation is the Obama [...]

Public Option Turkey »

By John Batchelor on Oct 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | 24 Comments

 

218 Votes Needed.    

Nancy Pelosi’s remarks this news cycle on the healthcare package do not convey confidence on the date, the content, the votes.  Mostly she floats the idea that she can get the vote done by Turkey Day.  Smile.  Mrs. Pelosi is a fidgety and slightly manic communicator, so it is [...]

Rahm’s Historic Stupidity »

By John Batchelor on Sep 28, 2009 in Current Affairs | 58 Comments

Rahm Doesn’t Know a Thing About Why Conservatives Oppose Obama.
When Rahm Emanuel dismissed Obama’s critics as descendants of Father Coughlin, he showed that he doesn’t know a thing about why we conservatives oppose the president.
  White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel demonstrates earthy zeal in his job as scoutmaster of the President’s political bureau, and [...]

How Rahm Is Reviving the GOP »

By John Batchelor on Aug 25, 2009 in John Batchelor, Rahm Emanuel, Republican Party | 37 Comments

Editor: This op-ed was first published at The Daily Beast and is reprinted with the express permission of John Batchelor.
Suddenly the disgraced and demoralized Republican Congress has an unearned future, thanks to the superhuman clumsiness of a man who has made himself indispensable to the Obama administration and insufferable to the Democratic Congress, chief of [...]

Appeasement Date »

By John Batchelor on Jul 31, 2009 in Current Affairs | 11 Comments

Script.   

George Mitchell’s mission to Damascus is part of the script by the White House Politburo to construct an appeasement to Tehran.
The plan was put in place after POTUS visit to Riyadh in June. The next step is to offer the criminal Assad regime in Damascus a return of the [...]

Neda’s Grave »

By John Batchelor on Jul 29, 2009 in Current Affairs | 6 Comments

 

Basiji Weary.  

Simple, sad, compelling video, a minute of sorrow far away in a graveyard in southern Tehran, where the body of a young woman was hidden from the world by the usurper Ahmadinejad and his goons, who murdered her and covered up the crime.

Tehran Murder of an Only Child »

By John Batchelor on Jul 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | 28 Comments

Her Crime?  

Colleague Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), spoke on the floor of the House this news cycle to bring to history the name and face of a young Iranian woman, 19 year-old Taraneh Mousavi, who was arrested and abducted on July 9th by Basij thugs in Tehran.
There were witnesses to Taraneh [...]

Tehran Burning »

By John Batchelor on Jul 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | 5 Comments

Best Tehran resistance source sends me to this new clip on Youtube from the resistance.
There are many groups in rebellion against the urusper Ahmadinejad, and no one group has the lead on media, leaks, tactics, massage. Tehran does more and more resemble Paris 1968, which I saw at first and used [...]

Off Game? »

By John Batchelor on Jul 23, 2009 in Current Affairs | 51 Comments

Humbuggery Skullduggery.  

Far back in May, the question was why does the White House bloviate on an August 6 deadline for healthcare? Why push the Senate to do what it cannot do, which is to go fast when a minority rules? Why push the House to do what it cannot do, which is [...]

POTUS Clearing Wreckage »

By John Batchelor on Jul 20, 2009 in Current Affairs | 60 Comments

Out with the Old.  

POTUS in New Jersey on a steamy day with Governor Jon Corzine, making a boilerplate speech that is heavy on blaming the old ways and crushingly heavier on the radiant future of clean energy and clean jobs and clean healthcare and clean education and clean financial regulations.  The speech lacks [...]

Camp Jihad Jr. »

By John Batchelor on Jul 12, 2009 in Current Affairs, John Batchelor (author), Larry Johnson | 2 Comments

 

SWAG.  

Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, embeds this wondrously pretentious video from South Waziristan in Bill’s rich resource of Long War Journal, showing the Jihad lads chanting and churning in the summer dust, with live-fire demonstrations of their prowess fighting the Martians or whoever else shows up.
What did show up at this rudimentary [...]

Wandering Bananas Zelaya »

By John Batchelor on Jul 12, 2009 in Current Affairs | 11 Comments

Larry Johnson will likely discuss Honduras tonight on The John Batchelor Show. Check our promo for audio link and times.

Bananas Split comedy continues with the Hugo Chavez stooge Manuel Zelaya rushing about making speeches on TV about how criminals have tossed him out of his beleaguered Honduras. [...]

Putin Did All the Talking »

By John Batchelor on Jul 12, 2009 in Current Affairs | 58 Comments

Don’t miss The John Batchelor Show tonight with regular panelist Larry Johnson.

Africa Triumph.  

Excellent wordless video of the arrival of the Obama family for the first state visit to continental Africa, this time in Ghana, with clear excitement, passion, fascination and revelation. Here is the pay-off for the US, when POTUS, [...]

Twilight Years »

By John Batchelor on Jul 11, 2009 in Current Affairs | 4 Comments

Originally published July 9, 2009 at the blog for The John Batchelor Show.

First Cold War.
My sense of an unusually gloomy mood in the industrialized nations after the sour, feckless, routine G8 flop, moves me to my memory and this starkly credible Twilight Zone episode, Season 1, No. 14, “Third [...]

Unearned Smiles in Moscow »

By John Batchelor on Jul 10, 2009 in Current Affairs | 51 Comments

Originally published July 6, 2009 at the blog for The John Batchelor Show.
 

The Jewel in the Crown.  

Steve Cohen, NYU, spoke Sunday 5 of a new cold war that is a dominant theme in Moscow since the early years of the Bush administration and that [...]

Uyghur Liberty or Death »

By John Batchelor on Jul 9, 2009 in China, John Batchelor (author) | 14 Comments

 

The Uyghurs of East Turkistan have launched a wave of protest against the bullying, greedy, ineffective Beijing leadership, this time in the East Turkistan (called by the Beijing cadre Xinjiang Province) capital of Urumqi.
Over the last year, we have reported a deal on the Uyghur protests and the Uyghur [...]

Honduras vs POTUS »

By John Batchelor on Jul 5, 2009 in Current Affairs | 24 Comments

Plan B.  

There are consistent reports of the continuing resistance of the Honduras Supreme Court to the demands of the OAS and the Obama administration to restore the disgraced stooge Manuel Zelaya. The OAS issued an ultimatum for Saturday July 4. On Sunday 5, the OAS claims its director [...]

Who Distracts Arabs? »

By John Batchelor on Jun 5, 2009 in Current Affairs | 4 Comments

Posted To the Wall Street Journal.  

I posted a comment to the Steven Waldman annotation of POTUS speech in Cairo in this news cycle: John Batchelor wrote: (your comment)  

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