By John Batchelor on Dec 22, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Steve Moore comments on the House GOP fail on the payroll tax extension and pipeline deal that is now on ice for the New Year’s festivities, and am speaking to Steve Moore soonest on the day after the day after the deeply comic disorder of the House and Senate at year’s end. Also, I wrote [...]
By John Batchelor on Dec 19, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The scramble for Team Romney is to persuade the Iowa caucus goers not to desert his lackluster campaign. The debates are done, and now the leaflets, robo-calls, door-knocking, phone-banking, the usual cash push. Newt Gingrich seems beyond Romney’s reach for votes: Newt Gingrich is a tyro, and little is not known about his record and [...]
By John Batchelor on Dec 13, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The long game view is that Ron Paul is running for president perpetually the last few years in order to create a space and brand for his son Rand Paul to launch a bid in the next cycle, 2016. This is logical. Rand Paul is aggressive, curt, not war, brainy, ambitious and cautious; and it [...]
By John Batchelor on Dec 5, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Post-apocalyptic videogame style and music, Hollywood quality dystopian frame — “Road” — narrative driven by gloom and ruin, words by Barack Obama, damning punchline, “I don’t think people are better off than they were four years ago.” The reported Obama re-elect abandonment of Pennsylvania’s 20 Electoral College votes connects with this attack ad. It does [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 16, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show at 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor station WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 14, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The #OccupyWallStreet hashtag gains new energy with the adaptation to an acronym, #OWS, and with the change of weather in Washington from outright indifference to calculating opportunism. Can the Democrats find a way to enlist the youth of #OWS into a collective push to re-elect a majority of the 23 Democratic senators up for re-election? [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 11, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
On my Monday night show (podcast), I spoke with Emily Ramshaw, Texas Tribune, and Taegan Goddard, Political Wire, re the flap over the last days when a pastor in a Dallas megachurch, Robert Jeffress, used the introduction to Rick Perry at the Values Voters Summit in DC to declare that Mormonism is a cult and [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 10, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Celebrity Geraldo Rivera and his sturdy, middle-aged camera crew planted themselves at the edge of the Occupy Wall Street festival on Sunday 9 October and apparently were surprised to meet with disdain from the routinely youthful and hip crowd of college age protesters. “The Fox News Lies” chanting proved not useful background for the on-air [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 9, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show at 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor station WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 7, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Mitt Romney’s succinct foreign policy speech at Citadel, delivered in a cheerful and less than dramatic, stentorian style than POTUS Obama can manage with his smoke-deepened baritone, speaks clearly to the theory of American Exceptionalism. The question of if or if not America is unique on the planet — “citty on a hill” — is [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 6, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Leaving the triteness of the GOP nomination well behind, consider new images from Vesta, the mini-me asteroid some 188 million miles out, where NASA bot DAWN is in orbit. This cold grayness is the stuff that Earth is made of, and what a difference timing, location and atmosphere make in the fate of the Solar [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 4, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
(Bronwyn’s Note: This video has to have been inspired by Flineo’s. Remember his 2008 videos?) Striking detail about this long Perry campaign video (1:45) is that the first act of what’s wrong with America is generic, and this makes the second and third act of Perry acting decisively also generic. Substitute any candidate for the [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 2, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show at 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor station WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
By John Batchelor on Oct 1, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The spectacle of the governor of New Jersey traveling to the Reagan Library to repeat the same obvious detail — that is, that he is not a candidate for the presidency — underlines the sluggishness of the Republican process. Romney churns along, unloved and dutifully-financed and well-organized. Perry struggles with self-inflicted wounds and possibly a [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 30, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The puzzle as to why the DNC wasted video time on the Mitt Romney meets DonaldTrump PR stunt (like a Japanese monster movie, Aged Godzilla meets Aged Sea Monster) can only be answered by: 1. Trump fogs minds, creates sloppy decision making. 2. Debbie Wasserman-Schulz reviles/admires/obsesses Trump. 3. Mitt Romney is the luckiest non-partisan whoever [...]
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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
, the basis for the Best Motion Picture Nominee (Golden Globes) starring Brad Pitt.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
, the novel by John Le Carre, a new motion picture starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.
A Best Motion Picture Nominee (Golden Globes) starring George Clooney, from the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings - The Descendants: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) 
A Best Motion Picture Nominee (Golden Globes) based on the novel War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
* (Included in the 4 For 3 Books) * More novels by Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played with Fire
* The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind
Don't miss Larry Johnson's review in "Understanding the Economic Collapse."
The Interrogator: An Education by Glenn A. Carle
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Steve Jobs
.by David Fredosso who wrote 2008's The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate
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