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 [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 29, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The Herman Cain campaign gathers attention with the musical chairs game of the contest sending Pawlenty, McCotter from the field and leaving Bachmann, Huntsman, Santorum, Gingrich, Johnson, as unready. Herman Cain is ready. Cain boasts he is not a politician; Cain promotes Cain with genius; Cain entertains and motivates and inspires. For all this, Cain [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 27, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
POTUS Obama goes confrontational at the same time he chooses to demonstrate that he is golfing with POTUS Clinton. Connection? Obama is quoted purposefully from the CBC dinner to the closed fundraisers in California in speaking of “push back” against FNC and the Wall Street Journal. Why does a president become a predictable media [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 25, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 21, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Rick Perry shrewdly lands in New York City for two fundraisers in the midst of the entanglement over the PA demand for statehood without negotiation from the UN Security Council. POTUS Obama is stuck somewhere in his nuanced incoherence re the Middle East. The 2009 embassies to Istanbul and Cairo shadow the Obama administration, since [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 20, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The Obama campaign looks to recreate the winning impertinence of the 2008 crusade of the pesky Blue kids who overwhelmed imperious Mrs. Clinton and stormed past the grouchy John McCain. Early buzz suggest that the remake, Yes We Can Part II, is a flop in rehearsals. A sitting presidency is not an office that gets [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 18, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 15, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
POTUS electioneering of his American Jobs Act is a slow-motion fail, and we can see in POTUS’s strident repetition that he does not have an audience in Washington or in the critical Electoral College states of his tardy palaver. Spoke to Larry Kudlow, Joseph Brusuelas, Jon Hilsenrath, Michael Boskin, Steve Moore re the slowdown in [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 13, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Rick Perry’s “Social Security is a Ponzi scheme” gambit is paying off for the early campaign in that it gets the governor attention and publicity. The remark is wrong on the face of it, because Ponzi is a crime. Mitt Romney was shrewd to attack, during the so-called CNN/Tea Party debate in Florida, on the [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 12, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
News of marauders breaking into the Israeli consulate office in Cairo marks a sharp break with the gloomy status quo ante in Egypt and starts the new narrative toward escalation and confrontation. Blame-shifting will dominate the next days, but the fact is that Israel has hastily withdrawn its ambassador, Yitzhak Levanon, and almost all the [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 10, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
In the summer of 1948, President Harry Truman faced a deep recession and the dropping of the Iron Curtain across Germany and Europe. The polls showed Republican Governor Tom Dewey leading by double digits. What did Truman do? Just what President Obama is starting with his “jobs speech.” He attacked the “do-nothing Republican Congress.” President [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 4, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 3, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
I have spoken to the Texas Tribune routinely since the origins of Rick Perry’s presidential campaign, and the facts support the Perry narrative that in his ten years as governor, inheriting the role from GW Bush in 01, Perry has supported a “business climate” that creates private sector jobs while limiting and reducing public sector [...]
By John Batchelor on Sep 2, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Below the fold: “The White House scheduling manages to highlight the GOP debate and slight the jobs speech.” The DOJ move to block the No. 2 AT&T acquisition of the No. 4 T-Mobile presents an example of how the Obama administration and Washington in general do not and cannot understand how American business growth works. [...]
By John Batchelor on Aug 28, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). The show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
Larry Johnson (Bio)
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
On Sale!
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
Kindle Fire, Full Color 7" Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi
