John Batchelor
“I have sometimes wish’d it had been my destiny to have been born two or three centuries hence,” wrote Benjamin Franklin at the close of his life, near 1790, “for inventions of improvement are prolific, and beget more of their…
Let the balloting go on and on and on for the leadership posts in the GOP on February 2. Five ballots at least, perhaps a dozen: let the haranguing and back-stair deals climb and climb. Why? Because a secret ballot…
The current contest for GOP leader in the House of Representatives is the first time in the history of the Republican Party that party members, that is, all of us in the blogosphere, can directly influence the decision. For the…
Most enjoyed Glory Road this evening, a recognizably friendly sports flick, recreating the back country El Paso underdogs rising with heroic sweat to win the big game of the NCAA championship in 1966. The heartfelt reason to see the movie…
Syria fratricide update from trusted source. London and MI6 have hold of General Ali Dubah of the Syrian Air Force, who defected last week to give up the secrets of the al-Assads and to pose a deal for the regime…
Pleasure to see The Connection author Stephen Hayes’s Sam-Spade-work digging into the still unavailable documents of Saddam Hussein’s terror regime featured in today’s WSJ lead editorial. Spoke to Steve last Friday the 6th, when he published online at Weekly Standard…
Spoke to Eric Cantor of 7th Virginia tonight with regard to the revolting facts about a 2000 anti-Semitic smear campaign run against him during the Republican primary in his district. The facts from the investigation by both the Washington Post…
Russia returns. And this time it is an empire in control of the landmass from Normandy to the Japan Sea. The short summary of the collapse of the Ukraine Orange Revolution in a food throwing confusion the last days is…
Guns of August, 1939? Iran’s confrontation with the IAEA over the Natanz nuclear fuel facility has triggered a genuine crisis in the European Union — a war-worrying, back-stabbing, bush-whacking, America-launch-on-warning crisis. Daniel Dombey, the Financial Times diplomatic correspondent at Brussels,…
Spoke tonight with fresh, convincing Jeff Flake of 6th Arizona with regard the succession crisis in the Republican House of Representatives, and he called on all self-announcing candidates for leader and whip to give up their current posts and compete…
