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Intrigue swirls around Sarah Palin's sudden resignation. CNN and FOX go wall-to-wall Palin after days of Jackson mania. Theories include graft scandal with family manse, quitting politics altogether, presidential boondoggle, even a TV reality show. My first and last guess is always to follow the money. The melodrama is vintage TR and Huey Long. Palin is the biggest footprint in American politics (Bigfoot excluded). Mitt Romney, call your planners and bankers. POTUS listens closely. What next, Sarah? The book tour! Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal, will be in Alaska on Sunday 5, and we will have fun with the rumor mill.
By John Batchelor | July 3, 2009 7:05 PM
Dubiously Waxman-Markey Sea Ice
Above a time line from 2000-2009 showing North Pole sea ice advancing and retreating with the seasons. Nothing remarkable. In the winter months, the…
July 2, 2009 1:10 AM
NASA Strangling
Colleague Bob Zimmerman sighs at this so-called Shannon plan (by NASA shuttle program director John Shannon and team) to build a cheaper version of a…
July 1, 2009 12:19 AM
Carter Bananas
Colleague Simon Constable enjoys a droll chat with deputy foreign editor Adam Horvath, Wall Street Journal, re the topsy-turvy "Bananas" coup in Honduras. Adam Horvath…
June 30, 2009 11:31 AM
Last Days of the Republicans Part 17
UPDATE: Rather than a blow to a career, Sarah Palin's decision to resign underlines her self-awareness, writes The Daily Beast's John Batchelor. She is now unmatched for the 2012 primary. The early excuse for the Republican circular firing squad of the holiday weekend is that Weekly Standard editor and party brainiac Bill Kristol claims that pugnacious McCain campaign enforcer Steve…
By John Batchelor | July 3, 2009 7:02 PM (2)
Neda's Grave Rises
Murder. Street video above from Tehran source via LA source on demonstrators on July 2, and about one minute into the clip you are pointed bya red arrow to where the young man is murdered by a Basij rifleman. A headshot. The demonstrators run at first, then gather around the body. I do not see any police presence. The…
By John Batchelor | July 2, 2009 9:31 PM (4)
Beijing Blinks, Chickens Fly
"Green Dam" Breaks. The unelected leadership in Beijing suddenly backs down from its folly to censor the web in China -- the brainiacs called the software censor "Green Dam Youth Escort" -- and this may be more significant than just a boost for chat rooms, PC makers and bloggers celebrating in Beijing internet galleries. Mainland China is badly governed,…
By John Batchelor | July 1, 2009 4:03 PM (4)
Star Wars 2009-2050
Abandoned in Moscow. Colleague George Friedman looks ahead to the scheduled pow-wow between POTUS and Russian President-stooge (and surprisingly doll-like) Medvedev in Moscow next week. George Friedman is keen on Poland as a future power center in Europe as the Russian federation sags under the weight of bad decisions and Russian pigheadedness. Turkey is another of George Friedman's choices…
By John Batchelor | June 30, 2009 2:19 PM (8)
Mentioned In Dispatches: Chapter 2
Sunday evening, the twinned steps of the crenellated, tower-topped, brick-faced Seventh Regiment Armory were crowded with glamorous young women in broad straw hats who were speaking in high volume to big-jawed, moustached young officers who posed heroically while smoking cigarettes on the landing. Hal could see no way through--the parasols were dangerous, the officers were unmoving. Ordinarily…
By John Batchelor | April 30, 2009 10:13 PM
Mentioned In Dispatches: Chapter 1
". . . I know, it's early," continued Hal; he flipped out his trousers legs and pulled them up, fetching a hand towel not quite dry from the humid night air. The old tar soap and the not-new toothbrush were in his hand when he finished his thought, "and I know it might not come to a…
By John Batchelor | April 29, 2009 10:12 PM
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Combined Simulcasts: "Tehran Regime Pariah" Special. 705P Eastern Time: John Bolton AEI, re Ayatollah Khatami's uncompromising message at Friday prayers comes as G8 ministers demand immediate end to violence: Mousavi Vows to Continue Election Protests 720P Eastern Time: Marc Morano, Climate Change Depot, A landmark climate bill narrowly passed a procedural hurdle in…
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