Picture, left: Abigail Smith Adams, the most erudite of American First Ladies, in her senectitude. (The Adams family tree is here.) Adams was an advocate of married women's property rights and more opportunities for women, particularly in the field of education. Women, she believed, should...
Photo, left: Rafik Hariri, assassinated by agents of Mullah Khamenei in Teheran as part of a larger strategy to have Hezbollah, Iran's wholly-owned subsidiary, take over Lebanon. See Hour 3, Block C, Ronen Bergman of NYT Magazine on the findings of the investigation into the assassination of the...
Photo, left: A cascade of gas centrifuges at a U.S. enrichment plant. Iran, a predator state at war with its neighbors, is confirmed to have roughly 10,000 centrifuges with which to produce highly-enriched uranium, whose purpose in Iran obviously is not civilian nuclear power but is to provide the...
Photo, left: Lynette Roff, Director of the VA hospital in Denver, announced today she is retiring. A Colorado congressman is calling for a broader investigation into wrongdoing at the Denver Veterans Affairs Hospital after the hospital director made "veiled threats" to potential whistleblowers. "...
Image, left: Transdniestria coat of arms JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 10 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, in re: Anent Brian Williams, I've been saying, "Give him the benefit of the...
Image, left: Islam's contributions to the Western world; here: chess. See Hour 2, Block A, David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent; John Fund, National Review Online, on Pres Obama's having spoken of Christianity's history inaccurately, which suggests that he's...
Photo, left: Riemann hypothesis The Riemann hypothesis is that all nontrivial zeros of the analytical continuation of the Riemann zeta function have a real part of 1/2. A proof or disproof of this would have far-reaching implications in number theory, especially for the distribution of prime...
Photo, left: cotton JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 7 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert (1 of 12) Saturday 7 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert (2 of 12) Saturday 7 February 2015 / Hour...
Caligraphy, left: "Where are the moderate Imams? Their silence is deafening." See Hour One, Block C, Liz Peek. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 6 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Daniel Henninger, WSJ WONDER LAND, in re: An Empire of Taxation Friday 6 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: ...
Photo, left: The principal feature of Yazdânism is the belief in seven benevolent divine beings that defend the world from an equal number of malign entities. While this concept exist in its purest form in Yârsânism and Yazidism, it evolves into "seven saints"/spiritual persons, which are called "...