KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

 "The number of failed banks this year has already surpassed the total from 2004 through 2007, but it is nowhere near the pace set during the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s, when several thousand banks failed."  WSJ July 26.

" ...And the truth is that we've got a bunch of smart people, I think, who know 10 times more than we do about the specifics of the topics. And so if what you're trying to do is micromanage and solve everything then you end up being a dilettante, but you have to have enough knowledge to make good judgments about the choices that are presented to you..."  Barack Obama to David Cameron, the junior tyros of the U.S. and the U.K., July 26.

705P PT: Dick Morris, Fox News, re why McCain should not choose Mitt Romney,who will help McCain, can McCain be helped, re Barack Obama's poll numbers, re Iran and the election.  "There'll be a massive retaliation by Iran against Israel of conventional weapons and you may at that point see an invasion of Lebanon, an invasion of the West Bank, an invasion of Gaza. You may see a whole mess there. At that point, this country is not going to elect a guy who spent four weeks abroad and that's his foreign policy experience."  Dick Morris to Alan Colmes, July 25.

720P: Ann Marlowe, WSJ, re Obama Surge in Kabul, re the poppy politics of Kabul, re the Thomas Schweich argument that the Karzai government block eradication, re the case that the military will not interdict, nor will the allies, re the fact that the poppy trade is bigger than ever.

735P: Professional roundtable with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, and John Avlon, New York Sun, re Obama in Berlin, Paris and London, re McCain teases the vice-presidency.

750P:  Continued re the mysterious poll numbers and the suddenly chagrined and awakening media fans.

805P:  Professional roundtable with Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, and Bill Whalen, Hoover, re the Obama surge in Kabul, the Obama retreat in Baghdad, the president of the world in Berlin, the toast of Paris and the state of London.

820P: Continued re the mysterious polls, re Obama in the lead, but unknown, re the Gang that Can't Shoot Straight Talk Express.

835P:  Sheila McNulty, Financial Times, Houston, re the Pickens wind energy plan and the state of wind energy in Texas and nationally, re the American Wind Energy Association.

850P: B. Raman, Chenai Institute of Studies, from Chennai, India, re more patternexplosions in India Silicon Valley, terrorist attack on India's growth, re the twin bus bombing a Olympic protest of abuse by local authorities, re Xianjiang and Tibet repression.

905P: Stephan Faris, NYT, re the reawakening of Greenland was the ice sheet retreats and the climate moderates, re the law of unintended consequences of greenhouse emissions.

920P: Mary Kissel, WSJ, from Hong Kong, re the Chinese Olympic preparation and the planned protests to be permitted and segregated, re the bus bombings.

935P: Philip Carlo, author "Gaspipe," re Anthony "Gaspipe" Grasso, crime boss, the man who ordered John Gotti murdered, re Gasso now serving 13 life sentences at ADX Florence (Super) Maximum Federal Prison in Colorado.  Dumbfounding and strangely comic.

955P: Exeunt re Mars report and the strange history of Mercury.

WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time 

 "The number of failed banks this year has already surpassed the total from 2004 through 2007, but it is nowhere near the pace set during the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s, when several thousand banks failed."  WSJ July 26.

" ...And the truth is that we've got a bunch of smart people, I think, who know 10 times more than we do about the specifics of the topics. And so if what you're trying to do is micromanage and solve everything then you end up being a dilettante, but you have to have enough knowledge to make good judgments about the choices that are presented to you..."  Barack Obama to David Cameron, the junior tyros of the U.S. and the U.K., July 26.

 "...if I had been told by the Pentagon that I couldn't visit those troops, and I was there and wanted to be there, I guarantee you, there would have been a seismic event....He certainly found time to do other things."  John McCain slaps at Barack Obama for not visiting the wounded at Ramstein, Germany, July 27.

 FHA is the new subprime. WSJ Comment by Anonymous - July 26, 2008 at 2:20 pm

705P ET: Jodi Schneider, CQ, re the Fan/Fred bailout deal between the Congress and the White House, re the negotiations between Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and  and re the energy bill in the Senate.

720P: Mona Charen, NRO and Townhall, re Obama Europe, McCain Dalai Lama, re the dysfunctional Republican Party 2008, re George W. Bush and Africa, AIDS, and the strange disregard for the president by the African-American voters.

735P: Professional roundtable with John Fund, WSJ, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com and Jim McTague, Barron's, re Obama before Berlin, re McCain behind the Eightball.  Re Fed bail out of crony capitalism.

750P: Continued re the Unsinkable "President of the World to be Barack Obama."

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, re Fed bailout of Fan/Fred: crony capitalism to the rescue, re drilling vs the Pelosi position of no drilling.   The correction for oil prices has lasted two weeks with Brent down 16.3 per cent since hitting a record $147.50 on July 11 while WTI has sunk 16.8 per cent since reaching an all-time high of $147.27 on the same day.  Financial Times July 26.

KFI-AM 640 LA Sunday 20 July

"Murphy's Law is often misinterpreted," Nick Spark, the author of A History of Murphy's Law, told me. "The point is to look ahead and predict what could go wrong, and then work to prevent these outcomes."

705P PT: John Authers, Financial Times, "The Short View," re the bear market, re the extreme risk to banks, re the Fannie Mae Freddie Mac bailout, re worldwide inflation in food and energy create worldwide instability.  With Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, co-host.

720P: Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, re Fannie and Freddie and Chris and Barney, the slowdown with objections by Republicans; re Pelosi and drilling, re another stimulus package?

735P: Professional Roundtable with Laura Meckler, WSJ, and Larry Johnson, No Quarter, and Craig Unger, Vanity Fair.  Re Obama refines Iraq and Afghanistan.  Re McCain and can he spell the word stagflation?   McCain: "We have succeeded in Iraq."

750P  Continuing re Obama goes to Europe with all media, McCain stays home boosts Detroit.   McCain with Phil Gramm, and is Gramm under a cloud because of UBS?  Is there a worse combo than lobbyist banker? 

805P:  Professional Roundtable John Fund, WSJ, and Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, with Craig Unger.  Re Al Gore and the carbon tax, the politics of want, worldwide energy panic.  Re Al Gore: "I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously.  We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change."

820P: Re the entire remaining and still paid TV News biz goes to Europe with Obama along with blogging tyros.  Re Chauncey Gardner goes to Europe.  "Life is a state of mind."  "It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Senator McCain on important economic issues facing the country," Phil Gramm said, quitting the McCain campaign, late Friday July 18. 

835P: Steve Cohen, NYU, re Russia rising and the new cold war, re Medvedev at the G-8, re Russia warnings on NATO ad the missile shield.  "What must be done, however, is clear enough. Because the new cold war began in Washington, steps toward ending it also have to begin in Washington. Two are especially urgent, for reasons also explained in the article:  A US recognition that post-Soviet Russia is not a defeated supplicant or American client state, as seems to have been the prevailing view since 1991, but, a fully sovereign nation at home with legitimate national interests abroad equal to our own.  An immediate end to the reckless expansion of NATO around Russia's borders."

850P: continued with Cohen, re Russia vs. Georgia, re Russia vs. Britain and the Litvinenko Affair.

905P:  Robert Zimmerman, author, re ancient oceans on Mars, re water on the moon, re Mars Pheonix Lander scratches the Mars pole, re the triple NEO.

920P:  Andrew Batson, WSJ, re inflation in China unchecked by the Beijing leadership, re the increasing patches to force banks not to make loans; re threat of price instability.

935P: Joe Alexander, author, "Through the Wheat," The Marines in World War One."

955P: Exeunt: Lou-Ann Hammond Carlist.com re Japanese alternative engine development, re GM failure

 WABC-AM New York /WMAL-AM Washington /KSFO San Francisco Sunday 20 July.

"Murphy's Law is often misinterpreted," Nick Spark, the author of A History of Murphy's Law, told me. "The point is to look ahead and predict what could go wrong, and then work to prevent these outcomes."

705P ET: John Bolton, AEI, frmr U.S. Ambassador United Nations, re Iran, Israel and the bomb, re the surprise decision by the Bush Administration to send an envoy to Tehran for direct talks re Iraq and nuclear weapons.

720P: Keith Cavele, filmmaker, re his project, "Stand Tall for the Children of Sichuan," re working with the high school survivors of Bi-Chuan High School, where 700 of 2000 died in the May 12, 2008, earthquake in western China.

735P: Professional roundtable with Jim McTague, Barron's; Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com; and Bill Whalen, Hoover, re campaign week: Obama $52 million on pace for nonpublic funding;McCain boosts Detroit and campaigns for Michigan; re Obama goes to Europe and Iraq; what is the flap about the Brandenburg Gate?   McCain camp argues; re Bush sues for peace with Iran; re Afghanistan sinking.  "It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Senator McCain on important economic issues facing the country," Phil Gramm said, quitting the McCain campaign, late Friday July 18. 

750P: Continued re the dreadful state of the banks and Fan and Fred vs Barney; re Al Gore's address on carbon tax, re the politics of drilling and taxes.   "We should tax what we burn, not what we earn," Al Gore told the crowd at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington on Friday 18 July.

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC Kudlow and Company, re Fed Watch, will Berbank raise rates to stem inflation?  Re the banks.  Re Fan/Fred rescue necessary?  Re EU slowdown.  ReCongress and drilling.

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Olmert troubles worse, re unequal exchange of corpses, re Assad and Sarkozy, re Bush surrender to Tehran?

835P:  Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nation, re FISA and Obama, re Obama goes to Europe; re credit crisis and Fan/Fred bailout; Fed and Treasury stalling and whistling.  Re Coutrywide, IndyMac and more banks to fail.

850P:  Daoud Sultanzoy, MP Ghanzi Province, Afghanistan, from Kabul re Barack Obama's visit to President Karzai and call for more troops, re corruption the major threat, re the American FOB KIA episode in Kunar Province, re Afghanistan and the 44th president.

905P:  Aaron Klein, Wnd.com, re the exchange of terrorists for murdered IDF soldiers, re the Iran threat, re the rearming of Gaza.  Watch for late surprise guest.

920P: Siobhan Gorman, WSJ, re soldiers of fortune and black ops private security services, re MVM, Blackwater and others, re shortages of personnel for the demand.  "The State Department terminated a nonclassified MVM contract guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2005, citing inadequate personnel in that case as well. Among the issues: The firm provided a crew of Peruvian guards who couldn't speak sufficient English, Mr. Marquez acknowledges."

935P: Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac, "Kingmakers," continuing our conversation of some weeks back re "The Invention of the Modern Middle East," featuring the tyros D.H. Lawrence, Kermit Roosevelt and Paul Wolfowitz.  With attention to the ramshackle and bloody-minded CIA plot, Operation Boot, that removed P.M. Mossadeq and installed the reluctant Shah Pahlevi in 1952, fixing the deep-seated Iranian disdain for Washington diplomacy to this day.

955P:  Exeunt re the first ever Triple Neo, re water on the moon.

KFI Sunday July 13, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on July 11, 2008 at 4:10 PM

Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

705P PT: Jim McTague, Barron's, re the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac break-the-glass alarm at Treasury, at Congress, that McTague warned about last November.  With Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re the Gramm-McCain dispute over the state of the state.  And what's up with Lehman?

720P: Kai Wright, Nation, re the housing bubble collapse and the badly pressed minority home-owners of Atlanta, Georgia.  With Craig Unger continued.  "It starts with a $68,000 loan in May 2003--that's the one they made for the new siding. By that December, they'd already refinanced for $100,000. In December 2006, there's another loan, with now-defunct NovaStar Mortgage, for just over $116,000. Two months later there's a package of two more loans, totaling about $125,000 and owed to California-based IndyMac Bank. The IndyMac loan package is a classic subprime product--interest-only payments for five years, at a fixed rate of just over 6 percent, then adjusting upward to about 9 percent plus the principal."

735P: Professional roundtable Larry Johnson, No Quarter, and Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re Obama and Jackson, Obama and Clinton, the June campaign money, Obama the rock star; re McCain vs Gramm, McCain searches for a campaign. Re Iran war hysteria.

805P: Professional roundtable John Fund, WSJ, and Monica Crowley, McLoughlin Group, re McCain searches for the economy, re Phil Gramm, UBS liability?  Time to lose Gramm?  Re Obama vs Jackson.  Re Obama vs Berlin.  Re Obama vs Bernie Mac.

 

835P: Late addition: Jimmy Rogers, author, form Singapore, who called for Ben Bernanke's exit on March 16/17 and reiterated the call in April.  "If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia."

850P: Olivier Guitta, Middle East Times, re the Assads of Damascus double game of working for Tehran and entreating with Washington, re the Saudi hatred of the Assads.  Hatred is not a strong enough word.  But the Saudis are practical antiques, looking to make deals with Tehran and Damascus to survive after the US bugs out of Gulf.

905P:  Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard, Origins of Life Program, re the newly discovered EXOs at HARPS, La Silla, Cile, especially the three Superearths at HD 40307, and the meaning of the new discoveries.  Kepler planet-finder bot next February '09.  Exos at 308 and counting.

920P: Bob Zimmerman, author, re ISS and the Russian spacewalk to remove the explosive bolt, re Mars Phoenix Lander gremlins.  Lead off with earth's core status in question.

935P: Bronwen Maddox, author, FT columnist, "Defense of America," re the Euro bashing and the indefatigable nature of the American dream.

955P: Exeunt re Toyota turns the Tennessee truck plant to Prius.  Also, algae biofuel.

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday July 13, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on July 11, 2008 at 12:15 PM

Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time

705P ET: Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, re Congress sinking toward single digits in approval, re Congress now moving chairs on the Titanic (left, just launched 1911) of the credit markets to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Fed bailout (discount window) or Congress buying subordinated debt?  Chris Dodd vs the forces of Hank Paulson.

720P: Neil King, WSJ, re the wildcatters in Kurdistan, the bold new frontier for oil exploration in the wild east.  "After investing more than $350 million drilling wells and laying infrastructure, it still can't export oil; Baghdad has held up any exports pending resolution of the debate over a national oil law. Instead, dozens of tanker trucks line up at its base camp to haul away some 7,000 barrels a day, pumped straight from the wellhead for the local market. The stock of DNO is off 21% since a year ago."

735P: Professional roundtable Bill Whalen, Hoover, and Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, andMelanie Morgan, re Obama goes to Europe, re McCain shows his birth certificate, re the oil panic and credit panic and the silence of the campaigns, re Jesse Jackson in the news.

750P:  Roundtable continued.  Bernie Mac, IndyMac, Obama.

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, re IndyMac failure, Fannie/Freddie risk, re interview with Phil Gramm, re Gramm vs. McCain.  "But look, if you don't see the world differently at $140 dollars a barrel then you did at $40 a barrel, something is wrong with you."  Phill Gramm to Larry Kudlow 7-10-08.

820P: Alim Seytoff, Uyghur Human Rights Project, re the Bejing cadre crackdown on Uyghur activists, re attack and executions of Uyghur patriots, re destruction of mosque to punish Uyghurs for not boosting Olympics: Left, "Muslim pilgrims pray at the grave of an Islamic scholar on their way to the Imam Asim Shrine at the edge of the Taklamatan desert near the former Silk Road city of Hotan, Xinjiang province June 21, 2008, home to China's ethnic-minority Muslim Uighurs. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause"

835P: Gary Matteson, Farm Credit Council, Agricultural Bank, re the Farm Credit System, especially for young and minority farmers.  How the system works, according to Matteson: "Farm Credit provided some $5.5 billion to young farmers, $9.3 billion for beginning farmers, and $11 billion for small farmers in 2006.  Creating partnerships for success is what this job is all about and with the demonstrated commitment that Farm Credit has to agriculture's future, I expect to be kept very busy." Managing American agriculture in the age of Food Security.  The Farm Credit Council is a government sponsored agency like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and importantly is not at risk.

850P: Dr. Henry Miller, Hoover, re the anthrax murder mystery 2001, re killer tomatoes vs killer jalapenos, re H5N1 update.

905P: Aaron Klein, WND, re Olmert troubles, re the non-confirmed report of IDF using Iraqi airpsace, re the Iran military exercise.  Re the desperation of Fatah, re the interrupted Fatah attack from Jenin.

920P:  Richard Lapper, FT, Latin America editor, re Uribe vs Chavez and the liberation of Betancourt, the failure of FARC.  

935P: Robert Patton, author, "Pirate Patriots, " re the freebooters and desparate investors, including Washington's generals and Congressional diplomats, who launched American pirates against the English fleet and shipping, 1776.

955P: Exeunt re planet hunters at La Silla, Chile.  Exos at 308 and climbing.  Waiting on Kepler planet hunter bot next Feb 2009.

KFI Sunday July 6, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on July 04, 2008 at 3:59 PM

 KFI-AM 640 Los Angeles

705P PT: Claudia Rosett, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and Pajamas Media, re the decision by the Maliki government to pursue civil action in Manhattan Federal court against those who plundered the UN Oil for Food program, 1997-2003.  Re the delayed, derailed or discarded probes to discover who stole what and when.  Re the handful of U.N. characters ever brought to answer before the toothless Volcker Inquiry.  Re the churlish, unfinished fate of celebrity do-gooder Kofi Annan and his manipulative and parasitical son Kojo Anan.  Not to forget the self-righteous and grasping Canadian Maurice Strong.

720P:  Major General Paul Vallely (USA ret.), StandupAmerica.org, re the Paris based opposition to the Tehran regime, and the unusually hawkish emphasis put on confronting Iran by Anthony Lake, senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama.

735P: Professional Roundtable Larry Johnson, No Quarter Blog, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re Obama "refines" Iraq, re Obama discovers faith-based government, re Obama pivots on FISA, on guns, on Bush, on campaign finance, on Iran and Iraq.  Re the Obama effort to explain to Huffpo the FISA reversal.  Re the New York Times July 4 editorial "distressed" with Mr. Obama's change?  

750P: Continue re increasing evidence in July 3 Townhall.com by web designerPolarik that the Obama Certificate of Live Birth documents on DailyKos.com and FighttheSmears.com are frauds, and why they are frauds.

805P: Professional roundtable John Fund, WSJ, and Monica Crowley, McLoughlin Group, re Blackberry Day at Fargo, Gerard Baker of the London Times calls Obama's maneuvers successful for governance, re Huffpo calls Obama's maneuvers "realstupidpolitik."  Re the NYT editorial July 4, re the NYT editorial thrown under the bus?

820P: Re McCain in Colombia with Lieberman, re McCain in Mexico with Calderon: Dick Morris's snarky question: how many electoral votes in Bogota?

835P: Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, Clean Energy Newsletter, re solar power comes to suburbia, how much, when, and how?  The cost per kilowatt, New Jersey and California.

850P:  Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, re the Maliki decision to attack Tehran strength in Basra region, by launching series of sweeping operations in Maysan province, up against Iran border.   These are the facts on the ground that support the continuing success of the surge, Petraeus and the long term security of Iraq and it's critical energy fields.

905P: Michael Totty, WSJ, re the pros and cons of nuclear energy, cost and security vs cost and safety vs the tech advances in facilites.  Where are the nukes, where are they planned?

920P: Bob Zimmerman, author, Universe in a Mirror, re Mars Phoenix Lander and concerns for a critical door on the wet chemistry experiment, re ISS and plans for a dangerous Russian task.

935P: Robert Scheer, author, "The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America," re the personalities, such as Richard Perle's, and policies, such as George W. Bush's, that have produced the military for an empire: "...Obviously, oil is a big factor..."

955P: Exeunt re World Tibet Day, to mark the anniversary of the birth of the Dalai Lama, re the same week the Bejing Cadre decried the Dalai Clique in order to justify what reports say are continuing outrages against the people of Tibet.  The recent three days of the Olympic Torch in Tibet became one day and then became three hours, as reported by B. Raman on air June 29 show, and the Panchen Lama was not seen on the street for the torch ceremony, while the only spectators were hand-picked, with tickets.  A brutal regime now strangles Lhasa, commanded by the Neo-Red Guard and their protector, the lead Cadre member Hu at Bejing.   Neo Red Guard boss Zhang boasted in front of the Potala Palace: "Tibet's sky will never change and the red flag with five stars will forever flutter high above it."  The Neo Red Guards even used the Olympic motto to threaten the Dalai Clique with violence.  The IOC protested the vulgarity, and the deaf Bejing Cadre sneered in return.  The abuse of Tibet is not in spite of the approaching Olympics, which are already a failure, an embarrassment, a severe mistake similar to the Moscow 1980 Potemkin Olympics, but  the abuse of Tibet is because of the Olympics.  Fifty-four years ago, the Dalai Lama (left) walked with the Bejing Cadre's master boss, Chairman Mao, and the same Panchen Lama (right) now unseen in Lhasa.

WABC/WMAL/KSFO Sunday July 6, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on July 04, 2008 at 2:40 PM

WABC-AM New York City, WMAL-AM Washington D.C., KSFO-AM San Francisco.

705P ET: Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ Americas Editor, re the spectacular Colombia special ops, Che Guevera tee-shirt-wearing caper, "Operation Check-Mate," to rescue French citizen and six-year hostage and Euro cause celebre (left from '04 event) Ingrid Betancourt and others from the thuggish, disgraced FARC and their kindred of Cain, including Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.  Ingrid Betancourt's Lindbergh-scale welcome in France, re Sarkozy boosted in the polls regardless of the fact that he did not participate in the caper.  Re what this does to end the FARC and to damage Chavez in the region.  Re the politics of Uribe, re McCain's good luck to visit Uribe the week of "Operation Check-mate."

720P:  Herb London, Hudson Institute, author, "America's Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion," re faith-based government initiative Obama vs Bush.  Re McCain, on a three day tour of Latin America, blessed in photo op (left) at Guadeloupe, also with Calderon at Mexico City.

735P: Professional roundtable Bill Whelan, Hoover Institution, and Vaughn Ververs of CBS.com re Obama as Bush 3, or Reagan 3, or Nixon 3: "Never give a sucker and even break."  McCain in Colombia, re McCain changes campaign management again.  Re Gardard Baker's London Times oped: "...giving the Left Whiplash."

750P: Continued.  Re Huffpo calling Obama "realstupidpolitik."

805P: Charlie Gasparino, CNBC, author "King of Clubs," re Spitzer talks, Cuomo balks and Grasso walks from the harssment by New York State since '03.  Did Grasso bring down a governor or two?

820P:  Jim Carlton WSJ re alternative energy in Hawaii: location, location, location: for sea power, wind power, solar power, algae power, geothermal power.  "Everything is possible as oil prices rise."  My favorite story within a story is the opposition to geothermal by native peoples who regard the Big Island volcano to be sacred.

835P:  Thaddeus McCotter, U.S. Congress, from a Codel in the Middle East, re the attack in Jerusalem, re energy security across the Ummah.

850P:  David Davenport, Hoover Institution, re faith-based government and Obama, McCain, Bush and Clinton, re the apparent reversal by Obama, re the broad state led success of faith-based government.

905P:  Aaron Klein WND re bulldozer attack in Jerusalem, re the hero was rejected by the army because of his protest of the 2005 Gaza evacuation, re Olmert vs. Knesset and the ongoing terrorist release plans, re the gathering storm over Iran.  Re Olmert trades terrorists for peace and getsa bulldozer in Jerusalem.

920P:  Brian Baskin, WSJ, re the gold rush for natural gas energy in the United States.  The new fields from Pennsylvania to the Rockies, supplying more than 80% of the increase in gas till mid-century, require technology, legislation, diplomacy and long term finesse.

935P: Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Blaysic, authors, "Kingmakers."  Re the vain, reckless, overbearing, duplicitous, savage and disorganized personalities who constructed Great Britain's and now America's colonial policy in the Middle East over the last two centuries.  Most specially Evelyn Baring of Egypt, Flora Shaw of Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria (which she named, rather than Goldesia, for her special friend) and Gertrude Bell of Egypt and Mesopotamia (left, on a tea party with accomplices).  The completely arbitrary and loony construction of a quagmire in the Ummah.

955P:  Exeunt re Lou Ann Hammond Carlist.com re VW Liter car (282 mpg) and Tesla electric.