WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday August 31, 2008

By John Batchelor. posted on August 29, 2008 at 10:27 PM

705P ET:  Laura Meckler, WSJ, at Minneapolis, re the McCain choice of Palin and the vetting and secrecy of the last weeks as the choice narrowed, re the McCain campaign reach for HRC supporters and the dissent in the independents.

935P: Anatol Lieven, New Americas Foundation, at Peshawar, Pakistan, re the pending confrontation between the EU at Brussels and Russia over sanctions because of Georgia.  Re Pakistan's POV in the dispute.  Will Pakistan go pro Russia? 

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KFI Sunday Schedule August 31, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on August 29, 2008 at 7:15 PM

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

KFI Sunday Schedule August 24, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on August 22, 2008 at 5:10 PM

USS McFaul Arrives Batumi, Georgia

August 24: BBC NEWS: "The destroyer USS McFaul is reported to be carrying supplies such as blankets, hygiene kits and baby food. The supplies will be unloaded by a floating crane as the port is too shallow for the ship to dock. Two more US ships are due to arrive later this week....Batumi is not a natural harbour for a naval vessel the size of the USS McFaul to dock but Russian forces have been fortifying their positions at the key port of Poti, further up the coast."  The US Navy arrives at Batumi, (McFaul of Destroyer Squadron Twenty-Two), not challenging the illicit and provocative Russian occupation and domination of Poti the the north, nor challenging the Russian warships last reported blockading Poti harbor.  The Black Sea is a bathtub.  More here.  Comments welcomed.  Thanks.  JB

Meanwhile, In Abkhazia along the Black Sea beaches:

WSJ: "The Russian presence in Abkhazia is already striking. Russian investors have poured into the region, buying real estate, building hotels and leasing farmland. A region once known as the Soviet Riviera is booming, as Russian tourists flood its resorts and beaches."  Speaking Sunday 24 with Guy Chazan, WSJ, re the breakaway Abkhazia (Thursday 22 demo for independence left) and the still Russian-dominated Poti, Georgia along the Black sea coast.

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Nation, re Georgia and the crisis in Eastern Europe, in Russia, re the election and the new Cold War.

Mary Kissel, WSJ, at Hong Kong,  re the Olympics, the bills come due, the Beijing leadership after the storm.

Professional roundtable withMonica Crowley, the McLoughling Group, Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, and Michael Levine, Levine Communications, re the Denver extravaganze, the wobbly polls.

August 23: WAPO: "Running against Obama for the presidency, Biden said nominating someone without national security credentials would be a "tragic 

mistake" and said that the presidency "is not something that lends itself to on-the-job-training." The first volley from McCain's staff arrived at 1:50 a.m. ET, reflecting the new pace of presidential politics in the Internet era. And it foreshadowed what is certain to be a principal line of attack." 

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday August 24, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on August 22, 2008 at 2:27 PM

720P:  Russ Roberts, Hoover, author "The Price of Everything," re the moral hazard of rescuing Fannie MAe and Freddie MAc, re the credit crisis and the Federal Reserve, re the market staggering and the banks cowering.

735P:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU, re the Georgia crisis, week 2, and the peculiar interpretations of the Kremlin with regard Georgia sovereignty and Georgia's future, re the demands on NATO.

Nina Khrushcheva, New School, re the new Cold War and the ride of the Putin Kremlin, re Russia's fears and ambitions.

820P:  Roundtable with Mona Charen, NRO, John Fund, WSJ at Denver, and Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, at Denver, re the Denver extravaganza and the wobbly polls, re the rise of the Clinton based PUMAs, re the troubling missing Obama documents

850P: David Davenport, Hoover, re the Obama vs. McCain debate at the Saddleback Church, and the surprising performance by McCain.

905P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re the Russians in Syria, the new Cold War comes to the Middle East, re the Assads in Moscow, re the Russian missile and combat units headed to Syria.

935P: Joseph Farah, WND, author "None of the Above," re the weak presidential candidates 2008 and the frustration in both parties.  The Clinton supporters do not fall into line with Obama.  The right-wing of the GOP, and the libertarians around Ron Paul, do not fall into line with the maverick McCain.  Now what?

Nina Khrushcheva, New School, re the new Colr War and the ride of the Putin Kremlin, re Russia's fars and ambitions.

Professional roundtable re the campaign week, with John Fund, WSJ, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, and Mona Charen, NRO, the the wobbly polls and the Denver extravaganza.

NET ZERO. "Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate is unlikely to shake-up the presidential horse race. In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll completed last night, three-quarters of voters said picking Biden would not sway their votes one way or the other. And about as many said they would be more apt to support Obama with Biden on the ticket as said the choice would make them less likely to vote Democratic on Election Day (13 to 10 percent)."   Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted by telephone Aug. 19-22, 2008. 

August 24: Guardian: "Poti is not in the security zone. But that doesn't mean we will sit behind the fence watching as they drive around in Hummers,' (Deputy Chief of Staff Anatoly) Nogovitsyn said, in sardonic reference to the four US Humvees seized by Russia in Poti last week. The vehicles were used in joint US-Georgian military exercises."

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday August 17, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on August 19, 2008 at 2:32 PM

 WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday August 17, 2008

By John Batchelor. posted on August 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM

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

705P ET: John Bolton, AEI, re the Georgia crisis at the UN Security Council, the the Cold War Remake, re what does Russian aggression do for the Iran stand-off? 

720P:  Ketevan Ninua, Georgian patriot, re the Georgian Diaspora and the Russian attack on Georgia, re the occupation of Georgia, re the NATO cower.

735P:  Professional roundtable with James Taranto, WSJ,  re the Georgia crisis, re the dueling campaigns on Georgia, McCain the Cold Warrior, and Obama the foreign policy novice.   "I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia, and urge an immediate end to armed conflict. Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint, and to avoid an escalation to full scale war. Georgia's territorial integrity must be respected," Obama said in a written statement. "All sides should enter into direct talks on behalf of stability in Georgia, and the United States, the United Nations Security Council, and the international community should fully support a peaceful resolution to this crisis."

750P:  Rountable continues with Diana West, Washington Times, re the unusual political distinction in the media between the War on Terror and the New Cold War.

805P:  Chuck Nash, U.S. N (retd) re the Black sea and the deployment of American Navy assets into the home of the Black Sea Fleet, re the US assets in the Med .

820P: Confirming Malcolm Hoenlein, re the Georgia crisis and Israel, re Iran and Syria as Russian clients, re the Russians in Israel.

835P:  Jed Babbin, Human Events, re the Georgia crisis in the GOP, re the missile defense shield to Poland and the U.S. Congress, re the back to the future of 1938.   "...invading Georgia is taken from the German monster's that was acted out in Czechoslovakia in 1938 and paved the way for his invasion of Poland in 1939."

850P: Quentin Peel, Financial Times, re Georgia, the Russian threat, and the European reaction, Western Europe vs Eastern Europe.  Re the refugee crisis for Georgia.  "These people are fleeing out of fear," the UNHCR said. "There are Russian checkpoints on the roads. Fear is making people move."

905P:  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, re the Georgia crisis in American cold war history.  " Russia knows the great truth about the West: it will pour a half-million people into the street to protest the United States removing a homicidal dictator to foster democracy, but not a half-dozen to object to Russia attempting to remove a democratic government to foster dictatorship."

920P:  Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Nation, re Georgia and the crisis in Eastern Europe, in Russia, re the election and the new Cold War.

935P:  Boris Volodarsky, WSJ, re the Georgia crisis in Europe.  "...an aggressive character with a stubble-beard purporting to be from the London School of Economics (I have since learnt he is the one-time Russian spy Boris Volodarsky - below left - now collaborating with Oleg Gordievsky."

955P:  Exeunt re the Polish missile deal and the threats by Moscow.

KFI Sunday Schedule August 17, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on August 12, 2008 at 2:45 PM

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

705P PT: Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times, re the return of the Cold War and the rise of the new authoritatiranism, re conversation with Ukrainian PM Yuliya Tymoshenko.

720P: Confirming Claudia Rosett, NRO, Foundation for Defense of Democracy, re the Georgia crisis and the Cold Warriors in Washington, re the United Nations and the silence of the lambs.

735P: Professional roundtable Larry Johnson, No Quarter, and Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re the Georgia crisis and the Obama campaign, re the Democratic Party unready for the Cold War at Denver

805P: John Fund, WSJ, and Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, re the Georgia crisis and the Cold Warrior John McCain.

835P: Stephen F. Cohen, NYU, re the Georgia crisis and what does Moscow want?  Re Putin plays his cards, re Medvedev disappears behind Putin, re NATO and Ukraine and Georgia membership, re the new Cold War and Eastern Europe.

920P: Robert Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the ISS and the new Cold War: does a breakdown in Washington-Moscow relations mean an end to the ISS mission?

935P: Alan S. Cowell, author, "The Terminal Spy," Broadway Books, re the poisoning of ex-FSR agent Alexander Litvinenko, November 1, 2006, by Polonium 210, delivered by suspect Moscow dupes, for unclear motives; and the suspicion of the Putin circle at the Kremlin, and the new Cold War breaking out between London and Moscow before the Georgia crisis.

KFI Sunday Schedule August 10, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on August 09, 2008 at 12:05 PM

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

 705P PT Wenyi Wang, Falun Dafa, who protested in person Hu Jinatao at the White House and Jiang Zemin in Europe, re the Bejing suppression of all dissent and people of faith, re the persecution of Falun inside and outside of China, re the states by President Bush urging human rights respect by the Beijing authorities. 

720P Jim McTague, Barron's Magazine, James Freeman, Opinionjournal.com, re is this a recession, re the commodities sell-off, re the new scandal of the auction-rate securities bail-out, and are the banks out of money?

735P Professional roundtable Larry Johnson, No Quarter, John Avlon, author, "Independent Nation, re campaign week, the energy debate, the Clintons at the convention, the negotiation to permit HRC's name in nomnation, the Hawaii vacation, the war in the Caucasus and Obama's 3 a.m. moment.

750P Continued with Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, re the Georgia brigade in Iraq as member of the Coalition, now to airlifted to Tiblisi by the U.S.

805P Professional roundtable with Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, re the McCain statement on the war in the Caucasus vs the Obama statement, re McCain energy policy of drilling vs Obama policy of tire inflating.

820P Continued with Michael Levine, Levine Communications, re the strge case of John and Elizabeth Edwards and the election of 2008.

835P  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU, re the war in the Caucasus, and the escalation from South Ossetia to Abkhazia to Gerogia, re the rumor of Putin in command at the border, re the American decision to support GErogia by flying a combat brigade from Iraq to Tiblisi, the risks ahead.

850P Gordon Fairclough, WSJ, at Beijing, re the so-called terrorist attack at Kashgar, Xinjiang, by two laborers attacking with a truck, grenades, knives up to 70 policemen, re the statements by Xinjiang party boss Shi Dagang, the the statement by President Bush urging human rights improvement on Beijing.

905P Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, re the FBI case against Bruce Ivins in the Amerithrax case, re the challenges to the FBI case by Fort Detrick colleagues and members of Congress, re the weaponized anthrax fingerprints.

920P Mary Kissel, WSJ, at Hong Kong,  re the Olympics open after the Kashgar attack, re the stabbing of an American tourist in Beijing, re the harassment of the media attached to President Bush, re President Bush's call for human rights progress in China.

935P Joe Alexander, author, "Through the Wheat: the United States Marine Corps in World War 1, re the attack at Bealleau Wood, June 1918, re the MArines in ation on the last night of the Great War, November 10/11 1918.

955P  Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re the slow death of Detroit and what is holding Chrysler up?

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday August 10, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on August 09, 2008 at 10:18 AM

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

705P ET Stephen F. Cohen, NYU, re the war in the Caucasus, Georgia vs, Ossetia vs Russia, re Mikheil Sakaashvili vs Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, re the European paralysis int he face of the shelling photos from Tskhinvali, capitol of South Ossetia, and from Gori, a nearby Georgian town, many dead and wounded, rubble strewn streets, re Putin and Bush at luncheon in Beijing.

720P Matt Bai, NYT Magazine, author, "The Argument," re the candidacy of Barack Obama and the black middle class leadership in Washington: what does Charlie Rangle need from Barack Obama?

735P Professional roundtable re the campaign week, with John Fund, WSJ, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, and Mona Charen, NRO, re Obama stuck at 46%, re McCain attack ads, re the scrap between the Clintons and the Obamas.

805P Larry Kudlow, CNBC host "Kudlow & Company,"re the "drill, drill, drill" strategy for MCCain, re the sell off in commodities and the dollar rally, re the auction-rate securities mystery bail-out.

820P Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re Iran threat sidelined by war in the Cacasus, re the paralysis of the UN Security Council, re the maneuvering in Kadima and the Olmert strategy.

835P Alim Seytoff, Uyghur American Association, re the so-called terrorist attack in KAshgar, Xinjiang, and the threats of Shi Dagang, prty boss of Xinjiang at Urumchi, re the claims of the Turkistan Islamic League, re a video from Pakistan by Uyghurs.

850P Gina Chon, WSJ, from Baghdad, re the strange defeat and retreat of Mookie Sadr and the peculiar claim that the Mahdi Army will now convert to a social service network, copying the  artifice of the Hizballah of Lebanon in order to maintain control in Basra.

905P  Aaron Klein, WND, re the Gaza fighting between Hamas and Fatah, re the Edwan brothers contribution of over $30k to the Obama campaign, and the claims by the Obamas that it was returned, re the anti-air threat in Bekaa.

920P Elizabeth Williamson, WSJ, re the FBI "Amerithrax case" and the evidence brought forward under pressure, re the strange details of Bruce Ivins.

935P Michael Dobbs, author, "One Minute to Midnight," re the Cuban missile crisis and the face-off between the Kennedy brothers and the Kremlin in October, 1962, re the nuclear weapon brink, re events out of control between Russia and America.

955P  Robert Zimmerman, author, re the Falcon 1 failure debrief.

ConfirmingStephen F. Cohen, NYU, re the outbreak of combat between the pro-Western state of Georgia and Russia; re the new Cold War recreates the tanks and invasion in Europe of the original Cold War.

11 months ago: A U.S. soldier demonstrates how to search a suspect to his Georgian counterparts, background, during a joint exercises aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea port of Batumi, Georgia, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. Joint maritime exercises began Monday in the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi.

ConfirmingElizabeth Williamson, WSJ, re the "Amerithrax case" and the pressue on the FBI to reveal evidence on the now suicide suspect.

Confirming Matt Bai, NYT, author "The Argument," re what is the place for the black politicians now in place in the event of an Obama presidency?  Better?  Worse?  

Confirming Michael Dobbs, author, One Minute to Midnight,re the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, and the you can't make this up style of Krushchev, the Kennedy brothers and the functionally mad Robert McNamara, re Operation Ortsac.

Confirming Aaron Klein, WND, re the Edwan Brothers. August 6: from Aaron Klein, WND: Update from Jerusalem: Aaron Klein now confirms that the Edwan brothers state this news cycle that they have received none of their money reportedly returned by the Obama campaign.  "No, we did not receive any money back from the Obama campaign at any time," said Monir Edwan.

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August 9 Tblisi Time, London Times: "We have Russian tanks moving in. We have continuous Russian bombardment," President Saakashvili declared as he appealed for international support. "Russia is fighting a war with us in our own territory." 

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August 9, London Times: "Half of Georgia's 2,000 troops in Iraq plan to leave the country by Monday to join the fight against separatists in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, with the rest following as soon as possible, their commander said. "First of all we need to remove 1,000 guys from here within 96 hours, after that the rest of the guys," Colonel Bondo Maisuradze told The Times this morning. "The US will provide us with the transportation," he added."   And what is the difference between deploying combat troops in a war zone and attacking in a war zone?

 

August 10: Reuters: "I know nothing about any plan to block the shipments," he told a news briefing, responding to remarks by Georgian officials (Left, Black Sea Georgian port of Batumi, former Russian base). "In fact the fact that ships are being stopped and searched does not mean there is a blockade.  "When it's war we should be very careful about what cargoes are arriving in and leaving Georgia." Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin. 

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 August 10: AP: "We are supporting the Georgian military units that are in Iraq in their redeployment to Georgia so that they can support requirements there during the current security situation," said Col. Jerry O'Hara, another military spokesman in Baghdad. "Flights have in fact begun today and Georgian forces are redeploying."

KFI Sunday Schedule August 3, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on July 31, 2008 at 11:17 PM

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

705P PT: Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, and Jake Schlesinger, Wall Street Journal, re the disgrace and indictment of Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, for false witness on his Senate disclosure forms, not for actual graft or favor-selling, which the DOJ decided would be hard to prove, re a September trial?

720P: Jonathan Mahler, NYT, author, "The Challenge: Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power," re the glacially slow and dysfunctional Gitmo tribunals, re seven years after the attack and the first prosecution if of Bin Laden's clueless, worthless driver. Justice delayed is justice infantilized.

735P: Professional Roundtable with Larry Johnson (left), No Quarter, John Avlon (right), author, and Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re the McCain campaign mocks Obama with the Britney-Paris celebrity ad, and the Obama campaign, and Plouffe and Obama individually in emails, cry foul and accuse McCain of "the low road," complete with (another) bus cartoon.

750P: Professionals continued re the Tom Dewey routine in American politics: Is Obama the Man on the Wedding cake?   Re the Obama campaign doing transition planning?

805P: Professional Roundtable Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, and Bill Whalen, the Hoover Institution, re Obama and the Clinton supporters called the PUMAs, re the soft number for Obama among Democrats, re the McCain campaign makes dun of Obama and he squeals, re the polls of registered voters vs likely voters.

820P: Re the Moses webad.  Re Axelrod: "He said it to a crowd in rural Missouri, 99 percent white," Axelrod said moments later on the same program, explaining the context of Obama's remarks. "There were all kinds of press there. Nobody reported it as a racial comment. Nobody certainly said what Rick Davis just said, that he called John McCain a racist. The only time this became an issue was when Rick Davis and their campaign decided to kick it up and make it a racial issue, and that's exactly what -- they've been running a negative campaign for weeks."

835P: Michael Levine, author, "Guerilla PR," re the polls and Obama, the polls and McCain, and the persistence of unproved reports of Obama's biography, such as his religion, his background, his politics.  Does identity politics help or hurt the Obama campaign?

850P: Shai Oster, WSJ, at Beijing, re last moments before Olympics, the smog and rush of construction in Beijing. Also the smog thickens over many Asian cities. Also Gordon Fairclough, WSJ, reports: "A man who posted pictures on the Internet of schools that collapsed in May's massive earthquake in southwest China has been sent to a labor camp for a year..."

905P: Alim Seytoff, Uyghur Human Rights Project, re abuse of Moslem peoples by Beijing prior to Olympics, re so-called bomb plot of East Turkestan Islamic Party, re Alim Seytoff and Rebya Khadeer meeting with the President at the Whotse House re their case for East Turkestan.

920P: David Grinspoon, astrobiology curator, Denver Museum of Science, re the planetary reports, re the liquid methane seas on Jupiter's moon Titan, re the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter fly-by of Mars's moon Phobos, re the preparation for the Mars Laboratory lander in 2009 in the search for life on Mars.

935P: Sichan Siv, author, "Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America," re the busy, yearning life of a young Phnom Penh resident, son a a policeman, who longs to be educated in France, works for Royal Cambodia Airways and as a schoolteacher before the insane Khmer Rouge overrun the country after America departs Southeast Asia, and then Siv's torment until his escape to America, driving a taxi in 1979 and off to a colmbia education by 1981, later a ambassador rank at the United Nations for the US.

955P: Exeunt re the long, trite fall of Ehud Olmert and the turmoil of the Knesset.

Confirming Sichan Siv, author,"Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America."  Re a survivor of the genocide of Pol Pot and his maniac cohorts from 1975, re an escape from slave labor and a relentless will to succeed, and a clear vision of how badly things can fall apart.

ConfirmingMonica Crowley,NBC, and Bill Whalen, Hoover, re Obama's women problem, will the Hillary supporters come home?  No.  Re Britney-Obama.

ConfirmingJonathan Mahler, NYT, author, "The Challenge: Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power," re the glacially slow and dysfunctional Gitmo tribunals.

Confirming Shai Oster, WSJ, at Beijing, re last moments before Olympics,the smog and rush of construction in Beijing.  Also the smog thickens over many Asian cities.

Confirming Alim Seytoff, Uyghur Humans Rights Watch, re abuse of Moslem peoples by Beijing prior to Olympics, re so-called bomb plot of East Turkestan Islamic Party.

Gordon Fairclough, WSJ, reports:  "A man who posted pictures on the Internet of schools that collapsed in May's massive earthquake in southwest China has been sent to a labor camp for a year..." Confirming Shai Oster, WSJ, at Beijing, about last moments before Olympics,the smog, the arrests, the propoganda.

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday August 3, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on July 31, 2008 at 11:10 PM

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

705P ET: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, re the 1960s reawakened by the pontificating Al Gore and the troubled John Edwards, re Obamania recreates Beatlemania, re "What if Iraq Works?" "Critics of the war now argue that a victory in Iraq was not worth the costs, not that victory was always impossible."

Late addition Thaddeus McCotter, (R. 11th Michigan), re the demonstration by 50 GOP members of the House Friday Aug 1 against Speaker Mrs. Pelosi refusing to debate and vote on lifting the offshore drilling ban

735P: Professionals John Fund, WSJ, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, Diana West, Washington Times, re the McCain ad naming Obama as the Britney-Paris of politics, re the Obama decision to start transition planning, re the Obama camp pushes back with the cartoon bus of the "Low Road Express."

Re the Moses webad.  Re Axelrod: "He said it to a crowd in rural Missouri, 99 percent white," Axelrod said moments later on the same program, explaining the context of Obama's remarks. "There were all kinds of press there. Nobody reported it as a racial comment. Nobody certainly said what Rick Davis just said, that he called John McCain a racist. The only time this became an issue was when Rick Davis and their campaign decided to kick it up and make it a racial issue, and that's exactly what -- they've been running a negative campaign for weeks."

750P: Professionals continued, re Ted Stevens indictment, re the refusal of Congress to bring off-shore drilling to a vote, re Congress's unprecedented low ratings.

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC "Kudlow and Company, What recession is that? "Could the decline in GDP in the fourth quarter of 2007 mark the beginning of a recession? Certainly not yet by the most common definition that calls for two straight quarters of declining GDP. -Sudeep Reddy, WSJ.

820P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Confirming Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, re Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will leave office.  The maneuvering between Mofaz, Livni, Barak and Netanyahu to form a coalition government by October.

835P: Gina Chon, WSJ at Baghdad, re the sudden turmoil in Iraq's Basra-based South Company oil enterprise, replacing long-time effective leader Jabbery el-Leaby (left) at the same time the Maliki government is consolidating its power.

Late addition Henry Miller, Hoover, re the suicide Bruce Ivins (pictured), said to be the major suspect in the "Amerithrax case" of the anthrax muders 2001.

905P: Aaron Klein, WND at Jeursalem, re Olmert's retreat and his threat to negotiate with the Abbas Fatah until his departure, re the reaction of Hamas, of Al-Aqsa, re the mystery of Barack Obama's note in the Western Wall at Jerusalem.

920P: John Anderson, author, "Follow the Money," re the Ted Stevens indictment and the Mukasey Justice Department, re the speedy trial demanded by Stevens for September, re the evidence in 500 gigabytes, re the Alaska Republican Party in fear or loathing or aspic?

 935P: Noah Andre Trudeau, author, "Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea," re the relentless, bloody-minded total war launched by the marginally sane and Grant-favored William T. Sherman. Nothing about Sherman's cruelty is predictable. To my knowledge there were Batchelors on both sides in the march through Georgia.

955P: Exeunt Robert Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re Falcon 1 and the third failure today to launch Space X, also re Mars moon Phobos fly-by, Mars Phoenix Lander, re Virgin Galactic gets a star turn.