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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 1, Block A:  Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, in re: politics/features/how-a-hillary-clinton-presidency-could-transform-america-w433768?utm_source=email   (1 of 2)
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 1, Block B:  Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, in re: politics/features/how-a-hillary-clinton-presidency-could-transform-america-w433768?utm_source=email   (2 of 2)
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 1, Block C:  Henry Miller, Hoover via Forbes, in re: "Feds' Response to Zika Is More Politics Than Public Health,"  http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2016/08/10/feds-response-to-zika-is-more-politics-than-public-health/.
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 1, Block D: Francis Rose, NationalDefenseWeek.com (WMAL) and francisrose.com, and now Channel 7 in Washington; and Channel 8 daily: "Government matters";  in re:  VA Drops Millions on Delayed Solar Power Projects
VA has spent over $408 million on solar panels since 2010  ;   ‘Budget-Crunched’ VA Has 167 Interior Designers on Staff  ;  Report: VA Spent Millions on Costly Art as Veterans Waited for Care
Hour Two
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 2, Block A:  Richard A Epstein, Chicago law, NYU Law, Hoover, in re: The defining economic truth of the last decade has been the want of sustained growth. Progressives and classical liberals agree that economic growth is a good thing, but they differ profoundly in how to best to achieve it. The only way to spur growth is to undo the structural barriers to gains from trade by pruning the law books of taxes and regulations that block these transactions in the futile effort to achieve redistribution. The combination of lower administrative costs, greater legal certainty, and improved private returns fueled American growth in earlier times, and will revive it today. You simply have to look at blue states like Massachusetts, Vermont, California, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York to see the harm done by excessive regulation, taxes, and public expenditures . . .  http://www.hoover.org/research/blue-state-model-has-failed  (1 of 2)
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 2, Block B:   Richard A Epstein, Chicago law, NYU Law, Hoover, in re: The defining economic truth of the last decade has been the want of sustained growth. Progressives and classical liberals agree that economic growth is a good thing, but they differ profoundly in how to best to achieve it. The only way to spur growth is to undo the structural barriers to gains from trade by pruning the law books of taxes and regulations that block these transactions in the futile effort to achieve redistribution. The combination of lower administrative costs, greater legal certainty, and improved private returns fueled American growth in earlier times, and will revive it today. You simply have to look at blue states like Massachusetts, Vermont, California, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York to see the harm done by excessive regulation, taxes, and public expenditures . . .  http://www.hoover.org/research/blue-state-model-has-failed  (2 of 2)
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:   Jeremy A. Thomas, University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Ecology; Professorial Fellow of New College; President of the Royal Entomological Society, visiting professor, University of Reading, Professorial Fellow of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (NERC); in re:  Butterfly communities under threat    Butterflies are better documented and monitored worldwide than any other nonpest taxon of insects. In the United Kingdom alone, volunteer recorders have sampled more than 750,000 km of repeat transects since 1976, equivalent to walking to the Moon and back counting butterflies. Such programs are revealing regional extinctions and population declines that began before 1900. In a recent study, Habel, et al., report a similar story based on inventories of butterflies and burnet moths since 1840 in a protected area in Bavaria, Germany. The results reveal severe species losses: Scarce, specialized butterflies have largely disappeared, leaving ecosystems dominated by common generalist ones. Similar trends are seen across Europe and beyond, with protected areas failing to conserve many species for which they were once famed.  (1 of 2)  http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/216.full
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 2, Block D:  Jeremy A. Thomas, University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Ecology; Professorial Fellow of New College; President of the Royal Entomological Society, visiting professor, University of Reading, Professorial Fellow of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (NERC); in re:  Butterfly communities under threat    Butterflies are better documented and monitored worldwide than any other nonpest taxon of insects. In the United Kingdom alone, volunteer recorders have sampled more than 750,000 km of repeat transects since 1976, equivalent to walking to the Moon and back counting butterflies. Such programs are revealing regional extinctions and population declines that began before 1900. In a recent study, Habel, et al., report a similar story based on inventories of butterflies and burnet moths since 1840 in a protected area in Bavaria, Germany. The results reveal severe species losses: Scarce, specialized butterflies have largely disappeared, leaving ecosystems dominated by common generalist ones. Similar trends are seen across Europe and beyond, with protected areas failing to conserve many species for which they were once famed.  (2 of 2)  http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/216.full
Hour Three
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  Robert Zimmerman, behind the black, in re:
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Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 3, Block B:   Robert Zimmerman, behind the black, in re:
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Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 3, Block C: Peter B. Zwack, ‪Senior Russia-Eurasia Research Fellow at National Defense University (Institute of National Strategic Studies); in re: http://cco.ndu.edu/Publications/PRISM/PRISM-Volume-6-no-2/Article/840779/russias-contradictory-relationship-with-the-west/  (1 of 2)
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 3, Block D:   Peter B. Zwack, ‪Senior Russia-Eurasia Research Fellow at National Defense University (Institute of National Strategic Studies); in re: http://cco.ndu.edu/Publications/PRISM/PRISM-Volume-6-no-2/Article/840779/russias-contradictory-relationship-with-the-west/  (2 of 2)
 
Hour Four
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:  Henry R. Nau, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University; in re: “Conservative Internationalism: A Look at American Foreign Policy”  (1 of 2)
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  Henry R. Nau, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University; in re: “Conservative Internationalism: A Look at American Foreign Policy”  (2 of 2)
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 4, Block C:  The Lost Temple of Israel: A Real Life Indiana Jones Story, by Zvi Koenigsberg  (1 of 2)   https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Temple-Israel-Indiana-Jones-ebook/dp/B00STO4NOI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Friday  12 August 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:   The Lost Temple of Israel: A Real Life Indiana Jones Story, by Zvi Koenigsberg  (2 of 2)