Photo, left: Frank Perdue.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Peter Berkowitz, Hoover, in re: "The Right Way Forward for Conservatism," Wall Street Journal, July 24 / http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-right-way-forward-for-conservatism-1437753385?tesla=y
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 1, Block B:  Francis Rose, Federal News Radio, in re:
ICYMI: Staggering Reports of Unfilled Positions at Scandal-ridden VA
KUSA: 35 leadership positions nationwide vacant or occupied by interim or acting directors
USA Today: VA has 41,500 unfilled medical jobs, forcing vets into costly private care
USA Today: VA has 41,500 unfilled medical jobs, forcing vets into costly private care
The Veterans Health Administration has 41,500 job vacancies for doctors, nurses and other medical professionals across its sprawling health care system while it struggles to provide timely medical care for veterans, according to records obtained and analyzed by USA TODAY… The full- and part-time positions include openings for 5,000 physicians, nearly 12,000 nurses and more than 1,200 psychologists, according to the data. Four locations were short at least 100 doctors: Orlando, Portland, Ore., Baltimore and Salt Lake City. Each of those locations also had at least 100 vacant nursing positions. Portland needed nearly 300 part-time and full-time nurses.
KUSA: VA urged to hire new hospital directors for glut of vacancies
Nearly 25 percent of all VA hospitals are operating without permanent leaders and that contributes to failures in providing care to veterans, according to the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. In a letter to the VA today, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-GA urged the agency to quickly fill the positions, which include the director of the Denver VA Hospital. The 35 jobs nationwide are either currently vacant or occupied by interim or acting directors…. "Our nation's veterans have earned and deserve the best health care we can deliver," Isakson wrote. "Part of providing that high quality care is ensuring there are officials appointed to key leadership positions that are capable and able to oversee and manage the organization."     You can read U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, letter to Sec. McDonald here
 
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 1, Block C:   Ian Urbina, NYT, in re: “The Outlaw Ocean” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/world/middleeast/murder-at-sea-captured-on-video-but-killers-go-free.html  (1 of 2)
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 1, Block D: Ian Urbina, NYT, in re: “The Outlaw Ocean” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/world/middleeast/murder-at-sea-captured-on-video-but-killers-go-free.html  (2 of 2)
 
Hour Two
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/10/27/issue.html  (1 of 2)
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 2, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/10/27/issue.html  (2 of 2)
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 2, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com,  in re: New Pluto data released    Cool image time! During today’s New Horizons’ press conference, principal investigator Alan Stern noted that only 4%-5% of the data have been recovered. They've finished the  first phase of download and are moving into second phase, which will be dominated by engineering and other data, not images. So, for the next couple of months they will only be able to release images once and awhile. Beginning in September images, however, they will begin downloading images at a much faster pace.
 
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 2, Block D: Fernanda Santos, in re: On Parched Navajo Reservation, ‘Water Lady’ Brings Liquid Gold . Darlene Arviso delivers clean water to people on a reservation where one-third of the roughly 50,000 households lack it.
 
Hour Three
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 3, Block A:  Liz Peek, The Fiscal Times & Fox, in re: Financial Times
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 3, Block B:  Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, in re:
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 3, Block C:  Miitzi Perdue, author, Tough Man,  Tender Chicken, in re: http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2014/12/24/mitzi-pe... (1 of 2)
 
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 3, Block D: Miitzi Perdue, author, Tough Man,  Tender Chicken, in re: http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2014/12/24/mitzi-pe... (2 of 2)
Hour Four
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 4, Block A: Henry Sokolski, author,  Underestimated,  
book;  http://npolicy.org/thebook.php?bid=34 (1 of 2)
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 4, Block B: Henry Sokolski, author,  Underestimated,  
book;  http://npolicy.org/thebook.php?bid=34 (2 of 2)
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 4, Block C: Melissa Hanham, Nonproliferation.org, in re: http://38north.org/2015/07/mhanham070915/#_ftn6  (1 of 2)
Friday  24  July 2015  / Hour 4, Block D: Melissa Hanham, Nonproliferation.org, in re: http://38north.org/2015/07/mhanham070915/#_ftn6  (2 of 2)
..  ..  ..