Image, left: Hour 1, Block D, Greg Austin, Professorial Fellow, East West Institute, based in Canberra, Australia, writing in The Diplomat, in re: What America’s New Cyber Policy Means for China. The new cyber document from the US Defense Department, “with one paragraph on dialogue with China (almost a perfunctory nod in the direction of strategic stability) and a footnote on suspended dialogue with Russia, gives the impression of putting the cart before the horse.”
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Host: Francis Rose, "In Depth with Francis Rose," on Federal News Radio 1500AM in Washington, D.C.
 
Hour One
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Congressman Jeff Miller, Chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee, in re: Failure of Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees involved in misconduct in Phoenix; in Tomah, WI; in Philadelphia and Oakland. His latest bill would allow VA Secretary Robert McDonald to fire more employees than just senior executives.
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 1, Block B: David Hawkings, Senior Editor, Roll Call, and host of Hawkings Here blog, in re: the irony of Bernie Sanders' seeking the Democratic nomination for president while declining to become a Democrat; and the ascendance of the “Blue State Five” in 2016, following the descent of the “Red State Six” in the 2014 election.
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 1, Block C: Stephen Oliner, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, writing in Real Clear Markets, in re: the Myth that Mortgage Credit Is Really Tight. Janet Yellen’s December remarks aside, data demonstrate that the market is healthy – because 80% of loans originated in the United States are backed by the federal government. More relaxed lending, of the type that caused the 2008/09 financial crisis, is starting to creep back into lender portfolios.
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 1, Block D: Greg Austin, Professorial Fellow, East West Institute, based in Canberra, Australia, writing in The Diplomat, in re: What America’s New Cyber Policy Means for China. The new cyber document from the US Defense Department, “with one paragraph on dialogue with China (almost a perfunctory nod in the direction of strategic stability) and a footnote on suspended dialogue with Russia, gives the impression of putting the cart before the horse.”
 
Hour Two
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 2, Block A: Erroll Southers, Director of Transition and Research Deployment at the Department of Homeland Security National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), University of Southern California, in re: his study, conducted with colleague Justin Heinz, that details ISIS recruiting efforts in the Somali immigrant community in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. Their findings, that recruiters are actively and successfully identifying ISIS recruits and sending them to jihad in Syria, were confirmed by the arrest of six Somali-American men ten days ago.
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 2, Block B: Charles Clark, Government Executive Media Group, in re: the Internal Revenue Service has made some progress in changing its procedures for dealing with tax-exempt groups, according to the Treasury Inspector-General for Tax Administration.
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 2, Block C: Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View, in re: [Bernie] Sanders Will Make Clinton Be Specific. He may, instead of pulling her more in his direction, “help Clinton by bolstering the perception that she’s a moderate.”
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 2, Block D: Justin Fox, Bloomberg View, in re: Jerry Brown, Water-Tunnel Salesman. Governor Brown is trying to sell a plan to move water from the north to the south, but he has run into more smeltfish problems that may prevent him from doing so.
 
Hour Three
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 3, Block A: Guy Taylor, Washington Times, in re: Vitali Klitschko’s rising star in Ukrainian politics, and why he’s seeking the spotlight now, after remaining on the edges of the political fight for a while.
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 3, Block B: Dr. Steve Bucci, Heritage Foundation, and retired US Army Special Forces officer, in re: women are trying to break the Army’s ultimate glass ceiling: Ranger School. So far, they're washing out about equally to men, despite the Army refusing to lower standards in order for women to participate.
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 3, Block C: Ron Marks, Senior Fellow, George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, and author, Spying in America in the Post-9/11 World, in re: the US government releases a six-year-old report by the National Security Agency on its spying program, and there isn’t much “there” there; and fewer people have access to the nation’s secrets – but it may not make much difference in the security of those secrets.
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 3, Block D:  John Dennehy, writing on theBillfold.com, in re: Ecuador’s government gets into the digital money business, now competing with Paypal, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and others; while average Ecuadorians prefer a cash economy, and can’t get enough US $2 bills.
 
Hour Four
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 4, Block A: David O. Stewart, President, Washington Independent Review of Books; author, Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America (1 of 4).
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 4, Block B: David O. Stewart, President, Washington Independent Review of Books; author, Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America (2 of 4).
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 4, Block C: David O. Stewart, President, Washington Independent Review of Books; author, Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America (3 of 4).
Sunday 3 May 2015  / Hour 4, Block D: David O. Stewart, President, Washington Independent Review of Books; author, Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America (4 of 4).