Photo, above: 1927 miners's strike in Zanesville, Ohio; from the Zanesville Signal.

Tuesday 905P Eastern Time:  John McLaughlin, McLaughlin & Associates,in re: the Linda McMahon win in Connecticut in its Senate GOP primary; the Ryan entry and polling in WI and IA;  foreign policy on Iran and the VA polling.

Tuesday 920P Eastern Time:   Dennis Berman, WSJ, in re:  With this economy  so delicate, it's not healthy.  . . . "If you can’t plan, you don’t spend; and if you can’t spend, you don’t hire."  Defense industry laying off workers  in anticipation of sequestration.  If we have to change how we spend money in this country, some people will get hurt – might include defense industry.  Tech/computer/software firms doing bz with the federal govt will get hurt. Effects of austerity in Spain.  No one candidate will be able to overcome some damages; this is a decade-long process, wolens nolens.

Tuesday 935P Eastern Time:  Steven Moore, WSJ chief financial writer for the editorial board, in re:  the president's campaign charge that Paul Ryan's plan would end Medicare as we know it – but Obamacare has already done that: raided several hundred billions of dollars.  Mediscare Part IV: Gingrich in 1994 was the first time that Democrats used these tactics, but this time they may be going to the well one time too often.  We spend $500 Bil PA now for Medicare, it'll go to $900 Bil in a decade; Ryan's plan tries to reduce that. Anyone 55 or older now will not lose a dime under Ryan's program.  Ryan allows anyone who wants to, to leave Medicare and enter private services. Attack campaigns have worked for Democrats in the past, but Mitt Romney is betting the Obama team is fighting yesterday's wars and voters will be turned off by the scare tactics.  One of the most insidious features of Obamacare is that it takes away tax advantages. Best way to bend the cost cure down . . .    Panel of fifteen unnamed (unelected; also unidentified?) persons gets to rule on who gets which medical care.  In fifteen or twenty years, our entire federal budget will be completely consumed by Medicare and Social Security unless we do something now.

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 "Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu' à la fin elle se casse."

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Tuesday 950P Eastern Time:  Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC in re:  "Take your campaign of division, anger and hatred back to Chicago," said Mitt Romney today to Pres Obama. Kurtz: Obama hates suburbs, wants to redistribute the wealth into the inner cities by changing tax laws.  He's had this up his sleeve for a long time; his mentors refer to it. "Sustainable communities" would give cities tremendous regional power. Will raise tax rates on "rich" people, ostensibly for deficit reduction but, in fact, it'll pour into more spending.   Romney needs to speak out on the economy; he looks relieved these days because he's now getting help from Ryan.   Goofy Republican consultants, afraid of their own shadow.  I want them to win an election by telling the American people where we're headed. Romney: Move fed budget from 24% to 20% of GDP debt.  Can create 12mil jobs in his first term.

 

Tuesday 1005P (705P Pacific Time): Joe Rago, WSJ Pulitzer Prizewinner, in re: Ryan Roadmap for Medicare; how it compares to Obamacare; what is premium care?

Tuesday 1020P (720P Pacific Time): Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in re:  report on the day spent with coal miners at a Romney appearance in Zanesville, Ohio.  While Salena was at the rally,  a tree fell almost on her home, tearing up cables, and on her return home, a bat had camped  indoors with her.  All solved now.

Tuesday 1035P (735P Pacific Time): Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, in re: Key officials under Karzai are criticized: Afghan cabinet ministries that work most closely with Western countries are under intense pressure from Parliament and an anti-graft commission.  Taliban, al Qaeda, Haqqani Network: all very collaborative in a major raid with video released on The Voice of Jihad, f/o/b Salerno.   Not on US front pages because . . .    Green on blue attacks are commonplace: 13% of US & NATO casualties caused by attacks from Afghans. ISAF will not release the classified numbers. Nothing like this in Iraq - an epidemic of murders of Westerners by Afghans who kill or wound several soldiers, usually escape. Taliban release videos advertising the murders.  Attackers then welcomed by villagers - kishlaklar - as heroes: feted, honored at banquets.  Taliban are back-shooters.

Tuesday 1050P (750P Pacific Time): Mary O'Grady, WSJ, in re: the Paya investigation, why is Cuba jailing and charging a civil rights voice, what does Cuba fear about the Paya death?

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo for sub-orbital flights.

Tuesday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, behindtheblack, in re: SpaceshipTwo droptests; Orio capsule; Curiosity and POTUS.

Tuesday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, behindtheblack, in re: Texas defeats EPA; the polar bear and fraud; re Jerry Brown vs. denialists.

Tuesday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): Joseph Goldstein, NYT, in re:  Potter’s Field and using DNA to identify the unnamed

Tuesday 1150P (850P Pacific Time): Arif Rafiq, Middle East Institute, in re: what of AfPak border region? Kabul speaking to Taliban? India and Pakistan rapprochement?

Tuesday/Wed 1205A (905 Pacific Time): Kim Strassel, WSJ, in re: Paul Ryan reformer, what this means for the GOP and for the Romney ticket.

Tuesday/Wed  1220A (920 Pacific Time): Henry Nau, Hoover, in re: what do we know of Romney foreign policy from his recent Romney European Middle East trip?

Tuesday/Wed  1235A (935P Pacific Time): Steven Moore, WSJ chief financial writer for the editorial board, in re:  the president's campaign charges that Paul Ryan's plan would end Medicare as we know it – but Obamacare has already done that: raided several hundred billions of dollars.  Mediscare Part IV: Gingrich in 1994 was the first time that Democrats used these tactics, but this time they may be going to the well one time too often.*  We spend $500 Bil PA now for Medicare, it'll go to $900 Bil in a decade; Ryan's plan tries to reduce that. Anyone 55 or older now will not lose a dime under Ryan's program.  Ryan allows anyone who wants to, to leave Medicare and enter private services. Attack campaigns have worked for Democrats in the past, but Mitt Romney is betting the Obama team is fighting yesterday's wars and voters will be turned off by the scare tactics.  One of the most insidious features of Obamacare is that it takes away tax advantages. Best way to bend the cost cure down . . .    Panel of fifteen unnamed (unelected; also unidentified?) persons gets to rule on who gets which medical care.  In fifteen or twenty years, our entire federal budget will be completely consumed by Medicare and Social Security unless we do something now.

Tuesday/Wed  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt. Jed Babbin, American Spectator, in re: the Ryan plan and what it means for people under 55,

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The new candidate in Colorado.

Music (based on New York broadcast times)

9-hr: Three Musketeers. 10-hr: Brake; Gears of War 2; Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol; Three Musketeers. 11-hr: ; midnight-hr:  .