RUSH: I told you yesterday this was going to happen, and it happened. I've been telling you for the longest time: the Republicans can block anything in the Senate if they hang together. Dingy Harry has 50 votes in the Senate right now because Tim Johnson is still in the hospital. No word on when he is going to get out, and of course you've got Joe Lieberman who is an independent Democrat. He's voting with the Republicans now, but the bottom line here is that Republicans yesterday -- and here's...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"My favorite is still 'Fire' by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. It has everything: chaos, fear, threats, death. Burn, burn, burn!"
"We are giving you what you have asked for -- at, of course, a price that contains a considerable profit for us. We make no bones about the fact that we give away cheap stuff and charge a lot of money for it. It's quality items with a built-in price point that makes it worthwhile for us."
"Some...

RUSH: Open Line Friday on Tuesday. This is Louisa in Chicago. You're next, hello.
CALLER: Hello. Rush?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I was just wondering -- I mean, I know you just talked about alternative fuel in the form of corn, but, you know, I was thinking -- just alternative fuel in general, why are you so against it? I mean, these people are trying to, you know, do things, make things, you know, new inventions, whatever --
RUSH: (Groans.)
CALLER: -- and I think isn't that part...

RUSH: We've been watching the price of corn, ladies and gentlemen. It's causing poverty, strife and near riots in M?xico, as the food staple, the tortilla, is skyrocketing in price. The New York Times editorial today is entitled: "The Price of Corn," and basically to summarize the editorial, they don't care a whit about the Mexicans who are struggling with rising tortilla prices. They don't care! Energy efficiency, and energy alternatives, that's the key! We need ethanol, and their advice is...

RUSH: This is a story from yesterday's stack: "Senator John Kerry keeps to himself around the Capitol." It's from the New York Times. "He is always rushing somewhere, head down, disappearing into elevators. A Senate loner for 22 years, Mr. Kerry seems all the more isolated now as he darts past the media hordes around the next set of presidential seekers, colleagues that include Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama. Even in the best of times..." Now, this is the New York Times...

RUSH: Melanie in Center Point, Iowa. Welcome to the EIB Network. It's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Hey!
CALLER: I'm just so sick to death of these Democrats saying that Iraq is a catastrophic failure. They want us to fail so bad. I have an 18-year-old son who just joined the Navy. He went to basic training last week.
RUSH: May I ask you a question or two about your son?
CALLER: You sure may.
RUSH: Does your son have absolutely no economic future?...

RUSH: Colin in London, England, it's nice to have you on the program. Yes.
CALLER: It's actually Paul in London, but it's lovely to speak to you again.
RUSH: I'm sorry, Paul. It says "Colin" up here, but I'll take the hit because I make the big bucks.
CALLER: It's my hideous limey accent. Yeah. Well, firstly, most importantly, definitely "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I've got to agree with you on that one.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: Or if you can get...

RUSH: Chris in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Airborne dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I want to pass on to you... I think that for the people who orchestrate and control elections, they've got us in a gigantic shell game. I think Barack Obama always has been and always will be the VP on a Democratic ticket, and the shell game aspect of this is -- in all this drama that's going on in this hard fought campaign that they're going to...

RUSH: Now, you might have heard about this, but there's more to this than meets the eye and that's why I, your host, am here: to read the stitches on the fastball. I'm here to read between the lines. "A black MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university's decision to deny him tenure..." He claims the denial was based on race. His name is James Sherley. He is "a stem cell scientist." Hang on. "[H]e tried for two years to persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute...

RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen. It has become obvious to me as host of this program that global warming is now going to be something akin to Gorbasms and Condom Updates and Peace Updates. It's something where there's going to be noteworthy news each and every day, and so when that status gets anointed or appointed to a news story, what we need is a musical update theme, and this was just what first popped into my head, off the top of my head, our Global Warming Update Theme.
("Fire,"...

RUSH: Did you people see this? It's from the state of Washington: "A ballot initiative filed by proponents," for those of you in Rio Linda, that means people who are for it, "of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance. That group was formed last summer after the state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on same-sex marriage. Under the initiative,...

RUSH: So we have this astronaut babe Lisa Nowak. She's 43 years old. She flew last July on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station. She drove all the way from Houston to the Orlando International Airport, and she wore diapers. She drove 900 or a thousand miles and wore diapers so she wouldn't have to stop at rest areas and use the restroom! This is an obsessed woman. She's part of a love triangle. She's married; she's got three kids, and then there's this astronaut guy in the...

RUSH: I told you yesterday this was going to happen, and it happened. I've been telling you for the longest time: the Republicans can block anything in the Senate if they hang together. Dingy Harry has 50 votes in the Senate right now because Tim Johnson is still in the hospital. No word on when he is going to get out, and of course you've got Joe Lieberman who is an independent Democrat. He's voting with the Republicans now, but the bottom line here is that Republicans yesterday -- and here's...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"My favorite is still 'Fire' by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. It has everything: chaos, fear, threats, death. Burn, burn, burn!"
"We are giving you what you have asked for -- at, of course, a price that contains a considerable profit for us. We make no bones about the fact that we give away cheap stuff and charge a lot of money for it. It's quality items with a built-in price point that makes it worthwhile for us."
"Some...

RUSH: Open Line Friday on Tuesday. This is Louisa in Chicago. You're next, hello.
CALLER: Hello. Rush?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I was just wondering -- I mean, I know you just talked about alternative fuel in the form of corn, but, you know, I was thinking -- just alternative fuel in general, why are you so against it? I mean, these people are trying to, you know, do things, make things, you know, new inventions, whatever --
RUSH: (Groans.)
CALLER: -- and I think isn't that part...

RUSH: We've been watching the price of corn, ladies and gentlemen. It's causing poverty, strife and near riots in M?xico, as the food staple, the tortilla, is skyrocketing in price. The New York Times editorial today is entitled: "The Price of Corn," and basically to summarize the editorial, they don't care a whit about the Mexicans who are struggling with rising tortilla prices. They don't care! Energy efficiency, and energy alternatives, that's the key! We need ethanol, and their advice is...

RUSH: This is a story from yesterday's stack: "Senator John Kerry keeps to himself around the Capitol." It's from the New York Times. "He is always rushing somewhere, head down, disappearing into elevators. A Senate loner for 22 years, Mr. Kerry seems all the more isolated now as he darts past the media hordes around the next set of presidential seekers, colleagues that include Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama. Even in the best of times..." Now, this is the New York Times...

RUSH: Melanie in Center Point, Iowa. Welcome to the EIB Network. It's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Hey!
CALLER: I'm just so sick to death of these Democrats saying that Iraq is a catastrophic failure. They want us to fail so bad. I have an 18-year-old son who just joined the Navy. He went to basic training last week.
RUSH: May I ask you a question or two about your son?
CALLER: You sure may.
RUSH: Does your son have absolutely no economic future?...

RUSH: Colin in London, England, it's nice to have you on the program. Yes.
CALLER: It's actually Paul in London, but it's lovely to speak to you again.
RUSH: I'm sorry, Paul. It says "Colin" up here, but I'll take the hit because I make the big bucks.
CALLER: It's my hideous limey accent. Yeah. Well, firstly, most importantly, definitely "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I've got to agree with you on that one.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: Or if you can get...

RUSH: Chris in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Airborne dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I want to pass on to you... I think that for the people who orchestrate and control elections, they've got us in a gigantic shell game. I think Barack Obama always has been and always will be the VP on a Democratic ticket, and the shell game aspect of this is -- in all this drama that's going on in this hard fought campaign that they're going to...

RUSH: Now, you might have heard about this, but there's more to this than meets the eye and that's why I, your host, am here: to read the stitches on the fastball. I'm here to read between the lines. "A black MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university's decision to deny him tenure..." He claims the denial was based on race. His name is James Sherley. He is "a stem cell scientist." Hang on. "[H]e tried for two years to persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute...

RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen. It has become obvious to me as host of this program that global warming is now going to be something akin to Gorbasms and Condom Updates and Peace Updates. It's something where there's going to be noteworthy news each and every day, and so when that status gets anointed or appointed to a news story, what we need is a musical update theme, and this was just what first popped into my head, off the top of my head, our Global Warming Update Theme.
("Fire,"...

RUSH: Did you people see this? It's from the state of Washington: "A ballot initiative filed by proponents," for those of you in Rio Linda, that means people who are for it, "of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance. That group was formed last summer after the state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on same-sex marriage. Under the initiative,...

RUSH: So we have this astronaut babe Lisa Nowak. She's 43 years old. She flew last July on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station. She drove all the way from Houston to the Orlando International Airport, and she wore diapers. She drove 900 or a thousand miles and wore diapers so she wouldn't have to stop at rest areas and use the restroom! This is an obsessed woman. She's part of a love triangle. She's married; she's got three kids, and then there's this astronaut guy in the...

RUSH: I told you yesterday this was going to happen, and it happened. I've been telling you for the longest time: the Republicans can block anything in the Senate if they hang together. Dingy Harry has 50 votes in the Senate right now because Tim Johnson is still in the hospital. No word on when he is going to get out, and of course you've got Joe Lieberman who is an independent Democrat. He's voting with the Republicans now, but the bottom line here is that Republicans yesterday -- and here's...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"My favorite is still 'Fire' by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. It has everything: chaos, fear, threats, death. Burn, burn, burn!"
"We are giving you what you have asked for -- at, of course, a price that contains a considerable profit for us. We make no bones about the fact that we give away cheap stuff and charge a lot of money for it. It's quality items with a built-in price point that makes it worthwhile for us."
"Some...

RUSH: Open Line Friday on Tuesday. This is Louisa in Chicago. You're next, hello.
CALLER: Hello. Rush?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I was just wondering -- I mean, I know you just talked about alternative fuel in the form of corn, but, you know, I was thinking -- just alternative fuel in general, why are you so against it? I mean, these people are trying to, you know, do things, make things, you know, new inventions, whatever --
RUSH: (Groans.)
CALLER: -- and I think isn't that part...

RUSH: We've been watching the price of corn, ladies and gentlemen. It's causing poverty, strife and near riots in M?xico, as the food staple, the tortilla, is skyrocketing in price. The New York Times editorial today is entitled: "The Price of Corn," and basically to summarize the editorial, they don't care a whit about the Mexicans who are struggling with rising tortilla prices. They don't care! Energy efficiency, and energy alternatives, that's the key! We need ethanol, and their advice is...

RUSH: This is a story from yesterday's stack: "Senator John Kerry keeps to himself around the Capitol." It's from the New York Times. "He is always rushing somewhere, head down, disappearing into elevators. A Senate loner for 22 years, Mr. Kerry seems all the more isolated now as he darts past the media hordes around the next set of presidential seekers, colleagues that include Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama. Even in the best of times..." Now, this is the New York Times...

RUSH: Melanie in Center Point, Iowa. Welcome to the EIB Network. It's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Hey!
CALLER: I'm just so sick to death of these Democrats saying that Iraq is a catastrophic failure. They want us to fail so bad. I have an 18-year-old son who just joined the Navy. He went to basic training last week.
RUSH: May I ask you a question or two about your son?
CALLER: You sure may.
RUSH: Does your son have absolutely no economic future?...

RUSH: Colin in London, England, it's nice to have you on the program. Yes.
CALLER: It's actually Paul in London, but it's lovely to speak to you again.
RUSH: I'm sorry, Paul. It says "Colin" up here, but I'll take the hit because I make the big bucks.
CALLER: It's my hideous limey accent. Yeah. Well, firstly, most importantly, definitely "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I've got to agree with you on that one.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: Or if you can get...

RUSH: Chris in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Airborne dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I want to pass on to you... I think that for the people who orchestrate and control elections, they've got us in a gigantic shell game. I think Barack Obama always has been and always will be the VP on a Democratic ticket, and the shell game aspect of this is -- in all this drama that's going on in this hard fought campaign that they're going to...

RUSH: Now, you might have heard about this, but there's more to this than meets the eye and that's why I, your host, am here: to read the stitches on the fastball. I'm here to read between the lines. "A black MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university's decision to deny him tenure..." He claims the denial was based on race. His name is James Sherley. He is "a stem cell scientist." Hang on. "[H]e tried for two years to persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute...

RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen. It has become obvious to me as host of this program that global warming is now going to be something akin to Gorbasms and Condom Updates and Peace Updates. It's something where there's going to be noteworthy news each and every day, and so when that status gets anointed or appointed to a news story, what we need is a musical update theme, and this was just what first popped into my head, off the top of my head, our Global Warming Update Theme.
("Fire,"...

RUSH: Did you people see this? It's from the state of Washington: "A ballot initiative filed by proponents," for those of you in Rio Linda, that means people who are for it, "of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance. That group was formed last summer after the state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on same-sex marriage. Under the initiative,...

RUSH: So we have this astronaut babe Lisa Nowak. She's 43 years old. She flew last July on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station. She drove all the way from Houston to the Orlando International Airport, and she wore diapers. She drove 900 or a thousand miles and wore diapers so she wouldn't have to stop at rest areas and use the restroom! This is an obsessed woman. She's part of a love triangle. She's married; she's got three kids, and then there's this astronaut guy in the...

RUSH: I told you yesterday this was going to happen, and it happened. I've been telling you for the longest time: the Republicans can block anything in the Senate if they hang together. Dingy Harry has 50 votes in the Senate right now because Tim Johnson is still in the hospital. No word on when he is going to get out, and of course you've got Joe Lieberman who is an independent Democrat. He's voting with the Republicans now, but the bottom line here is that Republicans yesterday -- and here's...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"My favorite is still 'Fire' by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. It has everything: chaos, fear, threats, death. Burn, burn, burn!"
"We are giving you what you have asked for -- at, of course, a price that contains a considerable profit for us. We make no bones about the fact that we give away cheap stuff and charge a lot of money for it. It's quality items with a built-in price point that makes it worthwhile for us."
"Some...

RUSH: Open Line Friday on Tuesday. This is Louisa in Chicago. You're next, hello.
CALLER: Hello. Rush?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I was just wondering -- I mean, I know you just talked about alternative fuel in the form of corn, but, you know, I was thinking -- just alternative fuel in general, why are you so against it? I mean, these people are trying to, you know, do things, make things, you know, new inventions, whatever --
RUSH: (Groans.)
CALLER: -- and I think isn't that part...

RUSH: We've been watching the price of corn, ladies and gentlemen. It's causing poverty, strife and near riots in M?xico, as the food staple, the tortilla, is skyrocketing in price. The New York Times editorial today is entitled: "The Price of Corn," and basically to summarize the editorial, they don't care a whit about the Mexicans who are struggling with rising tortilla prices. They don't care! Energy efficiency, and energy alternatives, that's the key! We need ethanol, and their advice is...

RUSH: This is a story from yesterday's stack: "Senator John Kerry keeps to himself around the Capitol." It's from the New York Times. "He is always rushing somewhere, head down, disappearing into elevators. A Senate loner for 22 years, Mr. Kerry seems all the more isolated now as he darts past the media hordes around the next set of presidential seekers, colleagues that include Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama. Even in the best of times..." Now, this is the New York Times...

RUSH: Melanie in Center Point, Iowa. Welcome to the EIB Network. It's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Hey!
CALLER: I'm just so sick to death of these Democrats saying that Iraq is a catastrophic failure. They want us to fail so bad. I have an 18-year-old son who just joined the Navy. He went to basic training last week.
RUSH: May I ask you a question or two about your son?
CALLER: You sure may.
RUSH: Does your son have absolutely no economic future?...

RUSH: Colin in London, England, it's nice to have you on the program. Yes.
CALLER: It's actually Paul in London, but it's lovely to speak to you again.
RUSH: I'm sorry, Paul. It says "Colin" up here, but I'll take the hit because I make the big bucks.
CALLER: It's my hideous limey accent. Yeah. Well, firstly, most importantly, definitely "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I've got to agree with you on that one.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: Or if you can get...

RUSH: Chris in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Airborne dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I want to pass on to you... I think that for the people who orchestrate and control elections, they've got us in a gigantic shell game. I think Barack Obama always has been and always will be the VP on a Democratic ticket, and the shell game aspect of this is -- in all this drama that's going on in this hard fought campaign that they're going to...

RUSH: Now, you might have heard about this, but there's more to this than meets the eye and that's why I, your host, am here: to read the stitches on the fastball. I'm here to read between the lines. "A black MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university's decision to deny him tenure..." He claims the denial was based on race. His name is James Sherley. He is "a stem cell scientist." Hang on. "[H]e tried for two years to persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute...

RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen. It has become obvious to me as host of this program that global warming is now going to be something akin to Gorbasms and Condom Updates and Peace Updates. It's something where there's going to be noteworthy news each and every day, and so when that status gets anointed or appointed to a news story, what we need is a musical update theme, and this was just what first popped into my head, off the top of my head, our Global Warming Update Theme.
("Fire,"...

RUSH: Did you people see this? It's from the state of Washington: "A ballot initiative filed by proponents," for those of you in Rio Linda, that means people who are for it, "of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance. That group was formed last summer after the state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on same-sex marriage. Under the initiative,...

RUSH: So we have this astronaut babe Lisa Nowak. She's 43 years old. She flew last July on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station. She drove all the way from Houston to the Orlando International Airport, and she wore diapers. She drove 900 or a thousand miles and wore diapers so she wouldn't have to stop at rest areas and use the restroom! This is an obsessed woman. She's part of a love triangle. She's married; she's got three kids, and then there's this astronaut guy in the...

RUSH: I told you yesterday this was going to happen, and it happened. I've been telling you for the longest time: the Republicans can block anything in the Senate if they hang together. Dingy Harry has 50 votes in the Senate right now because Tim Johnson is still in the hospital. No word on when he is going to get out, and of course you've got Joe Lieberman who is an independent Democrat. He's voting with the Republicans now, but the bottom line here is that Republicans yesterday -- and here's...

RUSH: Here's Jason in Cripple Creek, Colorado. It's nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: Great to talk to you, Rush.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: The pundits are out there trying to make the point that the Republican Party is moving to the left, thereby departing you because they're voting McCain. But I think they're missing the point that not only did conservatives not vote for McCain, half the party didn't even show up to vote last night.RUSH: You mean in Colorado?CALLER: In a lot of places.RUSH:...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"My favorite is still 'Fire' by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. It has everything: chaos, fear, threats, death. Burn, burn, burn!"
"We are giving you what you have asked for -- at, of course, a price that contains a considerable profit for us. We make no bones about the fact that we give away cheap stuff and charge a lot of money for it. It's quality items with a built-in price point that makes it worthwhile for us."
"Some...

RUSH: Open Line Friday on Tuesday. This is Louisa in Chicago. You're next, hello.
CALLER: Hello. Rush?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I was just wondering -- I mean, I know you just talked about alternative fuel in the form of corn, but, you know, I was thinking -- just alternative fuel in general, why are you so against it? I mean, these people are trying to, you know, do things, make things, you know, new inventions, whatever --
RUSH: (Groans.)
CALLER: -- and I think isn't that part...

RUSH: We've been watching the price of corn, ladies and gentlemen. It's causing poverty, strife and near riots in M?xico, as the food staple, the tortilla, is skyrocketing in price. The New York Times editorial today is entitled: "The Price of Corn," and basically to summarize the editorial, they don't care a whit about the Mexicans who are struggling with rising tortilla prices. They don't care! Energy efficiency, and energy alternatives, that's the key! We need ethanol, and their advice is...

RUSH: This is a story from yesterday's stack: "Senator John Kerry keeps to himself around the Capitol." It's from the New York Times. "He is always rushing somewhere, head down, disappearing into elevators. A Senate loner for 22 years, Mr. Kerry seems all the more isolated now as he darts past the media hordes around the next set of presidential seekers, colleagues that include Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama. Even in the best of times..." Now, this is the New York Times...

RUSH: Melanie in Center Point, Iowa. Welcome to the EIB Network. It's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Hey!
CALLER: I'm just so sick to death of these Democrats saying that Iraq is a catastrophic failure. They want us to fail so bad. I have an 18-year-old son who just joined the Navy. He went to basic training last week.
RUSH: May I ask you a question or two about your son?
CALLER: You sure may.
RUSH: Does your son have absolutely no economic future?...

RUSH: Colin in London, England, it's nice to have you on the program. Yes.
CALLER: It's actually Paul in London, but it's lovely to speak to you again.
RUSH: I'm sorry, Paul. It says "Colin" up here, but I'll take the hit because I make the big bucks.
CALLER: It's my hideous limey accent. Yeah. Well, firstly, most importantly, definitely "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I've got to agree with you on that one.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: Or if you can get...

RUSH: Chris in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Airborne dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I want to pass on to you... I think that for the people who orchestrate and control elections, they've got us in a gigantic shell game. I think Barack Obama always has been and always will be the VP on a Democratic ticket, and the shell game aspect of this is -- in all this drama that's going on in this hard fought campaign that they're going to...

RUSH: Now, you might have heard about this, but there's more to this than meets the eye and that's why I, your host, am here: to read the stitches on the fastball. I'm here to read between the lines. "A black MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university's decision to deny him tenure..." He claims the denial was based on race. His name is James Sherley. He is "a stem cell scientist." Hang on. "[H]e tried for two years to persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute...

RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen. It has become obvious to me as host of this program that global warming is now going to be something akin to Gorbasms and Condom Updates and Peace Updates. It's something where there's going to be noteworthy news each and every day, and so when that status gets anointed or appointed to a news story, what we need is a musical update theme, and this was just what first popped into my head, off the top of my head, our Global Warming Update Theme.
("Fire,"...

RUSH: Did you people see this? It's from the state of Washington: "A ballot initiative filed by proponents," for those of you in Rio Linda, that means people who are for it, "of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance. That group was formed last summer after the state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on same-sex marriage. Under the initiative,...

RUSH: So we have this astronaut babe Lisa Nowak. She's 43 years old. She flew last July on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station. She drove all the way from Houston to the Orlando International Airport, and she wore diapers. She drove 900 or a thousand miles and wore diapers so she wouldn't have to stop at rest areas and use the restroom! This is an obsessed woman. She's part of a love triangle. She's married; she's got three kids, and then there's this astronaut guy in the...

RUSH: I told you yesterday this was going to happen, and it happened. I've been telling you for the longest time: the Republicans can block anything in the Senate if they hang together. Dingy Harry has 50 votes in the Senate right now because Tim Johnson is still in the hospital. No word on when he is going to get out, and of course you've got Joe Lieberman who is an independent Democrat. He's voting with the Republicans now, but the bottom line here is that Republicans yesterday -- and here's...