RUSH: A couple of See, I Told You Sos before we get on to the rest of today's program, from American Spectator today, it's www.Spectator.org. It's a piece by Jennifer Rubin. I've mentioned over the course of the many recent broadcast weeks, that we seem now to live not only in a very wimpish and gutless culture, as evidenced by the way the Brits dealt with the Iranians. By the way, don't think that wasn't a big win for the Iranians. The Iranians have announced national nuke day! We may as well...

RUSH: All right, here's Mattie, in Los Angeles. Hi, Mattie, I'm sorry you have to follow that story but I know you can do it.CALLER: Hello?RUSH: Yes, hi, Mattie.CALLER: Hi.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: That's okay. I'll wait. (fumbling)RUSH: Mattie, are you with us?CALLER: Yes, I'm -- (drops telephone)RUSH: I didn't ask you to wait. I asked you to go.CALLER: Oh, go? Okay. (silence)RUSH: You're on the air. It's your big show biz break.CALLER: Hello?RUSH: Okay, we gave it every opportunity to work....

RUSH: Randy in Wichita, welcome to the EIB Network, sir, hello.CALLER: How you doing, Rush?RUSH: Good, sir. CALLER: Hey, Rush, you will remember me back in 1989. I was the chairman of military affairs for the chamber, and myself and Ms. Beall drove you out to McConnell Air Force Base put on you a B-1 bomber so you could turn on the lights and honk the horn.RUSH: What do you mean I won't remember that?CALLER: I said you will remember that.RUSH: Yes, yes, yes, yes. It was B-1s, right?CALLER:...

RUSH: For two weeks, maybe more, we listened to all the huffing and puffing of Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry, and a lot of other Democrats. "We're going to de-fund the war! We're going to have Bush's money cut off! We're only going to fund it until March 31st, 2008, and Bush is going to bring the troops home, and we're not going to waver on this and Bush better realize it," blah, blah, blah -- and then all of a sudden after these two weeks of huffing and puffing, Carl Levin went on television yesterday....

RUSH: Brian in Tampa, I'm glad you waited, sir. You are next on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, after your last call, I'm not sure: are you for or against this?RUSH: (Laughing.) My instincts are to be a little bit suspicious of this, but I don't think my opinion on it matters. We're beyond that. If this goes down anything like the Dubai Ports Deal went down, it doesn't matter what anybody thinks. It's dead.CALLER: Okay. Well, the thing is, I think all the countries -- the consortium...

RUSH: Here's a story from Psychology Today. The headline pretty much says it all, but a few more details. "Queer IQ: the Gay Couple's Advantage." The subhead: "Gay relationships are less mired in deception than hetero relationships, perhaps even less prone to friction, according to multiple studies." I'm telling you just what it says here. It's Psychology Today. No, it's a crock of fudge, is what it is. Anyway, it says here, "Most lesbians don't fear rapacious women and gay men need not always...

RUSH: I've often told you of a philosophy that was explained to me by a good friend of mine when I lived in Sacramento, B. T. Collins, a Vietnam vet who sadly has passed away, but he wrote a letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee one day.This was when I guess the Contra wars were going on, or something was going on, and he was frustrated at all the leftist limp-wristed philosophies he was reading in letters to the editor. So he wrote one himself and basically said, "You people need to understand...

RUSH: Mark in Orlando, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hello. Mega dittos, Mr. Rush Limbaugh. How are you? RUSH: Thank you, sir. I couldn't be better, sir, thank you.CALLER: I'm looking for your expert review on The Sopranos airing last night. I really haven't heard you talk too much about it, and if you have some advance screenings like you did with "24" and what's your take on the season?RUSH: Well, I didn't get any advanced screenings of The Sopranos. Some TV critics did....

RUSH: I have three words for you people: "Dubai Ports Deal." Do you remember the conniption fit that erupted out there when the Dubai Ports Deal was announced? What was going to happen? Dubai of the United Arab Emirates has a company called Dubai Ports World, and they were going to run six -- not ports, but six -- terminals at various ports in the United States. It was amazing to watch! The Democrats and the Republicans in Washington got into a race to see who could be first to pass legislation...

RUSH: Joseph in Akron, Ohio, let's start on the phones with you today. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Hi. Thanks for having me, Rush.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: Just had a couple quick points. I listened to your interview with the young lady the other day, the young college student, and I gotta say, you have inspired me. I wouldn't say I'm a long-time listener. I've been listening for four or five years now, if you consider that a long time. I'm a 24-year-old college student....

RUSH: Now, about the Iranians calling today National Nuke Day, Stanley Kurtz at National Review Online has an interesting observation about this, and I want to pass this on, because it sort of dovetails with where we are right now in dealing with genuine threats to our own national security. His basic point -- I don't want to read his whole piece here, but his basic point -- is this is the exact reason we went into Iraq, to find and stop the production of weapons of mass destruction. Now, according...

RUSH: A couple of See, I Told You Sos before we get on to the rest of today's program, from American Spectator today, it's www.Spectator.org. It's a piece by Jennifer Rubin. I've mentioned over the course of the many recent broadcast weeks, that we seem now to live not only in a very wimpish and gutless culture, as evidenced by the way the Brits dealt with the Iranians. By the way, don't think that wasn't a big win for the Iranians. The Iranians have announced national nuke day! We may as well...

RUSH: The Dick Cheney interview on Thursday. I remember talking to several of you people after the program, and while you were enthusiastic and excited about some of the things he said, many of you (and you know who you are) called here and asked, "Where was the emotion? Where was the rage? Why wasn't Cheney impassioned about this?" and I asked him, of course, "Does this Pelosi stuff enrage you?" and he was very calm, cool and collected. He's Dick Cheney, and I told you people, "There's going...

RUSH: I got a tremendous amount of very positive e-mail over the discussion we had with Jenny Ballantine, and I want to thank James Taranto, who writes The Best of the Web column for the Wall Street Journal's website. He did two days on Jenny Ballantine, and the first day, after only having heard the sound bite of her question to John Edwards that we played at that town hall meeting last week, he wrote a piece and he reacted much the same way that a lot of people did to her. He thought she was...

We got the peace mug today, folks. I finally got the sample Peace Mug that commemorates my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here it is. Let me zoom in for those of you watching on the Dittocam, and, by the way, welcome to all of you watching on the Dittocam at RushLimbaugh.com. There it is. There's one side of it. That's the peace medal, by the way, that is the Nobel Peace Prize medal presuming that I have already won it. It says "Give Peace a Chance" above the peace medal with my glorious...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"We're more concerned about the future of polar bears than we are our own country.""If you're the Iranians and you take hostage 15 sailors who start confessing within 24 hours, what are you going to learn from it? You're going to learn that nobody in the West is going to stop you from ramping up your nuke arsenal. You also learn that you can play the Western media like a Stradivarius.""I'm not telling you the Islamists are dangerous...

Story #1:Two Americas:Elizabeth EdwardsonHer"Gun-Toting, Rabid, Rabid Republican" Neighbor RUSH:Have you heard the latest about Elizabeth Edwards?This is an AP story, "Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the 'rabid, rabid Republican' who owns property across the street from her Orange County home," the 28,000-square-foot mansion, "and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor. [She] particularly recalls the time neighbor Monty Johnson brought out a gun while chasing...