RUSH: Get this story folks from the UK. "Asking pupils to put their hands up when they think they know the answer to a question in class could make quiet children fall behind, according to government advice." I kid you not! "Researchers have identified a group of youngsters aged between seven and 11 who struggle to keep up with classmates despite doing well in previous years. Ministers published a report advising schools how to help these so-called 'invisible children,' who often try to avoid...

RUSH: The Republican National Committee has been hit big time by a grassroots donors rebellion over the immigration bill. The Republican National Committee has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors. Ralph Hallow has this today in the Washington Times. "Faced with an estimated 40 percent falloff in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update." The national committee yesterday confirmed the firings that took place more than a week...

RUSH: We go to Boston. This is Terrence. Nice to have you with us, sir.CALLER: Rush, I wanted to be nice, and I was pretty disturbed, and I wanted to get your opinion on this.RUSH: Yeah?CALLER: Have you seen the new Lowe's commercial? RUSH: The new Lowe's commercial. I don't think so, but, you know --CALLER: Let me tell you what it is. They got a couple on there, husband and wife, and they're talking to a specialist, this woman, and every time the woman suggests something, the husband says,...

RUSH: Who's next on this program? Gale in Dayton, Ohio, you're next on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Rush.RUSH: Hey.CALLER: I wanted to say what an honor it is to speak with broadcast specialist, the king of AM radio, and even at this time, FM broadcasting.RUSH: Absolutely, there's no question, the king of radio, sir.CALLER: Yes, sir. Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I do have a question for you, and it has to concern with the G8 summit and President Bush and we're dealing...

RUSH: Daniel in Bakersfield, thank you for waiting. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. What a wonderful opportunity to speak to one of my mentors.RUSH: Well, I appreciate that, sir, thank you very much.CALLER: I was calling to ask you what you would do if you were a nobody wanting to market yourself to be a somebody, you know, if you wanted to start a business, how would you market yourself?RUSH: Well, it's tough for me to relate to being a nobody, but let me try....

RUSH: Here's Amy in Fort Eustace, Virginia. Amy, thank you for calling and waiting. Nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Thank you so much for taking my call, Rush. I'm very excited to be talking to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I just wanted to call, first let me tell you a little bit about myself really quick. I grew up an Air Force brat. My father did not retire until I was a freshman in college. Then when I was 20, I married a man who had just finished up flight school in the Army,...

RUSH: We go to Boston. This is Terrence. Nice to have you with us, sir.CALLER: Rush, I wanted to be nice, and I was pretty disturbed, and I wanted to get your opinion on this.RUSH: Yeah?CALLER: Have you seen the new Lowe's commercial? RUSH: The new Lowe's commercial. I don't think so, but, you know --CALLER: Let me tell you what it is. They got a couple on there, husband and wife, and they're talking to a specialist, this woman, and every time the woman suggests something, the husband says,...

RUSH: This is Joanna. Is it Jo-anna or Jo-ahna.CALLER: It's Joanna.RUSH: Joanna. She's in Steubenville, Ohio. It's your turn on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Rush it's great to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: It's the second time I ever talked to you in my lifetime and I've listened a long time, and I appreciate all of your thoughts, and I want your thoughts on this thing that has my husband and I troubled. The other night -- well, not "troubled," but confused.RUSH: Disturbed. A little...

RUSH: Craig in Richmond, Virginia, welcome to the program.CALLER: (Unintelligible)RUSH: What?CALLER: Hello?RUSH: What? Yes? What did you say? Tomato?CALLER: No! No! I said, "Rushbo."RUSH: Rushbo.CALLER: Rushbo.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir, great to have you with us.CALLER: Yes. Black conservative dittos to you, my friend. You're a real inspiration and it is a real honor to speak to you.RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.CALLER: My comment is: no more nice guys in the White...

RUSH: Judy in Tampa, you're next on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Great to talk to you. I'm a big fan.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: But I kind of did a double-take. I don't know if it was this week or last week when you were talking about preschool, universal preschool initiative that I think Hillary was pushing?RUSH: Yeah, yeah.CALLER: And that it was indoctrination, and that may be the case with the universal model, but I think you also said it was like baby-sitting, and preschool, there's...

RUSH: Jeff in Indianapolis, you're next as we go back to the phones. Hello.CALLER: Great to talk to you, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: I have to share a story with you, and I know you as professor of the institute for conservative studies, I'm yet just a student. I had a conversation with my mother this past weekend which we used to get into some heated political debates, and I learned something about liberals this week, and I know you know them very well. But we progressed from...

RUSH: The Republican National Committee has been hit big time by a grassroots donors rebellion over the immigration bill. The Republican National Committee has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors. Ralph Hallow has this today in the Washington Times. "Faced with an estimated 40 percent falloff in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update." The national committee yesterday confirmed the firings that took place more than a week...

RUSH: Mickey Kaus on Slate.com. Headline: "Hillary, Eavesdropper?" Page 93 of the unreleased Gerth-Van Natta Hillary Clinton book has quite a bombshell, Kaus writes. Hillary "listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack. The tape contained discussions of another woman who might surface with allegations about an affair with Bill. Bill's supporters monitored frequencies used by cell phones, and the tape was made during one of those...

RUSH: Here's Tim in Hillsborough, Oregon. Great to have you with us, sir.CALLER: Good morning, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: I just wanted to tell you, "You rock, man."RUSH: Thanks!CALLER: You know, up until 9/11, I did not give a rip about politics or any of that stuff. I thought you were just this bombastic big voice, you know?RUSH: Well, I am.CALLER: Well, I know.RUSH: I have a big voice and I am bombastic.CALLER: I didn't care. I just thought you were a jerk because I never listened to you,...

RUSH: You know, I just got nabbed here, folks. I had on my computer screen a DVD of the upcoming opening sketch for Sunday night's 1/2 Hour News Hour, the one I taped in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago, and forgot it was up there, just left it up. I checked the e-mail during the break, "Rush, are you sitting there with a couple of naked women? You have pictures of naked women on your computer?" No, they're not naked. They're scantily clad. I've taken the picture down. I understand that this...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites. This is funny. We have one, two, three, four, five of them here from Hardball last night. Chris Matthews, the topic, Rush vs. Bush. He had one of the executives from Dead Air America on there and a former Bush 41 advisor, Ed Rogers. This is how Matthews opened the program last night.MATTHEWS: So why is a conservative president giving the popular Limbaugh the bum's rush? That's what Rush Limbaugh himself would like to know. But Bush's assault on his...

RUSH: Get this story folks from the UK. "Asking pupils to put their hands up when they think they know the answer to a question in class could make quiet children fall behind, according to government advice." I kid you not! "Researchers have identified a group of youngsters aged between seven and 11 who struggle to keep up with classmates despite doing well in previous years. Ministers published a report advising schools how to help these so-called 'invisible children,' who often try to avoid...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The last real man in a television commercial I can remember is Mr. Clean. And what did he do? He cleaned the floor." "I had on my computer screen a DVD of the upcoming opening sketch for Sunday night's 1/2 Hour News Hour, and I checked the e-mail during the break: 'Rush, are you sitting there with pictures of naked women on your computer?' No, they're not naked -- they're scantily clad.""I think we need to come up with a new...

Story #1: Sunni Iraqis Turn on Al-Qaeda RUSH: We keep seeing more and more of these types of stories; the Washington Post has it today: "Sunni Insurgents Battle in Baghdad. Residents of western neighborhood join group's fight against Al-Qaeda in Iraq." Al-Qaeda, in this story, gets its own roadside bomb. "Problems arose on Tuesday when the Islamic army, a powerful Sunni insurgent group posted a statement in a local mosque criticizing Al-Qaeda in Iraq for killing dozens of other Sunnis in Fallujah...