RUSH: Tim in McAllen, Texas. Hello, sir. Thanks for waiting. You are on Open Line Friday.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'm a Rush Baby. I'm 17 years old. I listen to you when I can, usually just during the summers.RUSH: I appreciate that. Thank you. You said you're 17?CALLER: Yes, sir.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Yes. I've been listening to you since I was small. I love your show. Anyway, I'm calling you today, Rush, because my father -- who my mom and I kid around and call him a closet liberal --...

RUSH: I have to say to anybody from the Fred Thompson campaign listening out there: I have to correct something that appeared yesterday in an article at the National Ledger: "Fred Thompson Slammed by AP: 'Style over Substance' -- Fred Thompson must have someone very nervous. An Associated Press hit piece borrows a phrase from conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and claims that Fred Thompson is all style and no substance. The lede: 'Fred Thompson's easygoing, no-nonsense style is clearly...

RUSH: So I just took a look out the north windows of the EIB Southern Command, because I checked the weather radar before I did that, and no rain here, but the sky is pretty dark up there in the north, and I'll sitting there, and I'm looking at bolts of lightning. Now, I have not mentioned this because I'm not a whiner and a moaner, and I'm not whining and moaning now. But Monday night of this week, about seven o'clock, one of the biggest boomers that I can recall sitting through went through...

RUSH: Orange County, California, this is Jim on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Yes, good morning, Rush.RUSH: Hi. CALLER: Dittos from Laguna Beach, California.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I have an interesting comment or a question. I'll pose it this way. In your article on the global warming issue in Greenland, those bores that they made through the ice to reach the mud where all of the spiders and the --RUSH: Right, the DNA was.CALLER: The DNA, did they say how deep those holes were?RUSH:...

RUSH: Ann Marie in Largo, Florida, hi, Ann Marie, welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush, it's an other than to talk to you, been listening to you since the cradle. I'm 23 years old, and my question to you is: Why can't we buy Mexico? I'm sure there's some sort of reason, maybe financial or something, but it would be easier to control the Panama Canal than the entire Mexican border. RUSH: (Laughing.)CALLER: (Giggles.) I'm half joking of course, but --RUSH: No, you're half joking but in...

RUSH: I want to talk for a minute about the latest tape from Al-Qaeda, because if we lived in a sane political environment, that tape, that message from Ayman al-Zawahiri would put the final nail in the coffin of the Democrat Party. Now, I have an AP story about this. He's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and here's how this story starts: "A new video by Al-Qaeda's deputy leader left no doubt about what the terror network claims is at stake in Iraq, describing it as a centerpiece of its anti-American...

RUSH: Here's an AP story: "Few Confident of Border Security -- The public has little faith that the government is accurately screening visitors to the country, or could cope with an outbreak of an infectious disease, according to an AP/Ipsos poll. Only one in five surveyed said the government is doing enough to scrutinize people crossing the border into the US, according to the poll. Just two in five expressed confidence that the government is ready for an epidemic." Now, why do you think that...

RUSH: Peter in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, you're next on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Hello, Rush.RUSH: Hey.CALLER: How you doing?RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.CALLER: Second-time caller dittos.RUSH: I appreciate that.CALLER: Yes, I have a question for you. You kept saying these past few weeks that the Democrats are sewing the seeds for their eventual landslide defeat.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: Now, in layman's terms or as you say in "for those of you in Rio Linda," that means they are going to...

RUSH: Carrie in Athens, Georgia. Welcome to the EIB Network, Carrie.CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, I wanted to get your impression of the new British prime minister, and if you believe he's the new Neville Chamberlain.RUSH: It's too soon for that, but I think the guy's on the road. I just say he's paralyzed by political correctness. He is a man that's obviously governing the country every day from the standpoint of fear. I mean, when you have all these doctors that are Islamists, militant Islamists,...

RUSH: "The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)," this is from the NRA website, by the way, "has proposed new rules that would have a dramatic effect on the storage and transportation of ammunition and handloading components such as primers or black and smokeless powder. The proposed rule indiscriminately treats ammunition, powder and primers as 'explosives.' Among many other provisions, the proposed rule would: 'Prohibit possession of firearms in commercial 'facilities containing...

RUSH: This temperature business, 118 here and 116 there, yip yip! I remember when I lived in Sacramento in the eighties (I was there from 1984 to 1987), in July and August it wasn't unusual for temperatures there to hit 115 with low humidity, sometimes as high as 120, you know, a day or two of it, but at night it got down to 55 or 60. It was incredible. It's a valley out there, and while it was 115 in Sacramento, it would be 65, 56 in San Francisco, just 90 miles away. It's normal. It's summertime....

RUSH: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former finance director," a guy named David Rosen, "has been indicted on charges of filing fictitious reports that misstated contributions for a Hollywood fund-raising gala for the senator, the Justice Department said Friday. The indictment, rare for a political campaign, was unsealed in Los Angeles charging David Rosen with four counts of filing false reports with the Federal Election Commission. The charges focus on an Aug. 12, 2000, dinner and concert supported...

RUSH: It's time now, folks, for another installment in the monthly "Better Than Expected" series from the Drive-By Media. This time, it's job growth. Headline from Jeannine Aversa, AP economics writer: "Job Growth Is Better-Than-Expected." What is this, the sixth or seventh straight month where all the experts have been stunned by economic news? "Employers boosted payrolls by a better than expected 132,000 jobs in June, enough to keep the unemployment rate at a relatively low..." Relatively...

RUSH: Our iPhone winner today is Norman G. of Osseo, Minnesota. That's right outside Minneapolis. He thus listens to the EIB Network on KTLK FM 100.3. This is the third of ten iPhones that we are graciously giving away. We've got seven more to go. We'll start on Monday when we come back. Again, it's easy for you to enter to win. Let me tell you what he's going to get, first off, just to remind you. He's going to get the iPhone and also a check from us for approximately $1500, because the iPhone...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If we lived in a sane political environment, that tape from Ayman al-Zawahiri would put the final nail in the coffin of the Democrat Party.""Tim, you need to speak to your dad in ways that he can relate to and understand. You tell him that the people that made the SUV made it to help other people. Tell him not to abort the SUV --the SUV deserves to have a parent." "My question is: How does this happen in a happy and loving gay...

Story #1: It's Terrorist Surveillance, Not Domestic SpyingRUSH: "A federal appeals court today ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program..." It wasn't a domestic spying program! "The two-to-one ruling by the sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals panel was not on the legality of the program itself. What the ruling did was vacate an order by a lower court in Detroit last August that the post-9/11 warrantless surveillance aimed at uncovering terrorist activity...