RUSH: This is a Pew survey: "Only about half of Americans (49%) now say they think that maintaining military strength is the best way to ensure peace -- the lowest percentage in the 20-year history of Pew values surveys and down sharply from the 62% who said so in the summer of 2002, less than a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." So less than half of us think that the best way to ensure peace is through military strength. In other words, the majority do not think that military strength...

RUSH: This is a Pew survey: "Only about half of Americans (49%) now say they think that maintaining military strength is the best way to ensure peace -- the lowest percentage in the 20-year history of Pew values surveys and down sharply from the 62% who said so in the summer of 2002, less than a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." So less than half of us think that the best way to ensure peace is through military strength. In other words, the majority do not think that military strength...

RUSH: Deuce, Jefferson City, Missouri, the state capital, welcome to the program, sir.CALLER: Yeah. I'm calling in about an article in the paper that said that Senator Clinton, if elected, would appoint Bill Clinton the ambassador of goodwill.RUSH: That would be a roving ambassador of goodwill.CALLER: Yeah, roving ambassador.RUSH: I'm sorry: roaming ambassador of goodwill, right.CALLER: Yeah, and he would be going around the world to all these women's auxiliaries. The only thing they could...

RUSH: Yesterday I asked -- when the minimum wage went up 70 cents, first time in ten years, hubba hubba -- "Where are the parties out there?" IOt turns out there was a party. There was a minimum wage increase celebration at Upper Senate Park. Here is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.PELOSI: This is a day that signals chang, because people who went to work this morning, who went to work every day to provide for their families, today will have their work rewarded more fully.RUSH: Really? Okay,...

RUSH: I don't know if you were hearing about this, but Hillary and Obama are starting to take swipes at each other, ladies and gentlemen. In fact, Obama showed up in New York yesterday at the TimeWarner building. Richard Parsons, the CEO, had about 250 in there to listen to Obama, and apparently they were all dazzled! It was off the record, so nobody is reporting, even though there are a bunch of journalists in there. I'm told Barbara Walters fell asleep for part of it, but there were a whole...

RUSH: Okay. Let's revisit the CNN YouTube debate. The ratings have been released for the debate on Monday night, and about two and a half million total viewers, 831,000 viewers in the 25 to 54 demographic. I pronounced the attempt a total failure, based on those numbers. Two and a half million people watching the Democrat debate. You know what's going to happen? I'll make you a prediction. Before this is all said and done, the Democrats are going to end up on Fox, because if they don't,...

RUSH: We're going to Detroit. This is Lisa. Lisa, welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Oh, Rush. I'm a relatively new listener. How are you?RUSH: I'm fine. Thank you. Welcome to our program.CALLER: Good. Good. I just wanted to let you know -- and maybe you can help me out with this -- I called Dick Durbin's office this morning, an issue when immigration was going on about the Fairness Doctrine being pulled back in. I was speaking to one of his aides, the man who answered the phone, and...

"A Senate panel is nearing a vote on a proposal to put tobacco under Food and Drug Administration regulation despite objections that such a move would only entrench the market position of the nation's No. 1 tobacco company. The bill, which was expected to be approved Wednesday by the Senate health committee and is identical to House legislation, would give the FDA the same authority over cigarettes and other tobacco products that the regulatory agency now has over drugs, food, medical devices and...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we face a serious problem out there, a new crisis, and we need your help. The country is facing at this moment a dangerous shortage. You know, I try to be optimistic, but that doesn't mean I abandon reality. We face a scarcity that is slowing don't even your government. It is driving up costs, and it is threatening our federal budget -- and the shortage that I refer to is of subpoena forms. The problem has been traced to Washington, DC. New Congress has apparently...

RUSH: They've revised downward the hurricane predictions. If you look, we're in a flat line. We haven't had one storm. My friend Roy Spencer has a website, it's a little color bar graph that he tracks the worst hurricane seasons, 1931, I think it is, 2005 was Katrina. I think 2004. These are the three years. I don't have it right in front of me. Then he's got 2007 to track the hurricanes as they happen. So you can see by this time in the horrible seasons, there have already been a bunch of...

RUSH: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, lets get serious here about something for just a second, because there's a news story involving Arlen Specter today that is just outrageous to me. But before we get to that, there's some other things. Russ Feingold went on Meet the Press over the weekend and said, "We're going to censure the president. We're going to censure the president." I think the president ought to censure Feingold. I think it's time to take the gloves off here. Congress cannot censure...

RUSH: This is a Pew survey: "Only about half of Americans (49%) now say they think that maintaining military strength is the best way to ensure peace -- the lowest percentage in the 20-year history of Pew values surveys and down sharply from the 62% who said so in the summer of 2002, less than a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." So less than half of us think that the best way to ensure peace is through military strength. In other words, the majority do not think that military strength...

RUSH: As you people know, I constantly try to focus on positive aspects of life because we're so inundated daily by the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party with pessimism and doom and gloom. There is a column today. John Stossel has it at RealClearPolitics.com. "Good News: The World Gets Better." You know, one of my themes is that we've never had it better as human beings in this country than we have it today, and every day in America is better than the day before. Yet people become obsessed...

RUSH: How about Elizabeth Edwards? Have you heard about this? Elizabeth Edwards says she's not going to buy tangerines anymore. She said that it's too big a carbon footprint. There aren't any tangerines in North Carolina where she lives, and so if she buys tangerines, her carbon footprint is going up because they have to be shipped in using fossil fuels to get them to the market in North Carolina. Mrs. Edwards said, "'We've been moving back to "buy local,"' Mrs. Edwards said, outlining a trade...

RUSH: I've been traveling around this summer, I've been up in the Northeast. It's been cold up there. Every time I've been up there it's been cold, and this week up in New York and Connecticut and so forth, 70 degrees for high temperatures and people going to bed at night wear long sleeve jammies and this sort of stuff. It's so cold you can't eat outside up there. That's the second time this summer that's happened. I've also noticed it's not been that hot down there. Everybody gives me grief...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The Prius is a status symbol for aging hippies who want to tell everybody: I care. What are you doing?'""Elizabeth Edwards says she's not going to buy tangerines anymore because they have to be shipped in using fossil fuels to get them to the market in North Carolina.Excellent point, Mr. Snerdley. Where is the toilet paper plant in North Carolina? Is there one?""The new Congress has apparently issued every subpoena that there...

Story #1: Anger Management Teacher Attacks WifeRUSH: This from Gary Indiana, not far from Chicago: "An anger management instructor is charged with domestic battery after his wife accused him of grabbing and beating her during an argument." Ha! I'm not laughing because of what he did, just that an anger management guy loses his temper. "Reverend Robert Nichols has taught anger management classes for defendants in Gary City Court for several years. His contract has been suspended while the charge...