RUSH: Montgomery County, Maryland, this is Sean. Sean, I'm glad you waited, welcome to the program.CALLER: Good afternoon, Maha Rushie. I'm updating a story you just mentioned a few minutes ago. In Montgomery County, Maryland, where I reside; our school board last night provided emergency powers to our superintendent to increase the walking distance kids will have to walk before they qualify for bus service. My high school freshman will be one of the first victims from us not drilling here,...

RUSH: Audio sound bite time, Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, was on KTVA channel 11 last night responding to Democrats drilling in ANWR.PALIN: I want to make sure that we're not just talking about the need to develop, to ramp up development, offshore and in ANWR, but we're asking them now, "What's your plan? If not domestic supplies being tapped into with offshore and with ANWR, then, Congress, what is your plan?"RUSH: Amen! Here is a female Republican who is willing to gut it up. She sent...

RUSH: Here's Cameron in San Antonio. Cameron, are you there, sir?CALLER: Hello?RUSH: Cameron, are you there, sir?CALLER: Yes, sir, I am.RUSH: Thank you. Appreciate your holding on.CALLER: Yeah, you betcha. It's been less than two hours.RUSH: Well... (laughing)CALLER: The reason I'm calling --RUSH: There's a price for everything.CALLER: I've been listening to you for well over 20 years, okay? Way before you went national, from when you were still in California.RUSH: Wow.CALLER: I never...

RUSH: This next story, and, by the way, it's from the Associated Press. Yes, my friends, the Associated Press, the last remaining Drive-By Media monopoly and the headline: "Strained States to Make Cuts Felt by Everyone." This is another story of widespread gloom, widespread pain. It is by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, I'm sure a doctorate in Drive-By Media-ism, working for the Associated Press, which is out to pollute as many innocent Americans' minds as possible. "With a new fiscal year beginning in...

RUSH: Programming note here, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sure many of you have heard the names Melanie Morgan and Michelle Malkin, and they have a website that is called Move America Forward, it's actually an organization and a movement. They have a website called MoveAmericaForward.org and they've got a giant telethon planned all day Thursday. The objective of the telethon is to provide the largest care package ever of items of interest to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Melanie sent...

RUSH: Tim in Robbinsville, Minnesota, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: I wanted to comment real quick on James Hansen's little harebrained idea. I think it could be the absolute best thing to possibly happen. It's obviously a defensive response to what's been happening to their claim. I mean, if you look at what's going on over in Europe they had a poll that came out a couple weeks ago that showed that about two-thirds of people...

RUSH: George Carlin passed away the other day in Santa Monica, California. A lot of people think of George Carlin as a wacko liberal satirist, controversialist or what have you, and on occasion he was. But he really skewered everything, and when it comes to the environmental left, George Carlin was one of us. We have some sound bites to illustrate this from Carlin appearances over the years.CARLIN: Let me tell you about endangered species, all right? Saving endangered species is just one more...

RUSH: Chad in Spring Creek, Nevada. Hi, Chad, welcome to the program.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Hey, I'm 26 years old, I pay attention to news, you know, pretty attentively, and I hate to be the doom-and-gloom type, but it just seems like the way we're going is trouble, and I wanted to tell you what I think is going to happen in the next six months or maybe the next couple years, and then I wanted to know what you think. You know, the politicians have sold us out. I believe that Obama's going...

RUSH: There's PMSNBC, DNCTV now running a little bit on Charlie Black, who is, you know, big-time, old-line Republican guy, he's worked with every president there is. Charlie Black is Mr. Republican, good or bad, he's Charlie Black. I met him a couple times, nice guy, and now we've got PMSNBC running a little story on Charlie Black, "Politics of Fear." Politics of fear? What did Charlie Black say? Here's a classic illustration of how political correctness is shutting down free and open expression...

RUSH: Let's go straight to the audio sound bites. The arrows are once again focused on Don Imus, who is now doing his morning program on our 50,000-watt flagship in New York, WABC AM 77. This was yesterday on Imus' show talking to Warner Wolf, the sports guy, talking about Adam "Pacman" Jones now with the Dallas Cowboys drafted by the Tennessee Titans. He's had some scrapes with the law out in Las Vegas, most notably during the NBA All-Star weekend a couple years ago, and Warner Wolf is explaining...

Rush's Morning Update: Bear ItJune 25, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Not long ago, I told you about a lawsuit filed by environmentalist wackos claiming polar bears will "stress out" if oil drilling is allowed in the Arctic. Well, the beloved AP rehashed the story this week blaming Bush for allowing Big Oil to harass and "annoy" these poor bears. But the silliness doesn't stop there. At Washington D.C.'s National Park,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"You try living your day without oil, and find out all the ways you'll be impoverished.""The Republicans are a bunch of cowards. They're not even willing to criticize Obama, much less get into race.""Obama winning the White House doesn't mean that Race, Incorporated can go away. It's going to be needed more than ever. Obama's throwing down the race card straight out of the cliched liberal left-wing handbook.""Here we are in the...

Story #1: Cleaning Girlfriend Throws Out Limbaugh Letters RUSH: Now, I mentioned right before the end of the previous hour that I got this e-mail from this guy. His name is Ray Paddock, and he's a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com. "Dear Rush, I hope you can help me here. My girlfriend did me a favor and cleaned my house," which gave me pause. How many of those types of girlfriends are there anymore? She "did me a favor and cleaned my house." He then said, "I had the latest issue of your newsletter...