RUSH: Human Events, a piece here by John Gizzi: "The speaker of the House made it clear to me and more than forty of my colleagues yesterday that a bill by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) to outlaw the 'Fairness Doctrine' would not see the light of day in Congress during ’08. In ruling out a vote on Pence's proposed Broadcaster's Freedom Act, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also signaled her strong support for revival of the 'Fairness Doctrine' -- which would require radio station owners to provide equal...

RUSH: Ralph Nader, this is Monday in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News newspaper.NADER: There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate: He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos, payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white,...

RUSH: This is Nina. Nina is one of my all-time favorite, top-ten female names. Nina is in Youngstown, Ohio. Nice to have you, Nina.CALLER: Hi, Rush. My name is Nina, like you said, and I want to tell you something, okay?RUSH: Yeah?CALLER: I'm not here to argue with you, but I am going to tell you: I'm 39 years old, and I'm half European and half American.RUSH: What part of Europe?CALLER: Um, Greek-Italian.RUSH: Greek-Italian.CALLER: Yes. So I lived 20 years in Europe. I lived four years...

RUSH: Human Events, a piece here by John Gizzi: "The speaker of the House made it clear to me and more than forty of my colleagues yesterday that a bill by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) to outlaw the 'Fairness Doctrine' would not see the light of day in Congress during ’08. In ruling out a vote on Pence's proposed Broadcaster's Freedom Act, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also signaled her strong support for revival of the 'Fairness Doctrine' -- which would require radio station owners to provide equal...

RUSH: Tony in Palm Harbor, Florida, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Rush, how you doing, man?RUSH: Fine, sir.CALLER: I just wanted to ask you to please back off on John McCain a little bit simply because the judicial system is at stake. We can't afford Barack Obama and his Marxist friends appointing judges to the Supreme Court. It will be a Marxist judicial tyranny, a Marxist dictatorship from the bench, man. They'll overturn results of elections. They won't respect...

RUSH: I know who's driving up fuel prices, and it's not speculators, and it's not Big Oil, and it's not OPEC. Folks, there's one group of people that's very happy about these prices being high. Do you know who they are? The American left, the Democrat Party. They're very happy about this. And their candidate, Obama, doesn't have any interest in lowering these prices. Anything that comes up, any suggestion that's made, "Ah, that won't work soon enough. The gas tax suspension? No, no, no, no....

RUSH: If you have time, take a gander at just a roster of news stories on any site. Look at Drudge, if you find the AP page, look at the AP page, or any of them, and look at how many stories are not about what's happening, but on what might happen, from global warming, to 25% of the world's oil under the North Pole, to what Hugo Chavez might do, to what Cuba might do. Everything is speculation, 90% of it is speculation. None of it is news. None of it is what is happening. It's all polls. McCain...

RUSH: "Republican John McCain said Tuesday the federal government should practice the energy efficiency he preaches, pledging as president to switch official vehicles to green technologies and do the same for office buildings." Who is it that's going to be Jimmy Carter's second term, is it going to be Obama or McCain? I thought it was going to be Obama. "Expanding upon his ideas to address the nation's energy crisis, the Arizona senator also called for a redesign of the national power grid so...

RUSH: "Despite persistently high oil prices, global energy demand will grow by 50 percent over the next two decades with continued heavy reliance on environmentally troublesome fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, [according to] the Energy Department's statistical agency that said that without mandatory actions to address global warming, the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide flowing into the atmosphere," blah, blah, blah. The bottom line is this: "Despite persistently high oil prices, global...

RUSH: The Supreme Court will finish tomorrow, and they'll hand down all their remaining decisions. The big one that came down today, two of them, they reduced the punitive award on Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but they also overturned a Louisiana law saying that child rape, child rapists could be convicted and executed. They overturned this law. It came out just this morning. So it appears that the US Supreme Court can find anything it wants in the Eighth Amendment here, cruel, unusual...

Rush's Morning Update: Oil and FoodJune 26, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Hey, lookie here! According to a new report from the Energy Department, the global demand for energy will rise dramatically over the next 20 years. Despite all the hoopla about biofuels and alternative energy the report says: "Fossil fuels are expected to continue to supply much of the energy used worldwide."Of course, my friends! I've been saying...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Barack's gang want you crawling to them to fix gas prices. They want you upset with capitalism and big business, and demanding more government.""Virtually everything involving your freedom: your automobile, your ability to move around, go where you want, when you want, is under assault on the basis that you doing so are destroying the planet.""There's one group of people standing in the way of the increasing supply of energy. I...

Story #1: Pro-Amnesty Cannon Ousted in GOP PrimaryRUSH: Out in Utah, Chris Cannon is gone. Chris Cannon, a conservative member -- well, was a conservative member of the House -- tossed out in a Republican primary 60-40, conservatives at the state level, district level, heard loud and clear. Chris Cannon was one of these amnesty and open borders guys and when they got the chance, it's sayonara, pal, adios, see ya Tijuana. So Chris Cannon is gone. "Immigration was the driving factor behind Cannon’s...