Do Your Show Prep: Everything Rush reads to prepare for the show.

Some of the topics we're loaded with today: Haley On Romney's "Golden Bullet" || Chevy Volt Pays For Itself In 27 Years || Unemployment Falls To 8.2% || Number Of People Not In Labor Force Rises To Record 88M || NBC Probe Centers On Staffer In Shooting Story Error || Carney: Obama Not Understood Because He Spoke In "Shorthand" Since He Is A Law Professor || Obama: GOP Vision Results In "Poisoning Our Kids"

Food Police Lose Fight Against McDonald's ... Thinking About Buying a Green Car to Save Money? ... Prayers for Santorum's Daughter ... German Solar Companies Failing ... Germany Proposes Very Un-Obama Tax ... Thirty Thousand Expected for Tebow's Easter Sunday Sermon ...

When people trust government -- over their own instincts, with fires blazing -- bad things happen.

RUSH: I've tried to say the reason the unemployment number can go down when they add people to the unemployment rolls is that the universe of jobs is shrinking.  There are fewer jobs against which to compare those out of work, the labor force participation rate.

RUSH: I know the stereotype exists, but fealty to these stereotypes is getting this culture in a whole lot of trouble it doesn't need.

GREGG WILLIAMS:  The little wide receiver, [Kyle Williams] number 10, about his concussion. We need to (expletive/bleeped) put a lick on him right now.  We need to decide whether Crabtree wants to be a fake (expletive/bleeped) prima donna, or he wants to be a tough guy.

RUSH: If Augusta National, for some reason, caves to all this and allows women to become members, how is that gonna help women find work?  How is that going to help lower the price of gasoline?  How is that gonna help the housing market?

RUSH: Let's look at where we are, in terms of the redefinition of progress: 8.2% unemployment is the new 5.2%.  The new norm.  That 8.2% is nothing to be alarmed about.  No emergency here.  And $5-a-gallon gasoline, that's the new $3.

RUSH: The Heritage Foundation in its Morning Bell blog this past week had an interesting post called "Beware the Taxmageddon -- In a mere 271 days, you and your fellow Americans will be hit with a tax [increase] the likes of which this country has never seen."

RUSH: Here they are, the best and brightest, the smartest, the most educated, the most curious -- I'm talking about the media -- and they are the most closeted, closed-minded, sealed off from reality people you will ever meet.  It is breathtakingly true.

RUSH: "The House Natural Resources Committee has now issued a subpoena for documents related to the drilling moratorium..." Well, we know. We don't need no stinkin' subpoena. We don't need no stinkin' documents because we know Obama, and we know liberals.

RUSH: Even the smartest among us, even the most conservative among us, are not immune to the media.

CALLER: I happen to be a pilot, a retired military pilot. I'm very proud of that. I happen to be black. I waited and changed my day-to-day just to speak to you and your audience. This stuff about race has gotta stop.