Mark Belling of News/Talk 1130 WISN-AM in Milwaukee filled in for Rush on Tuesday. Rush Returns to the Golden EIB Microphone on Monday, July 13th.

"Are we a bunch of wimps? Do we have what it takes 
to fight the battle to save our country?" -- Mark Belling

• NYT: Helicopter Crash Adds to Deadly Day in Afghanistan
• UPI: Northern Routes Open for Afghan Surge

"I do fear that because of the terrain in Afghanistan that 
this could become Obama's Vietnam." -- Mark Belling

"Wealth creates the ability to make jobs. Wealth creates the ability to donate money.  Wealth creates the ability to outsource work to foreign countries whose workers have low quality of life." -- Mark Belling

• AP: It May Take an Act of Congress for BCS Playoff

"Congress loves to deal with the little stuff. They love pork barrel projects to bring back some bridge or stupid building that they can stand in front of and cut the ribbon. They especially like it if they can name the buildings or projects or bills after themselves." -- Mark Belling 

• NRO: I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin • BBC: Sarah Palin Still Coy on Future • WT: Sarah Agonistes

"Conservatives are playing by a set of rules the liberals have long since abandoned." -- Mark Belling

• JP: ''No US Green Light for Attacking Iran''

"Have we been beaten back by an opposition that's willing to 
play by rules we don't have the guts to play by?" -- Mark Belling

• WSJ: White House Presses Cap and Trade to Senate

"Cap and trade is a massive tax that will kill the American economy." -- Mark Belling

• Politico: Senate Begins Hearings to Shape Climate Bill
• TO: Al Gore Invokes Spirit of Churchill in Battle Against Climate Change

"The premise for cap and trade is false. You can't accuse critics of overstating things when you realize what's in the legislation.  The more people find out about cap and trade, the more they are appalled." -- Mark Belling

• NYT: Pope Urges New World Economic Order

"The problem that I see here in the Pope's encyclical is that he presumes that you can somehow uplift the entire world but do so without any cost or ramification elsewhere." -- Mark Belling  

• AN: Pope: Encyclical, Even Globalization in Need of a Soul