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Tweet During the past week, whenever I found myself alone in the car during good drive-time talk radio (i.e., Rush), I did something unusual:  I didn’t listen.  Instead, I turned to mindless pop music.  I was thinking about this peculiar behavior on my part, because I truly love Rush.  I think he’s a radio genius, [...]

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Tweet There’s a new movie out called Premium Rush.  It has something to do with a bike messenger who finds himself trying to stay one step ahead of a dirty cop.  I can’t comment on the movie, not having seen it.  However, every time I hear the title, I get a little subliminal “ding” in [...]

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Tweet A month ago, I reviewed Tom Grace’s excellent book, The Liberty Intrigue, which is a very rare animal indeed — a political polemic that isn’t didactic or boring.  I also got the opportunity to send Tom a list of questions about his book.  They’re not very good questions (I’ll never make it as a [...]

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Tweet I always love it when Leftist idiocy highlights some sort of life lesson I just imparted to young people.  Today’s life lesson is that fairness should be a reasonably objective standard, rather than one that, as Bill Maher would have it, depends on whether you, personally, are benefiting from the standard imposed. Back in [...]

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Tweet Gloria Allred is demanding that Rush face criminal prosecution for calling Sandra Fluke a slut: In a letter dated March 8, Allred, writing on behalf of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, requested that Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe probe whether the conservative radio personality had violated Section 836.04 [...]

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Tweet One of the nicest perks about having a slightly well-known blog is the fact that authors and publishers occasionally ask me to review a book.  In this way, I get the opportunity to read books that I otherwise wouldn’t even know exist.  My approach to book reviews is simple:  If I enjoy the book, [...]

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Tweet Many, many have written on this, but I like Keith Koffler’s summation the best, as I think he does a remarkably good getting to the core point about the latest twist in Fast and Furious.  He also manages to highlight why I like Rush:  Rush is not afraid to identify and accurately predict the [...]

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Tweet Rush let ‘er rip against the media this morning regarding its utter failure to investigate any aspect of Obama’s life, even as it subjects Republican candidates to the most invasive investigations and demeaning tactics imaginable.   It’s a long riff, but every bit of it is interesting, and you’ll probably be nodding your head and [...]

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Tweet I caught literally two minutes of Rush this morning, but I heard him say something very important, which I’ll summarize here to the best of my abilities:  Herman Cain succeeded in Florida because he’s the only Republican primary candidate relentlessly attacking Obama.  The others are so busy with their internecine warfare that they’ve dropped [...]

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Tweet I love the old Lerner and Lowe song: What a day this has been, What a rare mood I’m in, Why, it’s almost like being in love…. As I get older, though, the song has become somewhat bittersweet. One of the shames about growing older is that emotions don’t feel as strong. It’s nice [...]

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Tweet If you’d been around in 1894, you would instantly have recognized the name “Svengali.”  He was the chief villain in George du Maurier’s blockbuster novel Trilby. The Svengali plot-line was a simple one:  Trilby was an innocent (and tone deaf) laundress and model living in fin de siecle Paris.  Svengali hypnotized her into bec0ming [...]

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Tweet Rush was taken to a Honolulu hospital in serious condition with chest pains.  I hope it’s nothing more than angina or indigestion.  He is a national treasure, something that becomes especially obvious when he has guest hosts sitting in, as he does now, during the holiday season.  No matter how good they are, they’re [...]

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Tweet Last week, I commented on Thomas Frank’s weird defense of Obama’s attack on the media.  Basically, Frank’s whole defense was that Nixon was worse. I don’t know about you, but to say “my guy isn’t as bad as the guy I, a liberal, consider the worst, most paranoid president ever,” doesn’t strike me as [...]

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Tweet You’ve already heard about the fact that, in order to block any chance of Rush having an ownership interest in an NFL team, liberal talking heads (including Al Sharpton) and the MSM attributed manifestly false quotations to Rush, in order to accuse him of being a grotesque racist.  However, before visiting PowerLine, I hadn’t [...]

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Tweet In a comment I left at an American Thinker article regarding the administration’s attacks on Rush, I noted that, based on my pre-conversion history, those who hate Rush the most have probably never listened to him.  Instead, they base their hatred on what they are told about him.  My hope was that, with Rush [...]

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Tweet Thought to be extinct, Marinicus Republicanus is emerging from its long dormancy and beginning to make itself known.  Tonight, I attended an enthusiastic rally of at least 100 people crammed shoulder to shoulder in a beautiful home in Marin. People were informed, excited, and refused to be intimidated by the polls. Melanie Morgan, former [...]

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Tweet Because Zev Chafets wrote it, I was reasonably sure the profile of Rush in the NYT Magazine would not be a hit piece, and I was right.  Read it and enjoy getting a little closer to the great El Rushbo.  By the way, I particularly liked this little bit from the article, which puts [...]

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