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Two and a half days later and Rush Limbaugh‘s absence from the airwaves continues to haunt.  I tried calculating how many hours I listened to him over the years, and couldn’t do it.  From summer of 1992 until I started college at Elon three years, I was listening to him at least nine hours a week.  In the past few years I sort-of rediscovered him and listened as much as possible.  There was none like him before, nobody compared when he was with us, and it is doubtful that anyone will ever really succeed him.

It wasn’t just his brilliant commentary, it was also the hysterically funny comedy that was a huge part of Limbaugh’s show.  Especially the song parodies.  Most of them came courtesy of a chap named Paul Shanklin.  There were a few others also.  I remember one guy who was in the Bay Area.  Another was ...

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 The very sad word broke a little while ago that Rush Limbaugh passed away earlier today.

I learned more from listening to his show, especially in my late teens and early twenties, than from a lot of other things put together.

Going to forever treasure the audio cassette of when I called into his show in December 1993.  I was nineteen.  I started off the call saying hey to my coworkers at Libby Hill Seafood in Reidsville.  For the next week and a half people kept coming into the place wanting to meet the guy who talked with Rush.

That’s my own little anecdote about the life of Rush Hudson Limbaugh III.

I did not agree with him on everything.  Indeed, at times I posted some very harsh things about the man.  He was often too much of a partisan (dare I say even a “hack”?  Or might that be ...

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A high-tech, glorified pissing match between the Democrats and Republicans.

Some people have written to me asking why I’m not doing much political commentary anymore. To be honest: it’s become a very boring thing to me. I’d rather devote time to considering and then articulating about real ideas, not empty ideology.

And maybe also it’s because I cannot help but on some level have already written of America as a lost cause, if she must be dependent upon people like Dick Cheney and Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh and Nancy Pelosi.

These people and many more have completely forgotten what it means to serve others. They actually believe that because something so eternally vapid as their political parties have given them a measure of power, that it means that God Himself has somehow anointed them over all others.

I’m not here to cheer on any among the morally ...

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What is going on in recent days with the Republican Party and its adherents who still proclaim to be “conservative” reminds me terribly of the events of John Carpenter’s The Thing. The men of Antarctic base Outpost 31 in that movie grow increasingly paranoid, even violent toward each other. As Wilford Brimley’s character tells MacReady (Kurt Russell) at one point: “I don’t know who to trust.”

I don’t think the Republicans have been infiltrated by aliens just yet (as happens in another John Carpenter movie, They Live) but ever since this past weekend’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference you would think that the party is divvying up and preparing to go at it with flamethrowers and fire axes. But I think that the “mainstream press” (now more worthless than ever) is missing the real story here. This power struggle among so-called “conservatives” is only happening because the Republicans ...

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A few months ago George W. Bush proposed wasting hundreds of billions of dollars of our money and it was called “bailout” and some politicians approved it. Today Barack Obama is proposing wasting hundreds of billions of dollars of our money and it’s being called “stimulus” and those same politicians deride it as unacceptable.

I would like to quote “Oceania is at war with Eurasia, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia” to the Powers That Be, but sad to say, they most likely wouldn’t get it.

And now that he’s President, doesn’t Obama have better things to do than to get into the proverbial “pissing contest” with a radio commentator who is nothing more than a shameless shill for the “other side”?

Don’t we have better things to do than to even care about such a non-story involving two men with apparently arrested development?

Pat Buchanan is right: ...

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Once upon a time, I was a “dittohead”. I discovered Rush Limbaugh not long out of high school: first from his syndicated TV show and then his radio show (which I listened to religiously). I read his books, I phoned and faxed my reps whenever he said we needed to make our voices heard… heck I was even a caller on his show one day in December 1993.

Thank the Lord that I came to my senses.

I still have my copies of The Way Things Ought To Be and See, I Told You So, along with other relics from the strange days of my youth. Back when I couldn’t see past the two-party fraud. By the time The Matrix came out in ’99 I had already taken the proverbial Red Pill and started seeing the way things really are in this world. Like, how people like Limbaugh aren’t ...

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