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RUSH: I still say keep an eye on O'Malley. I have never said that Hillary is a guaranteed lock on anything. I've never thought it. I've been proven wrong. There were times I didn't even think she would run that she did. I very seldom, I have to admit, when it comes to Hillary, Hillary's the biggest drag on my accuracy, my opinion audit, Hillary Clinton's the biggest drag because I always get her wrong. And I'm still. And I get her wrong because I just can't believe what I'm told about her. I just can't believe any of it....

This claim from national security adviser Susan Rice stands in such contrast to reality that Foreign Policy’s Paul McCleary gave it the subheadline, “Really? Really?” Speaking to a group of Iraq War veterans who began the day wondering how the US and Iraq could possibly have lost Ramadi, a city for which Americans bled to pacify, Rice tried a novel approach to the question — complete and utter denial of reality. McCleary notes, “Susan Rice whiffs” in the main headline: Even before National Security Advisor Susan Rice started speaking Tuesday night, at a poignant German Embassy photography exhibit of soldiers...

RUSH: I should have printed this out. It was right before the program started, and it was time-crunch time and I didn't have time to print it out. It's a story about a black Republican who thinks that the Republican Party is going to save itself and is going to triumph once again by doing two things: accepting the welfare state and immigration. And if the Republican Party does that, by 2024, by 2028, if the Republican Party hasn't come to grips with those two things, it will not exist. And this African-American, I don't even know if he's a...

Determining actionable intelligence, assessing threats (current and emerging), implementing lines of operation to counter threats and forestalling damaging surprise (a process that includes accounting for enemy deception operations) are persistent national security challenges every presidential administration, from George Washington's to Barack Obama's, has confronted. Some administrations have confronted them more effectively than others. Effectively addressing these challenges demands many things from a commander in chief, but steady leadership is foremost. Steady leadership eludes checklist definition, but its key traits are sound judgment, morale-sustaining presence in crisis and the ability to focus on essential goals. Abraham Lincoln is a case study...

President Barack Obama is negotiating a multilateral trade agreement with the governments of 11 nations. These include Malaysia and Vietnam -- as well as Japan, Brunei, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru. This so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership would govern most of the commercial relations between the nations that sign it. "With over 20 chapters under negotiation," explains a Congressional Research Service report published in March, "the TPP partners envision the agreement to be 'comprehensive and high-standard,' in that they seek to eliminate tariffs and nontariff barriers to trade in goods, services, and agriculture, and to establish or expand...

Last week, President Obama held a summit on poverty at Georgetown University. There, he explained that unrest in major American cities could be traced not to lack of values, but to simple lack of cash -- and that lack of cash, he suggested, could be attributed to simple lack of luck. "The top 25 hedge fund managers made more than all of the kindergarten teachers in the country," Obama stated. "You pretty much have more than you'll ever be able to use or anyone in your family will ever be able to use. There's a fairness issue involved here." He...

The Republican presidential field is talking tax reform. (Beware the deceitful cries from the left of “tax cuts for the rich.”) Several candidates favor some kind of flat tax on income and at least one, Mike Huckabee, likes the “Fair Tax,” a proposed levy on consumption, which seeks to do away with most or all other federal taxes. The former is often portrayed as a system where the poor are disproportionally burdened and the latter as one where a federal monitoring agency, such as the IRS, is no longer needed. Neither portrayal is accurate. The debate boils down to whether...

Since the landmark 2008 Heller v. District of Columbia case, which Second-Amendment lawyer Alan Gura argued before the Supreme Court, anti-gun officials in the nation’s capital have spent every waking hour trying to avoid doing what the high Court ordered be done: allow District residents to exercise their right to keep and bear arms. Gura has been fighting them every step of the way; and on Monday, was victorious once again, as a United States District Court granted his injunction to stop the city from requiring concealed carry permit applicants to demonstrate a “good reason to fear injury to his...

Next week, members of the Copyright Royalty Board, three of the most powerful people you have never heard of will decide how to shift millions, heck, billions of dollars from one set of players to another.The CRB is the sole arbitrator of all matters of music royalties and it is about to issue a death sentence to digital music services, like Spotify and Pandora. Every five years, the board reviews royalties paid by digital streaming services. The board's troika is set up as a panel of administrative law judges, Suzanne Barnett, chief copyright royalty judge; David Stricker, economics judge and...

By now everyone has had their say about Jeb Bush's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. The consensus is that Bush misheard Megyn Kelly's "knowing what we know now" question about the Iraq war. I'm not convinced. Politicians routinely answer the question they wish they were asked rather than the question they were actually asked. Indeed, those are the only kinds of questions some politicians -- particularly ones with the last name Clinton -- ever answer. The question Fox News' Kelly asked is the tougher one, at least for Bush, so perhaps he opted to answer in a way...

Stony Brook University’s Graduate Queer Alliance (GQA) has managed to elevate opposition to free speech to a Zen Art. The group recently demanded that their university apologize simply for hosting my friend Frank Turek in a debate that had nothing to do with homosexuality – that is until his opponent, Michael Shermer, interjected the issue into the debate. It is worth noting that the audience actually booed Shermer after he continued to lecture them on how they would all some day accept same-sex marriage.This is not an isolated incident. Readers will remember my column, “The Cisco Kid,” which documented Frank’s...

It was outrageous for ABC News to promote Bill Clinton's spokesman George Stephanopoulos to the top of the political-anchorman heap. It was shameless to keep him there, even as Hillary Clinton keeps running for president. Conservatives never felt he was an appropriate choice, and never felt he sincerely attempted fairness and balance in his "journalism." This feeling should belong to every American now that it's out that Stephanopoulos donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation -- run by Bill and Hillary -- over the last three years. Given his background in the innermost circle of Team Clinton in the 1990s, these...

For years, my scientist brother Tom was the nonpolitical Stossel. I defended free markets on TV, and he studied blood at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Mom asked me when I'd get a "real job" like his. Then the crusade against capitalism reached his world. Medical "journalists" demanded that corporations distance themselves from medical research. They'll bias the results, "put profits before people" and sell dangerous goods. Tom didn't notice this "conflict of interest crusade" until he joined the scientific advisory board of a biotech company and learned how difficult it is to bring medical innovation to market. Now...

n our home, we try to instill a life lesson for our kids best summed up in Latin: Nihil boni sine labore. It means, "Nothing good achieved without hard work." Few people I've met in my lifetime embody this motto better and more brilliantly than Tony Maglica, inventor of the iconic Maglite flashlight. The spry 84-year-old founder and CEO of Mag Instrument still traverses his 450,000-square-foot factory floor dozens of times over the course of his 12-hour workday, six days a week, beginning at the crack of dawn and ending after most of his 800 employees have clocked out. I...

RUSH: Let me just tell you, this Hillary Clinton e-mail stuff, I'm just gonna tell you right now, it is so complicated, don't ever, ever think the low-information voter is going to even care, much less try to figure this out. I myself, El Rushbo, blessed with an amazing mind, able to wade through all of the BS and get to the stuff that matters, the stuff between the lines, not even I, ladies and gentlemen, can quickly decipher all of this. It takes study even for someone like me to figure this all out, and then to try to...

RUSH: This is from the Washington Free Beacon that broke the Stephanopoulos story. Oh, there's more on that. Do you realize ABC just paid him $105 million on a re-up? Before all this broke, Stephanopoulos, his contract was due to expire soon, $50 million over five years or six, whatever it was. they bumped him up to $105 million, seven years, through 2021, which would be what? That would be through Hillary's reelection. That's how long his deal is. They have committed guaranteed $105 million to Stephanopoulos, not in a lump, he's gotta earn it every year, but they've guaranteed...

RUSH: I got two examples here of something I have been talking about since I first encountered it. I don't remember exactly when I first encountered it. It was in the past couple of years, maybe three, as rapidly as time goes by. It was the first poll that I saw of Millennials in which they were fully aware that the economy is in the tank and they're fully aware of the obstacles in their way to having what they consider to be a life, an economic life that is an improvement over their parents, which is one of these...

RUSH: Oh, we got a flash: "Patriots Will Not Appeal Deflategate Decision." You know, there have been all kinds of secret meetings going on over the past 24 hours between Goodell and Robert Kraft, between the NFL and the Patriots. The sports media was starting to get breathing heavy, thinking that some sort of compromise had been reached. Because in the Drive-By Media, their template/their narrative is that Goodell is a jerk, that Goodell does nothing but screw up every time he hands out this penalties. And that Goodell therefore knows he's a jerk, and Goodell knows he screwed up...

RUSH: There's been a bunch of document dumps lately. We now know, thanks to Judicial Watch and Freedom of Information Act request, we also know the value of stonewalling. We now know everything that there practically is to know about Benghazi. We know enough to know that this country was lied to from beginning to end by Obama and Hillary. But now so much time has gone by that people have lost their emotional reservoir for that. "I mean, Benghazi? Who cares. Come on, Mr. Limbaugh, let's move on." But the fact is they knew about the Benghazi attack 10...

Last week, the legendary blues guitarist B. B. King died at the age of 89, and I truly hope he is in God’s presence now, either as someone who knew the Lord during his lifetime or as someone who found grace in the closing moments of his life.But my purpose in writing this article is not to judge Mr. King. Instead, it is to raise the question of what our society means when it says “Christian.”A few days ago, after hearing the news of King’s passing, I went to Wikipedia to read more about his final days. The entry there...