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MIAMI, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, issued the following statement today in response to several inquiries by the media: While going through routine Customs inspection of luggage at Palm Beach International Airport upon his return from an international trip, Rush Limbaugh was detained by customs agents after they noticed a non-narcotic prescription drug, which had been prescribed by Mr. Limbaugh's treating physician but labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes. After a brief interview, Mr. Limbaugh was permitted to continue on his journey.

FT. DEPOSIT, Ala. - Billy Walker, the Grand Ole Opry legend whose hits included "Charlie's Shoes" and "Cross the Brazos at Waco," died in a wreck along an Alabama interstate on Sunday. He was 77. Walker was killed with three others when a van they were riding in ran off Interstate 65 south of Montgomery and overturned, state troopers said.

Can anyone give me a link to a story about NBC's putting riflescope crosshairs over President Bush's picture a couple of years ago.

TAMPA - In recent years, Florida law enforcement agencies have been pondering an unusual question of political correctness: If your officers fire at targets that are black in color, is the agency sending a racist message? Not wanting to take any chances, the Tampa and St. Petersburg police departments, among other law enforcement agencies, have switched to more colorful targets. "It never was a big issue or a big debate," said Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy, whose agency switched to blue silhouette targets from black ones two years ago. "Nowadays, you can never be too sensitive, and we felt that...

Democrats unveiled a new Code of Conduct to clean up Congress Wednesday. Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of inexperienced Republicans. Sin should be left to Democrats who know when to play with it and how to put the batteries in correctly.

An ABC publicity photo promoting their annual depressing-party-in-a-box, New Year's Rockin' Eve, is causing controversy for having Photoshopped in a smiling, fully upright, pre-stroke Dick Clark next to co-hosts Hilary Duff and Ryan Seacrest: [T]he image of the 76-year-old Clark was taken before his December 2004 stroke and superimposed onto a recently taken picture of Duff and Seacrest. The "Photoshopping" spurred rumors that the ageless celebrity hasn't recovered from the stroke and may be unable to properly perform his annual year-end duties on Saturday night, New Year's Eve. A spokesman for Clark and ABC bosses denied those rumors yesterday. [...]

I just read an article about a family in California who is unhappy that the body of their son was shipped home from Dover AFB as freight on a commercial airliner. Is this standard military procedure?

Bob Beckel was just on Fox News discussing Howard Dean's over the top rhetoric. He said Howard's problem "is that he's never had an unspoken thought."

Those Democrats demanding an apology from the Bush Administration in the wake of the Libby indictment seem to have forgotten the concept of innocent until proven guilty.

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TAMPA - Rising gasoline prices are forcing some station owners across the Tampa Bay area to end credit card sales, cutting off an option for consumers growing short on cash to buy the fuel they need. Retail dealers say they are losing money on every gallon of gasoline as more motorists turn to credit cards to purchase it. Across the Bay area Friday, the price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline jumped as much as 30 cents a gallon from the day before, hitting $3 or more at many stations. Meanwhile, credit card use for gasoline purchases rose to nearly 80...

What happened to Linda Vester who used to be the host of Fox News Channel's Dayside.

Texas and Florida allow only state-funded uniform memorials that can be applied for by contacting the departments of Transportation. Florida memorials are plain white, bear the victim's name and read "Drive Safely."

Am I seeing things or has Shepherd Smith got another new hairdo? He also looks tanner than he did last week.

BATH, N.Y. - It began with three haunting notes from a teenage girl. A second bugler, about 100 yards down the road, picked up the tune. And then a third. More than 850 buglers, trumpeters and other horn players fanned out Saturday along 41 miles of roads in rural western New York and performed a cascading rendition of taps to highlight the scarcity of buglers at veterans' funerals. The 24-note melody started up at Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira, overlapped from one instrument to the next as it reverberated through a string of small towns from Painted Post to Campbell...

CNN ran a clip of Ward Churchill speaking to his supporters at the University of Colorado. Hanging on the wall behind him was a red flag with what appeared to be a gold crescent in the lower left quandrant. Anyone else see this and recognize the flag?

U. S. Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, seems determined, despite evidence to the contrary, to raise voters' suspicions that the presidential election in Ohio was rigged. There were problems in the Buckeye State, but the irregularities we have seen so far do not rise to the level of fraud. A prolonged effort to expose corruption in the voting process and sustain the specter of another tainted election is not constructive and only threatens more political divisiveness. Yet Conyers is bent on stirring the water. He told Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's Countdown, that he...

The Kerry Campaign is running the following ad in the Tampa Bay, Florida area: If George Bush Is Reelected He Will Cut Your Social Security 30 To 45 Percent. This ad obviously target uninformed, gullible senior citizens.

In fact his voice is so bad, doctors have advised him to rest his throat and only give one position on each issue for awhile.

You know about this, right? CBS now admits they were misled by an unreliable source. I believe his name was "Daniel Rather." We all know Dan Rather, now being called the man who put the ‘BS’ in CBS.