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May 13, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 13, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, yeah, and look at this.
The feds, big roundup up there in New York City, all the way out to Long Island.
Feds arrested too, possibly tied to Times Square bomb plot.
Wow.
That, yeah, that lone wolf guy, middle-aged guy in his 40s, white guy.
Had hated health care, sure had a lot of buddies.
I wonder if all these buddies hated health care too.
One of these two guys have caught, have hate health care as well.
Probably a cabal of health care haters being rounded up by the FBI trying to blow up Times Square.
I really hope, folks, that they've all been read their Miranda rights immediately, because, you know, if terrorists don't get Miranda rights, then we might not someday.
Greetings and great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 800-282-2882.
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Something happened on this program yesterday that's, I guess it shouldn't surprise me anymore, but it does.
The story about the Highland Park High School girls basketball team not being allowed to finish up their tournament down there in Arizona.
That story had been out there for a couple days.
Or at least it had been out there all day yesterday and the night before before we got to it.
We didn't get to it until the third hour yesterday.
Now, we're going to go to the audio soundbites because the principal of the school was on WLS in Chicago this morning with Don Wade and Roma.
And not the mayor.
The mayor of Highland Park is Michael Belski.
And now remember, this story was not, we hadn't discussed this story all day yesterday.
When did this story first break?
Yesterday morning, yesterday morning.
Okay, it was not the night before.
It was yesterday morning.
Okay, so yesterday morning, 6 a.m., 78 a.m. morning drive.
We didn't get to it for six hours.
Maybe more.
Six or seven hours.
And yet, when the mayor of Highland Park goes on the big 89 WLS Chicago, Don Wade and Roma, his name is Michael Belski.
Roma said, have you spoken with the assistant superintendent Sue Hebson?
Because she apparently is the one who made the decision.
Am I correct?
The school superintendent and the school board make these sorts of decisions.
And, you know, one thing I want to just make clear, and I think Rush Limbaugh has kind of released the firestorm of emails on me.
But in Illinois, the school board's separately elected from the city council.
And so this has not been a city matter at all.
So apparently, you people on this program have barraged the mayor of Highland Park, Michael Belski.
Apparently, he was not getting any emails at all until this program yesterday afternoon.
But the point is, I didn't even mention his name.
It's the first time I've ever heard him is when I hear this soundbite today.
We didn't mention the mayor of Highland Park.
We talked about the principal.
We had a guy call yesterday, or a woman calls that she called a school, and the school said that, well, you know, we're just afraid of essentially an uprising of Mexicans in the neighborhood here.
And I told her to call back and say, how do you think they feel at Arizona?
So the mayor is getting pummeled here.
Mayor, I didn't give your email.
I don't even know your email address.
I didn't know Highland Park had a mayor.
And I certainly didn't talk about the mayor.
We talked about the school yesterday.
Roma then said, well, look, they have student trips to China.
And we're seeing in the news last night that nine people died in a school attack in China.
That's right.
I think there are a lot of places where far more dangerous than Arizona.
Even if they competed in Chicago City itself, there are areas of Chicago be far more dangerous than going to an Arizona basketball tournament.
You know, I mean, I guess that, again, it's their judgment and that they feel, you know, there's that they go to areas in those countries where they are safe and they perceive any sort of danger in Arizona, then that's their call.
The mayor here is essentially saying, don't bug me.
If you're going to email anybody, email the school board over there or the principal or the assistant.
Am I hearing this right?
You think that's what's...
He probably said, why am I even on this show today?
Why did they call me?
And WWE, I'd have nothing to do with it.
I'm just the mayor here.
Here is the next soundbite.
Roma finally says, look, obviously, you don't feel you have sway over the school board or the school superintendent or the assistant superintendent.
We work with the school board on a lot of good issues, but at the end of the day, I wouldn't want them telling me how to, you know, run city services, water or sewer, where, you know, things like that.
I certainly take their input, but it's a separate government.
Rush Limbaugh for being an expert on everything ought to check his facts.
How did I get in the mix of this?
What have I gotten wrong here?
I didn't.
What are you people emailing to this poor guy?
He's obviously bedraggled.
He's got his mind, I mean, his hands full here with what?
City services, water, sewer, things like that.
He doesn't want to be bugged about the decision here at the high school.
It's hard work as managing the sewers.
I know that.
It's very hard work.
And I'm sure Michael Belsky is the most qualified guy in Highland Park to run the sewers.
It's like Obama is the most qualified guy to run health care.
But Rush Limbaugh for being an expert, everything ought to check his facts.
What did I get wrong here?
All I said was that the school's not going down there, and I think that the school people are little cowards.
I even bring this mayor into it.
See, my friends, the power and reach of this program, even when I'm not responsible for it, everybody assumes I am.
You remember, let's put this in perspective, because Roma asked some great questions.
Just said, it's more dangerous in Chicago, certain parts of Chicago than it is in Arizona.
What's to be afraid of in Arizona, Sheriff Arpaio?
What in the world is there to be afraid of down there?
What's the danger to students in Arizona as opposed to Illinois, Chicago?
Where's the danger coming from?
No, don't you dare walk me down that path.
I'm not going to talk.
You really.
No, no, no, no.
This is why this staff is speculating in my ear.
This is why they don't have microphones.
Staff speculating in my ear that maybe one of the female students doesn't have her papers in order, and that that's a real reason for avoiding Arizona.
Now, I don't think that's possibly true, but my staff might represent certain body of thought in the country on this.
Where's the danger coming from?
Are they just trying to show solidarity with who in Arizona?
Well, apparently, because if what they told the gal that called us yesterday, who called the school, and some of the schools said, well, we're just afraid of upsetting the Mexicans in the neighborhood, the school's neighborhood here, then obviously showing solidarity here with the illegals.
Here's my sole mention of Highland Park yesterday.
Oh, well.
Can you imagine living in Arizona?
Can you imagine living in Arizona near the border?
What would you do then, Madam Secretary of Highland Park High School?
That's what I said.
Now the mayor is off on a jihad here, claiming that you people are emailing him with a bunch of facts that are not correct or erroneous facts because I said to you.
You remember, let's go back when Jimmy Carter in 1980 boycotted, was it the Summer Olympics or was it Ted Turner's Goodwill Games that he boycotted?
It was the Olympics.
Yeah, it was Jim.
I know it was Carter's move, but I just, so it was the Olympics.
Okay, so Jimmy Carter, and remember all the grief he caught for using children as pawns?
The media, the rest of the left were outraged that sports athletes, of course, the essence of purity, were being used as pawns in a political game.
These poor kids have been trending for this all their lives, only to have their hopes dashed over some political grandstanding is the statement of one member of the media.
Now, it's funny how we aren't hearing anything like that about the various sports boycotts being implemented against Arizona, including the Highland Park girls basketball team.
They're trying to get the All-Star game kicked out of there next year, or is it this year?
And Phoenix Suns and the Arizona Diamondbacks are being pressured with boycott threats.
So the way to look at it is this.
Russia's invasion of another sovereign country back in 1980, Afghanistan, didn't rise to the same level of criminality of a state trying to enforce federal immigration laws.
To put this in proper perspective, we're going to boycott the Olympics because the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
We're going to boycott Arizona because Arizona wants to enforce a law to keep illegals out of the state because of crime and all kinds of tumult and chaos that's going on there.
They're becoming a nation of cowards.
Los Angeles city of cowards.
They're now banning anything to do with Arizona.
These people on the left are just pure, simple, nothing more complicated than cowards who think that by adhering to all this stupid political correctness that they are better than everybody else.
That they are more open-minded, that they're more tolerant.
It's the exact opposite.
You know, Quinn Hillier at the American Spectator today has a fabulous piece blowing every aspect of Obama's claim to be for the little guy against the powerful just out of the water.
That's coming up.
Lots of other stuff on the program today.
Glad you're here.
We'll be back right after this.
All right, the Highland Park girls' basketball team story broke on Tuesday night at 10.08 ChicagoBreakingnews.com.
So that's 9.08 Central Time on Tuesdays.
The mayor didn't start getting any grief for two days, not until I was mentioned on this program.
Now, it turns out my staff member who whispered into my ear about perhaps one of the players being illegal, it's actually addressed in a news story here.
Don't know what the WGN television, and it says reveling in its first conference championship 26 years, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Safety concerns partly fueled a decision, but the trip also would not be aligned with our beliefs and values, said District 13 or 113 Assistant Superintendent Susan Hebson.
That explanation, Osmax of political protest to parents upset by the decision.
Now, Lauren Evans is a junior on the team.
She said she thought the concern was probably that one of the players could get stopped and questioned.
District 113 Superintendent George Fornero declined comment saying, it wasn't my decision.
It wasn't just my decision.
Asked if there are undocumented players on the team or if anyone associated with the team is in the country illegally, Hebson said she didn't know.
Parents and players interviewed said they know of no one who fits the description of an illegal immigrant on the team.
What is that description?
Well, what's the description of it?
See, this is what's wrong with all of this.
What's the description of an illegal alien?
So the Arizona law is keeping illegal aliens out of Arizona.
Isn't that the idea?
If they're worried that one of the team members is an illegal alien, the Arizona law is working.
Yet it's sort of a convoluted way to look at it.
But the other way to look at it is, Ms. Hebson, unless your team happens to get caught for speeding or robbing a quick shop, nobody is going to have any way to find out whether one of your players is an illegal immigrant.
Because they can't just profile you based on the way your team members look and then decide, hey, you know what?
We're going to demand papers from the kid.
I mean, this is what's silly about all this.
And for somebody running a school to have this kind of misunderstanding, this law is only 21 pages.
This law will fit on your web browser.
You do not need to hire a lawyer to read the law.
It's perfectly understandable.
The media has made no effort to read it.
The Obama administration made no effort to read the law.
They don't want to know what's in the law.
They want their characterization of it to be what is the perceived notion of what is in the law.
It's very simple.
They've even made some revisions in it to accommodate these wacko accusations that it's nothing more than racial profiling.
Now, I would think that if the team went to Arizona, they would fly because a pretty long way.
Maybe they're worried that one of the students has a phony ID.
Am I not past TSA most?
This is all ridiculous.
And then Michael Evans, who is the father of Lauren Evans, the junior on the team, said the school has sent children to China.
They have sent children to South America.
They have sent children to the Czech Republic, but somehow Arizona is more unsafe for them than those places.
The beliefs and values of China are apparently aligned since they approved that trip.
The school's trying to say, it's not political.
We're not going to get political here.
We're just worried about safety.
Okay, well, who are you afraid of?
The sheriff?
Anyway, this is very interesting out there, folks, because this is the kind of, there's nothing other, it is cowardice disguised as arrogance and conceit and superiority.
We're smarter, we're better.
You know, I've got a story here in the stack.
A school.
I think it's a high school, maybe a junior.
I've buried down there.
I'll have to find it.
in St. Louis.
He is taking the kids on a field trip to the oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico.
They're going to be on lookout for a dead dolphin.
Now, this is how, where are they getting the money to take these kids on a field trip to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
I mean, I had field trips to the local slaughterhouse, which is about 10 minutes away from the school.
We never searched out environmental disasters.
This is how these indoctrinators, who are disguised as educators, pump propaganda into these young skulls full of mush.
Okay, so you take them down there, say, this is what oil does.
This is the evil of oil.
This is what lack of government regulate.
We need more government power to make sure that evil oil companies, these corporations do not continue to pollute the planet and destroy flipper here and eventually destroy your world so that you will die.
This is the kind of garbage that is being taught to kids.
I don't know specifically that that's the message in the field trip to the oil spill.
But what's going on in the classroom, this is the one area, education and academia, education in the media is those are the two fundamental areas.
A left, even though they are a minority by virtue of headcount, they're a minority by virtue of the way of thinking, but they still control these two institutions and they make themselves appear to be the majority by virtue of the mainstream media being so large that it has such an impact.
But it's all minority thought, but this is how they're inculcating young skulls full of mush so that when they end up getting to Harvard or Princeton or Yale, they hate the country.
And then they get hired by others who have graduated from Harvard and Yale and Princeton who are already in the government.
And eventually they infest the bureaucracy.
Then they run for office and they get elected.
They might end up on the Supreme Court and you end up with a bunch of people who are born and raised to hate the very country that made it possible for them to be who they are.
It's a vicious cycle.
This is why there is more and more homeschooling going on.
This is why there's a continued effort on as many people's part as possible to get their kids into private schools and away from the National Education Association, teachers union, public schools, and this kind of thing.
I wonder when they sent the kids to China from the Highland Park Hathskruel, how did they get in and out of the country?
Are there any illegal aliens in China?
The basketball team there.
And are these kids in the field trip from the St. Louis Junior Higher High School?
Are they going to take them out there to the oil rig and show them what the SWAT teams are doing?
Or are they just going to keep on a lookout for the oil slick and maybe find a dead bird here or there, a dead dolphin?
So the teachers can say, see, see, this is what capitalism does.
This is what oil does.
We'll be back in mere moments, my friends.
Don't go away.
And like we keep telling you folks, they never ever stop.
They never stop.
Today, John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam and Joe Lieberman of the regime, introduced a 1,000-plus page cap and trade bill.
We've been pouring through this.
We'll have some details for you as the program unfolds.
First, I want to grab a couple of phone calls on this whole incident here with the Highland Park High School in Chicago.
This is Jim in Brownsville, Texas.
Great to have you.
You're up first.
Yeah, great to talk to you, Rush.
I've been a longtime listener.
Yeah, it's all about the kids.
It's really kind of sad because, you know, the kids just want to play baseball.
They don't care about the politics of what's going on in Arizona.
And in reality, the school is taking away an opportunity of a lifetime for these kids.
There's nothing going on in Arizona except a bunch of illegals terrorizing the place.
The law's not even been implemented yet.
The law doesn't get implemented until next month.
Nothing's going on in Arizona except the people who live there being terrorized.
That's true.
But these kids, they just want to get out and play basketball.
You know, they don't care about the law or what's going on.
They're going to be fairly well chaperoned.
They're going to be going from the gymnasium to the hotel and back and forth.
And they're taking away an opportunity of a lifetime for these kids.
It's really very sad.
Exactly right.
It's all because of the superiority complex that we're smarter and better, the elitist attitudes of the people that run this school and who it is they're trying to impress.
I don't know because truthfully, I thought schools were supposed to be all about the kids.
And in their case, they're taking it something totally different.
I thought liberalism was supposed to be all about the kids.
We do everything else for the children.
And they're probably, yeah, well, we're doing this for the children too, Mr. Limbo.
We need to protect the children for the people in Arizona, Mr. Limbo.
That's what we're from who in Arizona?
The sheriff?
Joe Arpaio?
Who are you going to protect the kids from?
Now, I got an idea.
If St. Louis School is going to take some kids on a field trip to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, how about this for Highland Park High School in Illinois?
Maybe they can take their kids to the border with Mexico so they can actually see what's going on there, see the crime, see the coyote smuggling, have human beings and drugs.
Maybe you can see the violence.
That'd be a trip worth taking.
Then they can better understand why Arizona is doing what it's doing.
If a school is really about education and Arizona's a problem, teach the kids what the problem is.
And it ain't Joe Arpaio, and it's not the mayor of any city, and it's not the governor.
But maybe is it too dangerous on the border to take kids there on a trip, field trip?
Yeah, that probably.
Now, why?
I wonder, why can't you take a bunch of kids on a field trip to the Arizona-Mexican border?
Why?
They might get killed, or they might be traumatized by what they see.
Nothing may happen to them, but they may be traumatized by what they see.
Yeah, isn't it amazing?
You can take kids on a field trip to the oil spill if you can find it.
It hasn't come ashore yet.
But you can't take them to the U.S. border.
You wouldn't dare take them to the U.S. border, and you won't even take them to a U.S. border state.
Just amazing.
Maybe the school can take the kids to Tijuana.
They play basketball, Tijuana.
Let's say bullfights in Tijuana.
That'd be a nice cultural exchange.
Except, no, that would violate the animal rights sentiments, I'm sure, of the school administration.
Take them to Tijuana.
See what decapitation looks like.
Human heads posted on light poles.
Have you seen?
That's in Tijuana.
I think, actually, our government has issued warnings that college students not go to Tijuana during spring break.
Didn't they do that?
Yeah.
Can't go to Mexico.
Can't go to the border.
You can go to the oil spill.
Wouldn't dare set foot.
It isn't amazing that you couldn't take a field trip to the Arizona-Mexican border because it is too dangerous.
Here's Mick in Champaign, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thanks for having me, Rush.
I have two brief points, one of which you alluded to, and that is what exactly are these students going to be doing that the school district is worried that they would be pulled over or stopped, need to provide identification if they actually expect these students to be doing something illegal.
And the other is that the press release yesterday from the school district said that the tryouts for the team that will be traveling to or would be traveling to Arizona isn't even picked yet.
They won't be picked till November of this year.
So it's interesting that they would call off the trip before the team is even, you know, before they've even had tryouts.
So I'm curious how they can rationalize canceling a trip for the safety when the team is.
Why don't you take a stab at answering your own question because obviously you and I are correct.
Even if there were, and we're not saying that there is, even if there were an illegal immigrant on the team, unless that illegal immigrant robs a convenience store or commits some sort of battery or ends up driving a car too fast, nobody's going to ever know.
Exactly.
It's ridiculous to think that a bunch of high school students would be in a situation, especially from Highland Park.
We're not talking about an inner city school or anything like that.
We're talking about a decent suburb of Chicago.
So the bottom line, Michael Jordan lives in Highland Park.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Now, you have, therefore, almost an inescapable conclusion, and that is you have a political statement being made by the people that run the school.
I think it's interesting also that the students seem to have better insight, saying that this choice should be personal.
One of the students said that, you know, if they shouldn't go, it should be on an individual basis.
The students, I think, are even more in tune to the ridiculousness of the school district.
Yeah, and their parents, too.
Good point.
Thanks, Mick.
Great to have you out there.
Richard in Houston, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, hi, Rush.
God bless.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
What I was thinking is this mayor of Highland Park, his comment about traveling through the Arizona border would be unsafe for the kids, actually betrays him because it would be unsafe because just like you said, all this violence and kidnapping spilling over from where?
From Mexico.
Yeah, let's let me clear Rush Limbaugh off there.
That's not it.
This country is safe.
Let's go back and listen to the mayor here because the mayor comment traveling through Arizona borders unsafe.
Is that what you heard him say?
Well, whenever I tuned in and you started talking, that's kind of what you said.
That they came to the decision partly because they were looking out for the safety of the kids and also because if they feel like this is what they should be doing, then, you know, blah, blah, blah.
Well, let's go back and listen.
I listened to stuff on the fly, and I listened to it live for the first time with you.
So here's audio sunbite number one.
This is the Mayor Michael Belsky, WLS Radio this morning, Don Waiden.
Roma, have you spoken with the Assistant Superintendent Sue Hebson?
She apparently is the one who made the decision.
The school superintendent and the school board make these sorts of decisions.
And, you know, one thing I want to just make clear, and I think Rush Limbaugh has kind of released the firestorm of emails on me.
But in Illinois, the school board's separately elected from the city council.
And so this has not been a city matter at all.
Okay, so the mayor doesn't want to be associated with us.
Mayor's washing his hands of it.
And Mayor, once again, I didn't, I never heard of you until today, so I did not tell anybody to send you emails.
Next question.
Well, they have student trips to China.
They were seen in the news last night that nine people died in a school attack in China.
So I think there are lots of places far more dangerous in Arizona, even if they competed in Chicago City itself, areas of Chicago that'd be far more dangerous than going to an Arizona basketball tournament.
I mean, I guess that, again, it's their judgment.
And if they feel, you know, that they go to areas in those countries where they are safe and they perceive any sort of danger in Arizona, then that's their call.
Right.
Fears, Arizona still.
Yeah, there it is.
What are the fears?
Fears of who?
And then the final question.
Obviously, you don't feel you have sway over the screw board or the screw superintendent.
We work with the school board on a lot of good issues, but at the end of the day, I wouldn't want them telling me how to, you know, run city services, water or sewer, you know, things like that.
I certainly take their input.
But, you know, it's a separate government.
Rush Limbaugh for being an expert on everything ought to check his facts.
I still don't know how I got involved with the mayor's side of this.
I don't know what I said about his job and his role in this.
Well, I didn't say anything about his job or his role.
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This is Julianne in Chicago.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
Just so you know, my mom was born in Cape Girardeau a few months after you.
But we live in Chicago, and just it's not just Highland Park.
It's the entire state of Illinois has just gone completely to hell, to coin a phrase from Ronald Reagan.
I have a seventh grader in school, and the school he's in in Chicago refused to let him take the Constitution test.
And they felt that it was better that they did a project that was overseen by their liberal vice principal.
And they felt that that was better than them reading it and memorizing it.
It would do them much better to do a project on it.
And we were disgusted.
So my son asked if he could take it, and he was told, no, don't bring it up again.
Unbelievable.
Obama's Illinois.
They refused to let him take the Constitution test?
They refused.
And at my request, too, I said, could he please take the Constitution test?
Because I have two Rush babies.
And nope, no way.
Why?
They just felt that, you know, they feel that after years and years and years and years of doing it one way, they feel that by a child doing a project overseen by a liberal lady, a Pelosi wannabe, that he would learn more if he just did the project.
Instead of reading and knowing what the law says, instead of reading the Constitution, and I feel like it's his role.
So it was a liberal interpretation of the Constitution class or project.
And the real Constitution was off limits.
Yep.
And he was told specifically, because they know me and they know my kids, that he could not give his a political opinion in his project.
Well, it doesn't surprise me.
Really, because we do.
I mean, you nailed it.
I mean, what we're looking at here is the liberal infestation of the American education system, just like we're looking at the liberal social infestation of Europe.
And I think it's on display now.
It's out there for everybody to see now.
Now, Libs can sit there in Illinois and we are standing on principle.
We are standing on what principle?
What is the principle?
The principle, Mr. Limbaugh, is that this has been a Wraitheth Nathan for way too long.
And no more is this Nathan going to be racist, except for people like you and on your side, Mr. Limbaugh.
That's the principle we're standing on.
We are not going to Arizona because of Wraithist state, and we're not going to support racism.
That's the principle, folks.
That's what they're thinking.
Arizona's full of a bunch of racists and bigots.
Okay, for those of you who think that, well, let's just, let's not have any borders.
Isn't it racist to have borders, period?
Let's not have them any.
Anybody who wants to come in here can come in here.
And the minute they get here, they can vote Democrat.
Isn't that the objective?
Let's just get rid of the border.
Get rid of the border crossing.
Get rid of the border patrol.
I mean, that's the culmination.
That's where this ends up.
If the left prevails, you got to see it for what it is.
Who's next?
Dennis in Collita, Ohio.
Nice to have you here.
Yes, Rush.
Thank you very much for having me.
You bet.
In light of all of the boycotting in Arizona, what if this plays in reverse and agree with political philosophies in New York City where several senior class trips are taken?
Well, you mean boycott those?
Yeah, let's don't go to New York City because we disagree with some political position taken by the governor or the mayor of the country.
That'd be easy.
I'm not going to go to New York because I don't like the tax rate there.
I'm not going to go to New York because I want to eat trans fats.
I'm not going to go to New York because I don't want the salt police all over me.
Yeah, you're right.
There's any number of things.
We need Bill O'Reilly as the boycott expert.
I need to get him on the case here.
He once brought France to its knees.
So I'm sure he'll hear about it.
Right, I guess my point is, you know, where does all this boycotting stop?
All of a sudden, we're going to take one political decision that's the best thing for the state of Arizona and make it into a political issue where we're going to have all kind of boycotting going on left and right.
You know, we just need to respect the rights of the people in Arizona and let them do their thing.
Well, but they're a bunch of racists, you see.
This is what this is all boiling down to.
The United Nations says that it's a human right to cross the border in the United States.
That's how they have weighed in on this Arizona controversy.
It's a human right to cross the United States border.
You could boycott New York for being a sanctuary city.
I just had a story here.
This is from Forbes.com, America's layoff capitals.
And they're all run by liberals, and they are all sanctuary cities, except the fifth one, which is Sacramento.
Charting a different course than the rest of the nation, as it often does, California shrugged off the budding economic recovery and led the United States in mass layoffs in the first quarter of 2010.
Six of California's metro areas were up in the top 10 nationwide.
Los Angeles, Long Beach area ranked number one in layoffs.
New York City came in second, 14,600 layoffs during the first quarter after New York, Chicago.
An 11.3 unemployment rate at the end of the quarter and significant year-over-year declines in construction, manufacturing, and finance employment.
Layoffs during the quarter included 79 at Canopy Financial, which folded amid criminal charges.
Next on the layoff list are five California metro areas, all hit hard by employment declines.
Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario, in as bad a shape as Detroit.
San Francisco ranks fourth.
And San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento, all close behind.
Those are the top five layoff cities, layoff areas, layoff capitals in the country.
New York, Chicago, and most of urban California.
And they're all run by liberals, and they have been for a long time.
No, Detroit didn't make it because they had to do the list 10 years ago.
This is layoffs this past first quarter, certainly.
He's wondering how come Detroit didn't get included.
Their layoffs occurred many, many moons ago.
It's depressing out there, depending on where you happen to be.
It just is.
Quick timeout.
Much more straight ahead.
And I know you can't wait for it here on the Rush Limbaugh Program.
The latest AP story on the Roundup of terror suspects, this cabal of health care haters, is spread now to Boston.
And they are being held on immigration charges.
They have overstayed visas.
And these are administrative charges, which means they don't have to be read.
They're Miranda rights.
So I guess Sheriff Arpaio is running amok in Massachusetts trying to track down illegal immigrants.
These guys have been tracked down by the feds.
So it can't be Sheriff Arpaio.
I'm sure he's got his hands still full down in Arizona.
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