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April 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 15, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The Doctor of Democracy is not here today, as you know.
He is away.
He'll be back tomorrow here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I have been told a few moments back, and of course it's April the 15th.
And you know, you know what April the 15th is, especially if you're a control freak.
By control freak, I mean a Democrat, liberal, statist, to take your pick of words.
It's a day of celebration if you're if you're one of these control freak leftists.
It's the day where you um delight in progressive taxation, redistributive ideas.
It is the day enshrined to you, even though only about 50% of the country, 47% pay taxes.
It is a it is the exact um balance of the opposite to what the Fourth of July is.
The Fourth of July, as you know, was a day celebrating the freedom from control freaks, celebrating the freedom from taxation.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show.
It's Doug Rabansky here.
The phone number at the Limbaugh Show, the Rush Limbaugh Show, is 1-800-282-2882.
A few minutes ago before the show, the powers that be here who operate the Limbaugh Show, and I had a little talk about Russia's Curathon on Friday, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Curathon.
And apparently so many of you have written or called that you'd still like to be able to donate more, and Rush will update you when he's back tomorrow.
Rush will update you as to how this all ended up.
And uh I I mean it's it's not for me to really say you are amongst it famously amongst the most generous off audiences any place, both of spirit and of and of wallet, and uh Rush will update you as to how it all ends up.
Now, I I don't know if I'm supposed to mention this or not.
I I I'll mention it anyway.
I was knocked over.
I saw that Rush and Catherine Limbaugh gave five hundred thousand dollars to the cause.
Um that's that that's that's putting your money where your mouth is.
I think they're quite humble about things like this, get in big trouble probably for saying it.
But you don't have to give that much.
There's if you go to Rush Limbaugh.com, the phone number is still up there.
Small amounts are welcome, and the phone number for the Curathon, which I'm told I should give out to you, is 187-379-888.
And that's uh Russia's Curathon for the annual Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a very, very good cause.
I will mention it one more time today, and then Rush will give you the whole uh rundown of how it all worked when he's back tomorrow.
Now, I mentioned it is tax day, and I'll be getting to tax information, including the Obama's tax returns.
But it is April the 15th, and April the 15th is another um celebratory day.
I don't know.
What is that, sir?
Patriots Day in Massachusetts.
Well, it's also Patriots Day in in a little place called North Korea.
It is the birthday, the 101st birthday of Kim Il-song in North Korea.
Now, I there are things that there are things about North Korea that strike me as very peculiar over the past two weeks.
If you were watching the mainstream media, which the low information voters barely even do that anymore, you would not have a clue that this country, uh the United States of America, and our allies in Japan and South Korea are under threat of a nuclear attack.
Now, I watched some of the Sunday shows about this.
They say, well, we don't take this guy seriously.
He's a kid.
This is the leader of North Korea.
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me go back to Oscar Knight, okay?
I'm a show business person.
I produce motion pictures.
Rush Limbaugh on this show made the observation that no one else had made an Oscar night.
You may remember that the film that won the Oscar is a film called Argo, a good good enough film, and that by some very bizarre circumstance, the person unassociated with the Oscars in filmmaking who gave the Oscar was Michelle Obama, The wife of Barack Obama, and she gave this Oscar from the White House.
And Rush said, does it not strike anyone as ironic that a film about the rescuing of Americans from an embassy, a successful rescuing, was awarded an Academy Award for Best Picture from the White House, from the White House occupied by people who did just the opposite.
And Rush made that Rush made that point.
Well, now I make the point to you.
Does it strike anybody as ironic that whilst the Obama administration is focused on essentially rewriting the Second Amendment gun confiscation?
That while they're focused upon guns here in this country, and ladies and gentlemen, there is no gun crisis in this country, any more than there's such a thing as man-made global warming.
That while the Obama administration is focused on the confiscation of legal guns in the United States of America, the same administration has been the enabler of the worst regimes in the world developing the most dangerous weapons on earth.
The United States was the balance to all of this.
When we stopped doing that, you know, you say the free world where it exists and where it has existed has said for years, thank goodness for the United States of America.
Which brings me to the topic of Reagan Gorbachev and Thatcher.
Because North Korea, because Ronald Reagan, who was called crazy, because he had this idea about something called Star Wars.
I was watching a showtime documentary put together by Oliver Stone very recently on television.
And they as much as said Ronald Reagan was crazy.
Star Wars was a bad idea.
Star Wars was a dangerous idea.
He's a crazy old man.
Star Wars, otherwise known as the Mince the Missile Defense System.
Ladies and gentlemen, at some point, Mikhail Gorbachev is going to meet the same end as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
You just wait and see how they how they position this man as one of the most remarkable people in history.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a guy who's about as remarkable as Jimmy Carter, and I'm not exaggerating.
I'm not exaggerating as the Jimmy Carter of the Soviet Union.
Even as we speak, I notice that HBO is developing a film to be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, all about Mikhail Gorbachev.
And of course, Gorbachev on this film is serving as a consultant on the project.
Gorbachev would love the old Soviet Union to still be around.
He would love all of that.
Anyway, the when Ronald Reagan died here in the United States, you may recall the week or so surrounding his death, the funeral, his laying in state in the Rotunda, the traveling of his remains back to the Reagan Library where he was going to be buried, the trip along the freeway here to Simi Valley in Los Angeles.
It was very moving.
It was very moving.
And the entirety of the leftist establishment in the United States really, really had made a conscientious effort to pipe down for that week or so.
They know there's plenty of time to come back and rewrite the history about Reagan.
He's crazy, he's insane, gonna get us all killed, he was stupid.
All the stuff, but they put it aside for that week or so, with a couple of exceptions.
I I one of them actually cost me a friendship.
My friendship with Christopher Hitchens was damaged by the hate-filled piece he wrote about Reagan when Ronald Reagan died, and it was hate-filled and inaccurate, sloppy from a reporter of such good pedigree.
But they wrote about Reagan, The few in a hateful way, but by and large, the American leftist mainstream media went with the flow.
They knew Reagan was popular.
There was no avoiding the fact that Americans loved this man.
Well, across the Atlantic Ocean, as you know, I'm very connected with England and Great Britain.
Much of my professional life is conducted there, and lived there and worked there.
Across the Atlantic, the Brits watched all of this, watched how we were praising Reagan.
And the leftist media in Britain went crazy.
And there were whispers back then.
What are we going to do when Mrs. Thatcher dies?
Well, we can't do that here.
We can't let that happen here.
Now I'm seeing that the song Ding Dong the Witch is dead, has become number one or two being played in the UK.
This is leftism.
Now one of the things that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher stood for and understood profoundly was this that and they they understood this in their lifetime, and after they're dead, we have examples that this continue.
Evil never recedes of its own accord.
Evil never recedes of its own accord.
It takes brave people to articulate clearly what is going on and to fight back and to never ever let up.
So now this brings us to missile defense systems, Star Wars, Star Wars, for which they called Ronald Reagan a crazy old man.
It was scientifically impossible.
Do you know, in addition to the film I'm telling you for HBO about Gorbachev, there's another film floating around Hollywood, a script I've read, in which apparently Michael Douglas will play Ronald Reagan, and it's about the Reagan Gorbachev negotiations at Reykjavik.
It has even been floated by me that I should play George Schultz in this film, which would be a very good idea.
But I read the script, and the script is written in a way that's highly inaccurate, and it portrays Ronald Reagan as missing a moment in history.
Now anyone who knows about that moment knows that this dream of Star Wars, which the American left was saying was a bad idea, impossible, he's crazy, well the Russians were taking it, the Soviets were taking it very seriously.
Which now brings us to John Kerry and North Korea, and for that matter, Iran.
And because I'm watching the clock, I'm going to have to continue talking to you about that.
And John Kerry's rather fascinating flip-flops.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you think do you think for a moment that North Korea actually exists on its own?
Or do we not accept, and we're not experts in state affairs, but do we not accept that China, the communist Chinese, pull the strings on this Marionette government over there?
I'll have to continue this when we get back.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Duggar Bansky.
The phone number is 1800-282-2882.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Show, ladies and gentlemen, it's Doug Rabansky here filling in for Rush Limbaugh, who will be back tomorrow and give you all of the results of the annual Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Curathon.
We're talking about um the threat of North Korea.
A real threat of North Korea, we might as well include uh Iran in that.
There is almost no doubt that North Korea has nuclear weapons, and it's barely been covered during the past week.
They've made threats, they've declared war essentially on Japan and on us.
And I made the comment before we went to the break that North Korea is what we call the a fact totum government.
I do not doubt for one second that North Korea is used by the Chinese, and the Chinese these days are very close to the Russians, very, to Test to probe to see what the United States of America is made of.
Last week, on the Drudge Report, there were all sorts of very interesting headlines.
North Korea, powerful striking means on standby.
U.S. intelligence reveals launch zone.
Pentagon deploys C radar.
Kerry requests China pressure.
And then you go to the flashback section.
In the 1980s, John Kerry, our current Secretary of State, who at the time was a senator from Massachusetts.
Our current sitting Secretary of State criticized the Reagan administration plan for a missile defense system, SDI, we called it, or Star Wars.
John Kerry's words about this were that it was a cancer on our nation's defense.
In 1986, a story from the Associated Press says that then Senator Kerry wanted to cut funding from SDI because he considered, as I just said, a cancer.
He said what we must do is deny this program the funds that will enable this cancer on our nation's defense to grow any further.
Now, this man is the current Secretary of Defense.
I'm watching the news, ladies and gentlemen.
And from watching the news, you would think there's a gun crisis in this country.
There's no gun crisis in this country.
You would think there is a gay marriage crisis in this country.
There is no gay marriage crisis in this country.
There's an employment crisis, there's an economy crisis.
There's an emboldening of our enemies crisis.
You would think watching the news, ladies and gentlemen, that there is an illegal immigration crisis in this country.
And I'm here to tell you that there is a crisis.
If you're on the left, and Rush spent a lot of time in the past week or two, he spent a lot of time going through the most compelling numbers, the most compelling numbers about illegal immigration, and why it would immediately turn this country to a hard left, Possibly forever.
There's no crisis if you just follow the rules, just follow the laws that exist.
So John Kerry, our Secretary of State, our somewhat wishy-washy Secretary of State, is focusing on this North Korea test missile.
And the f uh the other day, the first thing he comes out with, I think it was on Friday, he comes out with a hard comment.
He says, Don't test the missile.
Don't test it.
Now, let's talk about Star Wars again.
Star Wars.
Just as the Russians were exercising a little bit of muscle during George W. Bush's administration, it was very clear that the missile shield was going to be something that our allies in Poland and Czechoslovakia needed and wanted.
Russia was becoming increasingly belligerent at that time.
And Obama, you may recall, he decided to dismantle the mission the missile shield from Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Now, what's the end?
What's the end idea?
To what end does he do this?
Because the shield serves as a first line of defense for America and for our allies against a missile attack from rogue states.
What would be a rogue state?
Well, Iran would be a rogue state.
North Korea would be a rogue state.
So you go back to 2009, and it was such a serious issue when this was being discussed in 2009 that there was bipartisan concern over the Obama's administration's decision to scrap the missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
And you had senior Republicans all screaming about this, but you had some very strange Democrats.
Ben Nelson.
Ben Nelson screaming about this.
Claire McCaskill said, Don't scrap it, don't scrap it.
These are not exactly conservatives.
Pelosi loved it.
Pelosi loved it.
Now, of my memory serves, and I I'm just digging into the attic of memory here.
When North Korea made these threats at some point during George W. Bush's administration, didn't Nancy Pelosi come about and say, hey, why isn't our missile shield working?
Why is it up and running?
Something tells me she said that, but she loved it.
She actually said when Obama was scrapping the missile shield in Eastern Europe, she said this was brilliant.
The Poles were not so thrilled about this.
Now there were people who applauded this.
The Russians applauded this.
The Iranians loved this.
They applauded it.
Much more to come.
We'll continue.
Welcome back to the Limbo Show.
Rush Limbaugh Show, ladies and gentlemen's Dugger Basky.
I want to just go back and deal with history for a moment.
I may have said this to you before, I don't recall.
I talked about the worst decision in the history of the United States.
And the decision I'm referring to is what we call the the Nixon Kissinger doctrine.
Meaning that America, for its history, believed that America was the world's lone beacon of truth through World War I, World War II, the superpower of protector of freedom, liberty, all the good things that we know about.
And that we would stomp out communism, evil, wherever it fascism, wherever it raised its head, wherever it existed.
And we did this aggressively.
And yes, Democrats, Democrats did this too, including John JFK.
It's how we end up in Vietnam.
Including Lyndon Johnson.
And what Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger did at that point was they made this what I call the worst decision in American history.
They decide that America is no longer the world's lead.
That America's best days are behind her.
And that the future is all about what they called the shared balance of power, the vision of the shared balance of power.
And it's very funny how history works, because of course, history then delivers us someone called Ronald Reagan.
And at the same time, history does that, the finger of Providence reaches down and delivers us someone like March Margaret Thatcher.
And you have a sense of giants.
Pope John Paul II arrives on the scene.
And you have a sense of giants.
And what these people did is they said, well, no, no, no, we don't agree that the West's days, best days are behind her.
We do not believe that American exceptionalism is over.
We do not believe in a shared balance of power between good and evil, because good, of course, becomes contaminated.
And that is when they promoted SDI, missile defense, Star Wars.
And while they were making fun of Ronald Reagan in America is crazy, it's not possible you can't do it.
All I know is that the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was taking it very seriously.
And not just because we were going to break them economically.
Now, during that period, because Ronald Reagan could only serve two terms and he can't live forever, he's one person.
During that period, the Chinese, who were basically very quiet in those days, and a hardcore, ruthless communist country.
The Chinese were watching this, and they said, you know, we cannot let ourselves be broken economically.
We cannot let ourselves be broken militarily.
Let them do that with the Soviets over there.
But we can't let that happen over here.
And of course, Star Wars got developed, and Star Wars has been continued to be developed.
And it was something that we were giving to our allies in Poland and Czechoslovakia, Barack Obama bizarrely took them away.
And That was the front line of defense from any rogue state like Iran or North Korea.
Obviously, the Russians applauded this move when we took it away from our allies.
Obviously, the Iranians, they were very okay with the deal.
Obama met with Dmitry Medvedev at the UN.
And he told him, and Medvedev reacted positively.
He said this is a responsible move.
Well, of course he did.
Of course he said that.
In Iran, the the uh the man who was the head of the foreign affairs committee in Iran said, now we can talk about restoration of a partnership.
He said he said this was a he said it would be more positive if Barack Obama gave up entirely such plans.
The man who was from the Iranian parliament said Bush's administration was Iran phobic, I guess meaning that Barack's isn't.
This, you know, the comparisons here to Neville Chamberlain are not not far off the mark.
So here we've got a true rogue state that is for real a puppet state of China.
You think China's our friend?
Do you think China's our friend, or we should be really thinking about defeating them rather than this shared balance of power, defeating them economically?
In whatever ways that means.
So, John Kerry says to North Korea, don't test this missile.
He says, Don't do it.
It's going to increase your isolation.
He said if Kim Jong-un decides to launch a missile, whether it's across the Sea of Japan or some other direction, he will be choosing to willfully ignore the entire international community.
He said it will be a provocation and unwanted act that will raise people's temperatures.
Carry one on.
He said it would be a huge mistake.
This is the United States of America Secretary of State.
Now, if you doubt for a moment, he also said, by the way, he said, um he said no one's going to talk to North Korea for the sake of talking.
Isn't this exactly exactly what Obama's State Department has done with North Korea, with Iran?
Now, if you're doubting what I'm saying about China pulling the strings here, then the story comes out further over the weekend.
Get this.
Get this.
John Kerry goes to China on Saturday, and he's asking for China's help in dealing with North Korea.
And what he offers is this.
He offers the Chinese American missile defenses to be cut back.
He's offering this to the Chinese.
Why?
Because the Chinese are pulling the strings in North Korea.
Kerry gives a news conference.
He suggests that the, according to the New York Times, he suggests that the United States could remove some newly enhanced missile defenses in the region.
Big sign of American strength.
You have a little puppet dictator of a great big communist country saying we're going to shoot nukes at the United States.
We're going to shoot them.
This is like a distraction.
This is like a test to see what America is made of.
The real magician on the stage is China.
Maybe with the Russians.
But meanwhile, they've got music and lights, flashing lights and dancing girls and distracting over here, and that's cold North Korea.
Let's see what the Americans are made of.
Let's see what concessions we can get out of them.
Let's push the matter.
And of course, Kerry goes where to China.
And what does he offer them?
He offers them.
He offers them concessions.
This is a man who felt that SDI, Star Wars, was a cancer as part of America's defense.
Nancy Pelosi thought it was brilliant to take it away from the Poles and the Czechs.
You ask yourself, where are we on the world stage?
Where's the idea of American exceptionalism?
Where do the countries in the world look to?
When the first at the first sight of something, our Secretary of State flies to China and says, Tell the little dictator to calm down, please tell him to calm down.
Please tell him to stop talking.
Please do something.
And if you do it, we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll give in.
We'll capitulate, we'll get rid of some more of our defenses.
And this is this this goes back to the comment that Obama made.
To Medvedev.
Tell Vladimir, you know, once once I'm elected to a second term, it'll all I have a lot more flexibility.
There's a lot more I can do.
Is there any mystery as to what he was talking about?
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Dugobansky filling in for Rush.
Limbaugh will be right back.
You know, I'm reminded uh by Mr. Snerdley of something here that which was that there are many on the left who believed that um that the poles and the Czechs simply did not want SDI there.
That's not true.
That's not true.
There were those stories being written at that time that they didn't want that there.
None of that was true.
They were not happy.
They were not happy that it was being taken away from them, not in the slightest.
And in fact, their political leaders came out and said so look, they they lived with the iron curtain.
They're right there on the front lines of it.
Of course they were not happy.
Of course not.
In fact, um just looking here for the comment uh from the polls and the Czechs.
I don't have it in my stack, but I did I saw it over the weekend.
They were very unhappy, but I'll leave it at that.
We'll leave it at that.
And and here I've got the pol I've got the Polish advisor to the president.
At the time of this, they supported the Bush missile project, and they complained to the Obama White House, and they said this new plan signifies in their words a failure of long-term U.S. security planning in Central Europe.
It's very serious stuff, ladies and gentlemen.
I promised I would go to the phone calls in this segment, and we will do that.
Let's go to Michael in uh New York State.
Michael, how are you today?
Welcome to the Victoria.
Um I hate to say this to you, Doug, but I'm afraid that this whole North Korean scenario is gonna result in a really a crushing defeat for the U.S. You bet.
You bet.
Now and what you you mean because it's probing to see what we're made of.
Hang on just a minute.
Hang on just a minute.
Well, ladies and gentlemen here with the speaker phone.
Are you with us?
Okay, thanks.
Yeah.
Um I was gonna say we're not accustomed to hanging on at the Russian limb show.
But but finish your point there, Michael.
Okay.
Um I believe that the Russians and Chinese, as you say, are pulling the strings on North Korea.
We're being deceived by Kim Jong-un.
And uh, you know, he you you think he might be a really credible threat, but he isn't really.
The real threat is still Beijing and Moscow, and they don't wish us well.
They wish us ill, they want us wiped out.
They want to destabilize freedom.
Physically, but they want us to be the subordinate of the two of them.
Yes, they they welcome a weakened United States, and they welcome a decline of the United States and its influence and freedom.
Right.
They they resent everything we stand for.
We're neglecting our educational system, we're neglecting practically every aspect of our society, we're cutting back on our defense, we're almost unilaterally disarming, which is suicide, in my opinion.
And I think it's all because of, unfortunately, liberal influences that have been around for too damn long.
And couldn't agree with you more, Michael.
Michael couldn't agree with you more, couldn't say, but let me ask you one quick question before we scoot, and that is do you think that any of this going on in North Korea, John Kerry running to the Chinese and saying, Oh, well, we'll take away some more defenses from you.
Do you think any of this is related to what's going on in Syria, Iran, the Arab Spring?
It's all interconnected.
Everyone, there is a plan between China and Russia to not only knock us down a few notches, but to literally make us a satellite of the two of them.
It's finally happened that China and Russia are now a a monolith like they were feared to be during the Cold War era.
If you know what I mean.
I do.
They they welcome the idea of destabilizing the United States and the West.
They love it.
They love it.
And China is very uh China and uh Russia are very interested in what's going on in Syria and Iran.
Make no mistake, Michael.
Thank you very much, Michael, for calling the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you so much for calling the Limbaugh show.
This is true, ladies and gentlemen.
Um we have to have a very long hard think.
We knew what we were getting involved with when we re-elected Barack Obama.
We knew that the left detests the military.
We already knew that Star Wars SDI was being pulled out from allies abroad.
And now we have a Secretary of State going to the Chinese and more or less groveling and offering to give up weaponry in that part of the world.
Rush said something very funny the other day.
He was talking about Hillary Clinton's autobiography, which has no title to it.
And I think Mr. Snurley, he said that he had a title suggestion, which is what have I done.
This must have upset John Kerry, because I bet he was thinking of using the same title.
I mean, where were we when it came to looking at who these people were?
There's nothing you can do to stop the carries and the hagels, etc.
When the president appoints them, but that that's who you've ended up getting.
And North Korea, as I've said, and we're not going to belabor the point in the second hour, North Korea is a puppet puppet factotum government of China.
Do you think for a second?
And we've got Terry, by the way, out there saying that they he's not sure they have nukes.
Meantime, it's being reported all over the place that there's an intelligence report from D.C. that they do have nukes.
Look, ladies and gentlemen, it's a rogue state.
Take them at their word.
Achmedijad seems to say about every other Tuesday that he's going to annihilate Israel from the face of the earth.
Take them at their word.
These are these are rogue states and dangerous people.
And that's what that's what you're dealing with.
So, ladies and gentlemen, um, it's Doug Urbanski filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
I gotta take a short break and we'll be right back.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program, ladies and gentlemen.
It's Doug Arbansky here filling in for Rush, the doctor of democracy himself will be back here tomorrow, and you will learn the results of the annual leukemia and lymphoma society Curathon, um, for which they are still taking they're still accepting donations from the wonderfully generous of money and spirit limbaugh audience.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh after this upcoming break, we're gonna get into many other things, including Bill Maher's bizarre comments about threatening to leave California.
I love it when the left suddenly get their tax bill.
Love it.
All right, I got to take one more call in this hour, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's go to Ken in Tampa, Florida.
Ken, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you today, sir?
Hey, Brother Doug, I'm wonderful, and uh I'd like to make a brief comment that Obama, Kerry, and the other fellow travelers are violating a gross uh military equation.
Firepower minus willpower equals no power.
You're trying to make me more depressed.
You're trying to make me more depressed than I already am.
What's that?
Pardon me?
Say this.
I'm sorry, say it again, sir.
Should I say it again?
Yeah.
That Obama carry and the other fellow travelers violate the great military equation.
Firepower minus willpower equals no power.
Yeah, you said it again just to depress me further.
It's tax day and it's Kim Jong song's birthday.
Um yeah, it it's a depressing reality.
I'm getting all confused with the Kim Jong ills and Kim Jong songs and all the rest of them.
But Ken, I want to ask you something here.
You agree with my position then about Star Wars and American defense and this terrible decision made by Nixon and Kissinger, the Nixon Kissinger documents.
Absolutely.
Worst decision in American history.
Ken, I appreciate your input.
Thank you so much for calling the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, much more when we return.
We're gonna get into taxes.
It is tax day.
Bill Maher threatening to leave California.
Oh, did you see this one?
The IRS claims they have the right to read your emails without a warrant.
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