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	Yes, the last Rush Limbaugh show of 2013.
	We are in the final hour.
	We are counting down the final moments when we ring out the old and ring in the new in approximately 54 minutes time.
	And we wrap things up at the EIB Network for 2013.
	This is Mark Stein, Old Langstein, as I like to think of myself at this time of year.
	And Rush will be here with the best of Rush tomorrow.
	And the man himself returns live for a brand new year of excellence in broadcasting on Thursday.
	So don't miss that.
	I've had a couple of emails.
	Mr. Snerdley was kind enough to ask me to clarify my forthcoming Florida tour where I was appearing.
	And then he distracted me because he said people are coming from other states.
	So I mentioned some other states.
	Now people think I'm touring Georgia and Idaho.
	I'm not.
	I'm actually, I'm just going to be in Florida in the week beginning February 9th.
	I'm in Jacksonville.
	I'm at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg.
	I'm at the Sunrise Theater in Fort Pierce.
	Then I'm in Fort Myers.
	And then I'm in Miami at the Olympia Theatre.
	And that's it.
	No, no Carpenter Squirrels.
	Mr. Snerdley has got all excited about Carpenter Squirrels.
	I mentioned, I'm basically broadcast.
	People don't know where I broadcast from for security reasons.
	The only people who know is NSA and the local drone operator.
	But nobody else knows where I broadcast from in northern New Hampshire.
	And it is in effect an abandoned building.
	So we heard hammering here at the start of the show yesterday.
	And I said rather carelessly off-air, oh, that's the notorious New Hampshire Carpenter Squirrels.
	And Mr. Snurdy was very taken by this.
	So if it'll help to sell tickets for my Florida tour, yes, I will have basically the Radio City rocket line of New Hampshire carpenter squirrels hammering away behind me in the course of my...
	Yeah, they're unionized carpenter squirrels.
	Are you joking?
	Of course the Carpenter Squirrels are unionized.
	Don't be ridiculous.
	That's why they retire at 47.
	The Carpenter Squirrels, so the Carpenter Squirrel, they're way better than the Carpenters, by the way.
	The Carpenters.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Karen Carpenter, but if they'd had Carpenters, Karen Carpenter and the Carpenter Squirrels, that would have been a much better act.
	Anyway, the Carpenter Squirrels will be with me live on the Florida tour.
	They come out behind the, they do about 20 minutes of an opening act.
	People are amazed by this.
	Way better than the singing dogs.
	And then I come on.
	So that'll be in Florida in the first week of February.
	I want to return to something else.
	Oh, tell people how to get the tickets, Mr. Snurdley says.
	I hate that.
	Have I got a 1-800?
	I don't know.
	Go to steidabyte.com.
	S-T-E-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E.com.
	And that will connect you to all five theaters.
	Or you can go to my website, markstein.com, or you can go to stidodline.com, and you will get full information there on how to get tickets for this exhilarating, exhilarating tour.
	Now I'm going to move on to actual cease promotion.
	I don't want to get on.
	Rush does a great job, by the way, when he's talking about Rush Revere and everything, the way he seamlessly integrates it into the content of the show.
	And I haven't developed that knack yet.
	So that's why Liberty the Talking Horse is going to be the next guest host on the show.
	Anyway, we have got a story I mentioned yesterday, and this was in a German magazine, German liberal magazine, De Spiegel, about how the NSA, it just revealed this en pass on, this fascinating De Spiegel article about the NSA surveillance state.
	And it revealed that the NSA intercepts newly purchased computer products mid-shipment and installs NSA surveillance software into the computer before it's then shipped on to the person of interest.
	And I mentioned that I rather casually said, so if you read that ostensibly innocent story about how all these millions of dissatisfied customers of FedEx and UPS failed to have their Christmas presents delivered in time for Christmas Eve as promised.
	And in fact, they were not delivered until December the 26th after Christmas.
	And they say, oh, well, you know, sometimes we fall down on the job.
	Unfortunately for them, this story came up on the very same day that De Spiegel revealed that the government of the United States, when certain people buy computers and the computer is shipped from Best Buy to, you know, Third Cave on the Left in wherever it is, they intercept the shipment along the way and install government surveillance software.
	This is called something called the TAO, the TAO, TAO, Office of Tailored Access Operations, can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops.
	At these load stations, agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics so that they can see whatever it is that the jihadist or whoever it is, the national security threat, is typing as he types it.
	Now, FedEx, the Daily Caller reports today that FedEx and UPS haven't said much since it was revealed Sunday that the National Security Agency intercepts electronic packages to install spyware.
	But what they have said implies that they knew what the agency was up to.
	In response to inquiries from the Daily Caller to shipping companies UPS and FedEx asking whether they had knowledge of such a program and if they cooperated with the NSA, FedEx media relations Scott Fiedler responded with the following.
	The answer to your questions about permission cooperation, etc., is no.
	Now, notice what he's not saying there.
	He's not saying it doesn't happen.
	He's not saying they don't do it.
	He's only saying that they do not give their permission and they do not cooperate.
	UPS declined to comment on repeated requests.
	And again, it's worth thinking about the point at which technological power rises to meet a government's needs.
	Tocqueville wrote about this two centuries ago.
	It's one of those passages of Tocqueville that people don't pay a lot of attention to.
	But he points out that in medieval Europe, in theory, a king had absolute power over every aspect of your life.
	The king had, as a point of law, the king had absolute power over you and every aspect of your life.
	But in practice, he couldn't actually do much about it because you were hundreds of miles from the palace.
	You were sitting there in your broken down old farm getting on with your life.
	And the king could not actually intrude on daily aspects of your life, even if he wanted to.
	So like once every couple of years, he might send some pantalooned twit prancing into your dooryard to say you've got to pay 15 votes for the bovine flatulence tax or whatever.
	But he was not, he was not, other than that, he couldn't actually interfere with every aspect of your life.
	We now have a situation where technology can enable the state to examine every aspect of your life.
	And again, it's like the Obamacare thing, where basically the left doesn't care about Obamacare, all these fixes on the fly, all these changes in the law that Obama and Kathleen Sebelius make on a day-to-day basis.
	You know, they wake up on Tuesday and they're thinking they're going to cut those guys in the individual market a break, so they change the law on that.
	And then they wake up on Thursday and they decide they've got a problem on the small business front, so they change the law on that.
	What powers, if the king has those powers for healthcare, why do you assume it stops with healthcare?
	We now have a situation where FedEx and UPS are not prepared to deny that the government of the United States stops computers in mid-shipment and adds government surveillance material to them.
	And we know this stuff exists.
	Everybody's got it in their car.
	I had a car crash the other day, a fairly serious car crash.
	Like four seconds later, the OnStar thing comes on and the OnStar guy wants to have a conversation with me about the crash.
	And I'm all concussed and hallucinating and bashed up.
	And I'm saying, look, can you give me 10 minutes to collect my thoughts?
	I don't want to speak to you after four seconds.
	That technology is already in your car.
	The De Spiegel in Germany says they put it in the computers of people they consider persons of interest.
	And we think, oh, well, that means like they're putting it in the computers of guys in Yemen.
	And they're putting it in the guise of the computer of that guy in Benghazi who's walking around, even though he takes full credit for killing an American ambassador.
	But what if they're just putting it in the computers of everybody?
	Why wouldn't that be easiest to do?
	What's to stop them doing that?
	The panopticon state, that's the word I use to describe it.
	The panopticon was a type of prison designed by Jeremy Bentham, who was an English philosopher in the 18th century.
	And it was basically a prison where one guard could see, it was designed so that a single watchman could observe every aspect of life in the prison.
	In other words, the prisoner was never out of sight of the guards.
	And they built prisons along that design.
	I went down to Philadelphia to see the old state penitentiary there.
	And that is built as a panoptican prison.
	It's the one where they put Al Capone there.
	My kids and I toured Al Capone's jail cell, and they were thrilled by it because he had all this plush red carpet.
	And they've maintained the cell exactly it was when he was in there.
	And he had all this plush red carpet.
	It looks like a Martha Stewart has decorated his jail cell.
	He's got this fantastic radio that he could, that's playing the station he liked to listen to and all the rest of it.
	But basically that thing was constructed in the early 19th century as a panoptican prison where no matter what you were doing, no matter where you were, you were never out of sight of the watchman watching over you.
	And we are now building a panoptican state where law-abiding people, again, if you're using a fake social security number, if you're basically living in the shadows, if you've opted out of that, you can still live a life free from the 24-7 scrutiny of the state.
	But when De Spiegel says that the United States government is putting software in computers after you order them, that will enable them to see everything you're doing as you do it.
	And FedEx and UPS don't deny that this is happening.
	The Panopticon State is being erected before our eyes.
	Mark Steinen for Rush on Open Year Tuesday, 1-800-282-2882.
	Anything you want to talk about from 2013 or anything you think is going to be big in 2014.
	We'll take your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in Farush on America's number one radio show.
	Let's go to Jeff in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
	Jeff, it's great to have you with us.
	Happy New Year to you.
	Oh, thank you very much, Mark.
	Now, as far as this year is concerned, the biggest story that came out is Mark Snowden and the NSA, and I'll tell you why.
	I call the NSA the American Stasi, along with another person, Angela Merkel, who said it way before I did.
	You see, the East German Stasi, what they did was they kept track of all the East German citizens and those who spoke out against the East German communist leadership, which we do have a communist Muslim as our president, who took people off the streets, put a black bag over their head and took them away for criticizing the leadership of that country.
	And that's going to eventually happen in this country.
	That was the Stasi in East Germany.
	Basically, the East German state had this network of people spying on everything.
	And they would even get your kids to spy.
	If you were a family and you were suspicious, they'd entrap your kids and get them to spy on you.
	You're exactly right, Mark.
	Mark, you're one of my heroes.
	I love listening to you when you replace Rush Limbaugh, when you replace Rush Limbaugh when he's gone.
	And as far as where this country is heading towards, we're heading in the exact same direction as every communist country on the planet.
	And we're heading in the same direction, which is the 330 knock at the door.
	The police will grab you, put the black bag over your head, probably foreign soldiers, and all distance will be carted away.
	Well, Jeff, that is an interesting point.
	But you know, the one advantage that the communist Eastern Europe has is when the communists took over, people understood that these guys were control freaks and that they were now living in a state where every aspect, totalitarianism is in its political sense, modern political sense, essentially, it was developed by Mussolini, that everything is within the state.
	That is what Italian fascists believe.
	That is what German Nazis believed.
	That is what Russian communists believe.
	And it has a great clarifying simplicity about that.
	Because when you're talking about jack boots and when you're talking about the 3 a.m. knock on the door, everybody understands what that means.
	What is happening here is something more insidious.
	And for that reason, it's harder for millions and millions of your fellow Americans, Jeff, to see what's going on.
	Because you might not need to slip the bag over the guy's head.
	You might not need to knock him on the door at 3 a.m. If you can just destroy his life in other ways.
	This surveillance state, for example, which is apparently necessary to the NSA, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, he lied to Congress.
	He was asked a direct question by Senator Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, about whether the agency is collecting data on millions of Americans.
	And he denied it.
	He said it wasn't, Clapper said.
	This guy Clapper is a contemptible man and is actually entirely representative of the lifetime hacks who infest far too much of the intelligence community in Washington.
	And this guy Clapper, he said not deliberately, not wittingly, and subsequently explained that that was the least untruthful answer he could give in a non-classified setting.
	In other words, he lied to the people's representatives and he admitted he lied, but said he would have lied less to them if they'd been in some classified setting.
	That's a serious thing.
	That's a serious thing.
	Now, when you take it together with what we learn from the IRS, we learn that the IRS, through a chain of command that cannot be discerned, we know that the head of the IRS, this is the most powerful agency in the government because it's the only, it's the agency that is given the powers to seize everything you have.
	Some bureaucrat whose name you don't know can make a decision to freeze your bank accounts, to take out a lien on your house, to seize your car, to freeze your kid's bank account, if necessary.
	If your 12-year-old kid has got a little bank account because his grandma gave him some money and he's put some money to save up there and he's gone and done a...
	He lives in one of the few remaining jurisdictions in the United States in which it's legal to sell homemade lemonade on the front lawn and he made 28 bucks selling homemade lemonade and he put that in his little account.
	The IRS can seize that too.
	And so when you then have what was revealed to us in the Lois Lerner scandal, that the IRS, for political reasons, does not apply the laws equally, but applies the laws according to who enjoys the political favor of the regime.
	And if you don't enjoy the political favor, they come after you and torment you and tie you up in paperwork and tie you up in bureaucracy and tie you up in hyper-regulation.
	And if you do that effectively enough, if you know, if the NSA gives you the power to know who your political opponents are, and the IRS gives you the power to torment those political opponents, torment them into bankruptcy if necessary, then maybe you don't need to do the midnight knock on the door and the bag on the head because you can just ensnare them in bureaucracy and destroy their lives that way.
	And this has been a watershed year for both the totality of government power in America, the revelation that government sees everything and knows everything, except, you know, which crazy Chechen Dagestani jihadists are planning on blowing up the Boston Marathon.
	That they don't know, no matter how many foreign intelligence agencies point it out to them, that they don't know.
	That they don't have a clue about.
	But they know everything about you, and the IRS gives them the power to get you.
	This has been a deeply disturbing year for the integrity of government in the United States.
	Hey, yeah.
	Happy New Year to you.
	Happy Hogman A.
	The season of guest hosts is drawing to a close.
	We're kind of in the, what is it, the 11 Lords of Leapin phase of the 12 Days of Guest Hosts.
	Best of Rush tomorrow.
	Rush returns live Thursday to start a whole new year of excellence in broadcasting.
	Mayor Elect, by the way, if you're spending New Year in Times Square tonight and you're watching Sonia Sotomayor drop the ball.
	She's been invited to drop the ball in Times Square.
	Sonia Sotomayo, America's Chief Justice in Waiting.
	And you want to do something romantic with your loved one, you should go and have a horse-drawn carriage ride in Central Park.
	You've all seen these, like if you've been to New York, Midtown Manhattan, seen the horse-drawn carriages plying their trade.
	But Mayor de Blasio, incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio, has promised to abolish them.
	They will no longer be seen in Central Park or on the streets of Manhattan.
	He's going to get them alternative, so-called alternative means of ferrying tourists around Central Park.
	I don't know what that may, whether it's going to be the Chevy Vault.
	I'm not sure whether a fully charged Chevy Vault is actually capable of doing a quick tour of Central Park.
	It may be the equine flatulence issue that we were talking about yesterday that has caused Bill de Blasio.
	It may be the horses of Central Park responsible for global warming, but we don't know.
	But he's going to arrange some alternative means of transportation.
	You know, Idi Armin, I don't want to give Mayor de Blasio ideas, but Idi Armin, when he ran the show in Uganda, on one occasion, I can't remember what it was.
	Maybe he was inaugurating himself or something.
	And he got six British businessmen from Kampala to carry him around through the streets in a sedan chair.
	So maybe, given the tax rates in New York City, maybe Mayor de Blasio could actually have teams of Manhattan businessmen pulling the carriages around Central Park.
	Well, I don't know what's going to happen to the horses.
	I think in theory, the horses are going to be enjoying an upscale retirement for a unionized horse farm up on the Hudson River in beautiful scenic upstate New York.
	But if the reality may well be that they're going to be in the frying pad or part of the last working glue factory at New York.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, these horses are heading for the knacker's yard, as they say in British English, and they're going to be replaced by something else.
	So maybe the six businessmen, maybe you can adopt the Iddi Armin model.
	Let us go to Michael in Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Michael, thanks for waiting.
	You are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Happy New Year.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	Happy year.
	And I suppose out of all the scandals and lies, et cetera, that's happened this past year, it's hard to pick out one particularly.
	I guess the most amazing thing that's happened to me this year is the fact that nothing's been done about any of them.
	Nobody so much has lost their jobs.
	No.
	And you're right.
	Don't let that go, Michael, because you're right.
	And it's beyond losing the jobs.
	The IRS is institutionally corrupt.
	You need someone to collect taxes.
	You need an agency for that.
	But when this agency has revealed the level of corruption, then it needs to be replaced by something else.
	Nobody's willing to do that.
	That's kind of where I'm concerned because I'm a Republican.
	And I'll admit it, I voted for Obama in 2008 because I despise Bush so bad because of things like, well, you brought up earlier, the Patriot Act.
	And that's what really fuels the NSA that everybody's up in arms about.
	Because to people that have been paying attention, when George Bush W signed the Patriot Act, that gave the NSA the power to do these things.
	And so the fact that it came up as such a shock this year, You know, that blows my mind as well.
	Yeah, but let's, let's let's walk this back a bit.
	You voted for Obama in 2008 because you were anti-Bush.
	Do you feel exactly?
	Do you feel on balance that worked out for you, that vote?
	Absolutely.
	Of course, see, to me, Obama just continued what I believe George W. would have done, you know, which, you know, I believe that George W. and his buddies separated the Republican Party by how he handled a situation in 01.
	And, you know, and everything's kind of spawned from that.
	And Obama, even though he didn't.
	Well, wait a minute.
	Michael, let's go back to that.
	I oppose the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
	You said something very interesting.
	Nobody's been fired.
	You know what was the most disgusting thing about the political aftermath of 9-11?
	And I wrote about this.
	If you go deep in the bowels of the, actually, if you buy my book, Face of the Tiger, there's a piece in there that I think appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and a bunch of other papers about two weeks after 9-11 where I said, why has no one been fired?
	It's absolutely, you had a failure of all the big hotshot money-no object acronyms.
	They all failed.
	The INS, the immigration guy, the State Department, those guys got into this country on joke visas.
	The visas they used were revealed under Freedom of Information Act requests.
	And they'd put down on there address in the United States.
	And they had written Hotel America.
	That's it.
	Address in the United States.
	Hotel America.
	But the State Department and the INS and everybody gave them the visa and let them in.
	An octogenarian snowbird from Toronto who's been going to his condo in Orlando.
	Couldn't get away with writing that on his U.S. immigration paperwork.
	But a bunch of guys in Saudi Arabia.
	Nobody got fired for that.
	Nobody got fired for that.
	The FAA, if you listen to the transcripts and somebody at some airport or other is trying to get an instruction on what to do, and the woman says, well, sorry, everybody's just left the room.
	They froze in place at the FAA and they all left the room.
	Every single big, hotshot, money-no-object acronym of the federal government failed on September 11th, and not a single person got fired for it.
	And so now it's no wonder nobody gets fired for anything.
	If you don't fire anyone for what happened on September 11th, if you just give them a whole, you know, if you just check, the INS got changed to that it got put in the Department of Homeland Security and is now part of, what's it called, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
	So it's now, you know, three different letters, same lousy service.
	They gave them new cap badges.
	The U.S. government response was to create a whole lot of new departments and bureaus and agencies, same lousy stuff who got the buildings blown up, but now with hot new cap badges.
	That was what the response was, Michael, on September 11th.
	And none of that, the United States government had the power to wage war against the terrorists on September the 10th, 2001.
	And it did not need, it did not need these vast, blundering, bloated, behemoth bureaucratic reforms that gave us the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA and all the rest of it.
	So you're right about that, Michael.
	Question is now, what do we do next?
	Where do we go now?
	How do we roll this stuff back?
	Well, I guess my question to you would be, well, the news.
	Does government have any unfortunate relationship with them?
	Because today I watched the news and the headline.
	Well, yesterday the headline was Obamacare enrollment soaring at 1.1 million enrollees.
	Right, right.
	But 5 million policies get canceled.
	Most of those policies covered multiple people.
	It's a blatant disregard for obvious fact to push some agenda that, you know, hopefully, you know, I think W would have tried to do the same thing, though.
	I think it is an agenda that government is trying to impose on us.
	Well, you know, you can make that argument.
	And we have a two-party system.
	And it's difficult to get a third party going here.
	This is not a parliamentary system.
	In continental countries, parties come and go with amazing frequency.
	Even in the Anglosphere, in the British Commonwealth system, new parties can start and succeed.
	The Conservative Party, the old Conservative Party in Canada, collapsed 20 years ago, was reduced to two seats in the House of Commons.
	And an aggressive Western Reform Party started up, and eventually that wound up swallowing the rump of the old Conservative Party, and you now have a Conservative government in Canada again.
	But we don't have that fluidity.
	We've just got these two behemoths to work within.
	And the fact is that the Republican Party is still at least nominally committed to reversing that stuff.
	And you have the advantage.
	You have the advantage in this system, which is different from almost anywhere on the planet, is that you get not just to vote for the party, but to vote for the candidate, to choose the candidate you want to represent the party.
	So it doesn't matter whether it's in my state in New Hampshire, where we're trying to find some guy to take back the Senate seat and some guy to take back the second congressional district or in your state in Tennessee, is that the unique aspect of the American system is that the voters pick the candidate who represents the party.
	And if you do that right, you've got to get people in who are serious about this stuff, serious about reining back the spending.
	And that means abolishing a lot of these useless agencies, bureaus, department, and a lot of the useless activities and damaging activities that they engage in.
	So it's not just a question of saying, ah, pox on both their houses.
	Both these parties are useless.
	Both of them are going nowhere.
	The Democrats, the left are brilliant at using the Democratic Party to advance their will.
	And the right do not do the same as effectively with the Republican Party.
	Now, the left are assisted by this because they also control the culture.
	And that's why far more important than getting the right guy elected on a Tuesday in November is changing the culture.
	We saw that with this latest, the gay outrage from GLAAD over Phil Robertson.
	Basically, in 2008, gay lobby groups were in favor of gay marriage, but President Obama wasn't, and nor was John McCain.
	President Obama catches up to the gay lobby group, and now the Republicans are playing catcher because it's more important to change the culture.
	The culture, culture leads politics.
	Once the culture has changed, it's asking an awful lot of squishy, jelly-spine politicians to stand up for principles.
	So the culture is where these real battlegrounds are being fought.
	Mark Stein for Rush, more in a moment.
	Mark Stein, in for Rush, Catabit tweets The story I was talking about, Mayor de Blasio abolishing the horse carriage rides in Central Park.
	Canemett tweets, so does this mean the end of the buggy whip industry as well?
	No, no, no.
	The fact that there are no horses in New York City taking tourists around Central Park anymore is actually all the more reason why we need a federal bailout of the buggy whip industry to enable them to, at the moment, because they've lost their horses, they have nothing to whip.
	But if we have a federal bailout of the buggy whip industry, then we will be able to invest in training, and that will enable them to use their buggy whips to whip different kinds of creatures, such as Republicans, conservatives, Tea Party members, and so forth.
	So it does not mean the fact that we've gotten rid of horses in New York City does not mean that we don't, the buggy whip industry is not vital to the American economy and not deserving of a federal bailout.
	So I want to make that absolutely clear.
	I also had a couple of queries from people who wanted to know the name of the book we were talking about with Mallory Factor in the last hour.
	The book is called Shadow Bosses.
	And it's about the influence of unions on government.
	And it's a fascinating read because it explains so much.
	And it's called Shadow Bosses, and that's Mallory Factor.
	And that's who we were talking to in the last hour.
	Speaking of which, let's go to Dick in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
	Dick, you're the last caller on the Rush Limbaugh Show for 2013.
	What's on your mind?
	Hey, Mark.
	Yeah, shadow bosses.
	I wanted to pick up on that and just talk about the power of the unions and the hypocrisy of the leadership.
	Unions are coming out strong for immigration, which should seem to backfire for the workers that they're supposed to be interested in supporting.
	Well, I think there's a very simple answer to that, Dick, is they're not really interested in advancing the economic health of the industries they're supposedly engaged in.
	They're principally interested now in transferring what I call low-information donors, getting access to their funds and using them to fund big government and the Democratic Party.
	So if you can get in millions and millions of illegal immigrants and persuade them to fund big government and the Democratic Party and the union machine, who cares what it does to the health of the industry or to low-skilled, low-waged workers in America?
	That's not a priority for them, Dick.
	Well, I think that's interesting, and I think that I agree with what you just said.
	It's really a push for the one-party rule.
	They believe they're going to be part of the elite and the political class in the one-party rule.
	And so immigration, while it's bad for workers, somehow they're in favor of it.
	This connects a little bit to the other word for 2013.
	For me, the big word in 2013, which I hadn't heard in years, is George Orwell, the whole notion of Orwellian and the whole notion of just how the lie and speak, how the words are twisted.
	And so connecting the dots between leftists who support unions internationally and unions bring policy from the left through their funding of the Democratic Party.
	And so we end up with a Democratic Party, which is really facilitated by unions.
	And what do they bring to the party?
	They demand the implementation of leftist policy.
	You're absolutely right, Dick.
	It's a somewhat dispiriting note to end on for 2013.
	Orwellian.
	Orwellian.
	That's the word that came back in 2013 with the NSA and other things.
	Thanks for your calls.
	We'll wrap it up after this.
	Archive We'll take a cup again this year for the sake of old Langstein.
	This has been old Langstein sitting in on America's number one radio show, The Rush Limbaugh Show.
	And who is that, Mike?
	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians?
	Oh, of course, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.
	This is Mark Steiner, one man, Royal Canadians.
	I've had a blast sitting in for the last couple of days.
	But the age of guest hosts is drawing to a close.
	Rush will be back with the best of Rush tomorrow.
	And then live on Thursday.
	I'll see you down in Florida in a few weeks' time.
	And a happy new year from one and all to you and yours.
	Have a great 2014.

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