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RIP Rush Limbaugh

2021-02-17T13:41:00.001-05:00

It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Rush Limbaugh, a giant of American broadcasting, a uniquely talented performer, and a hugely generous man to whom I owe almost everything.
Rush died this morning, after a year-long struggle with lung cancer. I was scheduled to guest-host today's show. Instead, as you can hear, his beloved Kathryn will be introducing a special program put together by the EIB team to celebrate a great man's life and legacy. It's a hard thing to do - compressing a glorious third-of-a-century into three hours - but Snerdley, Kraig, Mike, Allie and everyone else I've worked with there for so many years will do their best.
Usually, in this line of work, if you're lucky, you get a moment - a year or two when you're the in-thing - and you hope to hold enough of that moment as it slowly fades away to keep you going till retirement. Rush did something unprecedented in the history of TV and radio. Commercial broadcasting began in the United States in 1920: The Rush Limbaugh Show came along two-thirds of a century later, became the Number One program very quickly, and has stayed at the top all the way to today - for a third of the entire history of the medium. And throughout all those decades Rush and his show stayed exactly the same: a forensic breakdown of the day's news, punctuated by musical parodies, satirical sketches, and Rush's own optimism and good humor, even through this last terrible year.

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My father liked to caution me with the old saw that the graveyard is full of indispensable men. But, as the conventional bias of the legacy media yielded to something far more severe from the woke billionaires of Social Media, Rush remained the Big Voice on the Right, the largest obstacle to the complete marginalization of conservative ideas in our culture. All of us who labored in his shadows owe it to him to continue the fight.

To modify Rush's tag line: Talent returned to God.

Much more at the link.

An Open Letter to President Trump

2021-01-30T14:06:00.000-05:00

Open letter to President Trump by Patrice Lewis

Dear President Trump:

We voted for you because you promised not to be a politician. You proved yourself by doing something no politician has ever done: You kept your campaign promises.

When you first took office, you didn't whine that you inherited a sucky economy (which you did). You didn't claim there was nothing you could do to fix it. Instead, you rolled up your sleeves – and fixed it. Tens of millions of Americans found jobs that sustained their dignity. The economy roared. Did the left give you credit for that? Of course not.

You had an unbelievably steep learning curve for this job. Most presidential candidates aren't businessmen; they're politicians to the bone, with inept "service" careers spanning decades. They're used to the D.C. swamp and how to navigate through it … or rather, how to sink into it.

But you were thrown into the deep end of the pool and had to learn to swim in a hurry. And you did. In doing so, you discovered just how deep and vicious that swamp is, and how difficult it was to drain it. The fact that you accomplished such a staggering amount while fighting a 95% negative coverage from the fake news media is a testament to your strength, intelligence and patriotism.

From the very beginning, the left (Big Tech, Hollywood, academia, the mainstream media, the Democratic Party) ganged up against you with a viciousness never before seen in American history. They were relentless, unmerciful and unabating in their attacks. Attempts to impeach you happened even before you took office. You put the needs and will of the American people ahead of the desires and greed of the elite – and for that, they hated you.

Through it all, you handled things with a brilliant feint the left fell for over and over. While you whipped them into a frothing, panting frenzy with bombastic arrogance and infuriating tweets, behind the scenes you quietly dismantled onerous regulations, restored the economy, secured our borders, negotiated with world leaders, neutralized hostile nations, made us energy independent and appointed constitutional-minded judges.

You refused to turn the IRS into a government instrument of persecution against your political foes. You scoffed at political correctness, and instead focused on constitutional correctness. You proved we are not a country of racists, but a nation of opportunity for everyone. Under one common banner – patriotism – you united an unbelievable variety of citizens. People of all races, colors, creeds, professions, sexual orientation, faiths and walks of life came together to celebrate America. No one in high office has ever, ever done that.

You brokered peace in war-torn regions. You didn't send in troops to settle international disputes. You didn't get us into any long-term unwinnable wars. As a mom whose daughter is serving in the military, that alone fills me with profound gratitude.

While staying strictly within the bounds of the Constitution, you racked up a list of accomplishments that eclipsed the accomplishments of any past president by a long shot. This list is so massive that it defies belief. The media cover-up of those accomplishments is similarly massive, and it similarly defies belief. The media spent four years carefully excising the news to omit any positive references and make sure you never, ever got the credit you deserve for the thousands of acts you performed.

But despite all the lies told about you, the American people noticed your results. Oh yes, we noticed. We noticed with gratitude, appreciation, and a deep DEEP respect for all the bulls**t you put up with on our behalf. You literally gave a voice to the voiceless and forgotten people living in Flyover Country, those of us who have been ignored and ridiculed for decades by the Beltway elites, those of us mocked by every leftist in Hollywood and by every school and university laboring to stamp out any conservative spark. We noticed. In gratitude, we flocked to your rallies; and when you weren't available for personal appearances, we made our own rallies by car, boat and even Amish buggies.

You showed us an exciting possibility: what happens when a president actually follows the Constitution. For one dazzling term, you showed us the thrilling potential of what could happen when America was treated as a business with a nation of shareholders instead of a kingdom with serfs. You also showed us a dismal reality: how abhorrent the Constitution is to those who are sworn to uphold it.

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In short, you have been the best president this nation has known in decades, perhaps centuries. We tend to laud our Founding Fathers for pledging their "lives, fortune and sacred honor" for America. You, sir, have done the same thing – literally the same thing.

Please, Mr. Trump, stay safe. I fear for your security. These people are desperate – and evil.

Merry Christmas 2020 from The Country Store

2020-12-25T08:59:00.018-05:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my readers

Veteran's Day 2020

2020-11-11T09:50:00.001-05:00

Our thanks to the veterans who have sacrificed so much to keep this country free and who remain our bulwark against tyranny, both the brazen foreign sort and the pernicious domestic variety.

2020: Never Forget and Never Forgive 9/11

2020-09-11T01:00:00.005-04:00

Click the picture for the Remember the Blood of Heroes slideshow which serves as a reminder of reality of the longstanding war waged on us by Islamic terrorists while deep state apologists try to paper over what happened 19 years ago today.

Memorial Day 2020

2020-05-25T11:15:00.003-04:00

God please bless the men and women who have died to keep the people of this nation free. And please bless those who will die to keep that freedom safe from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Merry Christmas 2019 from The Country Store

2019-12-24T18:12:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my readers and to President Trump.

Veterans Day 2019

2019-11-11T15:57:00.002-05:00

Our thanks to the veterans who have sacrificed so much to keep this country free and who remain our bulwark against tyranny, both the brazen foreign sort and the pernicious domestic variety.

2019: Never Forget and Never Forgive 9/11

2019-09-11T10:37:00.000-04:00

July 4th - 2019 - In tribute to Betsy Ross

2019-07-04T14:58:00.002-04:00

Memorial Day 2019

2019-05-27T10:55:00.003-04:00

God please bless the men and women who have died to keep the people of this nation free. And please bless those who will die to keep that freedom safe from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Merry Christmas 2018 from the Country Store

2018-12-24T12:22:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my readers.

Picture from Calhan, Colorado where George Soros' storm troopers have not arrived yet.

Veterans Day 2018

2018-11-11T11:50:00.000-05:00

Our thanks to the veterans who have sacrificed so much to keep this country free and who remain our bulwark against tyranny, both the brazen foreign sort and the pernicious domestic variety.

The campaign ad the MSM don't want you to see

2018-11-05T16:47:00.001-05:00

Fox, CNN, and NBC have refused to run this ad, claiming it is racist. Doesn't look racist to me.

2018: Never Forget and Never Forgive 9/11

2018-09-11T00:19:00.000-04:00

July 4th - 2018

2018-07-04T12:41:00.003-04:00

Thank God this nation still has men who will stand up against tyranny.

Memorial Day 2018

2018-05-28T13:53:00.001-04:00

God please bless the men and women who have died to keep the people of this nation free. And please bless those who will die to keep that freedom safe from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Merry Christmas 2017 from The Country Store

2017-12-24T11:34:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my visitors.

Veterans Day 2017

2017-11-11T10:14:00.004-05:00

Our thanks to the veterans who have sacrificed so much to keep this country free and who remain our bulwark against tyranny, both the brazen foreign sort and the pernicious domestic variety. I just pray that 8 years of Barack Obama have not wholly corrupted military leadership, but it is a close call - Six men got a death sentence looking for Bergdahl, he might get a $300,000 reward for desertion .

Equidistant In Time Musical Interludes - I'll bite

2017-10-27T00:53:00.001-04:00

1962 (video is from 1964) - Bobby Pickett, The Monster Mash

1972 - The Osmonds, Down By The Lazy River

1982 - The Clash, Rock The Casbah

See Barnhart or Van Der Leun for an explanation.

2017: Never Forget and Never Forgive 9/11

2017-09-11T08:48:00.000-04:00

Click the picture for the Remember the Blood of Heroes slideshow which serves as a reminder of reality while apologists for Islam in the USA and Europe try to paper over what happened 16 years ago today.

July 4th - 2017

2017-07-04T11:11:00.000-04:00

"Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it."

John Adams, 1777

Memorial Day 2017

2017-05-29T10:50:00.000-04:00

God please bless the men and women who have died to keep the people of this nation free. And please bless those who will die to keep that freedom safe from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Trump Inauguration Day 2016: Our long national nightmare will shortly be over

2017-01-20T09:57:00.002-05:00

Daniel Greenfield

Day 1 is more than just a day. It’s the end of an era. It’s the end of Obama.

Berlin, November, 1989. Moscow, August, 1991. Washington D.C., January, 2017. That’s the closest you can come to describing it. It’s the fall of an evil empire. There are breaths of fresh air as the cleansing rain washes away eight years of oppression, lies and corruption into the sewers of the city.

Veterans Day 2016

2016-11-11T09:00:00.000-05:00

Lord, please bless our veterans and our troops and keep them from harm from the multitude of enemies foreign and domestic who are forever plotting the demise of this great nation.