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RUSH: Here's Nancy in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi. CALLER: Greetings, Rush. I've listened to you probably since the late nineties, and all your sayings kind of stick in my head. I've heard you say things over and over through the years, like one of them especially is "once a liberal, always a liberal." The other one is "conservatism will always win." I don't know why that's not happening this year. We've got a guy, I mean, wouldn't it be great if someone who raises their hand and swears to defend...

Hawker Beechcraft Chairman and CEO Bill Boisture said targeting of the private aircraft industry both in terms of user fees and fiscal proposals appears to be intentional, and called fiscal policies such as user fees and depreciation schedules “irresponsible.” The perceived attacks have damaged customer confidence, and contributed to some, perhaps the last 25 percent, of all employee layoffs and workforce reductions, Boisture said. “To have singled out our industry is irresponsible,” he said. “It must be intended,” he said in later comments. In other remarks, Boisture said his staff decided long ago to treat the current recession as “the...

KINGSTON, Ontario, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A Canadian retiree, angry because his credit card payments are processed south of the border, got even by paying his bill a few pennies at a time. Don Rogers of Kingston, Ontario, also hopes that his massive credit card statement will land him in the Guinness Book of World Records. He paid the bill on line in a total of 985 separate payments. What set Rogers off is the idea of his credit card statements being available to U.S. authorities under the Patriot Act. "Us retired guys are the most dangerous, because we have...

Apple Computer Inc. has retaliated against the publisher of an upcoming unauthorized biography about chief executive Steve Jobs by removing dozens of other technology books sold by the publisher from Apple stores around the world. Apple removed the books last week from all 104 of its stores after failing in a monthlong attempt to persuade John Wiley & Sons not to release "iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business," which is to go on sale within the next six weeks, the publisher said. The book-spurning is only the latest attempt by Apple executives to crack...