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(Highlights)“It’s going to get worse if they pass these stimulus plans. Remember Bushes first stimulus? It was obvious that wouldn’t work and they would come back for an even bigger stimulus. Stimulus’s are the equivalent of throwing gasoline on the fire. The problem with our economy is too much spending and too much borrowing. Unfortunately the solution is this recession, that credit is reigned in, that Americans don’t buy new cars and don’t buy new houses and start saving their money. We need capital available for private enterprise.” “This recession is not the problem. It’s the consequence of the problem....

Joe Biden was backtracking big-time over suggestions that Obama-Biden might bring criminal charges against Pres Bush. "I don't know where that report is coming from," said the Delaware senator. Why, from Joe Biden is where. Speaking in Deerfield Beach, Fla, this week, Biden was asked whether "you are going to pursue violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration." Biden's reply: "Yes. We will not be 'estopped' from pursuing any criminal offenses that occurred" during the Bush years. What about Obama? Last April he said he would "have my justice Department and my AG immediately review...

ANNAPOLIS -- An immigration rights group says the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration is violating state law by denying driver's licenses to illegal aliens... ...Maryland law does not bar illegal aliens from receiving driver's licenses, and the Democrat-controlled General Assembly has killed legislation to change that over the past several years... ...More than 20 states have laws prohibiting illegal aliens from obtaining driver's licenses. Virginia recently enacted such restrictions in response to public outrage that its lax security enabled the September 11, 2001, hijackers to obtain state IDs...

Rush Limbaugh, the most successful conservative radio personality ever, must come clean over allegations of drug abuse, or he's toast. I say this sadly, since I'm one of Rush's 23 million fans. Allegations that he illegally obtained and used huge amounts of addictive pain pills like OxyContin, the "hillbilly heroin," can't be papered over with "let's stick to the issues," as Rush told his listeners yesterday.