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"RUSH: I don't understand this, folks. I literally don't understand this. I thought we were in the middle of a robust recovery. I thought we're going to nail these evil Goldman Sachs guys to the cross today. I thought we were going to have health care for everybody. And look at this, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is tanking, down 143 points, 140 -- well, 136 now. "Stocks fell late Tuesday morning after growing consumer confidence and the latest round of upbeat earnings reports mostly offset fresh concerns about Greece's debt problems." So we're back to Greece. Rush Limbaugh, the...

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." The acidulous wisdom of Mark Twain speaks to us across the ages, and never more than this week during the great congressional mobilization to save America's ports from the dreaded hand of Dubai. The furor over Dubai is misplaced on so many levels, but let's start with the supposed terrorist threat. Military and CIA officials will tell you privately that the United Arab Emirates is among the most effective intelligence partners the United States has today in the Arab world. Their operatives are...