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RUSH: Megan in Baltimore. Great to have you with us. Hi. CALLER: Hi. Thank you so much, Rush, for taking my call. I appreciate it. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: I just wanted to talk to you about the fact that I really hope you’re right that, you know, all this that’s going on between Elijah Cummings and the president results in Baltimore getting cleaned up because it really is… It’s full of really great people, but it is rat infested, like, even the nice parts. I think a lot of people here actually have lived here their whole lives and...

In today’s 24-hours news cycle, many people wish they could isolate themselves from reality for a variety of reasons. For some, it would be absolutely heaven to block all news. It seems like a far-fetched idea, but one liberal in Ohio has actually done it since the day after the presidential election 2016 in an experiment known as "The Blockade." The New York Times published the story today. “Right after the election, Erik Hagerman decided he’d take a break from reading about the hoopla of politics.Donald Trump’s victory shook him. Badly. And so Mr. Hagerman developed his own eccentric experiment,...