On Monday, Rush Limbaugh closed his daily three-hour radio show with an announcement that shocked his millions of fans: he has Stage IV lung cancer. For many conservatives (and even some Leftists), Rush has been a regular radio experience for all or part of the last thirty-plus years.  Day in and day out, five days a week, Rush talks for three hours at a time.  He's never boring, he never loses focus, and he never fails to offer some interesting insight or analysis that helps people make sense of the deluge of (usually biased) information the mainstream media put out daily. (You can read the full transcript here.) In all those years, Rush has never deviated from his principled conservatism.  He doesn't pander, and he doesn't have situational ethics.  He's always guided by a rock-solid belief in the Constitution, in the American people, and in the free market, whether the free market of ideas or the free market...(Read Full Post)