Morning Update: The Face

Ms. Gonzalez didn’t have to steal an identity. She could have the food stamps, health care, mortgage, driver’s license, and job while being illegal. And, if Democrats get their way, she’d get amnesty too!

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ESPN Apologies for Musburger... Armstrong Will Cry to Oprah and Everything Will be Cool... Cliff Deal Didn't Touch Rich... National Cathedral to Perform Same-Sex Marriages...

There Goes My New Year's Resolution

RUSH: So I had this unstated New Year's resolution.  I didn't tell anybody about it.  I didn't even tell Kathryn about it.  Just very private, unstated New Year's resolution, and it very simply was to become more low profile, to not get noticed.

For-Profit Medicine Under Attack

RUSH: Even when I think I'm wrong about something I usually end up being right. So I said, many times my usual attitude of warning you, particularly those of you in the medical professions, why should there be profit in making people well?  Why should healing involve profit?  Why should that cost anything?  Why should that cost any more than what it costs?  Well, let me take you to what I hold here now in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers...

And Now a Little Low-Info News

RUSH:  Can you imagine Nightline viewers watching this?  They had to be literally outraged at Nicki Minaj.  That's after they get ticked off at the Republicans and Bush... Did you hear about the blowout between Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Garnett? 

David Brooks on Why Obama Chose Hagel

RUSH: Because he's a Republican, it will be easier for Obama to dismantle the military if there is a Republican defense secretary at the time.  That's Brooks' theory.  Now, some people disagree with Brooks' theory on the basis that Hagel's not a popular Republican.