Morning Update: Fix Is In

 Apparently, Obama’s EPA has been secretly involved in a “sue-and-settle” scam with environmentalist groups.

Quick Hits Page

Holder Joins Lawsuit Against Lance Armstrong... Detroit Tops Forbes Most Miserable City List... "The Americans" on FX...

The Regime's Sensitivity Training

RUSH: This Samuel Betances guy, you should know, is from Chicago, and his sensitivity program was started under Mayor Daley, and a lot of this nonsense is from a guy by the name of Howard Zinn... Howard Zinn's textbooks are being used all over the country.  

Two Health Tips to Start the Day

RUSH: Two health tips... If you're not 44 yet and you're smoking, have at it...  Have only 500 calories a day for two days a week (but not days in a row), and the other five days go to town and enjoy yourself.

What Makes Me Ashamed of My Country

RUSH: If we've gotten to the point, in my mind, where we have to take time and tell adults in this country, "No, the Republicans don't want your son to starve" -- if we actually have to take time and say that, and then whether or not they believe it is an open question -- then what's there to be proud of?  If hundreds of thousands, or millions, whatever, adults actually believe that there are people who want their kids to starve in this country, then not only is that shameful, it's just downright embarrassing. 

Drive-Bys Change Tune on Sequesteria?

RUSH:  What happened yesterday to make these people all of a sudden say, "You know what?  It isn't gonna be that bad." I wonder what coulda happened yesterday that made these media people actually start telling the truth about this?  Anybody have any ideas? 

Let's Just Freeze Spending

RUSH: That would have been a relatively painless way to go about this. It was sensible, but, boy, it just didn't fit the political template of the Democrat Party. You just don't do that. "What? Freeze the budget? No new spending? Why, that's absurd! Government can't function without new spending."