By Terry Krepel

Rush Limbaugh started his show by returning to the case of the Highland Park, Illinois, high school's girls' basketball team that decided not to go to a tournament in Arizona due to the state's new law on illegal immigrants, noting complaints by the mayor of Highland Park, Illinois, that Rush is responsible for him getting emails over the controversy. If the school is worried that a team member is in the country illegally then the Arizona law is working, Rush said, adding that liberals calling for a boycott of Arizona are "cowards." Rush then complained about a school in St. Louis that is sending students to view the Gulf of Mexico oil slick, portraying the students the victims of indoctrinators disguised by educators. Rush then suggested that the Highland Park school can send those kids to the U.S.-Mexico border to see what the real problem is, adding that the problem isn't Joe Arpaio. Rush later declared that Boston should be added to the boycott list because people allegedly connected to Faisal Shahzad were arrested there on immigration-related charges.

Rush also tore into the cap-and-trade bill introduced by “the haughty John Kerry,” claiming that it will replace cooking stoves in Africa and that the authors of the bill admit it will cause energy prices to skyrocket. Liberals want utility bills to be so high you won't use them, he said, because they want to control you. Rush then claimed that liberals' focus on debunking the discredited rumors about Elena Kagan's supposed sexual orientation is about baiting GOP senators to say something about it in order to paint them as bigots. Apparently, portraying Kagan as a "Chaz Bono lookalike" does not constitute focusing on her sexual orientation as far as Rush is concerned.

At one point Rush took a call from a man who ranted that Obama doesn't acknowledge white people, that Democrats favor Muslims and minorities, and that Obama won't send troops to Arizona to enforce immigration laws because he'll be perceived by Hispanics as “sending whitey” down there. Rush didn't interrupt the caller's rant, and when the caller asked Rush if his rant was too extreme, Rush responded, “you're right down the line.” Rush got upset only when the caller said that Republicans weren't doing anything to oppose the Obama agenda. Rush also read at length from an attack on Obama and Kagan by The American Spectator's Quin Hillyer, which begins, “Who the hell does Barack Obama, this morally preening, arrogant hypocrite, think he is?” Rush then ridiculed Miss America contestants who claimed they wanted to “make a difference,” adding, “Hitler made a difference.”

Here are some highlights from today's show:

Rush: “These people on the left are just pure simple ... cowards” on AZ immigration law

Limbaugh calls fears of AZ law leading to racial profiling “wacko accusations”

Limbaugh: Obama “regime” creating a “path of destruction,” energy bill intended to “control”

Limbaugh says people who “want to matter” are “lure[d] ... in” to environmental activism, links to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter

Lester Leavitt contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire