Rush and Gorby.(Insider Report)

For nearly four years, Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the murderous Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which resulted in the death of millions of Afghans. Tens of thousands of children were left maimed by Soviet anti-personnel mines disguised as children's toys. in the late 1980s, Gorbachev ordered crackdowns against independence movements in the Baltic states and elsewhere in the captive Soviet "republics." Soviet military and secret police operations in Vilnius, Lithuania and Tiblisi, Georgia, left thousands of civilians dead.

During the early years of his talk radio career, Rush Limbaugh frequently, and mercilessly, mocked those who swooned over the former Soviet dictator and regarded him as an apostle of world peace and human rights. Yet on June 13 Rush himself joined that rapturous throng during the 80th birthday party of former president George H.W. Bush in Houston.

"All of the eulogists at the national funeral for Ronald Reagan, other than Margaret Thatcher, were in ...