Rush Limbaugh has emerged unbowed from a Kafkaesque journey through Florida's justice system.(Brief article)

Rush Limbaugh has emerged unbowed from a Kafkaesque journey through Florida's justice system. While addressing painful medical conditions, Rush became addicted to painkillers. He faced the problem, sought treatment, and has been clean for nearly three years. That should have been the end of the story. Instead, an ambitious state prosecutor from Palm Beach County, a Democrat, saw an opportunity to make hay by persecuting a conservative icon. Public resources budgeted for corralling real offenders were instead lavished on this shabby investigation. Rush's private medical records were seized and shamefully leaked to the media, although they proved no crimes. The investigation became an innuendo spigot, spewing rumors of rampant drug trafficking, money laundering, etc. There was only one constant: Rush insisted that he was innocent, and rebuffed browbeating ...