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Did google just unintentionally admit that it discriminates against women? I would like to hear google’s explanation for why women are underrepresented at the company.By firing James Damore for saying that women are underrepresented at google due to biological differences between men and women, did google just unintentionally admit that it discriminates against women?

The current issue of Newsweek (yes, it's still in business!) has a picture of President Trump sitting in a recliner, with snacks and an iPad in his lap, pointing his TV remote at the viewer, blazoned with the headline, "Lazy Boy." Liberals only wish. Last week, the president joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) to announce legislation that would make seminal changes to our immigration laws for the first time in more than half a century, profoundly affecting the entire country. The media have chosen not to cover the RAISE Act (Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment)....

RUSH: Jerry in Daytona Beach, I’m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Rush, thank you very much, and I want to let you know that I honestly believe you are often so right so much of the time, and you made a point about the fact that the Democrats pushed Obamacare, and they didn’t have to even read it to vote for it. Because I really, truly believe that they — and I know you’ve made this point. They just wanted the system to implode, so that the next logical step would be everybody throw up...

(Andrea Parker at :07).....we have about 16 people inside, so that's good we've got lots of people inside of course there's no jury today. So the jury can't see our support..... (Andrea Parker at :32)....I want to explain what's going on inside today. The government still hasn't rested their case. The judge tried to get the defense to argue their 29A motions. These are motions that if the government fails to prove a crime, they can drop some of the charges. We all know that they won't drop some of the charges, but there's no way the defense is going...

Galveston, for Miami Vice's Sonny Crockett and his first wife Caroline. Two other music videos by Glen Campbell Wichita Lineman, for Alias' computer geek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRxpooc06E Time, for Callan's spymaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKeD7soENd8

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The individual healthcare mandate requires every American to buy health insurance or pay a fine. In 2016, 6.5 million Americans chose to pay the fine rather than sign up for insurance on the Obamacare exchanges... In addition to those who pay the fine rather than buy the mandated levels of insurance, 15 million people would drop their Obamacare coverage if it were legal to do so. This does not necessarily mean that these individuals want to go without insurance. Obamacare requires every insurance policy to cover a set of what it defines as Essential Health Benefits.[2] The more benefits that...

RUSH: This is fascinating here. The guy that wrote the manifesto’s got all kinds of people coming out and defending everything he said. Scientists at Rutgers are coming out defending the guy as having been right on point with everything. He’s basically said, “Look, don’t blame anybody. Women just aren’t as interested in tech jobs, and so therefore they’re not that well suited.” This is the reason why 25% of the tech workforce in Silicon Valley is female. Nobody’s denying them. It’s just that’s not what they want to do. And you would have thought that hell has been unleashed....

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The good news is that Sen. Charles Grassley on Tuesday asked DHS for all immigration summaries and detainers for Imran Awan, wife Hina Alvi, brothers Jamal and Abid Awan, and friends/associates Natalia Sova and Rao Abbas. Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets -- especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries. In March, I contacted the D.C. offices of House Congressional Democrats Joaquin Castro of Texas, Sander Levin of Michigan,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at his country's media for leading a campaign to oust him as he battles a series of corruption allegations. Netanyahu on Wednesday accused the media of being on "an obsessive, unprecedented hunt against me and my family to carry out a regime change" during a rally held by Israel's Likud party in support of the prime minister. Hundreds of supporters packed a Tel Aviv convention center holding signs and chanting "Bibi, King of Israel," using the prime minister's nickname. Netanyahu said that the "leftist" media is teaming up with the political opposition to...

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A really good interview. Alice Cooper on Glen Campbell

A new car engine will eventually come on the scene. This week's car watching sites have reacted to Tuesday's announcement from Mazda with interest. At a time when the total focus appears to be on electric cars as our driving future, Mazda is ushering in a type of car engine that they call Skyactiv-X. The Hiroshima, Japan-datelined Tuesday announcement from Mazda said it is introducing the world's "first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition." Reuters quoted what Mazda R&D head Kiyoshi Fujiwara told reporters. "We think it is an imperative and fundamental job for us to pursue the ideal...

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I know you think Guy Fieri is just a day-old Hot Pocket filled with Smash Mouth lyrics, but what if he’s actually good? This is the fundamental premise behind comedian Shane Torres’s definitive defense of the Mayor of Flavortown. And now you can hear it, too, as we are happy to premiere the track from Torres’s debut stand-up album, Established 1981. But wait, you heard the food at Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar isn’t as good as at Le Bernardin? Grow up! And listen. And learn why you would rather be stuck in a foxhole with Guy “It’s pronounced Fietti”...

Every three days Nathan (not his real name), a 27-year-old venture capitalist in San Francisco, ingests 15 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (commonly known as LSD or acid). The microdose of the psychedelic drug – which generally requires at least 100 micrograms to cause a high – gives him the gentlest of buzzes. It makes him feel far more productive, he says, but nobody else in the office knows that he is doing it. “I view it as my little treat. My secret vitamin,” he says. “It’s like taking spinach and you’re Popeye.” --snip -- Young developers and engineers, most...

RUSH: Grab sound bite number 22. I checked the email, and people didn’t believe my Hank Johnson story. I can understand if you’re a Millennial and you weren’t here back in 2010, it’s seven years ago when Hank said this. If you didn’t hear it, I can understand that you might not think I’m lying, but that nobody would say that, what Hank did. Well, he did, and it was during a House Armed Services Committee hearing. It was during testimony about the 2011 defense budget request, and this is Hank Johnson, Democrat, Georgia, and Admiral Robert Willard of the...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act will be the first order of business in the new Congress. McConnell announced the agenda Tuesday, after meeting with Vice President-elect Mike Pence and Senate GOP colleagues over lunch. "When we come back Jan. 3 we'll be moving to the ObamaCare replacement resolution, the ObamaCare repeal resolution will be the first item up in the New Year," McConnell said, referring to repeal legislation that is expected to pass with a simple majority vote under special budgetary rules. The legislation is expected to track closely to similar legislation...

Fans of Darjeeling might want to find a backup variety for their afternoon tea, because the so-called “Champagne of teas” is suddenly in very short supply. The Telegraph reports that the Indian government calls it “the worse season ever” for the country’s prized tea, thanks to political unrest in the Darjeeling district where it’s grown. The tea comes from just 87 gardens there, and a majority of the 100,000 workers are Gurkhas, a Nepali-speaking group that’s in the middle of fighting for a separate state they propose calling Gorkhaland. They’ve been on strike since June — growers say their gardens...