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From the moment they gallivanted onto the Coeur d'Alene Eagles stage, umbrellas twirling, the contestants of the first Big Man of Coeur d'Alene had their audience wrapped around their brawny fingers. "Oh my GOD!" "WOO!" "Owwww!" "He's hilarious!" and other exclamations could be heard bubbling from an effervescent crowd that at times laughed to tears as some of North Idaho's most prominent dudes thrust all of their energy into a Saturday night to remember to benefit the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre. ...said a spunky Dr. Ryan Bones. "It is absolutely fantastic to see a completely sold-out crowd, standing room only,...

Google was thrown into turmoil last night after the company fired James Damore, author of a manifesto defending viewpoint diversity and a fact-based approach to the alleged gender gap in tech. In exclusive interviews with Breitbart News, more Google employees are now speaking out in support of the manifesto. Damore’s ten-page manifesto, which was met by an immediate backlash, described a climate of fear, in which employees who challenge prevailing leftist narratives at the company are faced with immediate threats to their career. Damore’s own experience appears to confirm this. Breitbart News is exclusively publishing a series of interviews with current and...

Larry Krueger has a regular radio gig again, nearly five months after being fired as a sports talk host at KNBR for criticizing the Giants' "brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly.'' Krueger has been hired by KGO, one of KNBR's main competitors, as a sports reporter on the weekday, 4-to-7 p.m. program anchored by Greg Jarrett and Rosie Allen. On the surface, the new job would seem to be new territory from Krueger's previous show, which allowed him free rein to issue his outspoken views. At KGO, he'll basically have a two-minute slot twice an hour in which he'll...

It's well-established that a bad economy leads to more crime. But is the women's liberation movement also to blame?According to Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy, it is.At a recent county board of supervisors subcommittee meeting, Kennedy was asked to comment on statistics showing a spike in the number of inmates at county jail. The female jail population grew significantly faster than the male population over the last few years."This is a nationwide thing with females and I think it has to do with females being more liberated and independent in every way," he told the subcommittee, comprising two...