In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, living in an era when activists of various stripes argue that, well, everything should have rights. Animals, nature, plants, the moon, rivers, AI/robots, you name it. Now, in Newsweek, the transhumanism popularizer and California gubernatorial candidate Zoltan Istvan argues that we should give robots rights so they will show mercy on us. Seriously. Anyway (and also) House GOP leaders will bring a vote next week on a package of health care bills that does not include an extension of expiring Obama Care enhanced subsidies as Republicans remain divided about how to address the health care cliff ahead of a midterm election year, the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday a quarter percentage point cut to its overnight lending rate and more on the Russian hoax.

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