The Federalist Daily Briefing for 10/13/2017

Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. October 13, 2017 [New Bipartisan Bump Stock Bill Would Actually Ban All Semi-Automatic Guns]( By Sean Davis A new congressional proposal to ban bump stocks in the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting would actually ban all semi-automatic guns and parts. [Full article]( [California Shouldn’t Make It Easier For HIV-Positive People Like Me To Give Blood And Have Risky Sex]( By Chad Felix Greene The demand for HIV privacy as an entitlement will create a scenario of predatory behaviors, recklessness, and ruined lives. Gay and bisexual men will be at a higher risk. [Full article]( [With NFL Protests, Trump And Pence Prove The Right Can Win The Culture Wars]( By Richard Nelson Pence and Trump didn't start the battle over the national anthem. But they may have just won the biggest current-day culture war in sports. [Full article]( [The 20-Week, Pain-Capable Abortion Bill Reveals Uncomfortable Truths About Both Parties]( By Jay Hobbs Although the bill enjoys support across demographic and party lines it’s also highly unlikely to ever reach the Senate floor for a vote. That should change. [Full article]( [What You Need To Know About Trump’s Health Care Executive Order]( By Christopher Jacobs The executive order did not change regulations on its own. Rather, it instructed cabinet departments to propose changes to regulations in the near future. [Full article]( [Katy Tur’s ‘Unbelievable’ Relives The 2016 Election, Whether We Want To Or Not]( By Andrew Egger NBC correspondent Katy Tur managed to write an enjoyable and honest campaign memoir, 'Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History,' about a campaign most liberal reporters are trying to forget. [Full article]( [How Democrats Forced Abortifacients Into Obamacare Without Voting On It]( By Margot Cleveland The recently filed lawsuits blow open the multi-step deception Democrats knowingly employed to furtively insert the abortifacient and birth control mandate into the Affordable Care Act. [Full article]( [America, Your Campuses Are Madhouses. Why Are We Paying For This?]( By Daniel Payne Several recent demonstrations at various colleges across the country illustrate nicely the incoherent temper-tantrum style of politics that currently dominates campus life. [Full article]( [Despite What You’ve Heard About Subscription Booms, The Media Is Still Tanking]( By Michael P. Benard The Pew Research Center has pointed out that, despite subscription increases for a few big newspapers, overall circulation and revenue for the industry are down. [Full article]( [Student Who Stole MAGA Hat, Saying ‘Freedom Of Speech Is Genocide,’ Could Face Felony Charge]( By Holly Scheer After Edith Macias ripped the hat off a fellow student's head, she brought it to the student life offices, expecting its owner to be punished. [Full article]( [Why We Can And Should Legislate Morality]( By Connor Mighell ‘You can’t legislate morality’ actually means ‘You shouldn’t make laws based on your morality, but on mine instead.’ [Full article]( [‘Problematic Women’ Episode 15: Harvey Weinstein, Boy Scouts, And Katie Pavlich]( By The Federalist Staff In this week’s episode of #ProblematicWomen, Kelsey Harkness and Bre Payton discuss the scandal that's rocked Hollywood and the Boy Scouts' decision to admit girls. [Full article]( [Podcast: Eli Lake On The Iran Deal, Trump, And Neoconservatives]( By The Federalist Staff Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake talks Trump's foreign policy ideas and the reactions of neoconservatives on the Federalist Radio Hour. [Full article]( [Ed Asner Asks MSNBC’s Chris Jansing For A Kiss Twice During Interview On Workplace Sexism]( By Mary Katharine Ham It was almost as if it was performance art. [Full article]( THE LEFT IS LOSING THE CULTURE WAR in the summer of 2015, a simpler time that now seems far in the distant past for our country, Rob Tracinski and I co-authored a piece outlining the shape of the culture wars over the past half-century. The piece was titled: Welcome To Culture War 4.0: The Coming Overreach. We made several assertions, but core prediction we made was that the American left, emboldened by years of telling themselves they were on the right side of history, was headed toward a huge overreach that would reshape these conflicts in unprecedented ways. We wrote in part: “History teaches us two clear lessons about the ebb and flow of the Culture War: first, that whichever side believes it is winning will tend to overreach, pushing too far, too fast, and in the process alienating the public. The second is that the American people tend to oppose whoever they see as the aggressor in the Culture Wars—whoever they see as trying to intrusively impose their values on other people and bullying everyone who disagrees.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. [follow on Twitter]( | friend on Facebook | [forward to a friend]( Copyright © 2017 The Federalist, All rights reserved. You are receiving this e-mail because you opted in to receive e-mail updates from TheFederalist.com. 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