The Federalist Daily Briefing for 11/14/2017

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](. November 14, 2017 [Long Before Assault Allegations, Roy Moore Betrayed Conservatism]( By John Daniel Davidson Social conservatives embraced Roy Moore because they thought he was fighting for them. In fact, Moore was never a conservative to begin with. [Full article]( [Let’s Respond Generously To The Black Dad Who Worries About His Kids Befriending White Kids]( By David Marcus Those of us of every race and political perspective must stop looking at everything written about race as an opportunity to call the other side the real racists. [Full article]( [Will The Senate Become The Burial Chamber For Tax Reform?]( By Helen Raleigh Just like their House colleagues, it seems GOP senators are incapable of putting out a clean and principled bill. Every good idea they present is usually followed by a couple of bad ones. [Full article]( [Pro-Lifers Don’t Oppose Abortion Because It Causes Labor Shortages, But Because It’s A Human Rights Atrocity]( By Cullen Herout Instead of explaining why the state has a compelling reason to protect innocent human life, Wisconsin Rep. Scott Allen chose to speak about potential benefits to the economy. [Full article]( [How President Obama ‘Sabotaged’ Obamacare More Lawlessly Than Trump Supposedly Has]( By Christopher Jacobs Both President Trump and President Obama took action to prevent dramatic premium spikes due to Obamacare’s insurance mandates. Yet only Trump was accused of ‘sabotage.’ [Full article]( [For The Good Of The Country, Roger Goodell Must Fail Against Jerry Jones]( By Rich Cromwell Yes, it’s just another battle with the commissioner, but battle is how the war is won. [Full article]( [Now’s The Time For Dialogue With North Korea, Not Military Intervention]( By Bonnie Kristian That the Kim Jong-un regime is oppressive is not up for debate, but the wisdom of pledging the United States to preventive military intervention in North Korea most certainly is. [Full article]( [State Lawsuits Against Contraception Mandate Exceptions Would Gut Religious Liberty]( By Margot Cleveland For moral reasons, individuals and organizations have sought for years to avoid funding contraceptives. Now states are suing so they also don’t have to pay for contraceptives. [Full article]( [GOP Should Trade Other Pro-Life Laws For The Adoption Tax Credit]( By Jaoni Wood The GOP should first eliminate Planned Parenthood funding, and reduce the amounts adopting families have to pay to government agencies to bring their children home. [Full article]( [How The Free Market Promotes Tolerance, Diversity, And Inclusion Far Better Than Socialism Does]( By Matthew Goldberg Little has been written about the hypocrisy of socialism as the economic manifestation of ‘tolerance, diversity, and inclusion.’ The free market better promotes these three values. [Full article]( [Jury In Sen. Menendez Corruption Trial Say They Are Deadlocked]( By Bre Payton Two hours into deliberation, the jury deciding Sen. Bob Menendez and his co-defendant's fate announced they are deadlocked. [Full article]( [After New Allegations, Top GOP Senator Says Senate Should Expel Roy Moore If He Wins]( By Bre Payton 'If he refuses to withdraw and wins, the Senate should vote to expel him, because he does not meet the ethical and moral requirements of the United States Senate.' [Full article]( [Victor Davis Hanson Reinterprets WWII: History’s Deadliest Conflict]( By The Federalist Staff Military historian and author, Victor Davis Hanson, unfolds how WWII was fought on air, land, and sea on the Federalist Radio Hour. [Full article]( [7 Ways To Use The iPhone ‘i’ Glitch In Your Everyday Life]( By Mary Katharine Ham Apple is always giving us new products we didn't think or know we needed or wanted until we had them. Maybe this is just one more. [Full article]( [We Don’t Have To Wait For Due Process To Hold An Opinion On Roy Moore]( By David Harsanyi On Alabama’s Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore, don't let your healthy skepticism transform into tribal denialism. [Full article]( HOW AL QAEDA HAS REBUILT ITSELF WITH IRAN’S HELP with al-Qaeda members and bin Laden’s family reveal a pact that allowed the group to prepare for its next phase. “The last Islamic State redoubts have been falling in quick succession in recent weeks, with the U.S.-backed coalition taking the caliphate’s self-declared capital of Raqqa last month, and then Syrian forces reclaiming the strategic oil city of Deir al-Zour. But while the group’s experiment in a statehood built on rape, slavery, and execution nears its end, an older terror front has been quietly reconstituting itself. Against all odds, and despite the most costly counter-terrorism campaign ever waged by the West, al-Qaeda has flourished—its comeback assisted by a remarkable pact with Iran. 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. 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