The Federalist Daily Briefing for 01/15/2018

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](. January 15, 2018 [Do Americans Still Believe In Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream?]( By David Marcus The passage of time has made us wonder if Martin Luther King’s dream of a healed nation was maybe just that: a fantasy. [Full article]( [If Women Want A Family, They Need To Prioritize Marriage Above Their Careers]( By Suzanne Venker In a stunning reversal of traditional gender roles, it is women, not men, who are now reluctant to walk down the aisle. [Full article]( [After State Deduction Cut, Blue States Panic To Hide Spending Binges With Crazy Tricks]( By Kyle Sammin In Democratic-majority states across the nation, state legislators are flailing blindly to find a way around the reduced federal tax deduction for state and local taxes. [Full article]( [If It Weren’t For The Constitution, America Would Be A ‘Sh-thole’ Country, Too]( By John Daniel Davidson President Trump was right that some countries are ‘sh-tholes,’ but we should remember that America is different because it was fortunate enough to be born free. [Full article]( [Do Mass Protests In Tunisia Mark The Start Of A New Arab Spring?]( By Megan G. Oprea As if by some cosmic irony, Tunisia is once again being rocked by mass protests and its government, once again, is cracking down. [Full article]( [The ‘First Trans Murder Of 2018’ Was Not A Hate Crime]( By Chad Felix Greene Instead of focusing on campaigns that may have helped this transgender victim, LGBT groups will instead continue fighting a threat that does not exist. [Full article]( [When Mental Health Professionals Lose It Over Trump, Everyone Gets Hurt]( By A.D.P. Efferson and J. David Patterson We should exercise extreme caution when listening to the professional opinions of a handful of emotionally charged psychiatrists and psychologists regarding the dangerousness of Trump. [Full article]( [Will The Obama Administration Ever Be Brought To Justice Over Its Iran Scandals?]( By Ben Weingarten 2018 began with the conclusion of a high-profile court case illuminating illicit Iranian financing schemes executed during the Obama years. [Full article]( [How Mormon Leaders Taught Me To Forgive Media For Bungling Stories About Religion]( By Lane Williams I get frustrated with how poorly news media often cover the internal lives of religious believers and how distorted faith often becomes in news stories. [Full article]( [It’s Time To Call A Truce In The Outrage Wars, Or We All Lose]( By Nathanael Blake The Right is matching the Left outrage-mob for outrage-mob, with a Republican president leading the way. This is going nowhere good. [Full article]( [Meet Triplets Saved Just In Time From Chinese Abortion Threat]( By Jay Hobbs Had the couple stayed longer in China, Mensheng and the boys may have been prime targets for a totalitarian regime that has aborted more than 400 million babies. [Full article]( THE FUSION GPS SENATE TESTIMONY takeaways, courtesy of Mollie Hemingway. “While the testimony is full of details, far and away the most interesting revelation was Simpson’s claim that the FBI had a source within the Trump campaign. Simpson said that Christopher Steele, the freelance spy paid for dispatches about Trump, was told by an FBI official that they had confidential informant in the Trump campaign. This “human source from inside the Trump organization” was acting in a “voluntary” manner. It was someone “who decided to pick up the phone and report something.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. [follow on Twitter]( | [friend on Facebook]( | [forward to a friend]( Copyright © 2018 The Federalist, All rights reserved. You are receiving this e-mail because you opted in to receive e-mail updates from TheFederalist.com. Our mailing address is: The Federalist 8647 Richmond Highway Suite 618Alexandria, VA 22309 [Add us to your address book](//thefederalist.us7.list-manage.com/vcard?u=4a863c819bceae0e9989e096f&id=cfcb868ceb) [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences]( | [view email in browser](