The Federalist Daily Briefing for 02/27/2018

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](. February 27, 2018 [How To Reform Federal Intelligence And Law Enforcement Agencies]( By Willis L. Krumholz and Robert Delahunty The paradox of freedom has always been to create a government strong enough to defend the people against their foreign enemies, but not so strong that it becomes an oppressor itself. [Full article]( [Parkland Underscores How Americans Pay For Garbage Government While Doing Its Job Ourselves]( By Joy Pullmann This kind of government employee incompetence with horrific consequences is by no means limited to the Parkland killings. Instead, it is endemic to U.S. government. [Full article]( [Sorry, But Conservatism Isn’t Dead Just Yet]( By David Harsanyi Every time someone tells us that conservatism is in its death throes, conservatism makes a miraculous comeback. Heralding its demise is premature. [Full article]( [Why It’s Time To Raise The Voting Age Back To 21]( By Robert Tracinski The teens going on television to agitate for gun control after the Parkland shooting make the case, not for lowering the voting age, but for raising it. [Full article]( [How China’s New Lifelong Dictator Threatens The West]( By Helen Raleigh China has a long history of brutal power struggles after a mighty emperor passes away, sometimes leading to bloody wars and enormous economic destruction. [Full article]( [Why Americans Have A Right To Own Guns Even If That Makes Us Less Safe]( By Timothy Hsiao Our rights aren't contingent on a cost-benefit analysis. Whether guns are risky isn't the point, but whether guns are a reasonable means of self-defense. [Full article]( [Thank Goodness My Kids’ School Lets Trained Faculty Carry A Gun]( By Anonymous The armed staff member at my children’s school is not waiting for a moment of crisis in which he will discover whether he is a hero. He has thought this through, inside and out. [Full article]( [Conservative Political Wins Won’t Depend On Donald Trump]( By Nathanael Blake Future conservative victories will rest not upon allegiance to Donald Trump, but upon a continued willingness to engage in intellectual inquiry and political persuasion. [Full article]( [5 New Events To Spice Up The Next Winter Olympics]( By Hans Fiene If the International Olympic Committee wants to give us anything to look forward to in 2022, it will need to plug some more fascinating forms of competition into Beijing’s schedule. [Full article]( [Wheaton’s Win Over The Contraceptive Mandate Is A Huge Step Forward For Religious Freedom]( By Nicole Fisher 'The years Wheaton College spent in court have finally paid off ... this order ensures we won’t have to come back.' [Full article]( [It’s Not Persecution To Tax Church-Owned Businesses In Israel]( By Amanda Achtman While churches certainly have a right to contest the proposed Israeli legislation, they should be above over-the-top Holocaust allusions and hyperbolic allegations of discrimination and racism. [Full article]( [7 Things Kourtney Kardashian Should Consider Before Freezing Her Eggs]( By Melissa Langsam Braunstein At 38, Kourtney Kardashian is considering expanding her family by freezing her eggs. Before she does, she should think it through. [Full article]( [Stop Trying To Make The Olympics About Anything Besides Sports]( By Ilya Shapiro Everyone always tries to draw larger geopolitical conclusions from the Olympics, but it’s really just about the sports. [Full article]( [Delta Airlines Loses Tax Break After Politicizing School Shooting In Florida]( By Bre Payton Georgia lawmakers moved to strip a $50 million tax break for Delta after the airline politicized a shooting in Parkland, Florida. [Full article]( [Podcast: Behind The Cameras Of White House Press Briefings, CPAC, And DACA]( By The Federalist Staff White House Correspondent Saagar Enjeti joins Bre Payton on the Federalist Radio Hour. They discuss an upcoming immigration battle and the crazy of covering the administration. [Full article]( [WATCH: Michael Wolff Tries To Avoid Tough Question By Pretending He Can’t Hear It]( By Bre Payton The 'Fire and Fury' author pretended he couldn't hear the interviewer to avoid answering a tough question about his claim President Trump had an extra-marital affair. [Full article]( [Sheriff Scott Israel Exemplifies The Failures Of Our Institutions]( By Ben Domenech Rather than turning inward to rebuild our institutions to serve the American people well, the rotting and distrusted and negligent institutions will seize more power. [Full article]( SCOTT ISRAEL AND THE FAILURE OF INSTITUTIONS gave him a gun. I gave him a badge. I gave him the training. If he didn’t have the heart to go in, that’s not my responsibility.” So says Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, a man atop a corrupted institution which failed its citizens in not just one moment, but instance after instance where the laws and policies put in place by the representatives of the people should have been more than sufficient to stop the massacre of February 14th. Israel says this because he knows his future depends on this failure being confined to the cowardice of one individual, now retired, and not behavior established and supported by the culture of the institution he leads. 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