The Federalist Daily Briefing for 04/05/2018

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](. April 5, 2018 [John Bolton’s Appointment Rattles The Muslim Brotherhood Echo Chamber]( By Ben Weingarten The Trump administration ought not to concede one inch to those who wish to sideline the personnel and stifle the policies that would make its counterjihadist agenda a reality. [Full article]( [What If The Media Covered The War On Poverty Like It Did Vietnam?]( By Daniel Lee Imagine if the ambiguous result in our long struggle to end poverty—like the Vietnam War, an effort in which the goal posts always seem to be moving—was shown to be as ineffective. [Full article]( [Ukraine’s Experience With A Puppet Church Prefigures Francis’s Capitulation To Communist China]( By Maureen Mullarkey In the judgment of both regimes, a substitute for the church, whether Orthodox or Roman Catholic, would gradually eliminate Christianity by attrition. [Full article]( [What Israel’s Struggles With Monotheism Say About Our Own Failures]( By Casey Chalk Humans often seem to require dramatic crises to clarify our problems and direct our attention to what is truly paramount. One of the most striking examples is the story of the Jewish people. [Full article]( [Rich Lowry Gets Stampeded Onto The Trump Train]( By Robert Tracinski Rich Lowry just wrote off the NeverTrump movement as 'deluded.' Yes, the same Rich Lowry who compiled the 'Against Trump' issue of National Review. [Full article]( [‘You Were Never Really Here’ Is A Tragic, 21st-Century Version Of ‘Taxi Driver’]( By James Dawson In this grim noir thriller, Joaquin Phoenix plays the disconnected loner Joe as a sadder and more tragically human version of Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle from 1976’s 'Taxi Driver.' [Full article]( [Read This To Understand Why People Think It’s Rational To Support Gun Rights]( By Jordan McGillis Many Americans think our permissive gun laws beget carnage. The question this faction seems unable to answer is how any good person could disagree. [Full article]( [While You Probably Think Same-Sex Attraction Is Fixed, Researchers Don’t]( By Jeremiah Keenan ‘They’ve already lost the scientific battle, and so they’ve taken it to the legislative front to enforce their views.’ Jordan Peterson’s comment applies generally to sexual orientation. [Full article]( [Why Big Tech Needs To Fix Its Image Problem With Conservatives Pronto]( By Patrick Maines These companies need to regulate themselves, but to do so they would first have to show they understand what is upsetting people on the right, left, and all points in between. [Full article]( [5 Lessons I Learned By Completing All 30 Days Of Whole30]( By Lisa De Pasquale I’ve done Whole30 three times, but my last round with BRIGHT readers from January 1 to 30 was the first time I was totally compliant. Here’s what I learned. [Full article]( [Media Goes Nuts Over Pruitt’s Travel Costs, Fails To Notice His Predecessors Spent Much More]( By Bre Payton In a series of tweets, Kimberly Strassel, columnist for The Wall Street Journal, explains why the media frenzy over Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's travel expenses is a bunch of hooey. [Full article]( [Study Finds Pasta Isn’t Bad For You After All. So Try This Delicious Spring Recipe]( By Brad Jackson By the time the kids are done with their movie, you’ll have fresh, homemade pasta that everyone at the table will eat every freaking bite of and they will absolutely go back for more. [Full article]( [Cecile Richards’ ‘Off The Record’ Talk With Jared And Ivanka Hurts Her And Helps Them]( By Erielle Davidson Cecile Richards says Jared Kushner offered to help Planned Parenthood secure federal funding if it agreed to stop providing abortions. She refused, and she thinks that makes Kushner look bad. [Full article]( [Podcast: Gaza Protests, Media Bias, And Christianity In Middle East Conflicts]( By The Federalist Staff Founder of the Philos Project, Rob Nicholson, shares his story of religion and Christianity and how it ties to his work in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [Full article]( [On Its Way To Tonight’s Finale, SYFY’s ‘The Magicians’ Has Hit Its Stride]( By Libby Emmons ‘The Magicians’ is a show for discerning, imaginative adults, and the realms of magic aren’t the only netherworlds it explores. [Full article]( FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES Fiene argues the Parkland Kids are like Pentecostal Child Preachers. “In case you haven’t noticed, progressivism has become more of a religion than a political philosophy. Like Lutherans or Muslims, when gathering together, progressives gleefully sing their liturgical chants. Like Catholics, they have their own version of heresy trials whereupon those declared guilty of false doctrine are deemed unwelcome to teach in their presence. And like devotees of all faiths, progressives fawn over their pious youth.” 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. 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