The Federalist Daily Briefing for 04/20/2018

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 20, 2018 [Comey’s Memos Indicate Dossier Briefing Of Trump Was A Setup]( By Mollie Hemingway New memos suggest Comey briefing of Trump was a setup to fuel leaks and media coverage of an unverified and salacious dossier. [Full article]( [Abortion Is Murder, But That Doesn’t Mean We Must Execute Women]( By Bre Payton The pro-life movement is a movement of forgiveness and redemption. The goal is to empower women and be welcoming to all, regardless of what they've done in the past. [Full article]( [If The Left Doesn’t Like Hungary’s ‘Fascists,’ It Should Stop Creating Them]( By Nathanael Blake The overwrought response to an election in a small Central European nation reveals far more about the Left than it does about Hungary. [Full article]( [‘The Monk Of Mokha’ Delivers An Entertaining Tale Weakened By Identity Politics And Economic Nonsense]( By Tony Daniel Celebrated writer Dave Eggers has written a mostly compelling novel about immigrants and American entrepreneurship that gets sidetracked by a pointless desire to affirm liberal politics. [Full article]( [This Fall, California Voters Could Decide Whether To Split Their State In Three]( By Tony Lima Some 600,000 Californians have signed a petition, which would allow a vote on whether to split the state into three. [Full article]( [5 Things In James Comey’s Trump Memos That Make Him Look Like A Tool]( By Bre Payton Memos former FBI director James Comey says he kept of interactions between him and President Trump were released Thursday night. [Full article]( [What’s Behind Anchorage’s Failure To Secure Women’s Bathrooms? Another National Pressure Campaign]( By Margot Cleveland Anchorage voters rejected a proposal that would have required government-run facilities to maintain single-sex protections, while allowing private businesses free choice in the matter. [Full article]( [What Happened When I Retraced Charlies Portis’ ‘True Grit’ In Arkansas With The Oxford American]( By Rich Cromwell People do not give it credence that a 42-year-old man would head off into such conditions, but I will say it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. [Full article]( [To Get Back Its Groove, Country Music Should Riff On The Brothers Osborne]( By Michael Morris We are in the throes of a country music revival not seen since the heyday of Hank Junior, and 'Port Saint Joe' is among the reasons why. [Full article]( [We’re Living In The Golden Age Of Food Documentaries]( By Brad Jackson All of these series and more help place us square in the golden age of food documentaries, and they all owe at least some of their success to Anthony Bourdain. [Full article]( [‘A Quiet Place’ Is A Graceful, Touching Monster Movie]( By Ellie Bufkin No need for a monster in every scene. This movie gets screams by simply making a sound with a small toy. [Full article]( [‘The Joel McHale Show’ Needs To Work Harder In The Clip-Based Internet Era]( By Brian Willett Anyone who loved the Joel McHale version of ‘The Soup’ will feel right at home with ‘The Joel McHale Show.’ [Full article]( [Hey, Joe Scarborough. You Don’t Have To Politicize Every Tragedy]( By David Harsanyi Being skeptical about your government does not make you, in any way, responsible for the violence perpetrated by domestic terrorists. [Full article]( [Justice Department IG Refers Andrew McCabe To U.S. Attorney For Possible Criminal Charges]( By Rachel Stoltzfoos The IG found McCabe repeatedly leaked to the press and lied about it to federal investigators and to former FBI Director James Comey. [Full article]( [Radio: America’s Biggest Military Concerns In Russia, Syria, And Congress’s Authority]( By The Federalist Staff Lt. Col. Daniel Davis joins Federalist Radio to discuss the foreign policy leaders surrounding President Trump and what role Congress plays in our foreign engagements. [Full article]( [Andrew Cuomo Is Moving Left And Getting Woke]( By David Marcus Faced with Cynthia Nixon's primary challenge, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is growing more progressive by the day. [Full article]( HOW DONALD TRUMP IS AN ECHO OF BILL CLINTON is an odd bit of American presidential history that Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald J. Trump were all born in the same year. As expressions of various aspects of the Baby Boomer generation, they have very different experiences in life – they are the blind men and the elephant of Boomer failings and successes. Long-term readers of The Transom will recall that in the months after Mitt Romney’s failure to win the presidency, I wrote regularly that the Republican Party had made the mistake of looking or the next Ronald Reagan far too long – and that in a time of increased pressure on the populist side, what they really ought to do is start looking for the next Bill Clinton. 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. 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