The Federalist Daily Briefing for 06/25/2018

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](. June 25, 2018 [Left Slams Refusal To Join Gay Weddings, Celebrates Restaurant’s Refusal To Serve Sarah Sanders]( By Joy Pullmann This is an identical scenario to what the Left insists is a civil rights violation, dehumanization, an act of bigotry: for a small business owner to decline to serve someone based on differences of belief. [Full article]( [Tomorrow’s Staten Island Donovan Versus Grimm Primary Is All About Donald Trump]( By David Marcus In Staten Island and South Brooklyn, Tuesday's GOP primary is focused on Donald Trump and who can help him achieve his agenda. [Full article]( [IG Report Shows James Comey Lied About Why He Publicized New Clinton Emails]( By Jason Beale The inspector general’s direct answer whether James Comey lied was curious, in that his conclusion conflicts with facts and testimony detailed in his own report. [Full article]( [When Obama Pressured Big Banks To Break The Law For Iran, They Resisted]( By Ben Weingarten The Obama administration sought to use the weight of the federal government to pressure U.S. banks into colluding with a terrorist state. The banks had more integrity than that. [Full article]( [Attacks On Public Officials Will Make Only The Worst Want Those Jobs]( By Melissa Langsam Braunstein As tough as Washington has always been, protesting a cabinet secretary during a private dinner is a new low point for civility. What ever happened to ‘When they go low, we go high?’ [Full article]( [In Online Sales Tax Decision, Supreme Court Completes Its Inversion Of The Commerce Clause]( By Robert Tracinski The Supreme Court has taken a constitutional provision intended to limit government power and turned it into a mandate for unlimited government power. [Full article]( [Left Pretends To Care For Crying Border Kids While Fueling Policies That Separate American Families]( By Annie R. MacLean Many of those loudly championing children at the border take an incompatible position on children separated from their parents in other circumstances. [Full article]( [‘The Incredibles 2’ Is A Story About Triumphing Over Adversity Rather Than Blaming It For Your Failure]( By David Breitenbeck From a standard SJW storyline of female empowerment and male incompetence, the film diverges into a much more interesting, universal, and realistic set of conclusions. [Full article]( [In Ruling That Taking Cell Data Requires A Warrant, SCOTUS Stole Congress’s Job Again]( By Margot Cleveland In Friday’s split decision, the justices reversed the lower courts and held that to obtain historic cell-site information from third-party providers, the government must obtain a warrant. [Full article]( [The Science About When Life Begins Makes Pro-Choicers Look Terrible]( By Donna Harrison When life begins is not up to personal opinion, it’s a scientific fact. Let me explain, as a physician, what all my years of training have shown. [Full article]( [How Companies Should Pressure The Ivy League To Stop Discriminating Against Asians]( By Elizabeth Bauer The stakes of the lawsuit accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian American students in its selection process are much higher than they ought to be. [Full article]( [Revisiting Battlestar Galactica: ‘Scar’ And ‘Sacrifice’]( By Warren Henry These two episodes demonstrate how the quality of the series rises and falls on the strength of its characters. [Full article]( RIP CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER had many interactions with Charles Krauthammer over the years, but the most memorable was the first. I was at George Will’s house for his infamous annual Baseball Party which is a very elitist thing to write, except I always take the biggest baseball fan I know, my mother, which mitigates that elitism somewhat. A group of us, including Charlotte Rampell from the Washington Post, were standing near a bookcase when Charles rolled in. He came over to our group, where Jeff Flake was standing behind me. Flake inserted himself in the circle to reach out and introduce himself – “Hello Mr. Krauthammer, I’m the other senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake,” he said. Krauthammer just looked at him silently. I was next to Flake, so I said “Hello, I’m Ben Domenech, I’m the publisher of The Federalist.” And Krauthammer said, acidly: “I know who you are.” And that was that. 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](