The Federalist Daily Briefing for 06/26/2018

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 26, 2018 [With Cartels In Control, There Are No Easy Answers To The Border Crisis]( By John Daniel Davidson Much of Mexico and Central America is ruled by cartels, and until we come to terms with the role they play in migrant smuggling, the crisis will worsen. [Full article]( [How The Theory Of White Privilege Leads To Socialism]( By Georgi Boorman The existence of ‘unearned’ opportunities or wealth is seen as such a severe critique of our system it warrants a disbelief in an idea foundational to the American dream. [Full article]( [Why Did DOJ And FBI Ignore Lack Of Evidence For Russiagate? They Fell In Love With Their Source]( By Jason Beale The information Christopher Steele was providing so perfectly fit into a narrative of conspiracy that it was impossible to ignore, and almost too good to check. [Full article]( [Why The Supreme Court’s Ruling About Online Taxes Is Sensible And Fair]( By Kyle Sammin Don’t believe the hype: Wayfair poses no threats to small-government conservatives, nor does it represent a significant impairment to small businesses. [Full article]( [The Crux Of Religious Liberty Cases Is Whether Wedding Cakes And Flowers Mean Anything Special]( By Michael Zigismund The Washington Supreme Court will retake Arlene’s Flowers and likely have to decide whether ‘bouquet’ is in the eye of the beholder, and which beholder’s eye matters more under the law. [Full article]( [It’s Time For Americans To Give Informed Consent To Scraping Their Data. Here’s How To Start]( By John Berry People should have the right to know how digital services use their personal data before consenting to its use, and in an easy to understand and easily accessible way. [Full article]( [The Battle For America Is Nowhere Near ‘Over.’ Here Are 10 Ways To Fight]( By Mark Overstreet We should take George Patton's advice: The great object in battle is not to die for your country, but to make the other fellow die for his. [Full article]( [Why Supporting Free Association For Cake Bakers Doesn’t License Discrimination Against Sarah Sanders]( By Sean Ross Callaghan A restauranteur most certainly cannot refuse service to anyone she doesn't like. Not in this country. [Full article]( [Republicans Once More Prove They Won’t Cut A Dime From Federal Spending]( By Christopher Jacobs With the federal debt at $21 trillion and rising, if Congress will not act on this package, when will it discover fiscal discipline? [Full article]( [New Motion Again Shows Special Counsel’s Case Against Manafort Has Nothing To Do With Collusion]( By Margot Cleveland A new court motion proves again that the special counsel’s charges against Paul Manafort are utterly unrelated to Russia, President Trump, or Manafort’s brief stint as a campaign advisor. [Full article]( [White House’s Reorganization Plan Would Make For A Leaner, Better FDA]( By Nicole Fisher The administration proposes changing the FDA’s name to the ‘Federal Drug Administration,’ making clear that its focus will solely be on drugs, devices, biologics, and tobacco. [Full article]( [Podcast: The State Of The Arts, Political Harassment, And Linguistics Of Trump]( By Madeline Osburn The Federalist's David Marcus joins Ben Domenech for a discussion on why the government shouldn't fund the arts, New York politics, and more. [Full article]( [All Democrat Leaders In Congress Refuse To Denounce Rep. Maxine Waters’ Calls For Harassing Public Officials]( By Juliana Knot The Federalist reached out to all of the Democratic leadership in Congress. Every office declined to object to Rep. Maxine Waters' call for public harassment of Trump officials. Later, Nancy Pelosi sent one tame tweet. [Full article]( [Erdogan Tightens His Grip On Turkey]( By Megan G. Oprea The budding dictator has a large constituency that makes up about half of the country, which is for most part the country’s conservative Muslim population. [Full article]( [If Democrats Don’t Condemn Maxine’s Rhetoric, There Could Be A Body Count]( By Joey Wulfsohn Millions of Americans on both sides of the aisle were heartbroken by the separation of these migrant families, but Waters has crossed the line. [Full article]( [Steve Scalise’s Call For Civility And Respect Draws Unbelievable Response]( By Madeline Osburn There is a special kind of irony in criticizing Scalise, the victim of a political assassination attempt, for speaking out about political discourse. [Full article]( [The Real World Is Starting To Resemble Twitter, And That’s A Problem]( By David Harsanyi In the United States, even the pretend oppressed can kick the imaginary Nazi out of their establishment, as we saw when the co-owner of the Red Hen booted Sarah Huckabee Sanders from her restaurant. [Full article]( A NATION OF RED AND BLUE PLATES the past few days, it seems a significant number of members of the American left have decided to throw up their hands and join antifa – to the point not of punching the Nazi Republicans, but I repeat myself, but to shouting at their women. John Hinderaker: “Just in the last few days, the liberal outrages have been hard to keep up with: hounding the Secretary of Homeland Security out of a restaurant, then “demonstrating” on her lawn with chants and blaring audio of crying children; denying the White House Press Secretary and her family dinner at a Virginia restaurant; trying to get Hall of Fame basketball player Kevin McHale fired from his job as an NBA announcer because he attended a speech by the President of the United States; falsely accusing an ICE agent who is a double amputee as a result of an IED explosion in Afghanistan of being a neo-Nazi; confronting the Attorney General of Florida as she left a movie theater. And that is only a partial list, covering only the last few days. 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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