The Federalist Daily Briefing for 08/15/2018

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](. August 15, 2018 [How Bruce Ohr Could Implicate High-Ranking Obama Officials In Spygate]( By Margot Cleveland New details suggest DOJ and FBI employees operated outside the chain-of-command, misled their bosses, and concealed evidence from congressional oversight committees. [Full article]( [Feminist-Celebrated Imam’s Son Ran Terrorist Camp For School Shooters]( By Ellie Bufkin A camp within the United States where children were being trained to shoot up schools in terrorist attacks should be in the news every day, until every connection is scrutinized. [Full article]( [Why Leftism Can Never Truly Support The Concept Of Free Speech]( By Peter Burfeind As those on the radical Left screech their primal screams at those they perceive to be power-holders, to them it’s a jailbreak. And the First Amendment is the jail keeper. [Full article]( [Actor Rowan Atkinson Defends MP Joke Comparing Burkas To Mailboxes]( By Ellie Bufkin British actor Rowan Atkinson defended a British politician's joke about burqas on the grounds that it was funny, and insisted he should not apologize. [Full article]( [If Jack Whitehall Can’t Portray A Gay Character, These 100 Other Actors Must Go Too]( By Soren Midgley How is it possible that in 2018 Hollywood—the preeminent progressive institution in American culture—cannot find gay actors to play gay characters? [Full article]( [New Details Show Firing Strzok Didn’t Remove All The Compromised FBI Agents Involved In Russiagate]( By Margot Cleveland This timing and number of interviews suggest the third unnamed agent had worked with Strzok and Page to devise a way to obtain intel from Christopher Steele after the FBI officially dismissed him as a source. [Full article]( [Students Should Be Responsible For Their Performance, Not Just Teachers]( By Sarah Mindlin Failing to meet expected growth targets does not affect my fifth-grade students in any real way, and they and their families know it. [Full article]( [Are Liberals Suppressing Conservative Ideas By Gaming Twitter?]( By Mike Morrison If Twitter is ranking accounts based on how many people block you and one large segment of Twitter is abusing the block feature, this could seriously decrease the reach of that group. [Full article]( [Meet Morgan Murtaugh, The Youngest Female Congressional Candidate]( By Juliana Knot A young, female 20-something is looking to upset how things are done in Washington DC by defeating a long-entrenched incumbent. She's not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She's not even a Democrat. [Full article]( [9 Jordan Peterson Clips That Will Take You Deeper Than SJW Gotcha Moments]( By Nicole Russell Everybody has seen the bestselling author arguing on the news about transgender pronouns, but he’s more professor than politico. [Full article]( [Why Do Teachers Like Me Keep Coming Back To School? Love]( By Josh Herring Parent emails, difficult administration, limited pay raise potential, the looming threat of strikes—why would one choose to enter such a field? [Full article]( [Revisiting Battlestar Galactica: ‘Unfinished Business’ And ‘The Passage’]( By Warren Henry Two episodes further wind down the New Caprica storyline, while evolving the narrative in ways that will carry viewers through Season Three and perhaps the rest of the series. [Full article]( [Can Silicon Valley Fix Their Free Speech Problem?]( By The Federalist Staff Elizabeth Dwoskin, Silicon Valley Correspondent, joins Federalist Radio to discuss Alex Jones, Twitter, and how Congress might try to regulate big tech companies. [Full article]( [CNN: Trump Is Racist For Saying Omarosa Was Fired Like A ‘Dog’]( By Bre Payton In a segment Tuesday morning, CNN contributor Jeffrey Toobin said that Donald Trump is racist for calling disgruntled ex-White House employee Omarosa Manigault Newman a 'low life' and a 'dog.' [Full article]( IN DEFENSE OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST Saunders, head of the Center for the National Interest, defends his institution. “George Orwell was never overly impressed with the news media, which he considered often more interested in advancing preferred narratives than reporting the facts. Working for the organization that hosted Donald Trump’s first and only foreign-policy speech during the 2016 presidential campaign—and having considerable experience with the media since then—I can’t say that I’m all that impressed either.” 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](