The Federalist Daily Briefing for 08/16/2018

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 16, 2018 [The Catholic Church’s Sex Abuse Scandal Is A Crisis Of Faith]( By John Daniel Davidson We don’t need more bland expressions of sorrow from bishops. We need public penance, resignations, and a new generation of leaders in the Catholic Church. [Full article]( [Bruce Ohr May Have Broken More Than The Law By Pushing His Wife’s Opposition Research To The FBI]( By Adam Mill Did Ohr 'personally and substantially' participate in a particular matter in which his spouse had a 'financial interest' while he worked for the Justice Department? [Full article]( [You Won’t Believe What Kids Can Find On ‘Transgender’ At The Public Library]( By Maureen Mullarkey All but one of the hundreds of transgender books in my public library promote a movement derived from queer theory and built on a psychiatric condition. [Full article]( [Why It’s Preposterous To Call Brett Kavanaugh A ‘Threat’ To LGBT Americans]( By Chad Felix Greene What we see in this report is a fear of a truth being revealed: That all of the LGBT lobby's victories are hollow if the Supreme Court functions the way it was meant. [Full article]( [China’s Futuristic Big Cities Make The United States’ Regulatory Mess Look Bad]( By Dan Jones Instead of its ancient wisdom, America seems intent on learning from China what first began to take hold in the late 1940s as a hopeful republic collapsed into Communism. [Full article]( [Identity Politics Are Rapidly Destroying The Value Of College Degrees]( By Liz Wolfe Too often, college is merely a signal to show bare minimum competence to employers. Is that signal still valuable as college becomes more about indoctrination and delayed adulthood? [Full article]( [Why The Intellectual Dark Web Should Stick With Culture And Not Shift To Politics]( By Warren Henry Someone like jordan Peterson is much harder for the left to tackle than a Jerry Falwell or Newt Gingrich, because he is not working in a traditional political paradigm. [Full article]( [Democrats’ Crusade Against Voter ID Is Barely Masked Racism]( By Jonathan S. Tobin The notion that blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans or farmers are less capable than anybody else of complying with such a simple regulation is as absurd as it is insulting. [Full article]( [Sen. Bill Nelson Admits He Has No Evidence Of 2018 Election Hacking]( By Bre Payton Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) claimed the Florida voting system had been compromised by Russians, but now he's backpedaling that claim. [Full article]( [How Support For Socialism Arises From Ingratitude]( By Robert Curry By failing to appreciate the free market’s gift of prosperity and the American founders’ gift of liberty, we put ourselves in jeopardy. [Full article]( [Michael Moore Honors Jane Fonda, American Traitor, With ‘Lifetime Achievement’ Award]( By Ron Capshaw The most notorious visual example of Jane Fonda’s treason against the United States was her sitting atop a Vietcong anti-aircraft gun that shot down numerous American planes. [Full article]( [New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Unleashed: America ‘Was Never That Great’]( By The Federalist Staff New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat locked in bitter primary campaign, declared during a speech on Wednesday that 'America was never great.' [Full article]( [Podcast: Author Makes The Case For Removing Your Child From Public School]( By The Federalist Staff Author Mary Rice Hasson argues that public schools are now poisonous for the hearts and minds of children from religious families of every faith. [Full article]( [Trying To ‘Own The Libs’ Is Actually How You Get Owned by Politicians]( By Robert Tracinski The real danger of the 'own the libs' mentality isn't just about the failure to persuade. It's about failure to hold your own side accountable. [Full article]( [This Cake Baker Won At The Supreme Court. Now The State Is Trying To Get Revenge]( By Bre Payton Colorado is trying to compel the same baker who just won a Supreme Court case into baking a second cake that violates his religious beliefs. [Full article]( SPURNING TIM PAWLENTY long to the old Republican Party (except for Mitt Romney). “Tim Pawlenty, the former two-term Republican governor of Minnesota who floundered in a 2012 bid for president, fumbled his attempt at a comeback Tuesday by being soundly defeated in the GOP gubernatorial primary where he was presumed to be the heavy favorite.” 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](