The Federalist Daily Briefing for 09/25/2018

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](. September 25, 2018 [Anti-Kavanaugh Mob Chases Sen. Ted Cruz And Wife From Restaurant]( By Joy Pullmann A mob of people calling themselves democratic socialists, LGBT activists, anarchists, anti-fascists, and anti-racists descended upon Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife while they were out to dinner last night. [Full article]( [New York Times Hid Multiple Key Facts In Kavanaugh Yearbook Hit]( By Mollie Hemingway A New York Times article scrutinizing inside jokes in the 1983 yearbook of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's Georgetown Preparatory School hid multiple problems with its claims. [Full article]( [10 Red Flags About Sexual Assault Claims, From An Employment Lawyer]( By Adam Mill It’s not nice or politically correct to say, but people do sometimes lie to get money, revenge, power, attention, or political advantage. False allegations of assault have been documented. [Full article]( [Washington Post Celebrates The Ignorant Delusion Of Letting Toddlers ‘Choose’ Their Sex]( By Glenn T. Stanton A recent Washington Post column tells of an almost-three-year-old Naya, whose parents have taken the wonderfully enlightened approach of letting the child decide her own sex. [Full article]( [Why The Trump Administration Needs To Keep Women Out Of Combat]( By Jesse Kelly Women should simply not be allowed to serve in infantry units. There are many places women can and do serve honorably in the U.S. military, but infantry work is man’s work. [Full article]( [Walker Hayes’ ’90’s Country’ Teems With Self-Defeating Nostalgia]( By Emily Jashinsky '90’s Country,' the late-summer single from Walker Hayes, is a clever and catchy nod to a long-gone era in the genre that sounds more like a Jason Mraz song than any of the music it celebrates. [Full article]( [10 Questions For The Congressmen Trying Stop The Release Of Russia Probe Docs]( By Adam Mill A letter from four congressmen demanding Russia probe documents remain secret raises some important questions about where abuse of power is really happening in the Trump administration. [Full article]( [You Don’t Have To Be Ryan Fitzpatrick Or Phil Rivers To Love A Houseful Of Kids]( By Joy Pullmann News came out Monday that Tampa Bay quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and his wife have created baby seven, due for breath in January. [Full article]( [‘The Creepy Line’ Takes On Google And Facebook’s Power To Manipulate Elections]( By Dan DeCarlo Where is the line between tech companies legitimately attempting to monetize their services through targeted advertising and outright predatory invasions of personal privacy? [Full article]( [Protestant Questions For Scandalized Catholics Who Still Remain Catholic]( By Korey Maas Catholic laity are right to demand honesty from the hierarchy. But let them also be honest with themselves and others about why they remain in the church. [Full article]( [Ignore ‘The Predator’s’ Low Reviews. It’s A Good Movie]( By Titus Techera It fails to rise above its genre, but ‘The Predator’ is rescued in part by the symbolism of family love, which reveals a deep emotional humanism that should have received far more praise. [Full article]( [Revisiting Battlestar Galactica: ‘He That Believeth In Me’ And ‘Six of One’]( By Warren Henry Season Four begins in a space battle between humans and Cylons, but the real drama comes from conflicts of faith within both camps. [Full article]( [Podcast: Why Open Borders Are Bad For Everyone]( By The Federalist Staff Reihan Salam discusses the complicated discourse around immigration, and why uncontrolled immigration is bad for everyone, even those foreign-born. [Full article]( [Kavanaugh Fights Back: Smears And Vile Threats ‘Will Not Drive Me Out’]( By Bre Payton "The coordinated effort to destroy my good name will not drive me out," Kavanaugh wrote. "The last-minute character assassination will not succeed." [Full article]( [The Smearing Of Brett Kavanaugh Is Truly Evil]( By Mollie Hemingway This media-enabled Democratic smear campaign simply can't be the standard by which we destroy people. [Full article]( [Ronan Farrow Hurts The Me Too Movement With His Anti-Kavanaugh Hatchet Job]( By David Marcus By discarding the basic standards of evidence and journalism, Ronan Farrow has set the Me Too Movement back. [Full article]( [We Need A New Counterculture To Combat The Left’s Circular Firing Brigades]( By Robert Tracinski A whole generation of kids are growing up under the thumb of oppressive, closed-minded authority figures. They're waiting for something worth rebelling for. [Full article]( THIS IS JUST A SMEAR CAMPAIGN NOW is little that can be said about The New Yorker’s hit piece on Brett Kavanaugh without concluding it is a thinly sourced smear, and that Ronan Farrow has engaged in a seriously irresponsible approach that could tinge his other efforts to report in the future about such allegations. As Sean Davis wrote on Twitter: “Senate Republicans have a simple choice: stand up to a coordinated Democrat smear campaign and confirm Kavanaugh, which will energize GOP voters and preserve House/Senate majorities, or buckle under Democrat lies and give up congressional GOP majorities for a decade or more.” 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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