The Federalist Daily Briefing for 02/08/2019

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](. February 8, 2019 [The Biggest Threat To Press Freedom Is The Media Itself]( By Mark Hemingway Major media organizations are about to be sued for irresponsibly turning innocent Covington Catholic school boys into objects of national hatred. A lack of standards threatens to open the media to all kinds of legal liabilities. [Full article]( [Cory Booker: Neomi Rao Is Unfit For Office If She Supports Natural Marriage]( By Kristen Waggoner For the good of our country, we invite Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Cory Booker to reread the Constitution and rediscover the merits of religious diversity and freedom of conscience. [Full article]( [Mothers Are Killing Babies Who Could Fill The Empty Arms Of Millions Of Loving Couples]( By Adam Mill There's no reason why anyone should need an abortion minutes before giving birth, when all states have infant safe haven laws. [Full article]( [How Our Administrative State Undermines The Constitution]( By William Turton Scholar and political theorist John Marini's new book addresses the foundational constitutional problem of our age—how to rein in America's unaccountable federal bureaucracy. [Full article]( [New Book: John Roberts Let Politics Sway His Obamacare Ruling]( By Christopher Jacobs Maybe 'Obamacare' should be renamed 'Robertscare' for the justice who went out of his way to save the individual mandate. [Full article]( [Why We Should Amend The Constitution To Restrict The President’s Power To Pardon]( By Kyle Sammin Reining in the power of the executive, ever so slightly, might not be the worst idea. Of course, it should be about principle, not political targeting. [Full article]( [The Tail Of Twitter Is Wagging The Dog Of Media]( By Emily Jashinsky The Twitterverse is comprised of a relatively small swath of the public, according to new fourth-quarter figures released by the company itself. [Full article]( [Top Democrats In Line For Virginia Governor’s Office Embroiled In Scandal, Refuse To Step Down]( By Britt McHenry Sadly, the message we are witnessing this week from Virginia’s top leaders is that racism and possible sexual assault are better alternatives than bipartisanship. [Full article]( [Lots Of Barriers Prevent Parents From Fully Vaccinating Their Kids]( By Holly Scheer In times of crisis, like with the measles outbreak in Washington, we should think about ways to increase vaccine accessibility and knowledge. [Full article]( [The Metric System Is Overrated, But It Does This One Thing Really Well]( By Mark Overstreet For American purposes, the metric system may be highly overrated, but it has at least one useful application. [Full article]( [Where Has All The Culture Gone?]( By Daniel Oliver From New York to Virginia to Colorado to California, the lamps are going out all over America: and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime, unless we make a more serious effort. [Full article]( [Judges, Regulation, And The Federal Budget: An Interview With Senator Mike Braun]( By The Federalist Staff Senator Mike Braun discusses the rising costs of education, healthcare and other economic issues with Executive Editor Joy Pullmann. [Full article]( [Fourth-Wave Feminist Hysteria Gets Scope Of Sexual Assault Problem Wrong]( By Liz Wolfe We shouldn't feed the fearmongering Twitter frenzy. Instead, we should have an honest discussion about how prevalent sex-based violence really is. [Full article]( [In Ocasio-Cortez’s District, MS-13 Kills While She Calls To Disband ICE]( By David Marcus Ocasio-Cortez's deeply unserious call to abolish ICE invites more murder and crime in her own backyard while doing nothing to solve the problem. [Full article]( [The 10 Most Insane Requirements Of The Green New Deal]( By David Harsanyi The Green New Deal is likely the most unserious plan that has ever been presented by any elected official to the American people. [Full article]( THINGS JUST KEEP GETTING WORSE IN VIRGINIA had to be one of the craziest political days in the modern history of the Old Dominion. When the revelation that the attorney general was himself a former wearer of blackface is only the second worst thing to happen to the Democratic leadership in the state, you know it’s a bad day. When you are trying to figure out what the succession process would be if all three statewide officials resigned, you know it’s even worse. 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