The Federalist Daily Briefing for 09/20/2016

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 20, 2016 [It’s Deadly To Pretend ISIS Doesn’t Mean What It Says] By M.G. Oprea Liberal politicians and members of the media want to deny ISIS’s ability to attack America because doing so gives them an excuse for inaction. [Full article] [The One Thing Jeb Bush Got Right This Year? Speaking In Spanish] By M.G. Oprea Jeb Bush's primary run may not have succeeded, but his tactics for reaching Hispanic voters were brilliant, and worth emulating. [Full article] [Meet The Man Who Remained Unbroken Inside Cambodia’s Socialist Killing Fields] By Gracy Olmstead The question is not, ‘How could Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime be so evil?’ but, ‘Why are we all not more like the Khmer Rouge?’ [Full article] [Trans Politics Could End Greek Life On Campus] By Mitch Hall Before moving towards ‘inclusion,’ fraternities and sororities should consider how their single-sex membership makes them valuable in the first place. [Full article] [Belgium Lets A Legal Minor Euthanize Himself] By Andrew Walker This is the first reported instance of a child taking advantage of Belgium’s laxer stance after legislators allowed child euthanasia in 2014. [Full article] [Hillary’s IT Guy Asked Reddit To Help Him Delete Hillary’s E-Mails] By Bre Payton One of the IT guys who set up Hillary Clinton's private email server apparently asked redditors to help him delete evidence. [Full article] [Liberalism’s Real Narrative Fight Isn’t What Josh Earnest Thinks It Is] By James Poulos We’re much better at raining death onto ISIS than breathing life into liberal democracy, which, at the close of President Obama’s two terms, is absolutely reeling in headlong retreat. [Full article] [6 Ways Obama Is Unconsciously Championing Conservative Energy Policy] By James Taylor President Obama said we cannot 'pay lip service to conservation but then refuse to do what’s needed.' Conservatives should hold him to that. [Full article] [What Today’s Christians Can Learn From Antiquity About Living In A Pagan World] By Greg Scandlen To survive in a hostile culture, Christians must articulate and exemplify an alternative vision of human flourishing. [Full article] [Upton Sinclair Perfected The Art Of The Misleading Media Narrative] By C.C. Taylor Today is famed twentieth-century progressive muckraker Upton Sinclair’s birth anniversary. He continues to influence today’s liberal media. [Full article] [Why Lifelong Democrats In Pennsylvania Are Voting For Donald Trump] By The Federalist Staff Salena Zito joined the Federalist Radio Hour to share her conversations with voters in Western Pennsylvania and their thoughts on 2016. [Full article] [15 Things More Terrifying Than Trump Calling A Bomb A Bomb] By Mollie Hemingway The media's freak out over Trump calling a bomb 'a bomb' is more alarming to many Americans than anything he said. Here are 14 other more worrisome things. [Full article] [Hillary Clinton Would Rather Blame Free Speech Than Islam For Terrorism] By David Harsanyi Hillary just accused the GOP nominee of treason because he used free speech in a manner she dislikes. [Full article] [The Garbage Philosophy Behind The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Myth] By Robert Tracinski The myth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch reveals the environmentalists' willingness to lie for their cause. [Full article] [Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump Is A Traitor, And These Attacks Are His Fault] By Bre Payton In a statement on Monday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed Donald Trump for the weekend's terrorist attacks and accused him of treason, saying Trump was "giving aid and comfort" to ISIS. [Full article] [Obama Spokesman: America Is In A ‘Narrative Fight’ With ISIS] By Sean Davis Over the weekend, authorities discovered multiple exploding narratives in New York and New Jersey. Another narrative stabbed nine people at a mall in Minnesota. [Full article] HOW THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNITY FUELS DONALD TRUMP “In vast swaths of America today, and especially in working-class white communities, we’re beginning to see something like the opposite of the Roseto effect. Call it the Hazelton effect. Social bonds are weakening, along with the institutions that created them. The number of Americans who identify with no church or religion—the so-called “nones”—is increasing, and the share of self-identified Christians is declining. Volunteerism is waning. A 2015 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found the rate of volunteerism nationwide was less than 25 percent, the lowest level since BLS began tracking it in 2002. Labor unions, which once gave working class communities, especially those across the Rust Belt, a sense of solidarity and support, no longer provide that role. In many places, they’re simply gone—along with the manufacturing jobs of their erstwhile members.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial] today. [follow on Twitter] | [friend on Facebook] | [forward to a friend] Copyright © 2016 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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