The Federalist Daily Briefing for 05/10/2019

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](. May 10, 2019 [Skyrocketing Attacks On NYC Jews Ignored Because Of Race]( By David Marcus An epidemic of anti-Jewish violence in Brooklyn is being virtually ignored because many of the assailants are black and Hispanic. [Full article]( [Gaslighting On Abortion Intensifies As Georgia Passes Fetal Heartbeat Bill]( By Georgi Boorman Defenders of the abortion regime don’t rely on science, but on philosophical contortionism that disintegrates upon exposure to actual scientific evidence. [Full article]( [‘Tolkien’ Distorts And Flattens J.R.R. Tolkien’s Incredible Life Story]( By Titus Techera Why bother with people from another time if we have to always reduce them to boring, conventional people of our own times? [Full article]( [It’s Been 15 Years Since ‘Friends’ Ended. So Why Does It Dominate On Netflix?]( By Emily Jashinsky 'Friends' is so valuable to Netflix that it reportedly cost the company $100 million to renew its rights to the show this year. That's more than three times the previous price of $30 million. [Full article]( [AOC’s Insistence Americans Care About Climate Change Heavily Distorts The Polling]( By Warren Henry Last month’s Gallup poll found climate change was the ninth most important issue, coming in at a mere 3 percent. That result also combines climate change with the environment and pollution. [Full article]( [How Charles De Gaulle Made France Great Again]( By Nathan Pinkoski Julian Jackson's new biography of French general and statesman Charles de Gaulle illustrates how many lessons from revitalizing France after World War II can help fix present-day America. [Full article]( [Government Surveillance Of Political Activists Is Scary, Illegal, And Common]( By Luke Wachob When powerful government agencies don’t like what you have to say, they have many tools to shut you down. One of the most effective is putting you under a microscope. [Full article]( [Democrats Are All About Restricting Ballot Access If It Helps Stop Trump]( By Kyle Sammin In their zeal to remove Trump from office, Democratic state legislators are making a farce of the Constitution itself, threatening to fully destroy it. [Full article]( [Why The Philippines Needs President Duterte’s Harsh Treatment Of Drug Cartels]( By Seaborn Hall For Western media, Duterte is worse than President Trump. However, media views on the Philippine president reflect deep bias and questionable sourcing. [Full article]( [Why Bonnie Hunt Is The Greatest Movie Mom Of All Time]( By Barry Lenser This Mother's Day, let's acknowledge that Bonnie Hunt is more than simply a wonderful actress. She’s nothing less than the greatest 'movie mom' of all time. [Full article]( [Say Happy Birthday To America’s First Transcontinental Railroad]( By Christopher Jacobs One hundred fifty years ago today, on May 10, 1869, events in a remote section of Utah helped quite literally bring the country together. [Full article]( [How Fishing Can Make Us Into Better People]( By Casey Chalk It’s not just about the fish, but about the entire ecosystem that surrounds you, that has graciously welcomed you in. [Full article]( [No One Likes You, Eric Swalwell]( By Madeline Osburn Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell, who has branded himself as the 'Guns and Russia' candidate, is polling at 0 percent among all 2020 Democratic hopefuls. [Full article]( [Impeach Trump Or Go Home, Democrats]( By David Harsanyi An impeachment proceeding would be far preferable to Democrats' endless series of manufactured 'constitutional crises.' Let’s do it already. [Full article]( [Did Robert Mueller Tap Fusion GPS And Christopher Steele To Assist His Anti-Trump Investigation?]( By Paul Sperry Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. [Full article]( FREE SPEECH AND CONTROL Henry. “Last week, Facebook banned Alex Jones, InfoWars, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, Paul Nehlen, and Louis Farrakhan, setting off further discussion about the scope of free speech on the internet. Yet the debate over de-platforming is much more about control than freedom of speech.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. [follow on Twitter](Twitter Account not yet Authorized) | [friend on Facebook](#) | [forward to a friend]( Copyright © 2019 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 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #247Washington, DC 20003-4303 [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences]( | [view email in browser](