The Federalist Daily Briefing for 10/31/2019

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](. October 31, 2019 [LGBT Activists Won’t Admit Anything’s Wrong With A Man Flashing Children During Drag Queen Story Hour]( By Chad Felix Greene Some entertainment is just not suitable for children. Provocative adult entertainers at Drag Queen Story Hour should be an obvious example. [Full article]( [First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared For College In 15 Years]( By Joy Pullmann Grade-school scores on the nation's most respected test have dropped again. Further, the class of 2019, the first to experience all four high school years under Common Core, is the worst-prepared for college in 15 years. [Full article]( [Trans Athletes Destroy The Meaning Of Women, Then Ask ‘What Is A Woman?’]( By Georgi Boorman In the span of 1,100 words, this Wired author takes you from the claim that transgender athletes are achieving 'glorious' victories over biological females to a final question, posed in all seriousness: 'What is a woman?' [Full article]( [As The Last WWII Nazi Stands Trial, The Holocaust Remembrance Torch Passes To Us]( By Beth Bailey Bruno Dey’s twice-weekly, two hour sessions of questioning demonstrate to the watching world the face, and the consequences, of hatred. [Full article]( [Obama Is Right To Criticize Cancel Culture, But The Left Isn’t Listening]( By John Daniel Davidson The irony is that Obama helped sow the seeds of the cancel culture he now bemoans. Now, an ultra-woke left doesn't want to listen to him. [Full article]( [5 Practical Steps For Saving America By Building A Real-Life Community]( By Jayme Metzgar You won’t be able to single-handedly change the culture of America, but changing the culture of your neighborhood is well within reach. It’s a place to start. [Full article]( [4 Reasons Socialism Is More Popular Among Americans Now Than Ever Before]( By Alexander Zubatov Why socialism now? At a time when the American economy under Trump seems to be chugging along at a nice clip, why are so many hankering for an alternative? [Full article]( [Will J.J. Abrams Cancel Kylo Ren In December’s Episode IX?]( By Stephen Kent You may not be a space murderer, but if Kylo Ren isn’t redeemable in 'The Rise of Skywalker,' the implied message would be that you aren’t either. [Full article]( [These 12 Men’s Abortion Stories Illustrate How Normalizing Evil Creates Monsters]( By Peter Burfeind The word ‘monster’ comes from the Latin for ‘to warn.’ The idea is that a monster suggests something amuck in the cosmic order. [Full article]( [It’s Past Time For Congress To Give States Back Their Power To Regulate Drug Use]( By Ken Ivory With marijuana legalization, our country is renewing a long-dead love affair with federalism. This is a good sign for all limited government conservatives. [Full article]( [Why Kanye Will Back Off His Christianity Phase A Bit, And That’s A Good Thing]( By Justin McClinton With its legitimacy in question more than ever, for the moment Kanye West has become the face of American Christianity. Is that good? [Full article]( [Anti-Trump ‘Whistleblower’ Worked With DNC Operative Who Sought Dirt On Trump From Ukrainian Officials]( By Madeline Osburn RealClearInvestigations reports the anti-Trump 'whistleblower' who prompted the current impeachment proceedings is a registered Democrat who worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan. [Full article]( [Kamala Harris To Cut Staff And Restructure Campaign To Save Sinking Presidential Bid]( By Tristan Justice Kamala Harris, according to a memo obtained by Politico on Wednesday, is reportedly letting go of “dozens” of campaign staff at her Baltimore headquarters. [Full article]( [After NCAA Rule Change, Richard Burr Promises To Punish Predominantly Non-White College Athletes With Huge Tax Increase]( By Erielle Davidson Burr's proposal calls for an unequal application of the income tax and would hurt predominantly minority student-athletes. [Full article]( [No, Kate Upton, Women Are Not Treated Like They Live In The 1950s]( By Madeline Osburn If Upton wants to compare the state of the sexes in 2019 to 1950, she will find that women are not just equal to men, but actually at far more of an advantage. [Full article]( [Identity Politics King Barack Obama Complains About Outrage Culture: ‘That’s Not Activism’]( By Tristan Justice The president’s comments starkly contrast his record as the virtue-signaler-in-chief for eight years. [Full article]( [It’s Not Climate Change To Blame For California’s Fires And Blackouts. It’s Democrats]( By Chuck DeVore Thanks to Democrats, California’s large and heavily regulated public utilities prioritize wind and solar power, leaving little for powerline maintenance and upgrades. [Full article]( [Prior To Rally With Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders Says He Believes In Israel’s Right To Exist]( By Chrissy Clark "I believe absolutely, not only in the right of Israel to exist, but the right to exist in peace and security. That's not a question," Sanders said. [Full article]( THE BLOB IGNORED TRUMP, AND THAT’S WHAT GOT US HERE Stein: U.S. Officials Ignored Trump on Syria and We Are All Paying the Price. “The worst part of this collective, predictable, and predicted failure is that, despite the thousands of hours people spent to try and shape a policy around Trump’s incoherent Twitter feed, and to stage-manage an increasingly angry Turkey committed to invading (whether Trump sanctioned it or not), Washington never seriously grappled with how to leave Syria in a way that satisfied Trump and maximized U.S. interests.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. 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