The Federalist Daily Briefing for 12/09/2019

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](. December 9, 2019 [13 Things To Look For In The Inspector General FISA Abuse Report]( By Margot Cleveland Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation was limited in scope and thus will leave unanswered many of the questions surrounding the FBI’s targeting of the Trump campaign. [Full article]( [4 Reasons The Left’s Methods Are Far More Cult-Like Than Trump’s]( By Stella Morabito In their effort to label President Trump as a cult leader and smear all 63 million of his supporters as cultists, media elites have finally cracked open a real discussion about mass conformity. [Full article]( [Transgender Demands Are An Attack On Real Human Rights]( By Kaeley Triller Haver It is not a human right for a grown man with male genitals to shower next to girls at the gym; it is a human right for girls to say ‘no’ to this new brand of rape culture. [Full article]( [Why Trump’s Gains With Black Voters Could Swing The 2020 Election]( By Stewart Lawrence How much support can Trump actually gain in 2020? It’s not clear, but just a modest swing of African Americans toward Trump in 2020 could prove decisive. [Full article]( [Pastor Seized One Year Ago Still Missing In China’s Detention Archipelago]( By Helen Raleigh One year after his arrest, Pastor Wang Yi is still in Chinese detention. Let us all pray for him and the thousands of innocent Christians facing persecution under the oppressive Chinese regime. [Full article]( [NATO’s Troubles Are Not Going Away After Trump]( By Sumantra Maitra With greater expansion comes greater dilution, and a diluted alliance is as good as dead, as there will never be a sense of internal cohesion. [Full article]( [We Need More Judges Who Realize How Monetizing Wombs Hurts Women And Children]( By Katy Faust The left is freaking out that a new Trump-appointed federal judge realizes the harm involved when babies are manufactured in laboratories. But we need more judges like Sarah Pitlyk. [Full article]( [Here’s How To Tell Your Kids That Santa Claus Is Real]( By Keith Stanglin What has become a secular symbol of greed and pop sentimentality — probably the worst possible way to celebrate Jesus’ birth — can be reinvested with meaning that points to the true Messiah. [Full article]( [Why ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Is The Best Post-1960s Christmas Tune]( By Addison Del Mastro Perhaps 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' is just a song. But it’s a remarkable one in a way, and if we were still writing Christmas songs these days, we probably wouldn’t write it again. [Full article]( [The Tax Increase Joe Biden’s Tax Plan ‘Forgot’ To Mention Affects His Pocketbook]( By Christopher Jacobs Bloomberg News mentioned not a word about how Joe Biden’s tax plan omitted the Obama proposal on self-employment taxes, or Biden’s history of questionable tax maneuvers. [Full article]( [This Week In Weird Twitter, Volume 130]( By Rich Cromwell If I couldn’t be trusted to prevent a stuffed bear from stealing my car, then how could I be trusted to stop Nicolas Cage from stealing the Constitution? [Full article]( IMPEACHMENT IS A DRAG Hemingway. “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she would like articles of impeachment drafted, a foregone conclusion ever since Democrats won the House in 2018. Some members, such as Rep. Al Green pictured above had joined the media in calling for Trump’s impeachment since before he was even inaugurated. The precise reasons keep changing (earlier this year, nearly 100 Democrats voted to impeach Trump for the high crime of criticizing Democratic lawmakers Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez on Twitter), but the fervor to retaliate against Trump for beating Hillary Clinton 2016 remains unchanged.” 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](