The Federalist Daily Briefing for 01/07/2020

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](. January 7, 2020 [Whether You Like It Or Not, The United States Is At War With Iran]( By Edward Chang Only the absence of retaliation or some lower-level action that gives both sides a face-saving way out of the predicament can restore deterrence. Otherwise, fight’s on. [Full article]( [Iran Has Terrorists Embedded Inside The United States And Across Our Border]( By Todd Bensman So long as the world is entertaining worst-case scenarios, the media does Americans no favors in omitting that Iran-Hezbollah has for years prepared to strike in their own hometowns. [Full article]( [Media Coverage Of Iraq Is A Case Study Of Ignorance And Manipulation]( By Christopher Bedford 'Repercussions mount over U.S. strike, with Iran nuclear deal pullback and Iraq call for U.S. troop pullout,' the Los Angeles Times tells us, waiting 14 paragraphs to explain the resolution is not binding. [Full article]( [3 Times The IG Report Suggests Spygate Is Worse Than We Thought]( By Margot Cleveland As bad as the IG’s findings were, the details in its report suggest worse is coming when U.S. Attorney John Durham concludes his investigation into the Russia collusion hoax. [Full article]( [Xi’s China Ends 2019 With The Worst Religious Persecution In The Country’s History]( By Helen Raleigh Increased religious persecution in China has failed to curtail the growing number of Christians, which has reached more than 100 million today — more than the 90 million members of the Chinese Communist Party. [Full article]( [Attacks On Jews Are A Canary In The Coalmine For Religious Liberty In The United States]( By Kristen Waggoner The leftist culture-shapers who claim to champion ‘tolerance’ and ‘ending discrimination’ push for toxic identity politics that make true tolerance impossible. [Full article]( [White Leftists Are Bringing Racism Under New Management]( By Paulette Varghese Altmaier As a response to old versions of racism, a new brand is taking over American culture. But the new racism is not better than the old racism. Two wrongs don’t make a right. [Full article]( [5 Ways You Can Prepare For Dangerous Gun Scenarios]( By Nicole Russell Americans, be thankful you live in a country that secured the right for you to bear arms hundreds of years ago. Here's how you can exercise your gun rights. [Full article]( [While IVF Is Allowed To Create Millions Of Frozen Embryos, Those Babies Need Adoption]( By Daniel Nehrbass and Kimberly Tyson Embryo adoption allows children who otherwise would not be born to become part of a chosen, loving, permanent adopting family. [Full article]( [‘The Bachelor’ Premiere Ignored Contestants To Focus On Hannah Brown And Sex]( By Chrissy Clark On Monday night's season premiere of 'The Bachelor,' the spotlight was stolen from 30 beautiful contestants and centralized around Hannah Brown and sex. [Full article]( [Senators Are Not Supposed To Be ‘Impartial Jurors’ During Impeachment]( By Tristan Justice While the political aspects of a quasi-jury are undeniable, it is neither entirely one of the other, but instead something in between. [Full article]( [Your Guide To The ‘Bachelor’ Premiere, With Former Contestant Jillian Anderson]( By Emily Jashinsky Anderson describes the behind-the-scenes of the Bachelor mansion, the manipultaing producers, and how the show has evolved over the many seasons. [Full article]( [Josh Hawley And 10 Republicans Introduce Resolution To Put Time Limit On Impeachment]( By Chrissy Clark On Monday, Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a resolution on the Senate floor to update the Senate rules on impeachment. [Full article]( [Media Bias Vividly Illustrated In Headlines About Michelle Williams’s Pro-Abortion Golden Globes Speech]( By Emily Jashinsky From CNN to People to Yahoo to Vanity Fair, at least twelve major outlets used some variation of the word "powerful" in their headlines about the speech. [Full article]( [Thanks To The Golden Globes, Boobs Are Officially Back]( By Madeline Osburn The December 2016 issue of Vogue magazine ludicrously declared "cleavage is over." But if this year's Golden Globes was any indicator of trending fashion guidelines, boobs are officially back. [Full article]( [We’ve Entered The Desert Of The Surreal]( By Ben Domenech We're giving up family formation, faith, and the everlasting for the likes, the upvotes, and the daily ever-present memeification. [Full article]( [New Poll Shows Three-Way Tie In Iowa Caucus, Sanders Stronghold In New Hampshire]( By Chrissy Clark A newly released CBS News poll shows a three way tie between Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden for the front-runner position in Iowa. [Full article]( [George Lopez Jokes He’d Kill Trump For Iran At A Discount Price]( By Tristan Justice The comments however still prompted online backlash leading to “arrest George Lopez” to begin trending on Twitter Monday morning. [Full article]( [No, Michelle Williams, Women Don’t Need To Kill Their Kids To Get Ahead]( By Joy Pullmann If someone put a gun to a child's head and said to Williams, 'The price for your Golden Globe is this child's life,' hopefully she would have picked the child. But here she is, admitting she already did that to an even smaller human. [Full article]( [Ricky Gervais Gave Liberal Media The Sads At 2020 Golden Globes]( By Ellie Bufkin Liberal members of the media expressed disgust that Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais would dare criticize Hollywood millionaires for being uninformed hypocrites. [Full article]( THE DESERT OF THE SURREAL we entered 2020, the trend on Twitter was to post a social media summary of your decade – an act of performative art that was both narcissistic and fully representative of the moment we inhabit. People tabulated their successes at all manner of things, from the impressive to the ridiculous. It was everything you might expect. 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