The Federalist Daily Briefing for 01/10/2020

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 10, 2020 [Left Blames President Trump For Iran’s Decision To Shoot Down A Passenger Plane]( By Erielle Davidson The crash of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 is a tragedy, the culpability for which lies unequivocally with Iran. To suggest otherwise is to cheapen the deaths of hundreds to score political points against the 'bad orange man.' [Full article]( [LGBT Activists Shouldn’t Encourage Teens To Use Grindr App Complicit In Gruesome Murder]( By Chad Felix Greene While LGBT advocates focus on hate crimes, discrimination, or other outside negative influences on the LGBT community, they fail to see the dangers within it. [Full article]( [New Expose Outs Another Pedophile Among France’s Literary Elite]( By Holly Scheer Vanessa Springora's spotlight on the crimes of Gabriel Matzneff shows it's past time for France to stop excusing evil because of the perpetrator's status. [Full article]( [Contrary To Media Reports, New Abortion Pill Study Finds It Endangers Women And Reversal Works]( By Tara Sander Lee and Michael Valley The authors of a new study continue promulgating misleading information about the real risks of the abortion pill regimen, instead of emphasizing the safety of using progesterone to try to reverse Mifeprex's effects. [Full article]( [‘1917’ Reminds Us War Is An Addiction We’ll Never Shake]( By Caroline D'Agati Sam Mendes’ magnificent epic raises a question stripped straight from today’s headlines: Is war a futile waste of life or the apex of the human experience? [Full article]( [Not One Senate Democrat Joins Resolution Commending U.S. Military For Soleimani’s Death]( By Erielle Davidson Commending those who killed a terrorist responsible for the loss of hundreds of American lives should not be a controversial endeavor, but apparently it is. [Full article]( [The Murder Of My Beloved IPA And The Rise Of The Great Pretender]( By Christopher Bedford There was a golden age once -- lasted maybe two decades -- where you could walk into a bar in any good-sized city, order the local IPA, and be satisfied. Those days are gone. [Full article]( [Covington Settlement Warns Corporations That Bias Can Cost Big Bucks]( By Scott Shepard CNN and AT&T have learned expensive lessons about bias that the rest of corporate America would be wise to heed. [Full article]( [Is Elizabeth Warren Using A ‘Goldilocks’ Strategy To Win The Democratic Nomination?]( By Christopher Jacobs If Democrats do end up with a contested convention, it seems unlikely to result in an outcome in which a previously undeclared candidate emerges from the shadows to win the nomination. [Full article]( [The Misplaced Moral Panic Over Vaping Is Killing Smokers]( By Tristan Justice Manufactured hysteria about the use of electronic cigarettes is perpetuating a public health crisis more severe than the one it seeks to address. [Full article]( [The American Revolution Was Also A Moral Revolution]( By Craig Bruce Smith In C. Bradley Thompson’s new book, 'America’s Revolutionary Mind,' the Clemson professor makes a provocative and persuasive rebuttal to contemporary historians suggesting that the American founding advanced self-serving motives based on slavery, race, and class. [Full article]( [‘Toy Story 4’ Is Too ‘White’ For Hollywood Reporter Critic]( By Brad Slager To launch the new year in appropriately oblivious fashion, The Hollywood Reporter has an article out condemning 'Toy Story 4' for a litany of social transgressions. [Full article]( [This Week In Weird Twitter, Volume 131]( By Rich Cromwell As the moon rises, another shirt and pair of shoes get ruined. [Full article]( [Mitch McConnell Signs Onto GOP Proposal To Dismiss Impeachment Trial]( By Tristan Justice McConnell joins a dozen other GOP co-sponsors who have signed onto the resolution put forward by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. [Full article]( [Buttigieg Blames Trump For Iran Shooting Down Ukrainian Airplane]( By Tristan Justice Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg blamed President Donald Trump for the downed Ukrainian passenger jet over Iran on Wednesday night. “Innocent civilians are now Read More ( [Full article]( [BREAKING: U.S., Iraqi Officials Accuse Iran Of Shooting Down European Passenger Jet]( By Christopher Bedford A European passenger jet crash that killed all 176 passengers and crew in Iran during Wednesday night's hostilities is under intense international scrutiny after rapid explanations raised suspicions. [Full article]( [U.S. Is ‘Confident’ Iran Shot Down Ukrainian Passenger Airliner, Killing 176 People]( By Chrissy Clark U.S. Pentagon officials have confirmed Iran shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner killing 176 people. [Full article]( [Joy Behar Is So Trump Deranged She Just Applauded A Neo-Nazi]( By Melissa Langsam Braunstein Someone should inform Behar: It’s possible to dislike, or even detest, Trump while also holding the line against extremism. [Full article]( [Washington Tries, And Fails, To Defend Nancy Pelosi’s Failed Impeachment Strategy]( By Ben Domenech Why did Pelosi choose this pointless gambit which ended up dragging this impeachment process out without any apparent benefit to her conference? [Full article]( PELOSI’S CHOICE the immediate aftermath of Nancy Pelosi’s decision to hold the Articles of Impeachment rather than send them to the Senate, not even the most pro-Pelosi hacks in existence could make the case for the strategy. The same question pingponged through DC greenrooms: “Is she really doing this?” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. 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