The Federalist Daily Briefing for 12/01/2016

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 1, 2016 [BuzzFeed Wants To Destroy Chip And Joanna Gaines For Being Christian And Wildly Popular] By Hans Fiene Chip and Joanna, HGTV superstars and perhaps America’s most beloved married couple, belong to a church whose pastor preaches that homosexuality is sinful. Horrors. [Full article] [Killing The Electoral College Is A Dumb Idea Pushed By Ignorant People] By Donna Carol Voss Some very nice, apparently well-educated people are peddling absolute Pablum about the Electoral College. [Full article] [Kellyanne Conway Would Be A Feminist Hero If She Were A Democrat] By Julie Kelly She's a lawyer, pollster, and business owner. She's a mom of four, and a self-made woman. Why do feminists ignore her? Oh, that's right—she's Republican. [Full article] [Did Pope Francis Just Validate China’s Godless Communist Regime?] By Helen Raleigh If the Vatican and Beijing come to a diplomatic agreement, it's likely to come at a considerable cost for the country's Christians. [Full article] [Aliens Don’t Exist, But They Tell Us A Lot About Atheists] By Peter Burfeind Lacking any evidence of an actual alien, Hollywood’s aliens speak more about the modern psyche fueling the imaginations of their designers. [Full article] [3 Major Mistakes People Make About Media Bias] By Larry Sanger To be really free, we must think things through for ourselves and draw our own conclusions. Bias interferes with this process, and neutral writing can help. [Full article] [‘The Best Of Both Worlds’: Kids Were No Barrier To This Female Entrepreneur] By Luma Simms An author, journalist, and now the CEO of a new business venture, Danielle Crittenden Frum took time to answer my questions about mothers opting-out and back into the workforce. [Full article] [Jim Webb Addresses America’s Elites, Donald Trump, And Foreign Policy In Keynote] By The Federalist Staff 'How wrong are these elites, at least as it relates to the rest of the country? Look for a moment at the most glaring foreign policy failures of the past 15 years.' [Full article] [Donald Trump’s Carrier Deal Is Just Cronyism as Usual] By Robert Tracinski The Carrier deal shows that Donald Trump isn't going to 'drain the swamp.' He's just going to favor a different set of swamp creatures. [Full article] [How To Make American Immigration Great Again] By Helen Raleigh 'Comprehensive' immigration reform would only serve special interests, and building a wall is needlessly expensive. There's a better way. [Full article] [6 Reasons Donald Trump’s Presidency Could Be Great For Parents] By Abby W. Schacter I’d like nothing more than for a Donald Trump presidency to usher in a new age of reduced government involvement in family life. [Full article] [Enjoy These Delicious Mashed Potatoes After You Read Their Origin Story] By Brad Jackson Because potatoes were easy to grow, cheap, and nutritious, they became a staple foodstuff of many peasants and farmers in the western world, and now us. [Full article] [Federalist Radio: The Smugness Of The Press And Decaying American Communities] By The Federalist Staff Will Rahn, digital politics managing editor at CBS News, describes unbearable smugness of the media with Ben Domenech on The Federalist Radio Hour. [Full article] [Progressives Are Now Using Fake Election News To Self-Soothe] By The Federalist Staff After complaining that 'fake news' led to Hillary Clinton's electoral demise, progressives are now openly using fake news to self-soothe. [Full article] [How To Stop Despairing Over World Suffering And Start Addressing It] By Gracy Olmstead It's easy to feel guilty or overwhelmed in the face of worldwide hurting and violence. But no matter our resources, there are ways we can help. [Full article] [Obama Just Praised The ‘Great Work’ Of A Notorious Fake News Outlet] By The Federalist Staff Days after criticizing the proliferation of fake news online, President Barack Obama openly praised the "great work" of a notorious fake news outlet. [Full article] [5 Reasons It’s Basically Your Patriotic Duty To Watch Dolly Parton’s TV Christmas Movie] By Mary Katharine Ham Dolly Parton is heartbroken for her Tennessee mountain home. Let's all cheer up by watching a cheesy family flick. [Full article] THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDIA STORY OF THE YEAR We have spent a good deal of time talking about the media over the past several weeks – their insularity, their inability to come to grips with their failures, their general freakout over the election of Donald Trump – but the most important media story of 2016 may turn out to have nothing to do with politics. Nor will it be the story of Gawker’s utter collapse at the hands of Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel. Nor will it be the story of Rolling Stone’s fake-but-true insistence that it did nothing wrong in reporting the wild claims of a rape fabulist. Nor will it be the story of CNN’s devolution into a torrent of BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP TWEETS attack network on the Republican president-elect. Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial] today. [follow on Twitter] | [friend on Facebook] | [forward to a friend] Copyright © 2016 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 8647 Richmond Highway Suite 618 Alexandria, VA 22309 [Add us to your address book] [unsubscribe from this list] | [update subscription preferences] | [view email in browser]