The Federalist Daily Briefing for 12/09/2016

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 9, 2016 [Kellyanne Conway Says Kids Matter To Working Moms, Lefty Media Loses Its Mind] By Joy Pullmann Kellyanne Conway's remarks are not shocking. This is merely a kick-ass career lady opening up about what's inside her head on a topic of great interest. [Full article] [The Federalist’s Notable Books Of 2016] By The Federalist Editors We’re going to tell you what some of The Federalist’s contributors read this year and why, confident that there’s a little something here for everyone. [Full article] [Transgender Activists Put Women At Risk, And It Affected The Election] By Rivka Edelman Transgender activists use questionable, even dangerous, tactics to advance their agenda—all the while putting women and girls at risk. [Full article] [The Science Says Putting Women Into Combat Endangers National Security] By Travis Scott The question we must ask now is: ‘Will the presence of a woman in combat negatively affect an infantry unit?’ This is the only question that matters in this debate. [Full article] [New Research Debunks The Claim That Your Beliefs Can Kill Gay People] By Glenn T. Stanton Reducing another’s life by 12 years by failing to agree with his or her sexual desires is no small charge. But is it legit? New research says no. [Full article] [You Won’t Need Free Birth Control Under Trump, Because No One Will Have Sex] By Bre Payton In the wake of Donald Trump's electoral victory, people have declared sex to be officially over. For them, that's probably true. [Full article] [Donald Trump Is Ideologically Gutting The Republican Party] By Robert Tracinski The worst part of Donald Trump's economic interventions is that he's getting other Republicans to throw out the party's free-market ideology. [Full article] [6 Classic Action Movies Men And Women Will Both Enjoy, Plus 16 More For Men] By Margot Cleveland When it comes to stupid action films, check your Y-chromosome sexist stereotyping. [Full article] [4 Christmas Gift-Giving Fallacies That Need To Die] By Cheryl Magness As much as we claim to believe that Christmas is about giving rather than receiving, our behavior often communicates something else. [Full article] [Progressives Should Join Conservatives In Limiting The President’s Power] By Dan Agius Donald Trump is president. Which means that progressives may finally realize why conservatives get so passionate about limiting the executive branch. [Full article] [The Trump Administration Is Right To Take Emotion Out Of Climate Policy] By Greg Sorrell Attempting to regulate a global problem with sweeping domestic mandates only empowers the very apparatus the Left claims to oppose: global conglomerates with U.S. government contracts. [Full article] [Santa’s Private Reserve Beer Will Make You Believe In Him Again] By Brad Jackson This Christmas I’m going to ask for Santa’s Private Reserve Ale from Rogue Brewing Company. It’s a great pairing for your Christmas roast, and the inevitable late-night wrapping. [Full article] [The Left Is Furious That Trump’s Labor Pick Understands Supply And Demand] By David Harsanyi Let’s set aside the fiction that the Left is only freaked about Trump. They are more freaked out that conventional conservatives will have their way. [Full article] [NYT Writer Robert Draper Says Media Should Do More Reporting, Less Hot Takes] By The Federalist Staff Robert Draper and Ben Domenech discuss the the future of journalism and how reporters should cover President Trump on Federalist Radio. [Full article] ON PROBLEMATIC CHRISTMAS MUSIC Everyone has that one Christmas song they hate. You will not be surprised to learn I have several. The most annoying, simply because the gap between its frequency of play and the quality of the song is John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” which combines the saccharine lyrics of a 1971 Lennon/Ono team more interested in making a political point than writing a good song with a surfeit of utopian Boomer nostalgia. Its popularity among a certain kind of artist has also led to its being covered by a ridiculous number of groups, despite the fact that war is definitively not over and Yoko Ono’s billboard campaign definitively did not end it. This song makes me want to break things. 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]