The Federalist Daily Briefing for 12/13/2016

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 13, 2016 [How To Repeal Obamacare: Repeal Obamacare] By Robert Tracinski After their big election victory there is nothing to stop Republicans from dismantling Obamacare. So naturally they're figuring out how to blow it. [Full article] [Let’s Talk About Fascism Before It Becomes The Word Of The Year] By Rachel Lu I for one am ready to celebrate the Year of Fascism. It’s heartening that Americans are trying to improve their understanding of what fascism really is. [Full article] [Obama’s Weakness Invited The Russians To Meddle In U.S. Elections] By John Daniel Davidson The CIA now says Russia intervened in the 2016 election in order to elect Donald Trump. If that's true, it's Obama's fault. [Full article] [6 Reasons Millennials Should Bring On The Babies Like Bristol Palin] By Melissa Langsam Braunstein There are a number of reasons it’s time to cut Bristol Palin some slack. There are also some valuable lessons the rest of us could learn from her. [Full article] [Supreme Court: You Can Only Have Public Nativity Scenes If They Don’t Mean Anything] By Nic Rowan If you’re weary of the War on Christmas, rejoice! The Supreme Court settled this issue long ago. A public nativity scene is not a religious symbol. It’s ‘ceremonial deism.’ [Full article] [Country Music Has Become A Huge Clichéd Joke] By Patrick Fletchall Long gone are the ballads of the common man. In their place, we've got lots of booze, driving on dirt roads, and objectifying lyrics about women. [Full article] [We Need To Stop Backing Syrian Rebels Willing To Work With Al-Qaeda] By Bonnie Kristian The U.S. has spent billions in training and support for Syrian rebels—the same rebels now willing to work with the terrorists responsible for 9/11. [Full article] [Report: Abortion Industry Routinely Offers Women Grisly, Unsanitary Facilities] By Deanna Wallace ‘Unsafe’ features a detailed analysis of hundreds of reports from state health inspectors, showing that abortion clinics have been routinely cited for risking women’s health and safety. [Full article] [Play ‘Hitman’ If You Like A Game Of Patience] By Brian Willett ‘Hitman’ shines as a game of orchestrated accidents. A botched surgery, exposure to a virus, a car mishap. This requires plenty of trial and error. Yet the need to reload doesn’t grate. [Full article] [6 Ways Hollywood Will Overreact To The Age Of Trump] By Christian Toto A protracted wave of dissent may backfire on progressives as much as their pro-Hillary Clinton campaigning did this election cycle. That won’t stop them, though. [Full article] [When Mothers Who Paused Their Careers Hit Play Again] By Luma Simms The ‘opt-out revolution’ of highly educated moms who take time off work to raise children includes me. Now I’m on the way back in. [Full article] [Socialist Venezuela Steals Toys To Impose Its Version Of Christmas] By Kian and Alexandra Hudson Saint Nick meets Robin Hood? Venezuela’s consumer ‘protection’ agency seized several million toys to ostensibly redistribute to the poor. [Full article] [12 Ways To #CelebrateMen Instead Of Refusing Sex To Protest Trump] By D.C. McAllister Today’s mass protest is supposed to show how much women contribute to society, and how, without their participation in the economy, everything falls apart. [Full article] [Podcast: The Best Of Bad Christmas Movies And Trump’s Twitter Foreign Policy] By The Federalist Staff Kristen Soltis Anderson and Mary Katharine Ham talk crazy Christmas traditions and the joy of bad movies on The Federalist Radio Hour. [Full article] [The 5 Stages Of Losing An Election To Donald Trump] By David Harsanyi From the night of Nov. 8 onward, the political coverage has been dominated by a series of conspiracy theories to explain the election of Donald Trump. [Full article] [BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief: James Mattis Must Comment On Random Internet Memes] By Sean Davis BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith declared on Monday that James Mattis, Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, must respond to questions about random Internet memes on fake news sites. [Full article] HOW DID RUSSIA CHANGE THE ELECTION? The Russian influence in 2016’s election was well apparent to anyone active on social media during the primary. It became even more apparent in the general election for those who properly view Wikileaks as a proxy for Russia, not as the independent truth teller they were depicted as in the media right up til the point they began attacking Hillary Clinton. The nature of this influence was clear: that regardless who won, the Russians were interesting in achieving the same thing they have achieved in other nation-states – creating a heightened level of distrust in institutions, elections, and systems people formerly trusted. This, they achieved, and they did so surprisingly easily. 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. 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