The Federalist Daily Briefing for 01/17/2017

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 17, 2017 [Top-Level Intel Officers’ War Against Donald Trump Is Bad For The Country] By Mollie Hemingway Top political appointees at intelligence agencies are engaged in a dangerous and discrediting full-scale war against Donald Trump. [Full article] [SNL Gets That Women’s Rights Have Become A Punchline, And The Women’s March Is Making It Worse] By Joy Pullmann ‘Saturday Night Live’ accidentally made conservative points about the failures of the feminist movement. Too bad organizers of the Women’s March on Washington aren’t paying attention. [Full article] [How The Right Can Bridge The Journalism Gap Now That Clinton’s Loss Changed The Culture Wars] By Leslie Loftis Hillary Clinton’s loss changed the media and culture wars. Conservatives need to realize this, stop being defensive and clickbaity, and get back into real journalism. [Full article] [Inauguration Boycotts Harm The Country, No Matter Who Is President] By John Daniel Davidson Over the weekend, Rep. John Lewis said he would boycott Trump’s inauguration, and called the president-elect illegitimate. That’s part of a dangerous trend. [Full article] [How Thomas Jefferson Would Counsel President Trump] By D.C. McAllister Our third president fought for limited government and the Constitution during his time in office, despite a controversial election and skeptical opponents. [Full article] [Marijuana Legalization Shows Democrats How To Win At Policy Again] By Mitch Hall Democrats should learn from the example of marijuana legalization that only through federalism can they achieve lasting political change. [Full article] [Donald Trump’s Social Media Use Is Key To Sidelining The Press] By Dustin Steeve The president-elect has a social media audience of 45 million Americans. During primetime Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC have a combined audience of 4.66 million. [Full article] [Want To Protect Your Information? Build It A Better Immune System] By James Poulos The hard limits to secret matters of state are no excuse for popular ignorance about cybersecurity. Our adversaries can only be expected to take advantage. [Full article] [Stop Pretending The Obama Administration Was ‘Scandal Free.’ It Wasn’t] By Bre Payton Obama's 'squeaky-clean' reputation will soon be the only shred of his legacy liberals can hold onto, but even that is a lie. [Full article] [Report Finds Government Recommendations Spiked Peanut Allergies] By Bethany Mandel The next time you’re making a sunflower seed butter sandwich for your kid, thank Uncle Sam for making our lives less healthy and more expensive. [Full article] [Jaime Foxx’s ‘Sleepless’ Is So Cliché It Will Put You To Sleep] By Collin Garbarino If you’re not planning to show the audience something fresh, the least you can do is film and arrange your clichés with excellence. ‘Sleepless’ could have been named ‘Sleepwalking.’ [Full article] [3 Other Crazy Things Gwyneth Paltrow Wants Ladies To Stick Inside Themselves] By Amelia Hamilton We are truly lucky to have Gwyneth Paltrow and her lifestyle blog, Goop. Why, just last week, the blog shared the joy of shoving a jade egg up one’s ladyflower. [Full article] [Podcast: The Psychology Of Pursuing A Purposeful And Meaningful Life] By The Federalist Staff Journalist and author, Emily Esfahani Smith joins Federalist Radio Hour to discuss how we can create lives of meaning, value, and purpose. [Full article] ON MLK DAY, APPRECIATE HIS PATRIOTISM Why Turning Martin Luther King Jr. Into An Anti-American Revolutionary Diminishes His Power. “The Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in 2017 finds America in intensifying unrest on race-related matters. Accompanying that unrest, functioning as both its fuel and its exhaust, is an emergent radical narrative whereby significant numbers of Americans, occupying the highest and the lowest strata of society, are persuaded that 50 years after King’s death America remains a racial tyranny. Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial] today. [follow on Twitter] | [friend on Facebook] | [forward to a friend] Copyright © 2017 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]