The Federalist Daily Briefing for 01/19/2017

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 19, 2017 [4 Recent Examples Show Why No One Trusts Media Coverage Of Trump] By Mollie Hemingway The media would like to imagine themselves heroes in their war with Trump. If they don't improve quickly, they'll fail in their task. [Full article] [This Modern Artist’s Shot At Ivanka Trump Is All The Narcissism of Politics, Pop Culture, And Protest In One Story] By Mary Katharine Ham The art world's Ivanka Trump backlash is so postmodern it has rendered itself meaningless. [Full article] [Top 10 Ways Obama Violated The Constitution During His Presidency] By Ilya Shapiro The Obama administration has been the most lawless in U.S. history. Here are just a few examples to prove it. [Full article] [Rex Tillerson In His Own Words On America’s Biggest Foreign Policy Challenges] By Rebeccah Heinrichs Over the course of the lengthy hearing, his testimony painted a coherent picture of what a Rex Tillerson-style American foreign policy might look like. [Full article] [President Obama’s Pardon For Oscar Lopez Rivera Trades A Terrorist For Votes] By Mike Gonzalez The president’s action carries the same unavoidable whiff of playing identity politics with a key voting bloc of the Democratic Party. [Full article] [How Fake News Happens: The Case of the Trump Inauguration Poem] By Robert Tracinski The saga of Donald Trump's supposed inauguration poem is a good opportunity to take a look at how fake news happens, and how we're responsible for it. [Full article] [The Left Finally Unites Americans—Against Their Unhinged Anti-Trumpism] By Julie Kelly The self-proclaimed arbiters of unity are truly bringing people together to counteract their destructive and despicable attacks against anyone who disagrees with them. [Full article] [Kellyanne Conway Uses Her Star Power To Lift The March For Life] By Holly Scheer Kellyanne Conway will speak at the March for Life just a week after Trump is inaugurated, as the first sitting White House official to address the event in person. [Full article] [Marrying Yourself Only Proves You’re Desperate And Self-Absorbed] By Amelia Hamilton Self-marriage appears to be a mostly female movement meant to prove that one can be successful and fulfilled without a man while only reinforcing the stereotype that women are marriage-crazy. [Full article] [Watch Monty Python Eviscerate The Women’s March 38 Years Before It Happened] By Warren Henry It may be up to a British comedy troupe to demonstrate the basic political problem of left-wing interest groups such as the Women’s March on Washington. [Full article] [Democratic Members Of Congress Shouldn’t Turn Democracy Into A Twitter Poll] By Daniel Payne If your politics are so empty that you can’t even make up your mind about whether you should attend a presidential inauguration, get out of government. [Full article] [Watch Tucker Carlson Destroy The Man Behind Fake Anti-Trump Protests] By The Federalist Staff 'Your name is fake, your company is fake, and the claims on your website are false.' [Full article] [Why NYT Hid The Numbers For The ‘Hottest Year On Record’] By Robert Tracinski When you read a science report claiming that 2016 was the hottest year on record, you might expect that you will get numbers. And you would be wrong. [Full article] [Sean Davis: Guns, Self Defense, And Popular Firearm Myths] By The Federalist Staff Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist and a second amendment enthusiast. He joined this episode of Federalist Radio to dispel some common myths and misconceptions Read More ( [Full article] [Public School Is Often The Most Destructive Institution In American Life] By David Harsanyi Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, answered an array of preposterous questions from a bunch of unserious people. It's a reminder that politics is often tragedy. [Full article] WHO OBAMA JUST SET FREE Yesterday, the news headlines were full of the news that Chelsea Manning’s sentence was commuted. Manning was the original Wikileaks star, a troubled young man who dumped more than a quarter million diplomatic cables and nearly half a million Army reports on the desk of Julian Assange – reports which ultimately accrued to the benefit of America’s enemies. Manning was previously the lone example of the Obama administration engaging in taking an attack on American security seriously – ignoring, as they have been for years, the China OPM hack, Russian hacking of our infrastructure, and the fact that every intelligence service around the globe could have had access to the Secretary of State’s emails. With the exception of Manning, it was only when this security breakdown took on a partisan flavor that it became truly serious. 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]