The Federalist Daily Briefing for 01/31/2017

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 31, 2017 [On Trump, Conservatives Have Little Choice But To Take It Issue By Issue] By David Harsanyi There’s an expectation – often, a demand – that movement conservatives be all in or all out on the Donald Trump presidency. It doesn't have to be that way. [Full article] [Trump’s Immigration Order Triggers Left’s Cultural Totalitarianism] By Joy Pullmann Are there any things walled off from politics? Or are all things open for politics-driven social coercion and manipulation? [Full article] [Sean Spicer Is Right. Women And Children Could Be Terrorists] By D.C. McAllister We know from a great deal of evidence that women and children are involved in terrorist attacks. Even babies are used as cover for terror. [Full article] [Prominent Leftists Now Outright Condone Violence To Oppose Trump] By Daniel Payne We are not even two weeks into the presidency of Donald Trump, and already we are at this point. Where will we be after four years, or even eight? [Full article] [Obama Should Quit Opining On Trump And Get Back To Golf] By David Marcus Dig it, ex-President Obama: You are ex-President Obama. You lost. Hillary didn’t just, lose, you lost. [Full article] [As A Mother Of A Son, Kellyanne Conway Gets Why Feminism Has Become Toxic] By Leslie Loftis Toxic feminism tells our daughters their worth is in their career. It tells our sons they are worthless. [Full article] [If You Skip The Virtue Signaling, The SAG Awards Had Much To Offer] By Felicia Willson Because celebrities often usurp the stage to march for ‘social justice,’ the whole of Hollywood is often branded as frivolous and out-of-touch. Not true. [Full article] [Marches Do Matter, But What We Do Afterwards Matters Much More] By Karla Jacobs Don’t just organize marches and rallies. We need to stop expecting Washington to solve our problems, and effect change ourselves. [Full article] [5 Ways Donald Trump Is Abraham Lincoln’s True Successor] By Rich Cromwell Comparing either Trump or Obama to Lincoln isn’t necessarily a positive exercise. Regardless, Trump is clearly the heir-apparent. [Full article] [4 Ways The Patient Freedom Act Is Worse Than Obamacare] By Christopher Jacobs It has more spending than Obamacare, repeals Health Savings Accounts, supports government-imposed price controls, and more. This isn't what we want. [Full article] [Why President Trump’s Plan To Block-Grant Medicaid Is A Good Idea] By Charlie Katebi While Medicaid sounds like a generous deal for states, its funding formula incentivizes policymakers to expand the program at the expense of core state government functions. [Full article] [Law Professor Explains Why Trump Had No Choice But To Fire The Acting AG] By The Federalist Staff Donald Trump fired acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates and replaced her with Dana Boente. Here's why he's legally allowed to do that. [Full article] [Podcast: Salena Zito On 2016 Voters, Blue Dogs, And Political Sports Media] By The Federalist Staff Reporter Salena Zito joins the Federalist Radio Hour to share stories from voters she talked to in Middle America and how Blue Dog Dems are without a voice. [Full article] [Here’s A Short List Of Foreign-Born Terrorists Reporters Can’t Believe Exist] By Kyle Shideler The executive order by the Trump administration on immigration led to an urgent desire to proclaim there is no terrorism threat from immigrants. False. [Full article] [Here’s What Trump’s Immigration Order Says And How It Needs To Be Fixed] By Lyman Stone Because of the administration’s excessive haste to act and media personalities’ haste to judge, reasonable discussion of American crisis migration policy has been all but snuffed out. [Full article] [A Disabled Lawmaker Speaks Out About Abortion: ‘People Like Me’ Are Facing Extinction] By Bre Payton 'People with congenital disabilities are facing extinction. If we were animals, perhaps we might qualify for protection as an endangered species. But we are only human beings with disabilities, so we do not.' [Full article] [Why Do We Have A Refugee Crisis? Because Of Elite Failures On Foreign Policy And Immigration] By Ben Domenech The refugee crisis and its consequences represent a string of failures on the part of multiple actors. [Full article] REPUBLICANS RETURN TO THEIR NATURAL STATE The emerging tension between the White House and the Republican Congress is not what the latter claims it is. Congressional Republicans and their staff maintain that this is a matter of a new president running into the obstacles inherent in the system. They really want to pass his agenda, you see, but help help they’re being repressed by the restrictions of the legislative process. This is a lie. The reality is that even without those restrictions, Congressional Republicans cannot bring themselves into unity in pursuit of the agenda President Trump wishes to enact. And they’re not even putting on a good show of it. 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. 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