The Federalist Daily Briefing for 03/08/2017

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](. March 8, 2017 [The Hysteria Over Russia Is Causing Serious Foreign Policy Problems]( By Mollie Hemingway National security experts say the domestic political situation is leading to a rapid deterioration of the already fragile relationship with Russia. [Full article]( [‘Day Without Women’ Measures Women’s Value The Wrong Way]( By Gracy Olmstead The world wants us to measure equality in dollars and cents. But that's a very inadequate way to measure human flourishing. [Full article]( [Fishtown Will Never Become Great Again If It Keeps Blaming Elites For Its Failures]( By Rachel Lu Charles Murray’s ‘Fishtown’ has some real grievances. It also has some real social problems. Populists don’t love talking about those, unless to blame elites. [Full article]( [The Transgender Bathroom Debate Has Nothing To Do With Bathrooms]( By Nicole Russell Let’s stop pretending trans kids care about where they go to the bathroom. The LGBTQ movement cares because that’s how they advance their agenda. [Full article]( [The Women’s Strike Is A Self-Indulgent Day For Privileged Females]( By Audrey Rabenberg This day of demonstration assumes a set of elitist and inegalitarian privileges for participants and further marginalizes an already-marginalized group of women. [Full article]( [The World Is Without Millions Of Women We Should Remember Today]( By Margot Cleveland Let’s remember the women the world is without today given the policies and priorities the organizers of A Day Without A Woman promotes. [Full article]( [Profs Tested Hillary’s Popularity As A Man. People Still Hated Her]( By Bre Payton Two professors cast actors to reenact a gender-swapped version of the presidential debates. What happened next surprised everybody. [Full article]( [Today Let’s Honor Men Instead Of Making War Between The Sexes]( By D.C. McAllister Instead of protesting the men in our lives, which is essentially what the Day Without A Woman is really about, I want to honor one. [Full article]( [6 Truths You Learn When A Loved One Dies]( By Cheryl Magness At both the beginning and end of life, everything else fades into the background as the focus turns to what matters most. [Full article]( [These 8 Non-Strikers’ Selfies Show What We Love About Being Women In America]( By Holly Scheer Many women aren’t striking today with progressive demonstrators, but continuing to serve their families. We all have our reasons, and one is that American women have it pretty damn good. [Full article]( [Today’s Feminists Are Unappealing Because They No Longer Fight For Women’s Choices]( By Sondra Clark To say women should fight under one progressive feminist banner undermines the notion that women are independent actors, able to determine for themselves what is moral, just, and right. [Full article]( [10 Strategies For Customizing Your Facebook So It’s Fun Again]( By Karla Jacobs Older generations are not going to move to new technology so easily, so we need to figure out how to dial down the drama in our News Feeds so Facebook can be a happy place for all of us. [Full article]( [Podcast: Protests, Women’s Strike, And Why HBO’s ‘Girls’ Is Actually Conservative]( By The Federalist Staff Washington Post writer and editor, Christine Emba, joins The Federalist Radio Hour with Mollie Hemingway to talk feminism, sex, politics and more. [Full article]( [11 Times Barack Obama Compared Slaves To Immigrants]( By Bre Payton This week, liberals savagely mocked Ben Carson for supposedly comparing slaves to immigrants but were quiet when Obama did the exact same thing. [Full article]( [The GOP Repeal Plan Sucks. But Is It Better Than Nothing?]( By David Harsanyi Is Obamacare Lite preferable to Obamacare? After years of GOP promises, this is the question conservatives will probably have to ask themselves. [Full article]( THE REPUBLICAN OBAMACARE REPLACEMENT PLAN Jacobs has a summary of the latest Obamacare repeal plan here. There are so many complicated questions to answer about this health care replacement plan, but this still reads more as an attempt at an olive branch given the political constraints on the Senate side than a more aggressive attempt that could be justified by the policy demands of the moment. Relative to the 2015/2016 reconciliation repeal bill which had a shorter transition period (2 years instead of 3), repealed risk corridors and reinsurance, repealed taxes faster, and didn’t expand subsidies during the transition period, I want to focus on just one aspect of this: the continuation of the Medicaid expansion, even including additional matching funds for those added to the program before 2020. This is in response to Senators Portman, Gardner, Capito and Murkowski, all of whom have signed onto a warning shot letter on the issue. David Harsanyi responds to Gardner’s shift here, given that he made Obamacare repeal a centerpiece of his campaign. 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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