The Federalist Daily Briefing for 05/30/2017

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](. May 30, 2017 [Illinois Purges Social Workers And Foster Families Who Don’t ‘Facilitate’ Transgenderism]( By Mary Hasson Illinois’s child welfare agency has proclaimed staff must ‘affirm’ gender ideology and ‘facilitate’ LGBT identities for kids—or be fired. [Full article]( [7 Best Quotes From Jim Harbaugh’s ‘Pardon My Take’ Interview]( By Matt Battaglia One of the grittiest football guys of all time recently sat down with the two grittiest bloggers ever in what became one of the best interviews in all of sports. [Full article]( [In Wake Of Manchester, Pope Francis Asserts Equivalence Between Islam And Christianity]( By Maureen Mullarkey This pope’s inclination to advance an ideological stance over rational judgment does not bode well for Catholicism or the future of the West. Willful blindness endangers both. [Full article]( [Why The Supreme Court’s Liberals Flipflopped On Race-Based Gerrymandering]( By Kyle Sammin A look at history will show how the Supreme Court’s liberal justices abandoned their principles in pursuit of a purely political win for Democrats. [Full article]( [President Trump’s Paid Leave Proposal Puts Democrats On The Defensive]( By Abby McCloskey President Trump has provided Republicans the opportunity to engage on paid leave in a meaningful way, and to craft a conservative solution. [Full article]( [Watch MSNBC’s Joy Reid Get Rattled When Confronted With Obama’s Iran Back Channel]( By The Federalist Staff Kimberly Strassel took MSNBC's Joy Reid to task on the facts surrounding the reports that Jared Kushner sought to speak incognito with Russian officials. She did not like it. [Full article]( [NYT Peddles More Global Warming Science Without Numbers]( By Robert Tracinski If Glacier National Park is melting because of global warming, you would expect to hear how much temperatures have increased there. Don't hold your breath. [Full article]( [President Trump Is Right To Undo Obama’s Cuba Coddling]( By David Marcus When you travel to Cuba, hoping to bring your dollars to a struggling people, the struggling people don’t get your dollars. [Full article]( [The Gospel According To ‘Christian Abortionist’ Willie Parker]( By Matthew Garnett Abortionist Willie Parker argues that abortion is not only a moral absolute, it is an absolute that must be promulgated en masse. [Full article]( [Yes, Scott Walker Did Back Wisconsin’s Economy Away From A Cliff]( By Jake Curtis and Will Flanders Today, Wisconsin boasts a balanced budget, lower property tax obligations, and unemployment and labor participation rates that are almost impossible to top. [Full article]( [Why The Latest Planned Parenthood Video Is A Breakthrough]( By Becky Visosky There is something powerful about videos that capture real people in the abortion industry really talking about abortion. [Full article]( A SPECIAL COUNSEL OR CONGRESS? seems to be a growing awareness on the part of those who have been pushing for a full court press investigation into the president and his campaign that the appointment of Robert Mueller could serve to short-circuit the Congressional investigations that have to this point provided much in the way of headlines but little in the way of information. “Congressional probes related to alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election are likely to be complicated or stalled by the appointment of former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III as a special counsel investigating the same topic, despite pledges by some lawmakers Thursday to forge ahead. 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 618Alexandria, VA 22309 [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences]( | [view email in browser](