The Federalist Daily Briefing for 07/07/2017

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](. July 7, 2017 [Trump’s Warsaw Speech Evoked Reagan’s Cold War Rhetoric, Not The Alt-Right’s]( By John Daniel Davidson Progressive media outlets were scandalized by Trump’s defense of western civilization. But there was nothing radical about his speech, just his critics. [Full article]( [Giving Kids ‘Woke Books’ Will Lead To More Racial Tension, And That’s Deliberate]( By Joy Pullmann Kids need cultural leaders like NPR and teachers to focus not on differences and group identities, but to emphasize what we as Americans citizens share in common. [Full article]( [It’s Time To Let Collectors Like Hobby Lobby Import Artifacts To The West]( By Kyle Sammin Thanks to jihadis, most ancient artifacts are almost certainly safer in the Smithsonian or the British Museum than they are in Baghdad or Mosul. [Full article]( [‘Beartown’ Asks What Makes A Community Great—And What Makes It Good]( By Gracy Olmstead Reading 'Beartown' reminded me of the desire at the heart of most people, in and outside sporting communities: We want to win. [Full article]( [New Poll Finds Public Supports Restricting Travel From Majority-Muslim Countries]( By Megan G. Oprea A new poll released Wednesday indicates that restricting migration from majority-Muslim countries is a lot more popular than the mainstream media would have us believe. [Full article]( [Trump Critics: This Is An OODA Loop. Please Get One]( By Robert Tracinski President Trump's critics are ineffective because they are acting impulsively and reactively, driven by habitual reflexes. They have no OODA Loop. [Full article]( [NYT Columnist Lindy West Debuts With Clueless Rant Against Free Speech]( By Franklin Einspruch The left's 'point-and-shriek' tactics do little to foster civil discourse. Lindy West's new column in the New York Times is a good example of that. [Full article]( [Malcolm Gladwell Wants You To Hate Golf So He Can Steal Private Property]( By Mattias Gugel Malcolm Gladwell serves up a self-serving, near-socialist diatribe with a picture of a lush, manicured private Los Angeles golf course enclosed by a chain-link fence. [Full article]( [11 Trump Employees The Media Keeps Insisting Will Hear ‘You’re Fired’ Yet Are Still Employed]( By Jordyn Pair It’s hard to keep putting faith in the media's reports until reality matches rhetoric. [Full article]( [We Need An App Like Tindr For Anchovy Lovers]( By Ben Sears Anchovies are wonderfully salty and doused in that garish foodie hipster word ‘umami,’ which subs for what was in a more enlightened time called ‘savory.’ [Full article]( [What Happened When I Drank A Six-Pack Of Zima]( By Rich Cromwell People don’t need to remember the details of what Zima actually tastes like. If you feel you must taste again for yourself, then power through a six-pack. [Full article]( [This Week In Weird Twitter, Volume 101]( By Rich Cromwell In our latest installment, some other things that don’t make sense happened. Just roll with it, okay? [Full article]( [Watch This Progressive Muslim Activist Call For ‘Jihad’ Against Donald Trump]( By The Federalist Staff 'Our number one priority is to protect our community, it is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority. . . Our top priority is to please Allah, and only Allah.' [Full article]( [Vox Writers Triggered By Trump’s Celebration Of Family, Freedom, Country, And God]( By David Harsanyi Equating Western civilization and values with fascism and racism, once relegated to the leftist fringe, is increasingly prevalent among liberals. [Full article]( [Ratings Collapse: CNN Now Losing To Nick-At-Nite In Prime Time Ratings War]( By The Federalist Staff Last week, more Americans tuned in to watch re-runs of 'Yogi Bear,' 'Full House,' and 'Friends"'on Nick At Nite than to see CNN. [Full article]( [Meet The 11-Year-Old Boy Who Shot A Bear And Saved His Family From An Attack]( By Bre Payton Eleven-year-old Elliot Clark was on a fishing trip with his family when a brown bear appeared from the woods, charged at them, and began attacking his uncle. [Full article]( [Peter Baker On Covering Presidents, Putin, And White House Press Briefings]( By The Federalist Staff New York Times Chief White House Correspondent, Peter Baker, joins Ben Domenech on the Federalist Radio Hour. [Full article]( [CNN Falsely Claims Merkel Chose G20 Location To Hurt Trump]( By Mollie Hemingway The G20 site was selected more than a year ago, when all bets had Hillary Clinton winning the presidential election. [Full article]( [CNN Should Reveal The Name Of HanA**holeSolo]( By David Marcus CNN made one big mistake in covering this story: not revealing the name of that Internet troll, who has no right to anonymity and shouldn’t expect it. [Full article]( THE FREEDOM TO MEME you were thinking that upon emerging from this holiday weekend, we would be discussing today the importance of the G-20 summit, the seriousness of the North Korean threat, and the potential blowback for Republicans challenged on their health care legislation from constituents back home. But those are conversations for days that are long gone and far less dumb than the current days we inhabit, which involve feats of extraordinary stupidity and self-owns on a scale rarely experienced in the history of this young nation. You see, yesterday – perhaps because the smarter editors were out of the building celebrating Independence Day, shaking their heads over the latest ratings, wondering openly about the AT&T merger – CNN decided that in order to exact their revenge on President Trump’s decision to tweet out a GIF of fake wrestling to mock them, they needed to target the random Reddit poster who created the meme in the first place. 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](