The Federalist Daily Briefing for 08/01/2017

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](. August 1, 2017 [China’s Censorship Powers Are Bigger And More Dangerous Than You Know]( By Helen Raleigh China’s wealth enables the Chinese government to control information flow, promote propaganda, and monitor and suppress dissent efficiently and effectively. [Full article]( [Bipartisan Group: We Need To Break The Law To Make Obamacare Too Big To Fail]( By Christopher Jacobs The Problem Solvers Caucus proposal amounts to little more than an Obamacare TARP—Turning Against Repeal Promises. [Full article]( [Kentucky Could Be The First Abortion Free-State By 2018]( By Jeremiah Keenan In the past six months, it has become clear that the battle for the first abortion-free state is going to be fought this year in Kentucky. [Full article]( [How Should Churches Respond To Unwed Mothers?]( By Sarah St. Onge Maddi Runkles is just a small symptom of a larger dilemma within the church: holding unwed, pregnant teen girls to a separate set of standards than others who fall from grace. [Full article]( [Planned Parenthood Admits To Performing Illegal Abortions. If Congress Can’t Defund Them, It’s Worthless]( By Nicole Russell Not only does Planned Parenthood receive federal funding it doesn’t need, there’s now proof they perform illegal abortions. [Full article]( [What Would Discovering Alien Life Mean For Christianity? Probably Nothing]( By Clayton J. Hester If you want me to believe in an alien, show me its body, and then we’ll talk. If this happens, it will not be jarring to my Christian faith. [Full article]( [How Civil Asset Forfeiture Reduces Economic Mobility]( By Julian Adorney If President Trump wishes to keep his promises to help low-income Americans escape poverty, he should instruct his administration to jettison, rather than expand, non-criminal asset forfeiture. [Full article]( [Tomi Lahren Is What’s Wrong With Obamacare]( By Christopher Jacobs Pundit Tomi Lahren recently revealed she’s still on her parents’ health insurance. Her comments provide a perfect case study against Obamacare’s under-26 mandate, in two respects. [Full article]( [Don’t Blame Mooching Millennials Like Me For Obamacare’s Failures]( By Bre Payton Twenty-somethings mooching off of their parents' health insurance plan aren't the reason Obamacare is bad. [Full article]( [Angry Feminists Can’t Figure Out Why Nobody Likes Feminists Anymore]( By Bre Payton Feminist Jill Filipovic can't figure out why no one likes feminists anymore. She's so puzzled that she mused about it out loud via Twitter. [Full article]( [J.K. Rowling Lies About Donald Trump And Apologizes—To Someone Else]( By Daniel Payne If J.K. Rowling is sincerely convinced that the situation merits an expression of regret, why not direct it at the man whom she wronged? [Full article]( [Help Us Get Back To A Real ’90s Dating Scene By Matchmaking, Like Me]( By Bethany Mandel Matchmaking systems work in a variety of ways, but they have myriad advantages over our often disgusting and ineffective modern dating culture. [Full article]( [Why Scaramucci’s Firing Might Be Good News For Donald Trump]( By David Harsanyi The firing of bombastic White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci could signify a number of things. [Full article]( [Why Should Conservatives Care About Urbanism And City Development?]( By The Federalist Staff Jonathan Coppage discusses the built environment and it's direct impact on our communities with Gracy Olmstead. [Full article]( [It’s Insulting To Say Women Wouldn’t Like ‘Dunkirk’ Because Only Men Care About War]( By Emily Zanotti Women, Marie Claire implies, would never want to watch a gripping two-hour tale of everyday heroism amid the backdrop of a fight against looming totalitarianism. [Full article]( [Trump Fires Anthony Scaramucci From Role As White House Communications Director]( By Bre Payton Anthony Scaramucci has been dismissed from his role as White House communications director just a week after arriving in the West Wing, The New York Times reports. [Full article]( [NYT Op-Ed: Parents Who Don’t Send Their Kids To Public Schools Are Racist Theocrats]( By Andrew Walker Katherine Stewart’s argument is lazy. It’s generalized, misinformed, and reads much like a carnival barker shouting down the looming threat of theocracy, theocracy, theocracy. [Full article]( [5 Questions For ‘Rick And Morty’s’ Third Season]( By Brian Willett ‘Rick and Morty’ officially and triumphantly returned again last night, with ‘Rickmancing the Stone’ taking on divorce and the post-apocalyptic genre. [Full article]( THE GOP LIED FOR SEVEN YEARS – NOW WHAT? the weekend, I outlined the Repeal and Replace lie on Face the Nation. “They formed and chose to campaign on repeal and replace for the following seven years, and they did so to great electoral effect. When in reality, about half of the caucus in the Senate, and perhaps even more, was totally unwilling to ever get to full repeal and replace.” Just look at Ohio Sen. Rob Portman. “Seven out of the 10 top employers in the state of Ohio are insurers or hospital systems. They depend on tax exemptions and subsidies flowing to them. [Portman] was never going to get to ‘yes’ on a repeal that included reform or restriction on any of the Medicaid expansion that was enacted under Obamacare.” 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](