The Federalist Daily Briefing for 11/15/2017

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](. November 15, 2017 [Liberals’ Sudden Concern About Bill Clinton’s Behavior Is Cynical And Self-Serving]( By David Harsanyi A number of liberals have finally decided to take allegations of sexual assault against former president Bill Clinton seriously. This is no act of heroism. [Full article]( [I Calculated Ethnic Groups’ Rates Of U.S. Terrorism. Here Are The Results]( By Lyman Stone Falling vending machines and children’s balloons claim more American lives than would admitting 36,000 Uzbek immigrants. [Full article]( [6 Reasons The Individual Mandate ‘Deal’ Is Rotten Health Policy]( By Christopher Jacobs Federal funding for abortions, higher insurance premiums for Americans, massive bailouts for fat-cat insurance companies—what’s not to love? [Full article]( [‘Reckoning’ Attempts Display A Left Still Unable To Face Bill Clinton’s Alleged Sex Crimes]( By Daniel Payne One is tempted to believe we’re witnessing a quick and guilty moral shrug meant to absolve a bunch of deeply culpable people of their own deep and stinking culpability. [Full article]( [Why Talking To Russia Is Good For America]( By Willis L. Krumholz The current U.S. policy toward Russia is counterproductive and hurts our national security. [Full article]( [These 3 Student Data Bills Could Ruin Your Kid’s Life]( By Jenni White Sorry, but I don’t happen to believe that lifelong surveillance and surveillance-based manipulation of my choices should be the price of a public education. [Full article]( [SCOTUS To Review Law Forcing Pro-Life Centers To Promote Abortion]( By Jay Hobbs A long-fought battle to keep the Golden State from forcing its pro-life citizens to choose between obeying conscience or the law of the land is on its way to Washington DC for a final decision. [Full article]( [The Child Tax Credit Will Make Or Break Success For Tax Reform]( By Patrick T. Brown To bring home a win, the White House and Congress need tax reform. To pass tax reform, they need to ensure middle-class families will meaningfully benefit. [Full article]( [Biden: Hero Who Stopped Texas Church Shooter Was Wrong To Have A Gun]( By Bre Payton Joe Biden says the hero who stopped the Texas church shooter earlier this month should not have been allowed to carry an AR-15. [Full article]( [These Photos Of Pregnant Bethany Hamilton Teaching Her Son To Surf Will Give You Joy]( By Bre Payton Fourteen years after losing her arm and nearly dying in a shark attack, professional surfer Bethany Hamilton is pregnant and teaching her two-year-old son how to surf. [Full article]( [Political Reporter Ben Jacobs Talks Roy Moore, WikiLeaks, And Tax Reform]( By The Federalist Staff Ben Jacobs, reporter at the Guardian, joins Federalist Radio to discuss last week's sexual assault allegations against Roy Moore and the GOP's response. [Full article]( [Let’s Be Honest. Keurig Machines Deserve To Be Smashed. They Make Terrible Coffee]( By Bre Payton We need to talk about how awful Keurig machines are. [Full article]( [No, 50 Pastors Did Not Endorse Roy Moore After The Sexual Assault Allegations]( By Meredith Dake-O'Connor AL.com makes it very clear that this letter is a letter the Moores repurposed, which was posted before the primary. Not so subsequent websites. [Full article]( [Pay-To-Play ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ Enrages Gamers]( By Sarah Dezelin EA’s ‘micro-transactions’ mean players either have to spend a disgusting number of hours in game, or spend a lot of hard-earned cash getting the things that should have been included. [Full article]( HOW AL QAEDA HAS REBUILT ITSELF WITH IRAN’S HELP with al-Qaeda members and bin Laden’s family reveal a pact that allowed the group to prepare for its next phase. “The last Islamic State redoubts have been falling in quick succession in recent weeks, with the U.S.-backed coalition taking the caliphate’s self-declared capital of Raqqa last month, and then Syrian forces reclaiming the strategic oil city of Deir al-Zour. But while the group’s experiment in a statehood built on rape, slavery, and execution nears its end, an older terror front has been quietly reconstituting itself. Against all odds, and despite the most costly counter-terrorism campaign ever waged by the West, al-Qaeda has flourished—its comeback assisted by a remarkable pact with Iran. 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](//thefederalist.us7.list-manage.com/vcard?u=4a863c819bceae0e9989e096f&id=cfcb868ceb) [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences]( | [view email in browser](