The Federalist Daily Briefing for 12/19/2017

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](. December 19, 2017 [A Democratic ‘Blue Wave’ In 2018? Not So Fast]( By John Daniel Davidson A string of recent GOP defeats suggest a 'blue wave' in next year's midterms. It's a nice theory, but Democrats simply aren't up to the task. [Full article]( [Senate Republicans Ready An Abortion Flip-Flop In Obamacare ‘Stability’ Bill]( By Christopher Jacobs Senate Republicans should not worsen the spectacle of rationalizing bad policy by attempting to render seven years of arguments they made to the pro-life community meaningless. [Full article]( [‘The Last Jedi’ Blasts The Heart Out Of Star Wars By Declaring War On The Past]( By G. Shane Morris ‘The Last Jedi’ may be best summed up as a cinematic act of demolition. Disney has declared war on the past, on teachers, and on the idea of extraordinary heroes. [Full article]( [Trump’s National Security Strategy Reverses Obama’s Policy Of Leading From Behind]( By Megan G. Oprea Now that the National Security Strategy has been released, the American public can get a closer look at what the Trump administration considers important for foreign policy. [Full article]( [Despite Its Wokeness, ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Shows How Comedy Is Deeply Conservative]( By Tony Daniel 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' is the story of a young artist coming of age and into her own. Midge finds that art doesn’t have much to do with becoming an agent of change. [Full article]( [Top 4 Anti-LGBT Myths Of 2017]( By Chad Felix Greene LGBT media would have us all believe that LGBT people are in a near-constant state of danger. But a closer inspection tells us this simply isn’t true. [Full article]( [How A Judge Halted The Trump Administration’s Abortifacient Mandate Exceptions]( By Margot Cleveland The judge crystalized not just that elections have consequences but that so does the reach of government, legislative abandonment, and the ideology-imposing of unelected judges. [Full article]( [It’s High Time To Cut U.S. Funding For This Troubled International Cancer Agency]( By Julie Kelly and Jeff Stier The United States has failed to hold the World Health Organization accountable for the nearly $2 billion in U.S. funding WHO receives each year. [Full article]( [Another Politicized Curriculum Revision Means College Board Needs Some Competitors]( By Jane Robbins and Emmett McGroarty The College Board’s new European history framework minimizes or ignores religion, free enterprise, the brutality of the Soviet Union, European intellectual history, and Great Britain. [Full article]( [A Tribute To Reformed Theologian R.C. Sproul From A Grateful Listener]( By Andrew Clover R.C. Sproul was the founder of Ligonier Ministries and on the faithful forefront of the evangelical world’s battle over the inerrancy and sufficiency of scripture. [Full article]( [‘The Last Jedi’ Is Not Just A Rockin’ Star Wars Movie, But A Great Movie, Period]( By Holly Scheer ‘The Last Jedi’ is the Star Wars movie we wanted, the one we needed, and absolutely more than we deserved. [Full article]( [Podcast: The Most Notable Bros Of 2017]( By The Federalist Staff Bill McMorris joins Federalist Radio to update our audience on the bros of the year. Who moved up or down on our list of top bros and why? [Full article]( [The Proposed Obamacare Settlement Would Cede All House Republicans Have Won]( By Christopher Jacobs In their fight to preserve the House’s constitutional authority and stop propping up Obamacare, the proposed settlement would give conservatives precious little. [Full article]( [Obama’s Iran Deal Makes Trump’s Russia ‘Collusion’ Look Like Child’s Play]( By David Harsanyi The Obama administration’s coddling of terror-supporting Iran should have been a massive national scandal. It still should be. [Full article]( A YEAR OF ACCOMPLISHMENT? not for the circuses, would we be looking back on 2017 as a very good year of accomplishment for a first year president? Jeffrey Goldberg made this point yesterday on Face the Nation. The stock market at all time highs; A widely applauded Supreme Court pick; A large middle class tax cut; Withdrawal from Paris; A massive host of regulatory rollbacks; And perhaps most important of all, it appears we won a war. Ross Douthat has a good summation: “There is nothing more characteristic of the Trump era, with its fire hose of misinformation, scandal and hyperbole, than that America and its allies recently managed to win a war that just two years ago consumed headlines and dominated political debate and helped Donald Trump himself get elected president — and somehow nobody seemed to notice.” 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](