The Federalist Daily Briefing for 04/12/2017

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](. April 12, 2017 [Forcing Political Correctness On Employees And Characters Is Killing Marvel Comics]( By Jon Del Arroz Their comic books have lost their core of good storytelling, and are instead pandering to social justice warriors and offering phony diversity pushes. [Full article]( [James Harden Should Be This Year’s MVP, Not Russell Westbrook]( By Berny Belvedere Lost in the Westbrook mania is the fact that the Bearded One is matching him stat for stat, all while shooting fewer shots and securing a far more impressive win total for his team. [Full article]( [Why Progressives Hate Steve Bannon’s Cyclical View Of History]( By John Daniel Davidson Progressives hate Steve Bannon's fascination with a book that suggests history is cyclical. It undermines a progressive worldview that yearns for utopia. [Full article]( [If It’s Hard To Imagine A Day Without Your Phone, That’s A Good Reason To Try It]( By Gracy Olmstead How many Americans could spend a whole day without phone, iPad, computer, or television? What new habits or hobbies could we form sans technology? [Full article]( [Media Once Again Proves They Care More About Obamacare Than The Constitution]( By Christopher Jacobs When Trump makes empty threats against the press, the media are in outrage. When a federal judge rules that Obama violated the Constitution, they ignore it. [Full article]( [The Left Can’t Decide Whether They Want To See More Or Less Of Melania Trump]( By Richard Torregrossa Melania Trump is a reluctant ascendant to the throne, a very different kind of first lady who, like her husband, has no characterological precedent. [Full article]( [Leftist Millennial Protestors Flip Off Memorial For Communist Victims]( By Bre Payton A group of leftist millennials flipped off a monument in Washington DC that commemorates the 94 million victims whose lives have been lost under communist regimes. [Full article]( [Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump ‘Art Project’ Becomes Global Game Of Capture The Flag]( By Adam Rusch Online overreaction and anonymity combine to produce some terrible and hilarious antics. Shia LeBeouf provides an object lesson about refusing to feed these trolls. [Full article]( [This Practice Shows Health Care Can Be Cheap And Personal When People Pay Cash]( By Daniel Payne Direct primary care offers in reality what our political class has thus far offered us only in theory: sane, reasonable, and affordable health care. [Full article]( [‘X-Men’ Director Brett Ratner Is Right: Rotten Tomatoes Is Ruining Movies]( By Mark Narankevicius Jr. A movie, like a painting, is composed of many hues and brushstrokes, and it’s not always helpful to reduce those complexities to a mere Rotten Tomatoes score. [Full article]( [It’s Time For Lifestyle Bloggers To Stop Politicizing Pretty]( By Teri Christoph Being a conservative woman online means having to overlook a lot of liberal dreck on fashion and beauty sites, and I was, frankly, sick of it. [Full article]( [The ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Trend Blames Boys For Being Born Male]( By Nicole Russell Healthy masculinity is exactly what our young boys need to be taught right now, not embarrassment at the way they are made. [Full article]( [Sean Spicer Said Something Stupid. That Doesn’t Make Him A Holocaust Denier.]( By Mollie Hemingway No, Sean Spicer did not deny the Holocaust. But his Hitler comparisons could be a problematic sign of Trump's changing foreign policy. [Full article]( [James Hohmann: Syria, Trump’s Inner Circle, And The Senate Nuclear Option]( By The Federalist Staff Washington Post political reporter James Hohmann joins Federalist Radio to explain the legislative filibuster in the Senate and other news on the Hill. [Full article]( [Did United Airlines Violate Its Own Contract By Forcing That Passenger Off The Plane?]( By Sean Davis A review of United's "Contract of Carriage" suggests that the airline carrier violated its own rules when it forcibly removed a passenger to make room for United employees. [Full article]( [White House Correspondents Association Taps D-List Trump Hater For Annual Dinner]( By Bre Payton The White House Correspondents Association just announced Trump-hating comedian Hasan Minhaj will headline its annual dinner this year. [Full article]( [Coffee And Markets: Economic And Political Lessons from World War I, 100 Years Later]( By The Federalist Staff Brad Jackson is joined by author and historian David Pietrusza to discuss the 100th anniversary of America's entry into World War I on the Coffee and Markets podcast. [Full article]( WHAT TO THINK OF TRUMP’S WAR POSTURE overwhelming critical response to Donald Trump’s attack on Syria was positive, with a number of liberal and neoconservative commentators referring to it as a signal that the Trump administration would be more forceful against the Assad regime than the Obama administration had been. This posture benefits Trump, at least temporarily, with a host of people who’ve been grumbling about a weak stance toward Russia and general noise about pulling back from our obligations around the world. But how will his supporters view it, given their general reluctance to be sucked into new conflicts? 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