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Articles in June 25, 2007, issue of National Review

• Fred Thompson got a step closer to entering the presidential primaries by forming an "exploratory committee."
• Vermont might secede from the Union, if a handful of local academics have their way
• The axeman cometh
  by George Gilder
• "Compassionate conservatism" has not fared well as a presidential slogan
• President Bush announced that the U.S. was imposing new unilateral sanctions on 31 Sudanese businesses
• The reason the Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce is not to enable it to intrude into every nook and cranny of our national life, as modern jurisprudence holds, but rather to keep state governments from interfering with
• It is no secret that National Review and the Wall Street Journal have had different views on immigration for many years
• Not made in heaven
  by Matthew Scully
• We wouldn't have been surprised if God had struck down Rudy Giuliani at the New Hampshire GOP presidential debate for repeating the canard that pro-lifers want to throw women in jail
• Before Hugo Chavez shut it down on May 27, Radio Caracas Television was one of Venezuela's few avenues for expressing dissatisfaction with the left-wing strongman
• The Democrats held a presidential debate where they argued about whether it was better to have voted to authorize the Iraq War and now abjectly apologize for the vote ; to have never voted for the war ; to have voted for the war and never apologized for i
• Obama's suggestion
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Another sidebar on the larger immigration story is the one about people a nation should be glad to let in, but who can't get a visa
• On His Brother
  by Robert Mezey
• 'Because that's where the money is': the U.S. government finds a way to hurt Kim Jong Il
  by Mario Loyola
• Beheading is an old practice, performed by all the best people
• Hillary Clinton gave a speech decrying the ownership society as the "on your own" society
• In 1998, Lilly Ledbetter filed a pay-discrimination claim that was based largely on workplace events that occurred in the early 1980s
• We have withheld comment on the Pirates of the Caribbean movies—there are currently three of them—unconvinced that films based on an amusement-park ride can have anything significant to say about our politics or culture
• Family ties
  by Peter Suderman
• A ghastly little place: the fate of the Gaza Strip
  by Khaled Abu Toameh
• Syrian president Basher Assad won a second seven-year term in office, by winning 97 percent of the vote in last month's referendum
• The Justice Department is suing New York City's Fire Department
• Adding insult to immigration
• Game plan: what conservatives should do about global warming
  by Jim Manzi
• Great lives
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• At the recent Democratic debate, John Edwards mused, "I don't know if I know what a rich person is."
• Laughter has so far been a sadly neglected weapon in the War on Terror
• Four Islamists from Trinidad and Guyana, one of them a naturalized American citizen, planned to blow up fuel-storage tanks at Kennedy Airport in New York City, and the underground fuel line that supplies them, causing, they hoped, mayhem in Queens and a b
• Miss USA Rachel Smith, competing in the Miss Universe Pageant in Mexico City, was booed and jeered for a week by the local audience
• 2008 Ad
  by Kate O'Beirne
• How I rethought immigration: one man's confessions
  by David Frum
• Barack Obama isn't promising health care with universal coverage, just a close approximation of it, but it's not for any lack of taxes and regulations in his plan
• Critique of pure unreason
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Occasionally one encounters evil so insensate, so black, that it bears down on one's soul with an almost physical weight
• This magazine has commented on a certain bassack-wardness in American life: Americans feel obliged to learn Spanish, in order to communicate with newcomers
• 2008 Ad
  by Byron York
• Flat lights on the ceiling
  by Florence King
• Unmanageable
  by John Haskins
• We said it in March, when I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby became the only person convicted of any crime in the CIA-leak investigation, and we'll say it again now that he has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison: President Bush should pardon
• The words "Iran" and "hostage" evoke memories of 1979, but in truth the Khomeinists are still kidnapping minions of the Great Satan
• What should we think of someone who destroys himself in public?
• From Abscam on: the career and m.o. of Rep. John P. Murtha
  by Stephen Spruiell
• Going to seed
  by Richard Brookhiser
• A farewell to culture wars: advice to conservatives from a 'well-wishing outsider'
  by Brink Lindsey
• Mitt's mitts
  by Carl Radon
• Paul Wolfowitz was an excellent—even an inspired—choice to lead the World Bank
• Jack Kevorkian, just out of prison, got a sweetheart interview from fellow euthanasia proponent Mike Wallace
• Iowa Dims
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Immigration blues
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Foundation for Democracy in Iran has put photos on the Internet, depicting life—or rather, death—in Tehran today
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• President Bush says critics of the immigration bill haven't read it
• With the president politically weak, one might have expected climate fearmongers finally to succeed in forcing Kyoto-style emissions caps on the U.S. Bravo to Bush, then, for making an end run around the whole Kyoto process
• Washington has plans to deploy interceptor missiles in Poland, and to build a radar station in the Czech Republic, as it happens on a site that once was an advanced Soviet base
• Boys gotta be boys
  by Mona Charen
• Honor, duty, country?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Summer of Love was 40 years ago, and since the sexagenarian baby boomers grapple us with as sweaty a grip as Lyndon Johnson ever did, we have been treated to media commemorations, and their accompanying debates
• Don't knock it
  by Ross Douthat