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Articles in July 9, 2007, issue of National Review

• You can tell the immigration debate has gotten hot when Linda Chavez, normally the soul of reason, boils over
• President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is weathering a political crisis after he suspended the chief justice of the supreme court for transparently trumped-up reasons
• A lot of people still think of Time as a news magazine, as opposed to the more opinionated variety like The Nation, The New Republic, or National Review
• Animosity and amnesty: a grand failure
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Transcript from Larry King Live June 27, 2008
  by Rob Long
• Goodbye, Ton'
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Immigrants and jobs
  by Patrick G.D. Riley
• Nancy Pelosi has fallen for two types of stem-cell hype
• When Ronald Reagan proposed sharing missile-defense technology with the Soviet Union in 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev scoffed at the idea
• Together, the Godfather novels and movies and The Sopranos bracket almost 40 years of a pop-culture love affair with the mob
• 'Give me the tools': they have them—so use them
  by Mark Krikorian
• In a Strange Land
  by John J. Miller
• The nuclear option
  by Roger P. Scott
• The legislature in newly blue New Hampshire has voted to repeal its law mandating parental notification when minors have abortions
• In a statement released on June 4, Speaker Nancy Pelosi commemorated the 18th anniversary of the protest and massacre at Tiananmen Square
• The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding, an Episcopal priest in Seattle, says she is simultaneously a Muslim. She was ordained as a priest in 1984, and became a Muslim last year
• In government, too: you'll find illegal aliens in the darndest places
  by Terence P. Jeffrey
• The great consensus
  by Michael Barone
• Count him skeptical
  by Carl Dorsch
• Workaholics
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• On June 12, the Victims of Communism Memorial was formally dedicated in Washington, D.C., to honor the 100 million people who are estimated to have died at the hands of a savage ideology
• Skull and Bones is one of Yale's secret societies: freemasonry for kids, dating back to the 19th century
• Mrs. Pelosi's dogs: Blue Dogs, that is—and they are part of her formidable majority
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Triumph of the new
  by Nick Schulz
• Hillary Clinton's strongest supporters, her consultants say, are "women with needs."
• Legislators in Massachusetts voted not to hold a referendum on same-sex marriage, on the nonsensical theory that "you don't put civil rights up for a vote."
• A spokesman for Fatah accused Hamas militiamen of looting Yasser Arafat's Gaza City home and stealing his Nobel Peace Prize medal
• Poor Pluto!
• A 20th-century career: Kurt Waldheim, 1918-2007
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Bestriding our history
  by David Harsanyi
• Washington is whipping itself into a preemptive panic over a September progress report on the Iraq War
• The mills of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding small
• George W. Bush received a hero's welcome during an eight-hour stop in Albania, which the American media noted with amusement, mixed with scorn
• Millions of American children knew Don Herbert as Mr. Wizard, a TV regular from the 1950s even unto the 1980s
• Truth was not his bag: Richard Rorty, 1931-2007
  by Roger Kimball
• Punch the director!
  by Ross Douthat
• Sen. Barack Obama went after Hillary for her insufficient ardor against outsourcing, citing one of her Indian-American supporters, who said that she could be the senator from Punjab
• Enemies captured in the course of war are not common criminals
• The trouble with the practices of rational, consensual government—as Wordsworth pointed out when he referred to them as "the meagre, stale, forbidding ways / Of custom, law, and statute"—is that they are not very romantic
• Kurt Waldheim led an archetypal life. David Pryce-Jones gives the details
  by David Pryce-Jones
• American party girl: the prisonerette in L.A
  by Rob Long
• February 12, 1809
  by Olivia Ellis
• The governor of California put el gato among las palomas at the annual convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists the other day
• Sen. Harry Reid, former amateur boxer, recently threw a few punches at Marine general Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of multinational forces in Iraq
• NASA administrator Michael Griffin recently caused an uproar when he told NPR that, although he has no doubt that global warming exists, he felt that NASA's role was solely to research climate change, and was "not sure that it is fair to say that it
• Fool me twice
• Economic reds: a diagnosis: understanding Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and their breed
  by Michael Novak
• Out of the box
  by John Derbyshire
• President Bush says he is "looking forward to vetoing excessive spending."
• Suppose a country funds, arms, and trains on its soil a force to infiltrate and destabilize its neighbor with a campaign of ethnic cleansing
• U.N. secretary general Ban Ki-moon argued, in the Washington Post, that the 200,000-person body count in Darfur "derives … from man-made global warming."
• The lesser evil
• The ethical case against withdrawal from Iraq: a matter urgently to consider
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• Debasing democracy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• A sweeping presidential power: on Lewis Libby and pardons
  by Byron York
• Summertime is here, and with it, the annual spectacle of our representatives in Washington competing to see who can come up with the worst solution to the problem of higher gas prices
• Lieberman's logic
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The "Hillary for President" website has been seeking a campaign song for the former First Lady
• Against universal coverage
• Candidate McCain
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Yes, free Libby
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.