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Articles in August 8, 2005, issue of National Review

• Sounds like a deal
  by J.R. Dunworth
• Property and privilege
  by Richard A. Epstein
• The Guardian, Britain's leading left-wing newspaper, has—naturally!—a policy of "diversity" in hiring newsroom staff
• NSA document extracts: telephone transcripts
  by Rob Long
• Competitive instincts
  by John Derbyshire
• No strings attached
  by Stephen F. Drabik
• The Washington Post editorialized that John Roberts is "a man of substance and seriousness" and that President Bush "deserves credit" for nominating him
• The regime of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe is approaching North Korean levels of whimsical ferocity
• Yesterday's battles
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Artificial sweeteners
  by Paul Mantyla
• The Rove affair
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's jurisprudence, all too often, has been neither based on the Constitution as understood by its ratifiers nor mindful of the requirements of the rule of law
• Newspaper and wire-service sub-editors—the people who write the headlines and photo captions—live a dull and thankless existence for the most part
• Iraqi doubts
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Proportional failure
  by Stefan Beck
• A force for good
  by MacKubin Thomas Owens
• The economy is growing, federal revenue is therefore up , and the deficit is going down
• There are three inanimate objects in this story
• Conservatives—along with some liberals, such as those at the NAACP—have reacted ferociously to the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. New London
• Brits surrounded
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• President George W. Bush and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh met at the White House in a historic indication of common interest—and the U.S. government announced that it would allow nuclear-power technology sales to India
• At an interview given on Bastille Day—the celebrated anniversary of a riot that precipitated decades of anarchy, mass murder, despotism, and war—Jacques Chirac, the president of France, unburdened himself of some opinions about the superiority o
• A perfect world
  by John Wilson
• Trading up
• Albania votes: an emerging democracy, emerges
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Iranian journalist and political prisoner Akbar Ganji was on hunger strike for nearly 40 days before being transferred, shortly before this magazine went to print, from the infirmary of Iran's Evin prison to a Tehran hospital, apparently for emergency tre
• Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, spoke to the NAACP about the relationship between blacks and the Republican party
• A Rose and Milton
  by Robert Mezey
• Michael Chertoff, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, prompted howls with his entirely commonsensical suggestion that the federal government should focus most of its energy on trying to prevent truly catastrophic terror attacks using commerci
• The battle for Britain
• Expensive talk: the gracelessness of the rock-and-roll left
  by Anthony Daniels
• Too flip
  by Meghan Cox Gurdon
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth and penultimate installment of the Harry Potter series, went on sale one minute after midnight, July 16
• Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, the Catholic archbishop of Vienna, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times arguing that while the Church has no objection to "evolution," that does not mean it accepts everything that travels under that name
• The Terror, Explained
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Wild about Harry
  by Robert P. George
• Speaking of which, Chertoff recently lifted restrictions that have confined airline passengers to their seats for a half hour after taking off and before landing at Reagan National Airport
• Ask not: our crazy rules for judicial nominees
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Notes & asides
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Plame out
• John Hillen, an NR contributing editor, has been nominated by President Bush to be assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs
• Giving them the business
  by Alexander Rose
• That was close
• The lion challenged: why England mustn't sleep
  by John O'Sullivan
• The inquisitor: Charles Schumer, leader of the anti-Bush crusade
  by John J. Miller
• Sir Edward Heath, the former British prime minister who has died aged 89, was at once an exemplar of our democratic age and a dirigiste anachronism
• Clearing the air
  by G. Tracy Mehan, III
• Political connoisseurs want to know, what's the matter with New York these days?
• Humane alternatives
• Tribal loyalties: the BIA: a Washington disgrace
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• Operation get Rove: a misguided—and bungling—lynch mob
  by Byron York
• Gen. William C. Westmoreland, who commanded American forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, died aged 91
• Tony Blair, speaking of the London bombings four days after they happened, blamed them on "Islamist extremist terrorists" who, in recent years, have struck "Madrid, Bali, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Kenya, Tanzania, Pakistan, Yemen, Turkey, Egypt
• Help!!!!
  by W.H. Dreel
• Corn row: was it Joe Wilson who outed his wife?
  by Clifford D. May