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Articles in August 13, 2007, issue of National Review

• Beware fairness
  by Christian G. Farley
• House Democrats never have been known as tightwads, and the budget they just passed for the Department of Labor won't change their reputation
• "Scott Thomas," a pseudonymous soldier who files occasional pieces on life at the front in Iraq for The New Republic, had some particularly raw vignettes recently
• Coming soon to Los Angeles: a new exhibit by NR's own Roman Genn
• Health of the State: doctors, patients, and Michael Moore
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Auld Kirk
  by Michael Potemra
• Elizabeth Edwards says that John Edwards is the most feminist candidate in the race
• Yes, the shutdown of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor was good news
• S-chipping away at free markets
• A twentysomething Muslim woman who served as a juror in a London murder trial is being charged with contempt of court because she listened to music on an iPod, hidden beneath her head-covering hijab, while the trial was in progress
• Better than genocide: ethnic cleansing in human affairs
  by Ralph Peters
• A few charms
  by Ross Douthat
• July was supposed to be the new September. Instead of waiting for Gen. David Petraeus to report on the state of the surge in Iraq in the fall, panicked Republicans—egged on by the media—seemed set to mandate withdrawal right away
• Bizarrely, the National Intelligence Estimate played in the press as a huge setback to the Bush administration
• Hugh C. Newton, R.I.P
• There are some curious nuggets of information to be unearthed from the Federal Election Commission's campaign-contribution database
• Farmers on the dole: the crying need for ag reform
  by Stephen Spruiell
• Let's get physical
  by John Derbyshire
• The word "genocide" rolls trippingly off liberal tongues these days
• Al-Qaeda is thriving in Pakistan, thanks to an ill-advised ceasefire deal that Pervez Musharraf cut with tribal leaders in 2006
• NRA nation: the second amendment people are winning
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The game of checkers has been completely solved
• Sorry, wrong era
  by W.H. Von Dreele
• Dick Gephardt started out pro-life but switched his position in time to run for president
• A vat of trouble
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Our pleasant blue Earth has a sister planet, Venus, of approximately the same size and internal composition
• Transcript court-ordered mediation in the matter of
  by Rob Long
• After passengers reported the suspicious behavior of six Muslim clerics on a US Airways flight last November, the clerics were questioned and cleared—and the passengers were slapped with a lawsuit
• If the results of the Turkish election had been designed by a committee consisting of Henry Kissinger, Bernard Lewis, and Dick Morris, it could scarcely have come up with a more calming outcome
• Abortion and crime: one has an effect on the other, but it may not be the effect you think
  by John R. Lott, Jr.
• The madness begins
  by Mark Moyar
• The Washington Post ran a front-page story on the administration's "bold new assertion of executive authority."
• Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez does not take criticism well, a fact illustrated by his shutdown of RCTV, Venezuela's second-largest TV channel, earlier this year
• 'Peace through light': the latest case of missile defense and its enemies
  by John J. Miller
• Apologia Americana
  by Christopher Levenick
• Finally there is a voice of reason in the CIA-leak case
• Vets for Freedom, a group made up of people who served in Iraq or Afghanistan, took to Capitol Hill the afternoon before Harry Reid's all-nighter
• Taiwan's two dozen: who will dare have relations with Free China?
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Ad multos annos!
  by Brian C. Anderson
• Dr. Deaths
  by William J. Lassiter
• In the last two years of the Clinton administration, the Republican Senate confirmed 15 appeals-court nominees
• Conrad Black, who is both a baron and a press baron, was convicted recently of four felonies in Chicago
• Mugabe's Marvelous Foe: meet Zimbabwean archbishop Pius Ncube
  by Travis Kavulla
• After the fall
  by Peter Suderman
• Nothing to lose
  by Jerry L. Brand
• Rep. Keith Ellison compared 9/11 to the Reichstag fire in a talk early in July
• Inside Harry's Dorm
  by W.H. Von Dreele
• Correction
• Put 'em to the test: for a nation of minimally informed voters
  by Jonah Goldberg
• American gothic
  by Richard O'Connell