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Articles in August 9, 2004, issue of National Review

• Looking out on a crowd of 3,200 in New York, the Teresa Who Would Be First Lady said, "Women for Kerry need birth control, you've gotten so huge."
• Tell Jay Rockefeller
  by W. H. von Dreele
• From Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Should we have gone to war?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• A salute
  by Larry Chambers
• So much for "Bush lied."
• Constantine Menges, a Turkish-born freedom fighter and rightwing revolutionary, has died at the age of 64
• John Edwards famously complains that there are two Americas, and that the system is rigged to benefit the rich one
• The Philippines began withdrawing its 51-man contingent of troops in Iraq in an effort to save the life of Angelo de la Cruz, a truck driver abducted outside Fallujah by terrorists
• 2004 Caribbean Post-Election Cruise
• Circle-squaring by Daschle
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Playing the palace
  by Randall G. White
• Last fall, Joe Wilson accepted the Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling from the Nation Institute , named after the soldier who exposed the My Lai massacre
• Where's the beef?
• Tobacco-state congressmen and anti-tobacco activists have reached a deal
• Goose-killers
  by Stephen Moore
• The senators dodge
• Let's Pretend
  by W.H. von Dreele
• In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 24 states worth 211 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 23 states worth 285 electoral votes
• For the fourth year of his presidency, Bush declined to address the annual convention of the NAACP
• Introducing John Kerry at a rally, Massachusetts state senator Dianne Wilkerson referred to George W. Bush's education policy as "No Black Child Learns Under Bush."
• Sudan has encouraged Arab Muslim militias to slaughter black Muslims; hundreds of thousands of the latter are facing death from starvation and disease, while their persecutors block the distribution of humanitarian aid
• Notes & asides
  by Jim Cargal
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Kerry, in Washington Post: "we have not stood up and attacked our opponents in personal ways."
• What did Sandy Berger stuff in his clothes and why did he stuff it?
• A coalition of liberals and social conservatives wants the federal government to force cable companies to offer consumers "a la carte" programming
• Veep for the ages: and for now
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Not quite right
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Democrats opposing his budget proprosals: "I call them girlie men."
• Paul Klebnikov was born and brought up in the United States, a member of a distinguished Russian family that had fled the 1917 revolution
• Help!!!!
• "Chest out, shoulders back, stomach in," the drill sergeants used to bark
• Air travel, which for economy-class passengers gets ever more cramped and unpleasant, is at least poised to become more interesting
• Why did Bush surrender? The president caved on the Wilson-Niger affair—but he was right all along
  by Byron York
• Two textures
  by Richard Lowry
• 9/11 commission chairman Tom Kean, in Philadelphia Inquirer: "Congress is not blameless in this
• In the bluest of blue states, here is liberalism on the ground
• Pop singer Elton John peered out from under his rug to tell a magazine interviewer that
• 2004 Ad
  by David Frum
• Telephone Greeting
  by Michael Creagan
• France joins Australia, Canada, and Norway in outlawing human cloning
• The headline was five words long, but spoke volumes: USS Cole Attack Trial opens
• Our Okie from Muskogee: conservative Tom Coburn runs for the Senate
  by John J. Miller
• Brown study
  by Jeffrey Hart
• Conan O'Brien: "Last night at a Democratic fundraiser concert, John Kerry played guitar while everyone on stage sang 'This Land Is Your Land.'
• Rap singer Jason T. Phillips, who records under the name "Jadakiss," has a new song out titled "Why?"
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that, in May and June, the hourly earnings of production workers fell
• A blogger who is a fan of Ralph Nader went through the FEC records, looking for the political contributions of journalists
• The joy of Tokenism: or if not joy, something …
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Bright wings
  by Michael Potemra
• Make 'em sweat
  by Marco Gilliam
• Confronting affirmative action
  by Robert Zelnick
• The International Atomic Energy Agency, thanks to a concerted American diplomatic effort, recently brought Iran's nuclear-weapons program to the forefront of international attention
• Although President Bush has raised more money than John Kerry—$218 million to $149 million, according to the FEC filings in May—there's a good chance Democrats trying to defeat him will outspend Republicans trying to re-elect him
• A personal retrospective: NR and its founder
  by Richard Lowry
• Senator Edwards speaks out!
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• That's rich
  by Robert A. Shire
• Sandy Berger walked out of the National Archives with sensitive documents stuffed in his pants
• The International Court of Justice ruled against Israel's security fence in a slipshod opinion that should serve to bring discredit on "international justice."
• "What's the matter with kids today?" wondered the late Paul Lynde in Bye Bye Birdie