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Articles in August 23, 2004, issue of National Review
- Live from Boston
by W.H. von Dreele
- The long view
by Rob Long
- Brice Lalonde, mayor of French town of Saint-Briac and first cousin of Kerry, in Wall Street Journal: "We do have some JFK stickers on our cars."
- In her convention speech, Teresa Heinz Kerry said that "one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer."
- The U.N. Security Council finally passed a resolution demanding that Sudan act within 30 days to disarm the Arab militias whose campaign of murder, arson, and rape has driven a million Africans in the Darfur region from their homes
- Guess who's back? Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, whom the Democratic voters of Georgia's Fourth District have made their nominee for November
- Notes & asides
by George W. Rutler
- Help!!!
- A breakthrough in global trade talks promises economic benefits for rich and poor countries alike
- Andy Hiller is the semi-famous political reporter from Boston, the one who tripped up Candidate George W. Bush in that foreign-policy pop quiz
- Jay Leno: "Edwards's speech was so good
- The politics of silence: Democrats don't want to talk about certain things; neither do Republicans
by Ramesh Ponnuru
- Two Socialists
by W.H. von Dreele
- To WFB
by Ian R. Fisher
- "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?" asked the headline over a piece by public editor Daniel Okrent
- "We value an America that controls its own destiny because it's finally and forever independent of Mideast oil," said Kerry
- Consolation
by Sarah M. Bramwell
- Keep talkin', Teresa
- This past month marked the 25th anniversary of the accession to power of Nicaragua's Sandinistas
- Did you know that Fidel Castro really, really likes Michael Moore?
- Gunning for Goliath
by Peter Flaherty
- Their true selves: where could the Democrats let it all hang out? Not in the convention center
by Byron York
- Building for people
by M.D. Aeschliman
- More process than peace
by David Pryce-Jones
- How foreign aid can help the poorand why it doesn't
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- They were an interesting group, those delegates in Boston
- When photographs appeared of John Kerry hopping around the shuttle Discovery in a baby blue "bunny suit," his campaign falsely claimed they had been rabbit-punched by NASA
- Mujaheddin memories
by Radek Sikorski
- Justice for all?
- Bill Barrette, a New York artist, has a hobby: collecting knick-knacks and objets d'art made by Japanese prisoners in Sugamo Prison in Tokyo after World War II
- You deserve a factual look at … Egypt: is it a factor for peace in the Middle East?
- There he goes againagain: Jimmy in Beantown
by Jay Nordlinger
- The Magus of MIT
by Michael Potemra
- No Irish need apply
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 23 states worth 195 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 22 states worth 261 electoral votes
- 2000 Ad
- The president talked up tax cuts, tort reform, the war on terrorism, school choice, his faith-based initiative, and his other policies
- 2004 Caribbean Post-Election Cruise
- Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
by Jeffrey Hart
- Great cheer in Boston
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Unnamed Kerry aide explains senator's vote against troop-funding bill, in The New Yorker: "Off the record he did it because of Howard Dean
- You've heard of pitting Americans against Americans, right?
- The House made a symbolic strike against the federal courts on same-sex marriage
- "Now I'm going to have to move to Staten Island
- Orthodox Catholics shall never surrender
- Harvard's Divinity School just announced that it would not be keeping a $2.5 million gift from United Arab Emirates president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan
- Sharks a-circling: trial lawyers are hungry for yet more billions; a vilified Bush-adminstration lawyer stands in their way
by David Frum
- Sweet sorrow
by John Derbyshire
- Washington Post/Univision/TRPI poll of Hispanics: Kerry 60 percent, Bush 30 percent
- Barack Obama gave a wonderful keynote address at the Democratic convention, and not just because he trumped John Edwards's hardscrabble backgroundI'll see your mill-worker father and raise you a goat-herding Kenyan father
- Most liberals embrace illegal immigrants; they are not, by and large, great friends of the unborn
- Lance Armstrong won his sixth Tour de France, that love/hate letter to human stamina and Gallic geography
- The one they love: or do they? The liberals' David Brooks problem
by Ross Douthat
- Drunk in Boston
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- John Kerry asked, "What if we have a president who believes in science, so we can unleash the wonders of discovery like stem-cell research to treat illness and save millions of lives?"
- Something remarkable occurred in Minnesota
- Rep. Johnny Isakson and former congressman Tom Coburn win GOP Senate primaries without needing runoffs
- Duties shirked
- Lawyer of JIHAD: meet Lynne Stewart, the radical attorney who happens to be on trial herself
by Rachel Zabarkes Friedman
- In 1946, the great economist Henry Hazlitt observed, "You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less."
- Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, on NBC: "I think the idea of two Americasthat's the way they ran against Ronald Reagan 20 years ago
- In an interview with Peter Jennings, Kerry attempted to square his belief that life begins at conception with his support for abortion by suggesting that the fetus is not a "person" before viability
- The commission reports
- Buffetted: the Sage of Omaha loves the estate taxas well he might
by John Berlau
- New York Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent on his paper's coverage of gay marriage: "On a topic that has produced one of the defining debates of our time, Times editors have failed to provide the three-dimensional perspective balanced journalism requires
- Sen. Joe Lieberman is a mensch
- What are the lessons of the Abdurahman Alamoudi case?