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Articles in Jan 28, 2008, issue of National Review

• What if he wins?
  by Tony Rivera
• Who's afraid of $100 a barrel?
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• The New York Times's decision to make Bill Kristol a regular columnist on its op-ed page was met with the predictable chorus of left-wing boos and catcalls
• 2008 Ad
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The drawing board
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Apocalypse now
  by James Toth
• Nations that have permitted large-scale immigration from the Muslim Middle East have all experienced "honor killings"—the murder, almost invariably of women by men, of those deemed to have departed too far from Muslim social norms
• On January 3, to greet the New Year, the Times printed a letter to the editor
• 'A magical communicator': he's no man for details—but Huck knows how to connect
  by Byron York
• Rock-solid logic
  by Wesley J. Smith
• Father Mitt
  by Stephan Marks
• Winston Churchill's description of disarmament negotiations—"a solemn and prolonged farce"—applies equally well to the U.N.'s endless climate-change talks
• 2007 Ad
• Right lines, wrong music: what Mitt Romney lacks is the ability to inspire
  by Richard Lowry
• Idee fixe
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• The news out of New Hampshire
• On January 7, a judge in Missouri tossed out an attempt by Democratic officials to rewrite the ballot language of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, which will ban racial preferences in state government if voters give it their blessing
• Probably most of our readers have by now encountered the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb , that annoying helical replacement for the traditional bulb
• The real Bhutto: against the myth-making
  by Jonathan Foreman
• The temple of the mind
  by Richard O'Connell
• The Republican presidential candidates' debates over immigration have been marked by an obsessive focus on third- and fourth-order questions: What tuition rate should state colleges charge illegal-immigrant students?
• Rochester Cathedral in southern England is a thousand years old, and its bishop, Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, is a remarkable man, a thoughtful intellectual worthy of the historic diocese he represents
• Last month former senator George Mitchell issued a stern report on what he called "baseball's steroid era"—a period of pervasive illegal drug use
• An ugly Heritage: the poor man's national park; the citizen's burden
  by John J. Miller
• Cradle of the system
  by Arthur Herman
• Parties and partisanship get a bad rap from the wise and the good
• Umshini wam, mshini wam / Khawuleth'umshini wam …
• On a ranking of sound life-management principles, "Don't fool with large hungry tigers" would seem to us to be pretty near the top
• A half century's slander: it isn't conservatives who must answer for fascism
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Well, well, well
  by Ross Douthat
• No Flash in the pan: remembering George MacDonald Fraser
  by John O'Sullivan
• Appearing on Jay Leno's show, Huckabee got off what everybody said was a really good line, even a killer line
• Kenya, long seen as one of the more stable and promising African nations, now seems intent on traveling a dismal road
• Those who are planted in the house of the Lord, promised the Psalmist, will be "fat and flourishing."
• The Waxman cometh: but he doth not succeed
  by Mark Hemingway
• Produced by Iowa
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• George McGovern wrote an essay for the Washington Post calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney
• If you think American universities are uniquely bad, take heart: They're not so hot in Israel, either
• 2008 Ad
• Her other two opponents
  by Florence King
• Pakistan's blood-stained democracy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In 2002, the CIA made a serious error in tape-recording early interrogations of two notorious terrorists
• Who knew that amateur soccer could have anything in common with Islamic terrorism?
• 2008 Ad
• Help!!!!
• Regulation time?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Do you remember the Franklin Prophecy?
• Trick or treat
  by Thomas McCord
• While commentators are debating the causes and cures of our economic slowdown, the slowdown hasn't gone to the trouble of actually arriving
• Good news out of China: They are expelling people from the Communist party for violating the one-child policy
• After Bhutto
• NSA intercept radio frequency surveillance
  by Rob Long
• Mainlining
  by Richard Brookhiser