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Articles in Dec 8, 2003, issue of National Review

• When crime hits home … pretensions fall away—even in France
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Happily seduced
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In Newsweek poll, President Bush earns 52 percent approval rating
• "I can't tell you how excited I am, how happy I am, to be back," said Rush Limbaugh, opening his November 17 radio show after spending a month in drug rehab for an addiction to painkillers
• The left at the altar
• The terror-bombing of the Riyadh housing complex that killed 18 people, all Muslims, is not quite like the death of Leon Trotsky
• Witnesses: a greatest generation of anti-Communists
  by John Derbyshire
• The Axeman cometh
  by James S. Robbins
• Sen. Jay Rockefeller on Democratic memo announcing plans to play politics on Senate intelligence committee, on MSNBC: "The memo is not a memo
• Car-bombs, possibly set by al-Qaeda, exploded outside two Istanbul synagogues, killing 24 people and wounding scores more
• On the surface, the GOP's Senate filibuster—or "reverse filibuster," as Rick Santorum called it—was something of a bust: when it started, the Democrats had successfully blocked four of Bush's nominees to the federal appeals court; when
• Never again, again: the Holocaust Museum and 9/11
  by William J. Bennett
• Earlier this year, New York City established Harvey Milk High School—a safe haven where gay youngsters could escape the bullying of their peers
• Rep. Dick Gephardt pulls ahead of Howard Dean in Des Moines Register poll of Democrats, 27 percent to 20 percent, with Sen. John Kerry in third place and all other candidates in single digits
• A truck bomb in the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq exploded outside the headquarters of Italian military police stationed there, killing twelve carabinieri, five soldiers, two civilians, and thirteen Iraqis
• Bobby Jindal deserved to be the next governor of Louisiana. He offered conservative principles, a sharp intellect, and an impressive resume—by age 32, he had directed both his state's health-care department and its university system
• Adjusting, persevering
• The audacity to succeed: President Bush's tax cuts have worked, and this has stirred the pot
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Then and now: there are great differences between Vietnam and Iraq, and there are certain similarities, and all must be weighed
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Religious fiction …
  by David Klinghoffer
• Former House majority leader Dick Armey on liberal Republicans, according to Tallahassee Democrat: "the bed-wetter caucus."
• The story of Pfc. Jessica Lynch has spun into political/ media hyperspace, where the Pentagon meets the E! Channel meets Barnes & Noble
• Gore Vidal, the enrage essayist who wears the drag of a historian, talked to the L.A. Weekly about W. and the Patriot Act
• Count on it: non-citizens—even illegal aliens—are included in the Census. Think this affects the political system?
  by John J. Miller
• The morning of Wednesday, November 5, was a typical one for students at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, S.C.—until "police officers with guns drawn stormed into the school's cafeteria
• The theme is freedom
• Whose constitution is it, anyway? Supreme Court justices are importing foreign law, signaling a historic and deplorable shift
  by Robert H. Bork
• … and religious fact
  by Michael Potemra
• "Our determination must be the same as that of the Italians in uniform who have brought honor to themselves and to the coalition that is committed to supporting Iraq's journey toward democracy," says Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi afte
• News accounts have played the Supreme Court's decision to consider whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction over Guantanamo Bay as a setback to the Bush administration's position that the courts have nothing to do with it
• Alan Colmes is one half of the Hannity-and-Colmes duo on Fox News Channel
• Loath as we always are to distract our readers' attention from the great affairs of the republic and the world, we cannot forbear asking the question that is on so many lips: is Britney Spears headed for a crack-up?
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• From Hilary to Bill
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Arguing FDR
  by Conrad Black
• Jay Leno: "Mexico's president Vicente Fox was in Phoenix, Arizona, giving a speech where he told Americans it's time to reform immigration laws and make it easier for his people to legally cross the border
• Shine the light of liberty in Russia as well
  by Michael McFaul
• Just Keep Still
  by W.H. Von Dreele
• Rosie O'Donnell uttered a refreshing statement
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• Image conscious
  by John Derbyshire
• It's my party …
  by Vida McEndollar
• Looking for an amusing gift, a stocking-stuffer for someone you love at Chr … Sorry! Sorry!—over the holidays?
• The House of Saud
  by W.H. von Dreele
• My ideals, right or wrong
  by Jerome McCollom
• A dodgy John Edwards says "I personally do not support" gay marriage
• Steel tariffs have cost Americans more jobs than they've protected, but the White House has gambled all along that they will provide a political boost in swing states like Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and guarantee the president four more years of gain
• It isn't all beer and skittles, being the Prince of Wales
• What Britain learned: and how America can build, in Iraq
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Nike's apostle
  by Jeffrey Hart
• A longer look at Chinook
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Why manufacturing matters
• Sen. Ted Kennedy says that he opposes the Medicare bill now taking final form in Congress because it appears "to tilt in favor of the right-wing agenda."
• A recent poll of EU residents produced some interesting results
• New York City is, of course, the warm beating heart of American liberalism, a place fairly awash with open-mindedness and tolerance
• The latest variant of the haggard dream of the deadlocked convention
• High on the honor roll of those who helped bring down the Soviet empire is the name of Leszek Kolakowski
• Putin's October revolution: a scary time in Russia
  by Adrian Karatnycky
• Going to Heaven
  by Robert Mezey
• God and man at Bay
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The case of Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama supreme court—or rather, now former chief justice—has been a painful saga
• The first group of tourists has visited Iraq on a two-week tour organized by an English agency called Hinterland Travel
• Join the Vast Right-Wing CATHOLIC Conspiracy
  by William J. Bennett
• President Bush goes to London, and the streets fill with angry Brits
• Remembering genocide
  by David Pryce-Jones