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Articles in April 2, 2007, issue of National Review

• March 6 saw the 50th anniversary of Ghanaian independence
• A new bill of rights?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Al Sharpton is refusing to endorse Barack Obama
• Six residents of the District of Columbia challenged its gun law, which bans pistols in private houses and requires even licensed firearms, such as shotguns, to be kept locked or disassembled
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr. won every honor that was within a historian's grasp, and some beyond
• China Dreamin'
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Former senator Fred Thompson's recent media appearances confirm the judgment of Hollywood casting agents: He looks and sounds presidential
• Still Selma's Favorite
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Our very vague impression of the traditional Arab diet centers on figs, dates, and sheep's eyeballs
• The 'let's lose now' caucus
• Virtue's Aristocrat
  by M.D. Aeschliman
• The Association of Social Anthropologists, an academic society over in the U.K., has ruled that the terms primitive" and "Stone Age" may no longer be used to refer to peoples who are … technologically challenged
• When Rudy Giuliani was inaugurated as New York's mayor in 1994, his son Andrew was a cheerful, chubby seven-year-old whose distracting antics on the stage upstaged his indulgent father on his big day
• The opinion, by Judge Laurence Silberman, held that the authors of the Second Amendment believed the "people possessed a natural right to keep and bear arms."
• Pardon him
• The Stories We Tell
  by Elizabeth Powers
• The National Nuclear Security Administration announced that it had selected a design for a new generation of nuclear warheads
• Kill this word: poor, abused, unrecognizable, meaningless 'neocon'
  by Jonah Goldberg
• "I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs
• On his trip, Bush announced a deal to share alternative-fuel-development technology with Brazil, the world's leading producer of ethanol
• Just one term: what John McCain should pledge as he runs for president
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Last Night
  by Chryss Yost
• One, vast college campus
  by Jonah Goldberg
• New lure's catch rate may be too high for some tournaments: out-fishes other bait 19 to 4 in one contest
  by Charlie Allen
• The Nevada Democratic party canceled a presidential debate it was co-sponsoring with Fox News
• If you're thrown in jail for calling the leader of your country a dictator, at least no one can say you're a liar
• Fiasco at justice: the case of the fired U.S. attorneys
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Breakdown Lane
  by Kelly Jane Torrance
• The deadliest fire in New York City since 9/11 ripped through a house in the Bronx, killing ten people in two immigrant families from Mali—-five children from one family, the mother and all four of her children in another
• A question of competence: George W. Bush has failed in some basics
  by Richard Lowry
• A jury of one's peers is normally guaranteed for the defendant in a case, not for witnesses in testimony
• Twenty-seven German Catholic bishops made a bridge-building trip to Israel
• Bet on Black? The trial of a mogul
  by John O'Sullivan
• Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys
  by Michael Potemra
• The president, in Latin America, made the case against Hugo Chavez and his Castroite socialism
• Who's got a secret? The whole world has The Secret, sadly
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• A vie of Obama
  by William Ryan
• Clarence Thomas made headlines recently when he accused the media of being "universally untrustworthy" in a rare interview he granted to Business Week
• From a diplomat's point of view, the trouble with representing a pariah nation is, you don't get invited to many parties, and so have time to kill
• Adieu, Chirac: the end of a lousy French president
  by David Pryce-Jones
• How to Raise an American: 1776 Fun and Easy Tools, Tips, and Activities to Help Your Child Love This Country
  by Michael Potemra
• Journalists working on Russian issues have a scary way of being found dead
• Down memory lane
  by W.H. von Dreele
• A view of McCain
  by Anthony Deutsch
• The scandal over the poor treatment of some wounded veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center claimed its third senior official when Army surgeon general Kevin C. Kiley joined Army secretary Fran Harvey and the hospital's commander in forced resignation
• The municipality of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County is the setting for the latest chapter in the endless war between, on one hand, the need to control animal pests, and on the other, the pestiferous legions of animal-rights activists
• Scootergate: how the White House messed things up
  by Byron York
• Against closure
  by Ross Douthat
• St. Petersburg, Fla., has been the rather unlikely setting for a summit of secular Muslims
• Therapist's notes: court-ordered rehabilitation for hate speech: patient: Coulter, Ann
  by Rob Long
• Innocents abroad
  by James M. Shippen
• An audit revealed that the FBI has improperly used "national security letters"—-a kind of subpoena it can issue without the approval of a judge or prosecutor
• Mario Chanes de Armas was a revolutionary, sailing with Fidel and Che on the Granma
• Freedom house, rocked: strange doings at a cherished institution
  by John J. Miller
• Arthur Schlesinger, R.I.P
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Eurovision Song Contest ascended through the sphere of self-parody decades ago, and floats now in an alternate universe of bad taste far beyond the reach of criticism
• Spring rhythm
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Erratum
  by Barry Jackson
• Improving document security was one of the central recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. And for good reason: The hijackers had a total of 17 driver's licenses and 13 non-driver IDs, seven of them obtained by fraudulent means
• Former senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri is remembered for one reason, and noteworthy for another
• For whom the bell tolls
  by Florence King
• Chasing the buck
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.