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Articles in May 5, 2008, issue of National Review

• Hugo Chavez smiled as the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement fell victim to election-year politics
• We reported in our last issue that, "as we write, the results of Zimbabwe's March 29 election are still uncertain."
• Few institutions are dearer to the heart of an Englishman than his local pub
• Straw predators: for the mortgage meltdown, the Left deserves a share of blame
  by Robert VerBruggen
• Michael A. Monsoor, of Garden Grove, Calif., became a Navy SEAL in 2004
• Allan Carlson calls it "the demographic paradox of the welfare state": Entitlement programs depend for their financing on a growing population, but suppress fertility rates
• The Ontario Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint of Islamophobia against Maclean's, a weekly magazine
• A new production of Verdi's Masked Ball has been launched in Erfurt, Germany
• Texas holds 'em: how Lone Star republicans stopped abusive medical-malpractice lawsuits
  by Kevin D. Williamson
• Saved! Barack Obama's "bitter" comment came to light just in time for the old lucky dog Bill Clinton
• The Supreme Court is taking up the question of whether states should be able to execute child rapists
• Blinkered sages
  by George Gilder
• Congratulations to Texas for shutting down the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Eldorado without loss of life
• Machina ex machina: greendom has drawn the wrong moral from the catalytic-converter story
  by Fred Schwarz
• And we wonder: If Hillary is so frayed at 11 P.M. that she can't keep her memories straight
• Time magazine offers a bracing report on biofuels headlined "The Clean Energy Scam."
• Heaven's Neighbors
  by Daniel Mark Epstein
• Last year Texas enacted a $5-per-customer tax on bars and clubs that feature nude dancing
• Syrian hopes: a political party and its mission
  by Jay Nordlinger
• What do Albania, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, and Ukraine have in common?
• Round two?
  by Andrew Stuttaford
• Oliver Stone is creating a film about the presidency of George W. Bush, and there is every indication that the movie will alloy the worst elements of the Stone style, combining the historical tendentiousness of JFK with the prurience of Natural Born Kille
• A tiger, he's not: enough with the Obama-Woods comparison
  by Byron York
• The classic account of the social origins of our presidents is The Log Cabin Myth, by Edward Pessen, who decided that only six presidents could claim to have been born in one, or its equivalent: Fillmore, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Garfield, Nixon, Reagan
• What's the matter with Obama?
• President Bush can claim one major achievement from the NATO conference in early April: Over objections from Russia, NATO endorsed U.S. plans to build a small missile-defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland
• An original voice
  by David Pryce-Jones
• In 1985 Eugene Ehrlich published a compendium of Latin phrases called Amo, Amas, Amat and More
• Thus are we coarsened: lessons from a sex scandal
  by Anthony Daniels
• Perhaps Italians like their politics al dente
• In the Catholic understanding, conversion is not a discrete event
• Fighting right
  by MacKubin Thomas Owens
• Heroic patience
• The Obama way: a Chicago pol's special brand of insincerity
  by Fred Siegel
• Readers of National Review have appreciated the cartoons of Michael Ramirez for years
• Filth before freedom
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The Aldous factor
  by Ross Douthat
• McCain-Rice in 2008?
• Bear politics
• Unified theory: the candidate of change forbids you to disagree
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Telescope of a conservative
  by Robert Howe
• Richard Dreyfuss said it best
• "That really ticked me off," said New Mexico governor Bill Richardson
• Nepal's Maoists have made worrisome advances in that country's elections
• Green the tree of life
  by John Derbyshire
• Jimmy Carter went to the Middle East hoping to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus
• By his friends ye shall know him: the trial of Tony Rezko spells trouble for Barack
  by Stephen Spruiell
• Ask Michelle Obama™: united feature syndicate
  by Rob Long
• The spirit is not weak
  by Lynn C. Smith
• 1960s AD
  by Michael Novak
• Bob Casey Sr., the governor of Pennsylvania, was not allowed to speak at the 1992 Democratic convention because he opposed abortion
• A small French luxury ship was boarded by Somali pirates April 4 while sailing from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
• In recent years Muslims in Britain have demanded, and received, exemptions from the nation's laws to accommodate their religion and customs
• Wordsmith to a hero: of pens, swords, and Mark Salter
  by John J. Miller
• Help!!!!
• If he wants to see bitter