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Articles in May 28, 2007, issue of National Review

• WFB & PTB
  by Loretto Stevens
• Calls for gun control after the Virginia Tech massacre were muted
• America's best friend in Latin America is Colombian president Alvaro Uribe
• Department of Homeland Security: cellular-communication wiretap extract
  by Rob Long
• Torture on 60 minutes
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Grandest of them all
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Four hecklers interrupted a speech by FBI director Robert Mueller at Harvard
• Wild about Harry: the 'netroots' love him, but will the Senate majority leader hurt his party?
  by Byron York
• Vive Sarkozy!
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Give McCain a Sedative
  by W.H. von Dreele
• At least if Hillary wins in 2008
• Chavez, Fidel Castro's clone, chose May 1 as the day to announce the nationalization of the major international oil companies operating in Venezuela
• Mike Penner, a sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times, announced that he is a transitioning transsexual who is becoming Christine Daniels
• Start of the surge: a report from Iraq
  by Bing West
• Ten Republican presidential candidates appeared onstage at the Reagan Library so that they could be hectored, bullied, and asked inane questions by Chris Matthews and John Harris
• President Bush sent Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi a letter explaining that he would "veto any legislation that weakens current Federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage."
• Because Cuban dissidents and truth-tellers are so seldom honored by the world at large, it is especially gratifying when they are
• The little students in a kindergarten in Calabasas, Calif., have complained about a "weird man" who comes to school to sing them "scary" songs
• The inside story
  by George H. Nash
• Father of the year?
  by Florence King
• George Tenet's memoir, At the Center of the Storm, has been slammed left and right, often for the wrong reasons
• As the saying goes, predictions are hard to get right, especially when they're about the future
• Six years ago, Jian-li Yang swung by our offices, to talk about China
• The talent of Mstislav Rostropovich is hard to fathom. He was probably the greatest cellist who ever lived; he was also one of the greatest instrumentalists who ever lived
• Pop romanizing
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Talk about Democratic unity! When Washington Post columnist David Broder chastised Senate majority leader Harry Reid for declaring that the war in Iraq "is lost," all 50 of Reid's Democratic colleagues in the Senate dashed off a letter to the Po
• A Chinese judge accused of corruption has died in jail of "adult sudden death syndrome," according to Chinese authorities
• Abandoning the troops
• Canon fodder
  by Kelly Jane Torrance
• Violence at the May Day rallies for legalizing illegal immigrants made the headlines—with, amazingly, the police getting more criticism for responding to it than the protesters got for starting it—but the real news is how few people showed up
• Nowhere has Chinese Communism exacted a more savage toll than in Tibet
• Go, Sarko! If the new French president does not succeed, things will get horribly worse
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Liberalism's little women
  by Elizabeth Powers
• The arrest of six alleged jihadists for plotting to attack the U.S. military installation at Fort Dix, N.J., provided several useful lessons
• Up to now, the biggest opponents of the Bush administration's initiative to build a limited missile-defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland have been Russia and anti-American Europeans
• Because the first Republican debate was held at the Reagan Library, with Nancy Reagan prominent in the audience, it was only natural that Reagan received respectful attention from the candidates
• Our foreign policy may be defined by September 11, but our defense policy remains stuck on September 10
• Romania recently agreed to let the United States use four Romanian military bases
• Will there always be a Britain? What Blair's devolution' hath wrought
  by David Pryce-Jones
• One of those moments
  by Robert Mesey
• When Rudolph Giuliani announced his presidential run, we hoped that he could find common ground with pro-lifers
• Herodotus may have been on to this story, when he reported "a goat-footed race" of men, though he located them in modern-day Russia
• Reforming Kemal: the nation's reasonable compromise on religion and politics
  by John O'Sullivan
• Slingin' it
  by Ross Douthat
• When Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, was nominated to the post of Turkish president, the army dropped heavy hints that it might mount a coup if he were elected
• Brutal math
  by Clark Larsen
• Cracked
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Many Americans have been cross at France of late, and we hope Nicolas Sarkozy puts an end to it
• Queen Elizabeth II and Vice President Cheney visited Jamestown, Va., to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Britain's first permanent settlement in North America
• A goddess for victims: the Victims of Communism Memorial comes to fruition
  by John J. Miller
• Superstitions of democracy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• One cheer for the hot new memoir: the uses of George Tenet's book
  by Richard Lowry
• Bitter ender
  by Kenneth L. Mathias
• The House voted to make "hate crimes" a federal offense
• British prime ministers don't leave office unless there's a war that's going badly, or they are ill
• Ronald Reagan's White House diaries, to be published by Harper-Collins and excerpted in Vanity Fair
• Islamists as run-of-the-mill socialists: or, what I learned at my Oxford Union debate
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The waning of the GOP
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Against the porkbusters: conservatives should find another crusade
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• At the altar of a Virginia church, a Nigerian canon lawyer clad in a white-powdered wig stood and read an edict relating the election of the Rev. Martyn Minns