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Articles in July 3, 2006, issue of National Review

• California voters delivered a well-deserved defeat to Proposition 82, a ballot referendum that would have created a multibillion-dollar program for universal preschool in the state
• In the name of the animals: America faces a new kind of terrorism
  by John J. Miller
• Six years ago, we told President-elect Bush that majority whip Tom DeLay was his "most valuable asset in Congress"
• The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is not something out of a farce, it is Saudi Arabia's official morality police force
• Not ready yet
  by Richard Lowry
• The Department of Homeland Security announced allocations for the Urban Areas Security Initiative—a grant program Congress designed in 2003 to fund terrorism prevention in high-threat, high-risk areas
• Welcome to your afterlife!
  by Rob Long
• Harvard is going to get into the field of human cloning: creating human embryos for the purpose of stem-cell research that will kill them
• The concept of a humanoid mechanical robot, which has been around in one form or another since the 16th-century "Golem" tales, may finally be approaching realization
• Cloak and founders
  by Arthur Herman
• News that three Guantanamo Bay detainees had hanged themselves quickly became propaganda
• The Duke lacrosse scandal is trailing off into a whimper
• Big day at New Paltz
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Mark Malloch Brown, a Briton who serves as Kofi Annan's deputy at the U.N., lashed out at the United States in a move even the New York Times called "highly unusual"
• Along with Rocky and the Liberty Bell, Philadelphia is famous for cheesesteaks—fried steak, sliced or chopped, garnished with cheese and fried onions, served in a long roll
• The great loser
  by Matthew Spalding
• When an FBI bribery investigation turned up $90,000 in cash stashed in Rep. William Jefferson's freezer, he became the rightful target of a storm of bipartisan anger
• Notes & asides
• Why would the U.S. back the offer of a light-water nuclear reactor to a country on its list of terror sponsors?
• Music, Congreve told us, has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Much ado about movies
  by Terry Teachout
• How quickly things change
• Five years ago, a Washington Post poll asked whether race should be a factor in congressional redistricting "in order to elect more minorities to public office
• Viva Kos Vegas? How the big lefty jamboree went down
  by Byron York
• A policeman's lot is not a happy one, according to Gilbert & Sullivan, and the blunders of the British forces in the effort to contain terrorism are proving the point over and over again
• Every year, News Corporation—Rupert Murdoch's company—hands out the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism
• Enshrining the trees
  by John R. Coyne, Jr.
• The American colossus, in perspective
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• The terms of debate: if you want to get anywhere, you have to show you're 'progressive'
  by Jonah Goldberg
• On ice
  by Patrick J. Michaels
• The victory of Republican Brian Bilbray in a special election to fill an empty House seat representing San Diego was by no means inevitable
• In the category of stories that rumble away in the background of the news while rarely making it to our front pages, let us not forget the ongoing immiseration of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe
• Death of a monster
• Decorum vs. terror
  by Jeffrey Hart
• The Marine staff sergeant who led the squad in Haditha has now, through his attorney, provided his side of the story of how 24 Iraqi civilians ended up dead
• The House passed a new telecom bill after rejecting an amendment that would have given the FCC the power to enforce "net neutrality
• Let's just classify Zarqawi's martyrdom
• Islamic militants have driven U.S.-backed warlords out of Mogadishu and may be poised to turn Somalia into a Taliban-style state
• Back to the future: if Mexicans in America fail to assimilate, we could see the return of something ugly
  by David Frum
• Mountain Trail
  by William W. Runyeon
• Clarification
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• If Republicans were having a good year, they would have prevailed in abolishing the estate tax permanently
• The Senate voted against a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman
• Yugoslavia, dead and gone: the meaning of the Montenegrins and their breakaway
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Shortly after Canadian authorities arrested a dozen men plus five juveniles in an alleged terrorism plot, an official with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that the accused hailed from "the broad strata of our society
• Speaking of which, one of the Somalian militants in question, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, insisted, "We do not want to impose sharia law
• A fight to the finish: what the GOP Congress should do to stay on top
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Dear editor
  by John Derbyshire
• The federal government instituted a tax on long-distance phone calls to pay for the Spanish-American War
• The complicated life: what computer geeks wrought
  by Florence King
• Hawaii will remain intact for now, despite the best efforts of Sen. Daniel Akaka
• We Get Zarqawi
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Pope Dan I: the author of The Da Vinci Code shepherds a new religion
  by Michael Novak
• The president says it again
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• We think that the Supreme Court got it wrong when it ruled that the First Amendment protects flag burning
• George Will vs. the social cons: what's his beef?
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The Supreme Court announced that it will hear a pair of cases involving racial preferences in its next term—the most important such cases since its ruling on the University of Michigan's admissions system declared "racial diversity" a compe
• The case for constitutional monarchy has rarely been better illustrated than by King Bhumipol of Thailand, who celebrated the 60th anniversary of his accession on June 9
• Hillary's past
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Same-sex amendment?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.