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Articles in July 12, 2004 issue of National Review

• Missed connections
• Patience, patience
  by David L. Fichter
• Don't lose any sleep, Muslim clerics, over the sermons you could write denouncing the recent beheadings—we don't expect them
• Stem-cell hard sell: after Reagan's death, the campaign for embryo research grows even more dishonest
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Soul on ice
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Investor's Business Daily poll: President Bush 43 percent, John Kerry 40 percent, Ralph Nader 5 percent
• The Islamist government of Sudan spent two decades trying to wipe out the Christian population of its south
• Ring sing
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Trooplessness
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Oh, for those simple days when all we had to worry about was a president who lied under oath, obstructed justice, and placed himself firmly in contempt of a federal court
• In the recent Pledge of Allegiance case, Justice Thomas tried to guide the Supreme Court's church-state jurisprudence back toward the Constitution
• Tortured logic
• Kerry on campaigning with Al Sharpton, in Chicago Tribune: "Al Sharpton is traveling with me today because he's a friend, because he proved during the course of this presidential race that he has a great understanding of what's happening in the count
• Even with the Cold War 15 years behind us, we should take note, occasionally, of the sheer thuggery of Communists. Have you noticed, for example, how their diplomats—"diplomats"—around the world are always pushing people around?
• Notes & asides
  by Richard Nazarenus
• Bill Clinton, Author
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Did we do war crimes?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• At the gala premiere of the new Clinton-mythologizing documentary The Hunting of the President, Clinton stood before the audience and asked his old business partner Susan McDougal to come up onstage
• Club for Growth poll of GOP primary voters in Colorado's Senate race: former congressman Bob Schaffer leads beer-maker Pete Coors, 34 percent to 31 percent
• "When the Berlin Wall fell," said Clinton as he geared up for his book tour, "the perpetual Right in America"—that would be us—"which always needs an enemy, didn't have an enemy anymore
• In the wake of Ronald Reagan's funeral, you heard time and time again from liberals, soberly totting up history's judgments—George W. Bush is no Reagan: no charm, no warmth, no ability to unite us as Reagan did in the Cold War
• Song of himself: the 42nd president weighs in
  by Richard Lowry
• Con men & heroes
  by Michael Knox Beran
• The playground
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• We have written before in these pages that the mainstreaming of Al Sharpton is complete
• The push to put Ronald Reagan on the ten-dollar bill gained new force after his death
• The Douglas Brinkley show: a historian who trumpets the greatness of John Kerry
  by John J. Miller
• 2004 Caribbean Post-Election Cruise
• Bill Clinton on affair with Monica Lewinsky, on 60 Minutes: "a terrible moral error"
• Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he voted twice for Reagan: "We had hostages in Iran, and nothing was getting done
• Dept. of more than we wanted to know
• The New York Times employs many Reagan-haters, and perhaps the most dogged is Frank Rich
• UKIP, they pick: the meaning of a conservative party's recent strong showing
  by John O'Sullivan
• Connected
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• The wealth of Indian nations
  by Terry L. Anderson
• Russian president Vladimir Putin: "after September 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services, the intelligence service, received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terro
• In recent weeks, we have celebrated the life of a man, Ronald Reagan, who took freedom seriously and who did all he could to help freedom's friends around the world
• If Madonna says it, it must be true
• The abortion distortion: what the 'pro-choice' people have done to law, medicine, and language
  by Shannen W. Coffin
• Vive la difference!
  by Allan Carlson
• Conan O'Brien: "Yesterday at a White House ceremony, the official portrait of President Clinton was unveiled
• The senator wants to increase the minimum wage gradually, to $7 an hour by 2007
• One of the most cheering pieces of news has been the successful maiden flight of SpaceShipOne, a spacecraft entirely conceived and funded by private enterprise
• Final scene: a service at the National Cathedral
  by Matthew Scully
• Major General Sickles visits the Army Medical Museum, July 1904
  by Eric Chevlen
• Help!!!!
• Inmates in Bible study
  by Charles W. Colson
• No more talking around the school-financing issue
  by Kurt M. Landgraf
• After a prolonged corruption scandal, Connecticut governor John Rowland resigned rather than face certain impeachment by the legislature
• Among the latest recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is Norman Podhoretz, for 35 years editor of Commentary
• Ray Charles had the private life of many pop musicians: equal parts pathos and bad habits
• An end to marijuana prohibition: the drive to legalize picks up
  by Ethan A. Nadelmann
• Prima Donnas, all around
  by Jay Nordlinger
• On sex
  by Robert Lee
• Well, the nation now has videotaped proof that the Clintons are sleeping together
• The Al Gore Show
  by W.H. von Dreele
• A tortured debate: the media-fed hysteria over the treatment of terrorist prisoners
  by Byron York
• Innocence: a broad
  by Michael Potemra