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Articles in July 26, 2004, issue of National Review

• The glorious shame of the Catholic Church
• Britain's House of Lords has foiled an attempt to make the smacking of children illegal
• Kerry announced that he opposes granting driver's licenses to illegal aliens
• 2001: A Space Odyssey was Stanley Kubrick's hyperformalist rendition of an Arthur Clarke science-fiction novel that became a light show for potheads
• The opinion journalism of Dana Milbank: otherwise, the Washington Post's White House correspondent
  by John J. Miller
• Loony toons: almost all political cartoons are on the left. Why should this be?
  by Henry Payne
• Seer or sucker?
  by John Derbyshire
• So Vice President Cheney said the F-word to Sen. Patrick Leahy
• 2004 Caribbean Post-Election Cruise
• The organizing principle of American public life in the 21st century will apparently be that everything tends to a TV "reality show."
• Republican Jack Ryan was forced to end his campaign for the Senate from Illinois after the Chicago Tribune got a judge to release his divorce records
• The Edwards pick
• With their pyrotechnics, Fox News stalwarts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity may garner more attention, but Brit Hume's nightly show, Special Report, is a must-watch for political junkies, professional and amateur
  by Meghan Keane
• Help!!!!
• A special odium
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• "I oppose abortion, personally," says John Kerry
• The Senate is preparing to vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment
• A fighting chance
• Worse than Tom and Dan? Peter, we mean
  by Rachel Zabarkes Friedman
• After Istanbul
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Long live the public
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Congress has tried to restrict minors' access to online pornography by requiring porn sites to verify the age of their viewers
• In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 26 states worth 227 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 18 states worth 218 electoral votes
• All along, conservatives have said that the McCain-Feingold law restricted political speech
• When Bill Cosby criticized blacks for not making use of the opportunities afforded by the Brown decision, some accused him of airing dirty laundry in public
• Trial and combat
• A week in the life … of the big bad nets
  by Tim Graham
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Self-mutilation
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Kerry: "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception."
• We miss Harvey Pitt
• You deserve a factual look at … Abandoning Gaza: would Israel's withdrawal from Gaza lead to peace?
• Moore and his friends
• In 1868, journalist Charles Dana wanted Reconstruction-era New York guided by a newspaper in favor of limited government, free enterprise, supply-side tax cuts, and equality before the law
  by Meghan Clyne
• Miles still to go
  by John R. Coyne, Jr.
• Following recent visits to refugee camps by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan, Sudan is pledging to mend its ways
• Notes & asides
  by Rich Lowry
• Newsweeklies, not so newsy: Time and Newsweek serve up a lot of opinion—from guess which quarter?
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Spheres of influence
  by Eli Lehrer
• Bill Clinton's book causes trouble for Erskine Bowles, his former chief of staff, now running for Senate in North Carolina
• Monica Lewinsky has been reading Bill Clinton's book My Life, and has taken mighty umbrage at his characterization of their affair as a trivial flirtation
• Michael Reagan comes out against embryonic-stem-cell research
• For a short time there, it looked as though Stephen Harper's Conservative party was going to storm Canada and roust the once-impregnable Liberals from office
• Taboo: Abu Ghraib images are one thing. But 9/11? Off limits
  by Byron York
• I've always found Dennis Miller an odd and rather queer fish
  by Alexander Rose
• The long boom
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• People has named Jason West, the 27-year-old gay-marrying mayor of New Paltz, N.Y., as one of The 50 Hottest Bachelors
• BBC, notorious for its biased Mideast coverage, starts a 24-hour Arabic network
• The 40th president
  by Thomas Reitz
• Researchers at universities in Canada and Austria have completed a study of almost half a century's worth of Playboy centerfolds, from 1953 to 2001
• Screwball: Chris Matthews gets a bad case of neoconitis
  by Jim Geraghty
• Green grow the pressies: how the media get the environment wrong
  by Iain Murray
• Doktor Faustus
  by Richard O'Connell
• Computer dating service
• The International Court of Justice in The Hague is shortly to rule on the legality of the fence due to separate Israelis and Palestinians on the West Bank, and a debate in the U.N. is likely to follow—more an outcry than a debate, really
• From David Letterman's Top Ten Things Overheard in Line at the Clinton Book Signing
• Back in April the government of China told the people of Hong Kong that, contrary to their hopes, there would be no general elections in the territory for at least eight years
• Price controls on gasoline? Bad idea
  by David R. Henderson
• Marlon Brando had begun to go before he died, sinking into sloth, scandal, and foolishness; like many entertainers, before and after him, he did penance for his flaws with PC politics
• When President Bush announced his illegal-immigrant amnesty plan in January, the media were abuzz—and rightly so
  by Meghan Clyne
• The case of Reuters: a news agency that will not call a terrorist a terrorist
  by Tom Gross
• Wrong turn
  by Matthew Spalding
• 2004 Ad
• The Road to Oz
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Since our last issue, Iraq has been handed over to the Iraqis
• It's a wonderful lie
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Worse than Watergate
  by Stephen Spruiell
• A sad falling off: the New York Times's cultural coverage is … well, not what it used to be
  by Roger Kimball
• The truth squad
  by Michael Potemra