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Articles in Sept 10, 2007 issue of National Review

• "Paris is worth a Mass," said Henry of Navarre, when he foreswore his Protestant faith in order to capture the French throne at the end of the 16th century
• Two reactions are appropriate to the imminent addition of Iran's Revolutionary Guard to the State Department's list of terrorist organizations
• Michael Vick, star quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, won't be playing for a while
• Has U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad abandoned serious efforts to bring greater transparency and accountability to that troublesome body?
• Exit strategist
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• The U.S. Federal Reserve cut the rate at which it makes direct loans to banks, sending a signal to Wall Street that it is aware of the credit contraction that has hit global financial markets
• Jeremiah Milbank Jr., R.I.P
• Brooke Astor was linked, by marriage, to a great swath of the history of New York money and social life
• Woulda, coulda, shoulda: where the GOP went wrong
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The Department of Homeland Security announced that it would issue new regulations aimed at employers who receive "no match" letters from the Social Security Administration
• Everyone knocks Iraqi politicians, for missing their benchmarks, going on vacation, and generally not being all we want them to be
• Michael Deaver, Ronald Reagan's image-maker, was modest about his gifts
• When the fix is in: fixers, interpreters, and reporting from Iraq
  by Jonathan Foreman
• Seeds of renewal
  by Roger Kimball
• A number of the second-tier Republican presidential candidates have made supportive comments about a national sales tax; the idea is the centerpiece of Huckabee's campaign
• Nobody strives harder to get your attention than the guy who wants to tell you something utterly banal
• Timothy J. Wheeler, R.I.P
• There'll be no more skirlie in Scotland this summer, at least not during business hours
• The new Anbar: what the surge hath wrought
  by Mario Loyola
• 2007 Ad
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Senate Republicans should relish the confirmation fight over Leslie H. Southwick's nomination to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Made in China
  by W.H. von Dreele
• "Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we all say that from now on we will name God Allah?"
• LOST is right: the U.S. should steer clear of the Law of the Sea treaty
  by John O'Sullivan
• Boys to men
  by Ross Douthat
• Airbone laser: an exchange
  by Angelo M. Codevilla
• Rove, the next day
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Thou shalt not …
  by Yuval Levin
• Readers may remember Farfur, the adorable Mickey Mouse character who starred in a children's show on Hamas-owned Al Aqsa TV in the Gaza Strip
• Uh-oh: things aren't looking so hot for the Republicans in next year's House elections
  by David Freddoso
• Fled is that music
  by John Derbyshire
• Senator Vitter is doing well in the polls
• "I had a difficult year," Justice Stephen Breyer told the American Bar Association's annual meeting
• The known unknowns
  by Jim Manzi
• Every so often in the old days, the Communist East Germans shot individuals or even families attempting to cross the Iron Curtain into West Germany
• Movin' our way: Giuliani and Romney toughen up on immigration, but both still have problems …
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Early in the last century, there was a genre of patriotic children's literature, in which Boy Scouts helped win the Great War
• Jose Padilla, the gang member turned jihadist, was convicted of terrorism conspiracy charges for his participation in a South Florida Qaeda support cell
• Definitive Dante
  by Jeffrey Hart
• Giuliani and Romney are scrapping over who has the toughest record on illegal immigration
• Parades and fireworks and displays of national pride in India and Pakistan mark 60 years of independence for both countries
• For a nation of buttes: the glory of federalism
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll by a wide margin over the runner-up, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee
• When word of Karl Rove's resignation reached the Seattle Times during a daily news meeting, cheers erupted
• Windows® XP for Everyone
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Global Village People
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The Russians have claimed the North Pole. No, this was not a matter of Spetsnaz troops in Arctic camouflage storming Santa's workshop
• Another man from hope: former governor Mike Huckabee shares some of Clinton's talents, but is definitely his own man
  by Byron York
• Huckabee's surprise second-place finish is getting him a bit more attention, including from us
• The film September Dawn purports to tell the story of the Mountain Meadows massacre of September 11, 1857, in which Mormon militiamen slaughtered over 120 people on a California-bound wagon train
• Place in the road
  by Ted Gilley
• Poems from Guantanamo is just that, a collection of 22 poems written by War on Terror detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility, translated by U.S. government linguists, approved by the Pentagon, published by the University of Iowa Press, and—naturall
• When 'thoughtful' is unthoughtful: Sen. Richard Lugar and the disastrous 'middle way' on Iraq
  by Richard Lowry