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Articles in Sept 13, 2004 issue of National Review

• Some of us are already beginning to find Teresa Heinz Kerry's over-advertised sauciness, independence, and, for heaven's sake, "sexiness" a little wearisome
• Sen. Ted Kennedy says his name appeared on government nofly lists earlier this year
• Nagging Doubts
  by W.H. von Dreele
• BBC presenter John Humphrys says he "bloody well hopes" his broadcasts reflect a liberal bias
• What did McGreevey prove?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The energy mirage
  by Jerry Taylor
• Solid states
  by John Fonte
• Communists are in some ways very conservative—for example, in the methods they use to discredit and neutralize their enemies
• Citizens for a Sound Economy and Empower America merge as FreedomWorks, with Dick Armey, C. Boyden Gray, and Jack Kemp as co-chairmen and Bill Bennett as senior fellow
• Kerry says that the Congressional Budget Office "documents what others and I have been saying for months
• The Najaf crisis drags on as we go to press
• For years now—decades—conservatives have made a specialty of noting and lampooning the obits of Communists published in the New York Times
• Can you read?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The missus
  by Lucianne Goldberg
• Cursed and blessed
  by Algis Valiunas
• Crooked John Rowland, out in Connecticut, skeevy James McGreevey, going out in New Jersey—and between them, George Pataki of New York, who has found the Zen way to statesmanship
• Libya agrees to pay $35 million to victims of terrorist bombing of Berlin nightclub in 1986
• When Uday Hussein ran Iraqi sport, athletes were tortured for losing
• The nomination, explained
  by Rob Long
• Night moves
  by Thomas S. Hibbs
• Under a federal law passed during the Depression, hourly workers in the private sector are supposed to receive time-and-a-half pay for every hour they spend on the job in excess of 40 a week
• Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harper's, has an essay in its September issue on conservatives
• 2004 Ad
• 2004 Ad
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Craig Kilborn: "Our nation's governors are rising to the occasion to send supplies to Florida
• The American Federation of Teachers circulated a study saying that charter schools are doing worse than traditional public schools, and the New York Times ran a front-pager practically declaring the case closed
• "How small, of all that human hearts endure, / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!"
• After the Democratic convention became an infomercial for embryo-killing research—with Ron Reagan touting the possibility that human cloning would allow for personal "biological repair kits"—the Bush administration decided to start def
• Czeslaw Milosz was a man of great gifts as a poet, thinker, and linguist, but above all he was a free spirit
• In Vietnam
  by Byron York
• 2004 Caribbean Post-Election Cruise
• How can we ever learn the truth about John Kerry's medals?
• Hail to the Thief?
• Trouble in Reuterville
  by David Schlesinger
• "Bush smeared John McCain four years ago," says the new Kerry television ad
• In 2000, Bush won Nevada's four electoral votes by a mere four percentage points
• We have argued before in this space that any nation that has a minister of culture in its government is well along on the road to perdition
• Al Gore got a speeding ticket while driving a rented car—a most Earth-unfriendly Lincoln four-door, according to the ticket—on a visit to relatives in Oregon
• A futile foreign policy
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Grammar of a scent
  by Richard Brookhiser
• The pit bull of plains
  by Nancy Bowman
• In response to Democratic demands that he denounce the Swift Boat Veterans' ads, Bush says that he thinks all ads by such organizations should be illegal
• Less than a month after its members voted in the U.N. General Assembly against Israel's security fence—which prevents terrorists from sneaking into Israel and blowing up civilians there—the European Union reportedly has plans to build a separati
• A joke we heard: Kerry and Edwards are at McDonald's, doing some campaigning
• Kerry, Smoked Out
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The new warhawk
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Kerry opposes the death penalty. He used to oppose it even for terrorists, but has had a change of heart in time for this election
• Help!!!!
• In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 24 states worth 205 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 24 states worth 296 electoral votes
• At the recent UNITY conference for minority reporters, Kerry said of Iraq: "Now, might we have wound up going to war with Saddam Hussein?
• Chasing the losers
  by Stephen Moore
• Race to the Swift
• Two JFKs, divisible
  by Noemie Emery
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Adjusting to a post-Cold War world
  by Thomas Henriksen
• Notes & asides
  by Bernard J. McBride
• The prosperity killer
  by Stephen Moore
• Believe it
  by Charlotte Allen
• Bob Dole on Kerry, on CNN: "One day he's saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons
• Democrats have spent most of this year accusing Bush of being trapped in Cold War thinking
• Kerry fundraiser John P. Coale on how he did his job, in New York Times: "We had a whole network of attorneys from the tobacco wars that I got money from"
• James McGreevey announced that he would step down as governor of New Jersey after his lover, Golan Cipel, threatened him with blackmail and the like
• Remember lustration?
• If he wins
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The 'squeeze' play
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Sunlight and Silence
  by Daniel Mark Epstein