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Articles in Sept 27, 2004 issue of National Review

• Always at the cutting edge of social developments, those pale, smug Scandinavians have come up with the perfect alternative to cigarette smoking: snus
• David Letterman: "Here's some important news
• Not Like Kerry's
  by W.H. von Dreele
• A week of fear: but not in the GOP's convention hall
  by Byron York
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Angelic Charley?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Andrew Sullivan thinks that the Republicans "presented a moderate face, while proposing the most hard-right platform ever put forward by a GOP convention."
• You deserve a factual look at … the big lie : are the "occupied territories" really occupied territories?
• Uncertain trumpet
  by David Frum
• John Kerry seems to be sinking
• In old Tibet, medicinal pellets made from the Dalai Lama's stools were regarded as highly efficacious and were much sought after by the devout
• Most of what is left of the human body after funerary cremation consists of carbon ash
• "All men are mortal
• The open-borders lobby likes to argue that illegal immigrants—through the economic value generated by their labor—add more to government coffers than they draw in services
• Strong to the finish
• No closer: debunking Kerry's comeback myth
  by Jim Geraghty
• Inside the left
  by Ron Capshaw
• The book on conservatives
  by John Micklethwait
• The Bush wedge
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The moderates' hour
• Little suppressors: dealing with the bookstore clerk who hates you
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Seventh Son
  by Olivia Ellis Simpson
• Before the balloons had been cleaned up in New York, John Kerry launched a blistering attack on Bush's National Guard service and Cheney's five Vietnam deferments
• In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 28 states worth 274 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 20 states worth 231 electoral votes
• 1971: the real record
  by MacKubin Thomas Owens
• The end of liberalism: the president's convention speech is a conservative charter
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Faith-based President
  by Michael Potemra
• The Democratic seething has led—surprise!—to a new round of stories questioning President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard
• That was certainly a barnburner Zell Miller delivered at Madison Square Garden
• The FBI has been investigating a Pentagon analyst suspected of passing a draft policy directive on Iran to Israel through the pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
• 2004 Caribbean Post-Election Cruise
• Did President Bush really tell Matt Lauer that we could not win the war on terrorism?
• The school-choice movement hasn't had much to cheer about this summer
• Notes & asides
  by Judy Keim
• A hero of our time: Gareth Jones, 20th-century truth-teller
  by Andrew Stuttaford
• Recovering a founder
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Vice President Cheney: "[Kerry] declared at the Democratic convention that he will forcefully defend America—after we have been attacked
• Sen. Zell Miller : "Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator."
• Brown: a great decision—except for schools
  by Paul E. Peterson
• The world had not previously heard of Beslan
• Tall order: are Americans up for Bush's foreign policy?
  by John O'Sullivan
• No surrender: the drug war saves lives
  by John P. Walters
• A flat sharp
  by Jonathan Foreman
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger : "To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie-men."
• On the opening night of the Republican convention in New York, three women shared their pride in the bravery and self-sacrifice of the loved ones they lost in the 9/11 attacks
• Zell's zeal: a democrat fires up the GOP—and the media
  by John J. Miller
• The future of an illusion: on the drug war, believe your own eyes
  by Ethan A. Nadelmann
• Tiny revolutions
  by John Derbyshire
• Last month jihadists kidnapped two French journalists in Iraq, and threatened to murder them unless France rescinded a forthcoming ban on Muslim headscarves in public schools
• Lt. Gov. Michael Steele : "[Kerry] recently said that he doesn't want to use the word 'war' to describe our efforts to fight terrorism
• When Arnold Schwarzenegger told Democrats and other pessimists not to be "economic girlie-men" on Tuesday night of the Republican convention, more Americans saw it on Fox News than on any other network
• The Internet, which some thought would liberate and modernize the world, seems to be a very effective tool for spreading poisonous, anti-human ideas and ideologies
• No fair! The Democrats' constant campaign plaint
  by David Frum
• Help!!!!
• The people from Missouri
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Nader on Kerry: "He is surrounded by consultants who are losers."
• The protests in New York during the Republican convention flopped, despite the impressive turnout at Sunday's mass perambulation
• Hardball catholicism
• Fox, triumphant
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The war we are in
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.