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Articles in Oct 8, 2007 issue of National Review
- The Fed blinked, easing monetary policy to reassure markets that are jittery about a housing slump and weak jobs growth
- For years, scientists studying everything from weather patterns to volcanic activity have been allowed limited access to images taken by spy satellites as they fly over the United States
- October 4, 2007, marks precisely 50 years since the launch of Sputnik, the first man-made object to achieve earth orbit
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Comes the fair tax: the latest in the push for saner, more effective taxation in the United States
by Mark Hemingway -
NSA Surveillance Transcript
by Rob Long - Iraq: one more time
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Hollywood at War
by Eric Keber - Former Rhode Island senator Lincoln Chafee left the party of Lincoln, changing his affiliation to independent
- You know the refrain: America is in Iraq "to achieve the interests of the major corporations."
- The Jewish New Year was brightened by Madonna, who toasted it in Jerusalem with Israeli president Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism."
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A matter of pride: anthropological discernment in our current conflict
by Richard Lowry -
Lover
by William Baer -
Me conservative, me stupid: or at least rigid and habit-bound, says 'the science'
by Jonah Goldberg -
Mad hatters
by Ralph D. Copeland - Norman Hsu, the Hong Kong-born businessman who fled a prosecution for a Ponzi scheme 15 years ago, fled another prosecution for fleeing, before he was found, ill, on a train in Colorado
- While conservatives hold a range of views on the details of antitrust policy, they think that most mergers should be allowed to go forward
- The story of O. J. Simpson's arrest on a charge of armed robbery is a bit hard to follow
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Return of the sheik: one man, and one tribe, in Iraq
by Mario Loyola -
Scoops of a half-century
by Lou Cannon -
'Real' battles
by Blair Nathan - Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey was among the last of the fighting pro-life Democrats
- German authorities arrested three Islamist terrorists, and are looking for at least ten others, in connection with a plot to strike multiple targets: most prominently, Ramstein Air Base and Frankfurt International Airport, critical hubs for American milit
- You know you have a dim view of Larry Summers when even his Harvard-based persecutors think you've gone too far
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Leader of the Chinese: Jian-li Yang, democracy activist, after five years in prison
by Jay Nordlinger -
Gathering storm
by David Pryce-Jones - The Vatican has announced that it will be the first carbon-neutral state
- Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich appeared on Syrian television to condemn the United States for its "illegal occupation" of Iraq, and he went on to praise Bashar Assad, the Syrian president, for his human-rights record
- Israel has just struck out at Syriathat's a factand Syria is complaining to the United Nationsthat's another fact
- The fair state of Washington seems to be a center of academic "diversity" busyness
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The origin of species, and Everything Else: coping with evolution and religion
by Jim Manzi -
Mild, mild life
by Kathryn Jean Lopez - Prompted by a tempting rhyme, and their own antimilitary reflexes , MoveOn.org bought a full-page ad in the New York Times blasting Gen. David Petraeus on the eve of his testimony to Congress: "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?/Cooking the books
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This Might Hurt
by W. H. von Dreele - Once they had Potemkin villages in Russia, fake facades made to look from a distance like the real thing, and now they have Potemkin democracy
- Who is a poster boy for the new Louis Vuitton ad campaign, along with Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, and Catherine Deneuve? Who but Mikhail Gorbachev, former general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union
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Preschool for All! Hillary and others drive for 'universal preschool'
by John J. Miller -
For humanity
by Ryan T. Anderson - Only two groups of Americans need to worry about Hillary Clinton's new health plan: people who are healthy, and people who are sick. The healthy would pay higher insurance premiums, because Clinton would prohibit insurers from giving them a discount
- On September 18, 57 senators voted for a bill that would grant the District of Columbia a permanent seat in the House of Representativesa privilege that the Constitution limits to "the several states."
- "Who, or why, or which, or what, is the Akond of Swat?" wondered the poet Edward Lear
- Luciano Pavarotti has been called many things: "The King of the High C's"; "The Voice of the Century"; the most popular opera singer in history
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How to fix the Universities: not easy, if you don't have tanks
by Roger Kimball -
Low Life
by Ross Douthat - Republicans keep saying that the Democrats are running a "do-nothing Congress."
- Having lost the battle for "comprehensive" immigration reform, Sen. Dick Durbin and like-minded colleagues are now trying for amnesty on the installment plan
- In his first State of the Nation address, Mexico's president Felipe Calderon condemned the treatment of Mexicans living illegally in the U.S
- Progress report
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Do they know anything about Islam? Rights and wrongs of multicultural ed
by Travis Kavulla -
The virtual attic
by John Derbyshire - Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee to be attorney general, is a well-respected former trial judge with sound views on national-security issues
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Monaco on the Potomac
by Jonah Goldberg - Deaths can be mysterious in China, not least because Chinese officialdom has a way of forgetting that anyone has died
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Getting immigration right: a headache and a half for the GOP
by Ramesh Ponnuru -
Choice for Me, but Not for thee: democratic presidential candidates and their kids' education
by Rob Long -
Jobs, trade, and the democrats
by William F. Buckley, Jr. - Everyone sees the world through his own prism
- The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007, brainchild of Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy, seeks to return to federal district courts the cases of alien enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay
- Nepal Airlines, the national carrier for the Himalayan kingdom, had a problem with one of the two Boeing 757s that are the pride of its tiny fleet
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Amateur Hour? Fred Thompson, an old pro, has had lots of campaign growing pains
by David Freddoso -
Et Tu, Alan?
by W.H. von Dreele -
Is epiphany running for office?
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
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