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Articles in Oct 11, 2004 issue of National Review

• Al Gore, in The New Yorker: "The Republican right wing has launched a kind of civil cold war in a very ruthless fashion."
• Land of plenty. in the Future Tense
  by Rob Long
• Congress lets expire assault-weapons ban signed by Clinton in 1994
• Putin Goes Retrograde
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Rather shoddy
• Choice struggles on: the progress of a great and necessary idea
  by Clint Bolick
• Bad press
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• The Washington Post claims that Bush's plans on taxes and Social Security carry a "price tag" of $3 trillion
• Notes & asides
• Sparing rods, spoiling children: the impossibility of school discipline
  by Richard Arum
• Gruesome and constitutional
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan on U.S.-led invasion of Iraq: "It was illegal."
• Taming the beast
  by John Hood
• Mother tongue
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Mustering the energy
  by Stephen Campana
• In 1994, President Clinton enacted a ban on "assault weapons," a category of guns that differed from other guns chiefly in cosmetic ways
• Jiang Zemin, the most powerful figure in China for most of the past 15 years, has relinquished his sole remaining official position, chairman of the Central Military Commission
• Not Tiffany, but Tin: CBS is tarnished, along with other houses of liberalism
  by Noemie Emery
• No-limit child care funding
  by Jeffrey M. Jones
• Dead ahead
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Jay Leno proposes new campaign slogan for Kerry
• God, man & the founding
  by Michael Potemra
• Off the cuff
  by Barney Frank
• Canada has seen its first gay divorce
• Social Security is hot on the hustings these days
• Senate Democrats are holding up the North Korea Human Rights Act, which would provide humanitarian aid to North Koreans, give grants to private organizations that promote North Korean human rights, and give legal and other aid to North Korean defectors
• Men, not machines: the Internet and cable TV are important, but far from all-important
  by David Frum
• The limits of money: schools K-12 have plenty of dough, but what have they to show?
  by Frederick M. Hess
• The influence behind W
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Fundamental
  by Lidia Wolanskyj
• Fallujah turns out to have been an experiment that failed
• The Department of Homeland Security's Asa Hutchinson, in charge of enforcing our immigration laws, told the Washington Times recently that it is simply "not realistic" to expect the number of illegal aliens in the country to be reduced
• An election is being held in the world's largest Muslim nation
• One vet's valor: B. G. Burkett is a myth-buster, a truth-teller, and a hero
  by Kate O'Beirne
• The good and the bad : moments on campus
  by Rachel Zabarkes Friedman
• John Kerry was against the war after he was for it, before he stopped being against it, prior to supporting it
• The United States recently lifted Cold War restrictions on trading nuclear and space technology with India
• Krakow survived the world war unscathed, a monument to the great days of Poland, with its historic castle and cathedral and its market dating back to the Renaissance
• Oh happy day! Ding dong, the witch is …
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 306 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 17 states worth 212 electoral votes
• Kerry, in Time: "I've made mistakes, and I've done things that I regret, sure
• Kofi Annan denounced the Iraq war as illegal, which we take to mean he didn't like it one bit
• In its annual report on religious freedom, the State Department has for the first time identified Saudi Arabia as a country that violates such freedom
• They shall tally-ho no longer
• The Kerry comeback: how it could happen
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Whither Rather?
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The rich and taxes
  by Stephen Moore
• Modern industrialized processes, from factories to farms, have characteristic noxious byproducts, from smog to hog waste
• Banking on the Brewer: in Colorado, Republican hopes rest on Pete Coors
  by John J. Miller
• Class struggle
  by Stanley Kurtz
• Department of welfare
• Rep. Artur Davis , in Baltimore Sun: "The [Democratic] party falls short in using us beyond the constraints of race."
• James Carville and Paul Begala are busy men
• Rep. Jim Nussle invites Gov. Bill Owens to Iowa: "Governor Owens is an emerging leader in our party
• The killing by Chechen Islamists of several hundred hostages, mainly children, in the southern Russian town of Beslan should be a defining moment in the War on Terror
• What constitutes a sex crime in these enlightened times?
• Meanwhile, in Afghanistan … how it's going, three years after invasion/liberation
  by Radek Sikorski
• Marching Band
  by Sarah Bramwell
• Tom Coburn, the Republican Senate candidate from Oklahoma, is a strong conservative
• Help!!!!
• Left-wing gay activists have begun to "out" lawmakers, and others, who support the Federal Marriage Amendment, or who oppose it but take other positions that the activists consider "anti-gay."
• The pop singer Madonna has become an adherent of Kabbalah, a body of mystical Jewish lore going back to late antiquity
• A fortune in tuition: why does college cost so darn much?
  by Richard Vedder
• The inhumanities
  by M.D. Aeschliman