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Articles in Oct 25, 2004 issue of National Review

• In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 291 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 15 states worth 185 electoral votes
• In between denunciations of the president for valuing allies insufficiently, John Kerry relishes sticking the knife in the ones we have
• The wolf inside the Catholic Church
• When Richard Holbrooke, Kerry's shadow secretary of state, went to Berlin in June to chat up Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, he said one of a President Kerry's first actions would be to invite Schroeder and Jacques Chirac to the White House
• The Constitution includes one check on the federal courts that has largely lain dormant: the power of Congress to remove matters from their jurisdiction
• The New York Times wrote, of one of the many videotaped beheadings in Iraq, that "an insurgent wearing a ski mask" killed Eugene Armstrong, an American civilian, while "address[ing] President Bush, who is called a dog at one point."
• While Ronald Reagan may have made his last movie in 1964 , he's not quite done yet
• The exhibitionist
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Kerry, on ABC: "We should not have gone to war knowing the information that we know today."
• The author in his work, said Flaubert, should be like God in the universe: everywhere present, but nowhere visible
• President Bush signed his fourth tax-cut bill
• The ACLU lost a potential plaintiff when Maulavi Ghaffar, a senior Taliban commander, was killed in Afghanistan recently
• Kerry's world
• The Gauls, de Gaulle, the Gall: the story told of Franco-American friendship is a nice story. But it's just a story
  by John J. Miller
• Iraq milestone
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi, in address to Congress: "We Iraqis are grateful to you, America, for your leadership and your sacrifice for our liberation and our opportunity to start anew
• You deserve a factual look at … Twisted words and phrases : more examples of Arab propaganda, giving new meaning to old words
• The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the AP were just some of the media outlets that fell for an ACLU hoax
• Notes & asides
  by Donald Pesci
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Democracy ahead?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• 2004 Ad
• The Democrats' resort to scaremongering and race-baiting about the GOP's alleged ballot-rigging in 2000 makes an unwholesome sight
• The United Nations Relief and Works Agency —the group that administers Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza—has admitted to hiring members of the terrorist group Hamas to help in its efforts
• At a townhall meeting at Emory University, Jimmy Carter said his favorite movies were Casablanca and Fahrenheit 9/11
• Le president
  by Jonah Goldberg
• We are more than used to hearing sob stories about Guantanamo Bay
• 2004 Ad
  by Paul Johnson
• Appointment in Samarra
  by W.H. von Dreele
• And the winner is …
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• X-rated film industry partisans release "Porn for Kerry DVD," with proceeds earmarked for Kerry's use in swing states, according to New York Post
• Help!!!!
• Der Spiegel reports that Kerry adviser Richard Holbrooke promised German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that he and French president Jacques Chirac will be first foreign leaders invited to White House
• Karl Rove recently noted that Republicans have tended not to run ads on black radio stations
• Fannie Mae is the nation's biggest mortgage provider, with $1 trillion in assets
• Shall we call the corporate roll of honor?
• 2004 Ad
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• All spelled out
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Congress
• A presidential address
  by Vin Altruda
• Two Sharpies
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Washington, D.C., has banned handguns since 1977
• 2004 Ad
  by Jim Geraghty
• Fear and loathing
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Conan O'Brien: "CBS has been receiving a lot of e-mails calling to fire Dan Rather
• Philip Roth's latest novel, The Plot Against America, posits that Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 presidential election as an isolationist and Nazi fellow-traveler
• Stomach
  by Evan Duncan
• Can't we have a debate with Teresa
• He's got a lot of competition, but Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat, just may be the meanest man in American politics
• Another day, another plagiarism scandal at Harvard
• Kerry's laws of war: the candidate's understanding means trouble for America, and the world
  by David B. Rivkin, Jr.
• Stop, thief!
  by Robert D. Alt
• Baseball is coming to Washington, D.C., which has been the largest market in the country without a team
• ABC
  by Jamie Galbraith
• John Kerry is claiming that President Bush's Social Security reform would cut benefits for retirees by 45 percent
• My candidate! But not necessarily the right one
  by Rob Long
• Corner Table
  by Dana Gioia
• Three thousand soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division and 2,000 Iraqis took the city of Samarra in the Sunni triangle, profiting from lessons learned in the recent battle for Najaf by eschewing a go-slow strategy
• Who said the following thing to a jam-packed audience at Harvard the other day: "I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged"?
• What are they up to in academia lately?
• Correction
• The vice-presidential debate featured two political pros, neither of whom was knocked off his stride for very long
• A majority of the House voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment
• It's official: the Sudanese government's campaign of systematic killing in its Darfur region is genocide
• Less than two weeks after Dan Rather had to acknowledge having used forged documents in his story about Bush's National Guard service, he aired a segment by reporter Richard Schlesinger about a mother who feared her sons would be drafted
• What went wrong? The miscalculations and missteps that led to the current situation in Iraq
  by Richard Lowry
• Environment 9/11
  by Jonathan H. Adler
• The monster in our backyard
  by Clint Bolick
• Twenty-five years of Supreme Leadership by Ayatollah has inoculated Iranians against political Islam
• Ms. Cameron Diaz, a movie actress by trade, appeared on Oprah Winfrey's show to unburden herself of some thoughts about the upcoming general election
• A fall harvest
  by Michael Potemra