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Articles in Nov 8, 2004, issue of National Review

• The next time you hear Kerry whining about Republican "scare tactics," remember Spokane, Wash
• Our vaccine-makers need a shot in the arm
• Notes & asides
• Reagan as pundit
  by Steven F. Hayward
• Gov. Jeb Bush , on ABC News: "I'm not going to run for president in 2008."
• Eighteen reservists from the 343rd Quartermaster Company refused to convoy supplies over a 150-mile route in central Iraq, saying that their trucks were a old and b without armored escorts
• You wouldn't know it from reading the New York Times, which buried the story on page 16, but Australia had an election and—guess what?
• Post Office announces that Ronald Reagan will appear on stamp early next year
• In all the debates, John Kerry criticized Bush for allowing Osama bin Laden to escape at the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001 by relying on unreliable local proxy forces
• Republicans are crude, insensitive, and intolerant? They're not the ones making fun of the handicapped for political gain
• President for life: what the election means for abortion and related issues
  by Robert P. George
• Queen of the desert
  by Andrew Stuttaford
• The European Union has, naturellement, a Justice and Home Affairs Council, and that council needs a commissioner to represent it in the EU Commission
• In his bid for reelection, George W. Bush deserves the support of conservatives
• Public races to get dollars by deadline: the rush to get them at Face Value may predict our next president
  by Laura Fisher
• The final result of the vote in Afghanistan won't be known for some time, though it looks as if Hamid Karzai has beaten off 16 contenders and will be elected president by a good majority
• Kerry's cold war: lest we forget …
  by Mona Charen
• Hardy perennial
  by S.T. Karnick
• The outspender
  by Stephen Moore
• Buffettville
  by Steve Carney
• Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski: "It is really sad that a senator with 20 years of experience does not notice the Polish input into the coalition and the Polish sacrifice
• One of the too-good-to-check stories of American politics is that George Smathers beat Claude Pepper in a Florida Senate race by telling audiences that Pepper's sister was a "thespian."
• Babi Yar … Katyn Forest … the "killing fields" of Communist Cambodia … Mass graves, filled with the corpses of unarmed people, executed en masse by despotic regimes, have been one of the most horrible features of our age of hor
• Don't know much about politics: the curse of the ignorant voter
  by Kate O'Beirne
• December Fifth
  by William Runyeon
• More for less
  by George C. Leef
• Jay Leno: "Besides being Columbus Day, today is also Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrating Native Americans
• How do I disdain thee?
• After intense negotiations, the Senate has unanimously passed the North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004
• The old college cheer: why we have it; why we need it
  by Michael M. Uhlmann
• Living text
  by John Wilson
• Democracy—you gotta love it
• Help!!!!
• The Great Scandinavian Frolic of the Nobel Prize usually enlivens the fall season
• Rather delightful
  by Elizabeth Hrusch
• Talk about dirty campaigning!
• 20 Years, 5 Bills
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The "hip-hop artist" KRS-One, ne Kris Parker, thinks the 9/11 attacks served us right
• An amazing pass: one minute, we're talking about tolerance for homosexuals; the next, we're watching them marry
  by Midge Decter
• Team spirit
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Jacques Derrida was a thinker of many facets
• Facing the "crippling prospect" of "worldwide inter-Anglican conflict," a commission appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury has rebuked the Episcopal Church of the United States for ordaining Bishop Gene Robinson, a divorced gay man
• In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 26 states worth 218 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 18 states worth 221 electoral votes
• Matt Damon has said he'd pay a million dollars to get Kerry elected
• The Economics Prize, fortunately, is more serious
• The democrats' fantasy island: where they will be if they lose
  by John O'Sullivan
• Boxing day
  by John Derbyshire
• John Kerry told the Des Moines Register that should President Bush win a second term there is "a great potential for a draft."
• The latest group to claim "pride" in their lifestyle choice is the asexuals
• Kerry on whether 9/11 changed him, in New York Times: "It didn't change me much at all."
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Saddam lives
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• There is fitful progress in Iraq
• Christopher Reeve, Superman from the movies, is dead
• Jazz at Lincoln Center, a popular and well-funded New York City jazz program, has opened in new quarters at the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, to a spate of articles on its famous artistic director, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis
• Country at a crossroads: November 2 will say a lot about the American people, and our future
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• John Edwards, in vice-presidential debate: "The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider
• "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," John Kerry told The New York Times Magazine
• Unlucky Pierre Salinger was a one-man epitome of the unraveling of post-war liberalism
• God Bless Australia
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Dissimulation reigns
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Kerry went out of his way to invoke Ronald Reagan in the debates
• Democrats, outraged that Sinclair Broadcasting is airing parts of the anti-Kerry documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, are demanding equal time
• Lies, damned lies, and journalists: who's telling the biggest whoppers?
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Senate races come down to wire
• If you relied exclusively on the mainstream media for the news, you'd surely believe that the war in Iraq was a distraction from the War on Terror
• The qualified teacher charade
  by Terry M. Moe
• Just say non
  by Arthur Herman
• Long live oil
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Rodney Dangerfield was a great American, leading a classic American life