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Articles in Dec 13, 2004 issue of National Review

• Kofi's hour is up: incompetence upon insult upon outrage
  by Nile Gardiner
• So, you want to win the culture wars? It would help to engage in a little culture
  by Ross Douthat
• Fall festival
  by John Derbyshire
• Iran has agreed to stop uranium enrichment temporarily while negotiating with Britain, France, and Germany over what it will get for a long-term deal
• The French Connection
  by W.H. von Dreele
• A conservative departs: about Colin Powell
  by John O'Sullivan
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Wargaming Iran
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Rasmussen poll: President Bush earns job-approval rating of 54 percent
• The custom of seniority put Arlen Specter in line to be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee
• A newer deal
  by Stephen Moore
• After more than 30 years, William Safire is relinquishing his spot on the New York Times op-ed page
• Bill Clinton opened his presidential library, which features scandalously self-regarding exhibits, including one whitewashing the Monica affair
• It may come as a surprise to readers of National Review to learn that we once shared a floor of our office building with Vibe, a magazine dedicated to the doings of such avant-garde popular musicians as Jadakiss, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, Ol' Dirty Bastard, T
• Absolutely: both Iraqis and Palestinians have a chance to escape the curse of absolutism
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Help!!!!
• Your rights, their rights
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Not all the troubling news out of Iran concerns Tehran's nuclear ambitions
• Sen. John Kerry on running again: "It is so premature to be thinking about something so far down the road
• Republicans changed the rules in the House, permitting indicted lawmakers to serve as their leaders
• President Bush has conferred the National Humanities Medal on some excitingly deserving recipients, including Hilton Kramer
• The same goes for his other selections, among them Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harvey C. Mansfield, and Shelby Steele
• A dent that counts: how do Republicans win black and Hispanic votes? Well, first you have to ask …
  by Richard Nadler
• Hillary: it begins
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Whee Time!
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger , on CNN: "I am very conservative when it comes to fiscal policies
• The plight of immigrants from Mexico
  by Edward P. Lazear
• Four thousand French troops are caught up in a civil war in the Ivory Coast, once part of France's colonial empire
• The dynamic IMP
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Sen. Hillary Clinton on running for president, on Fox News: "I'm not thinking about that
• The House ethics committee, meanwhile, has given us an opportunity to revisit a previous round of attacks on DeLay
• NR's recent post-election cruise was a smash success, and a happy omen that our 2005 British Isles voyage—July 10-21, starring WFB, Bob Bork, Larry Kudlow, Peggy Noonan, Paul Johnson, Rich Lowry, Kate O'Beirne, David Pryce-Jones, Jay Nordlinger, et a
• The man Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee called a "miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante" died on November 16, aged 82
• You deserve a factual look at … "one land for two peoples": is it a solution to the Arab/Israeli conflict or a recipe for disaster?
• Two important American poets died recently, a major loss to our poetry
• The good news about pain treatment: the Drug Enforcement Administration recently posted new guidelines on the DEA website to stop the unjustified harassment and prosecution of pain doctors
• The hearth defended
  by Myrna Blyth
• Zogby poll: 65 percent rank Ronald Reagan "great" or "near great" president, compared with 41 percent for George W. Bush, 44 percent for Bill Clinton, 33 percent for George H. W. Bush, and 32 percent for Jimmy Carter
• The relentless, vindictive war being waged by the ACLU against the Boy Scouts of America took a turn recently when the Defense Department agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit they have been defending for five years
• The House is losing one of its principal champions of limited government and free markets in Pat Toomey
• Ichthyophages beware!
• Remember Algeria: a lesson from midcentury
  by Alistair Horne
• Absolutism redux
  by Tom G. Palmer
• If Karl Rove was the architect of the president's victory, Ken Mehlman was the general contractor who put all the nuts and bolts in place to deliver a historic number of Republicans to the polls
• Scott Peterson was convicted for murdering his wife Laci—and for second-degree murder in the case of their unborn son, Conner
• Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein stole more than $21 billion from U.N.'s Oil for Food program, according to Senate report
• What happens if a homeless person abandons or misplaces his accumulated j—… sorry, we mean his personal property, those articles typically pushed around in a stolen supermarket cart?
• Den of thieves
• The perils of tax reform: frankly, tiny and timid is better than big and bold
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The gruntler
  by Terry Teachout
• David Letterman: "you know who may run for the Democrats in 2008? Hillary Clinton
• To their credit, House Republicans balked at approving the consolidation of intelligence agencies even after the 9/11 commission recommended it and the White House and Senate backed it
• Arguing gay marriage
  by Deroy Murdock
• In a stirring example of the American genius for hustling up business where no business formerly existed, a South Florida psychologist named Douglas Schooler has been treating John Kerry voters distraught over their candidate's loss on November 2
• Three years and counting: the U.S. has not suffered a major attack since September 2001. Why?
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• Road Kill
  by Michael Creagan
• Who, besides Kofi Annan, can doubt that Fallujah was a terrorist safe haven?
• Some left-wingers vowed to go to Canada following Bush's reelection
• A horrible life
• Breakdown
  by Walt Gardner
• Shoppers at Target will no longer hear bells ringing for donations; the Salvation Army Santas have been silenced
• Notes & asides
  by Anthony Carroll
• Our crisis of foundations: what Tom Wolfe's novel, among other things, brings to mind
  by John Derbyshire
• A bin of CDs
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Condoleezza Rice is a solid foreign-policy thinker who ought to make a fine secretary of state
• As the world knows by now, a Marine in Fallujah was captured on tape apparently shooting a wounded insurgent