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Articles in Dec 22, 2003 issue of National Review

• After months of taking incoming rounds from the Democrats, President Bush returned fire in a 30-second ad the Republican National Committee is running in Iowa
• The Great Medicare Robbery
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Peta vs. KFC: a dirty war against the Colonel
  by Jay Nordlinger
• George's Surprise
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Christmas Gala
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Remember Sheldon Drobny?
• Michael Jackson is accursed, largely through his own deeds
• Krugman's writings: as nutty as the images on the cover
• The datanaut
  by John Derbyshire
• The day of the leisure class
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• USS Cole is deployed for first time since terrorists bombed it in Yemen in 2000
• You deserve a factual look at … the fence: will the Fence calm the region or exacerbate the conflict?
• One sometimes gets the impression that President Bush is running a protectionist administration and turning his back on decades of free-trade policies
• Piling on Jefferson
  by Earl M. Maltz
• Judicial impasse?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Czech president Vaclav Klaus: "The enemies of free societies today are those who want to burden us down again with layer upon layer of regulations
• As we go to press, a congressional bulletin tells us that: "The U.S. Capitol Holiday Tree is scheduled to arrive at the West Front of the Capitol … on December 1."
• "Angels" in America
  by Sheldon Drobny
• One of the foulest crimes against humanity in living memory was the famine deliberately caused by Josef Stalin in the Ukraine
• Do we need more troops or different troops?
  by Bruce Berkowitz
• Our great, societal Neverland: responsibility for pedophilia, both individual and collective
  by Theordore Dalrymple
• Dies IRAe
  by Ruth Dudley Edwards
• Does marriage matter?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Jay Leno: "At midnight on Monday night almost all of the electricity in Baghdad went out—the whole city blacked out
• After three years of work by the administration and Congress, the energy bill had become a nearly perfect piece of Washington bipartisanship: it was 1,700 pages of special-interest giveaways, almost devoid of worthwhile reforms
• Reportedly, the IRS is auditing the National Education Association, and students of the union's political practices are betting that its new-math approach to its tax returns will flunk the exam
• What happens to America's displaced workers?
• The hot, hot, hot candidate: the anger, popularity, and prospects of Howard Dean
  by Richard Lowry
• Disconnections
  by Jeffrey Hart
• Congress
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In National Annenberg Election Survey poll, President Bush earns 61 percent approval rating
• RNC ad: "Some are now attacking the President for attacking the terrorists."
• What is wrong with this headline?
• Carlos Eire is this year's recipient of the National Book Award for nonfiction
• Notes & asides
  by Lamar Smith
• Debating democracy: can everyone go Athenian?
  by John O'Sullivan
• Still Life With Henri
  by Olivia Ellis Simpson
• Public events pass before us, cloaked and blurry, in blizzards of talk, and then someone writes something that floods the scene with light
• Turkey as target: the war finds a new theater
  by David Pryce-Jones
• The tempting of conservatism: in supporting Bush and the GOP, don't lose yourself
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Light in the East
  by Michael Potemra
• The U.S. Postal Service has decided to insult history and human decency by issuing a stamp in honor of Paul Robeson
• Conservative confusions
• In certain European quarters, there has been a depressing squeamishness about confronting the proliferators of doomsday weapons
• Sen. Lincoln Chafee on whether he's "inclined" to vote for Bush next year, in Providence Journal-Bulletin: "I'm a good Republican."
• Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times
  by James Panero
• The European Left and a good many of the 10 million or more Muslim immigrants on the continent come together in the common cause of hating Israel
• The AARP Republicans
• A sense of entitlement: medicare's new expansion, and what to think
  by Grace-Marie Turner
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein
  by Meghan Keane
• Hey, Howard, you should simply tell 'em
• Was President Bush's Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad political?
• Old Communists never die, they just fade away
• Hugh Kenner, R.I.P
• Get your war bonds! Why doesn't the administration shout it?
  by John J. Miller
• Help!!!!