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Articles in Dec 31, 2007, issue of National Review

• Romney for president
• Old words
  by Michael Creagan
• The anti-war outfit VoteVets.org has lost a major star
• Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt hit back at Internet harpies who mocked photos of her on a Hawaiian beach that allegedly showed her to be fat
• The gospel truth? Questions about that Judas manuscript
  by John J. Miller
• Green death?
  by Steven F. Hayward
• The Alternative Minimum Tax was designed to hit the rich
• As our colleague The Straggler notes elsewhere in this issue, some products of human ingenuity—slide rules, suspender belts—have been made utterly obsolete by new technology
• 'Electable,' they say: the myth of Giuliani as Hillary-Slayer
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• His didactic materials
  by Ross Douthat
• On Nov. 20, scientists announced that they had discovered a way to create stem cells with the same potential as embryonic stem cells—but instead of destroying embryos, they had done it by "reprogramming" adult cells
• Henry Hyde, R.I.P
• Merry Holidays!
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Among evangelicals, a transformation: they're not 'cracking up,' as some contend, or hope; they are, however, changing
  by Peter Wehner
• Maps and chaps
  by John Derbyshire
• President Bush announced an agreement with the big mortgage banks that would purportedly stem the tide of falling home prices and rising foreclosure rates
• Last verse
  by Priscilla Buckley
• Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher in a Sudanese school, let her students name a class teddy bear
• The problem of my country: a dissident looks homeward
  by Vladimir Bukovsky
• The book on McCarthy
  by M. Stanton Evans
• Hugo Chavez expected, and was expected by others, to win handily the Venezuelan referendum that inter alia would have installed him in power permanently
• The horror of Huck: we have seen this act in the Republican party before—recently
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk planned to dock in Hong Kong November 21 to give the crew four days of Thanksgiving shore leave
• A Christmas carol: a Heath family Christmas-carol program always seems like a good idea …
  by Aloise Buckley Heath
• Up next on Oprah
• Vladimir Putin is giving a master class in modern dictatorship
• A national disgrace: the recent National Intelligence Estimate is outrageously—possibly dangerously—misleading
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• W. Thomas Smith Jr., a former contributor to National Review Online, did not make his stories up
• Transcript from the al-Jazeera political talk show The al-Irshad Group: December 11, 2007
  by Rob Long
• Asked about his lack of foreign-policy experience on the revived Don Imus radio show, Mike Huckabee compared himself to Ronald Reagan
• At Annapolis, Mahmoud Abbas "agreed" to reach a final settlement with the Israeli government and create a Palestinian state by the end of 2008
• Beautiful collecting
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Imus came back on the radio, after penance for his racial offenses
• Help!!!!
• Huckabee released a sensible plan to fight illegal immigration—largely borrowed from our pages, as his campaign generously acknowledges—but it's his record in Arkansas that has been getting attention, little of it flattering
• In coming days the British are to hand over their responsibilities in southern Iraq to the local army and police
• Questions of life and death
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Allentown, Pa., in the heart of the old steel country, boasts a minor-league baseball team, the Lehigh V alley IronPigs
• Parallel lives and legacies
  by Arthur W. Herman
• Oprah Winfrey stumped for Barack Obama in Iowa and South Carolina. Miss Winfrey is, without question, the most important woman in America; overall, she is a force for good, a black female Benjamin Franklin, offering uplift and useful advice
• Mark Steyn, ornament of our pages and many others, may be muzzled by an authoritarian state: Canada
• You live with it
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• One of NR's editors says he first learned the words evel knievel as a common noun: He didn't know who Evel Knievel was, but to be an evel knievel was to win praise for doing what was dangerous, probably forbidden, and cool
• D'Souza and the divine
  by David Klinghoffer
• Joe Biden on the hustings in New Hampshire said that if President Bush bombed Iran without congressional approval, he should be impeached
• Four and a half months after being hit with allegations that one of its contributors, a soldier serving in Iraq, had been serving up fiction disguised as fact, The New Republic finally published a 7,000-word nostra culpa in which editor Franklin Foer conc
• Lights! action!
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.