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Articles in Dec 31, 2004 issue of National Review

• A bow to fiscal conservatism
  by Bill Whalen
• Daughter defends mom
  by Adrian O'Connell
• My Cs!
• Yasser Arafat goes down in history as the man who threw the Palestinians into an armed struggle with Israel they could not win
• Should the law let parents eavesdrop on their teenage children's phone conversations?
• While they're waiting … Thoughts for the Democrats after their recent losses
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Che chic: it's tres disgusting
  by Jay Nordlinger
• State of the nation
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Celebrating 'Dec. 25'
  by Colleen Wharton
• The horrifying saga of Leila M., a 19-year-old Iranian girl with a reported mental age of eight, is tragically representative of life in the Islamic Republic
• The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs will carry a review essay by Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia, detailing "key parallels between neoconservatives and jihadists."
• Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad, but arrogant, careless, and horny will also do, as former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik found when he was tapped to be secretary of homeland security
• "Street Fighter," "Def Jam Vendetta," "BloodRayne," and "Grand Theft Auto" are the names of video games featuring extreme violence
• British Isles Cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience: the national review 2005
• President Bush earns 53 percent approval rating in Gallup poll, but 59 percent say Iraq is going "badly"
• What was Harry Reid thinking?
• "It's time to be honest about the unbearable suffering endured by newborns with no hope of a future," said Dr. Eduard Verhagen, a pediatrician at Groningen Academic Hospital in the Netherlands
• MooreOns: the Democratic party won't change until it has to—really has to
  by Jonah Goldberg
• One man's marriage trap: the ever-shifting, deeply conflicted Andrew Sullivan
  by Justin Katz
• Love, pain & lyricism
  by Jeffrey Hart
• Nuke talk
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Arab TV station al-Jazeera recently ran a cartoon on its website showing an Iranian mullah passing indifferently by various trouble spots in the Middle East, but then bridling with fury when he sees a map with the name "Persian Gulf" changed
• From Your Clairvoyant
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Are the Democrats rethinking their down-the-line support for abortion?
• Yushchenko, Poisoned
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Help!!!!
• Illegalizing illegals
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Nationwide, Democratic state legislators outnumber Republicans by two seats, 3,658 to 3,656, but two races remain undecided, according to USA Today
• In Greeneland
  by Tracy Lee Simmons
• Gov. George Pataki indicates he probably won't run against Sen. Hillary Clinton
• Against the doubters
• Gunning for Gonzales: the Left will assail the attorney general-designate on detainee policy; he, and we, should stand firm
  by Lee A. Casey
• The president's latest surprise was to stick with Treasury secretary John Snow, for whom the long knives had appeared to be out
• Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman in forthcoming book, according to AP
• Tort reformers won big in the election
• James Cason may be the most remarkable member of the U.S. Foreign Service
• Sticking with Rumsfeld
• Helping our heroes: Tocqueville's America can be seen at Walter Reed Hospital
  by Noemie Emery
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• The truth about war
  by John Wilson
• In Buenos Aires this month, the proponents of the Kyoto Protocol danced their last tango
• The New York Times had an article citing the vast expansion of Brazilian agriculture
• Manifesto of hope
  by John Fonte
• The Flame Tree
  by Kevin Holtsberry
• Bush picks Gerald Reynolds to lead U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, with Abigail Thernstrom as vice chairman
• Who will guard the guardians?
• Clearing the air
  by Stephen Moore
• David Brudnoy, R.I.P
• The fab four: why America has fallen for Desperate Housewives
  by Myrna Blyth
• New Year's
  by Dana Gioia
• At the movies
  by Annette R. Hall
• Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a pregnant 23-year-old Missouri woman, was strangled by Lisa Montgomery, a casual acquaintance, who cut the child from her womb and passed it off as her own
• Notes & asides
• GOP, you are warned: immigration could cause a Republican crackup
  by David Frum
• The trouble with Harry
  by Andrew Stutttaford
• Japan says its 550 soldiers in Iraq will remain there for at least another year
• Jay Leno: "Bernard Kerik says he is sorry he'll not be able to be head of homeland security
• How fares our project in Iraq?
• Yes un-deedy
  by John Derbyshire