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Articles in Feb 14, 2005 issue of National Review

• Ted Kennedy, at the National Press Club, presented what he thought should be the Democratic response to President Bush's re-election
• Harvard President Lawrence Summers wondered aloud, at a recent academic conference, whether there might not be innate differences between the scientific capacities of men and women
• One man's platoons
  by S.T. Karnick
• Elsewhere in this issue, John Derbyshire attacks the theorists of "intelligent design."
• Rose Mary Woods spent most of her adult life working for the man she most admired
• A certain trumpet: Bush's second inaugural speech—and its critics
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The impatient caucus: have we forgotten that winning a war takes time?
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Singing his own song
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Roe v. Wade has just reached the age of 32, which is of course considerably more years than many innocent lives have, thanks to it, enjoyed
• The bullet, dodged
  by W.H. von Dreele
• In Monopoly, the rich man is a mustachioed gent in striped pants and topper, who makes thousands of dollars buying real estate
• Ready or not: dangers of the second Bush term
  by David Frum
• New Bedford
  by Richard O'Connell
• Zhao Ziyang died in Peking at age 85
• The staff of the Jerusalem Post has performed the valuable task of singling out international news organizations that retain Palestinian Authority employees masquerading as journalists
• What they're saying about Miles Gone By
• Energy through 2030
• Freedom's address
• High caliber advocacy: how the NRA won the fight over gun rights
  by John J. Miller
• Count me out
  by John Derbyshire
• The president said that the Federal Marriage Amendment does not have the votes in the Senate to pass
• A taxing debate
  by John Linder
• During his rule of Uganda, the dictator Idi Amin wrecked the nation's economy, drove out tens of thousands of her citizens, and murdered hundreds of thousands more
• Absorbent and yellow and porous is he … but gay?
• Try, try again
• Summers storm: a feminist show trial at Harvard
  by Christina Hoff Sommers
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Sen. Boxer was the only member of the Senate to vote against certifying George Bush as the election's winner
• Toughening up on immigration
  by Constantinos E. Scaros
• The Bush administration wants to reform Medicaid so that federal spending is capped and states have more control over the program
• As you may have noticed, we have discontinued the feature "For the Record."
• Sometimes a political cartoon defies even the lowest expectations of civility in public discourse, and so it is with one of the latest from The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder
• Who's to blame? The tsunami's aftermath
  by Roger Bate
• Help!!!!
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Saving the democrats
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Fear not
• Michael Powell was a vocal proponent of deregulation as head of the Federal Communications Commission
• Kipling's line about "makin'mock o'uniforms that guard you while you sleep" was given ugly illustration at Seattle Central Community College on Inauguration Day
• Heeeeere's … Remembering a late-night legend
  by Rob Long
• Michael Ross dead?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Tsunami lessons
  by Russell A. Berman
• Twit alert
• Trading up
  by Stephen Moore
• But is it science? The war over 'intelligent design'
  by John Derbyshire
• The people, in a way
  by Matthew J. Franck
• What is Bush saying?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Kansas Supreme Court has broken new ground in school-finance law
• Army Spc. Charles Graner got ten years for his role in the prison abuse at Abu Ghraib
• A friend on the Continent sends us a publication from France, called L'Anti-Americain
• Who is CBS considering to fill its empty anchor chair?
• We note the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of Fraunces Tavern in New York City
• All quiet on the Gaza front: There's been a brief and welcome lull in the terror campaigns of Hamas, the Al-Aksa brigade, and such-like
• Hossam Armanious was a Coptic Christian immigrant from Egypt who lived in Jersey City
• Notes & asides
• A movie for all time: tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Groundhog Day scores
  by Jonah Goldberg
• When he's right …
  by Michael Potemra
• Barbara Boxer now is the foremost representative of a powerful home-state interest group
• Mid-January was blessed with two grand American spectaculars, standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of civic gravity
• FOR DNC chairman
  by W.H. von Dreele
• "And what is it that will make it possible to spend 20 billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon?"
• Down for the recount: no one can know who won Washington State's gubernatorial race
  by Byron York