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Articles in April 16, 2007 issue of National Review

• Well, that didn't take long: Just a few months into their majority, Senate Democrats are already itching to raise taxes
• Every nation has its historic grievances
• Land of cedars and sorrow: the ongoing drama of Lebanon
  by Mario Loyola
• Keep hope alight!
  by John Derbyshire
• Six years ago, about 300,000 fugitive aliens, who had been ordered to leave the U.S., roamed the land
• Pride and privilege
• A line for Capitol Hill
• Once upon a time, conservatives pledged to abolish the Department of Education
• Emmett Till, 14 years old and black, was murdered in the Mississippi Delta town of Money 52 years ago for whistling his appreciation of a pretty white woman
• Americans without Americanness: is our nation nothing more than an address?
  by John McWhorter
• A republic, if you can keep it
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The House was set to pass a bill giving D.C. voters the right to elect a full-fledged congressman
• Freedom House: an exchange
  by Arch Puddington
• Al Gore warned a Senate panel that global warming constitutes a "planetary emergency."
• 300, a movie about the battle of Thermopylae, grossed almost $71 million on its first weekend, not bad for a lowish-budget flick starring no one in particular
• Big bucks, big minds, big hearts: The John Templeton Foundation
  by John J. Miller
• Rallying the protesters
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Three centuries after the English Civil War, T. S. Eliot wrote of John Milton and Charles I, Roundhead poet and beheaded king, that they "Accept the constitution of silence / And are folded in a single party."
• Libby's legacy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Reasons for being: Elizabeth Edwards, Tony Snow, and us
  by Noemie Emery
• Iran has thrown down the gauntlet by hijacking 15 British sailors and marines in the Persian Gulf
• Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talking to the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, said he believed "homosexual acts … are immoral," and "we"—the armed forces—"should not condone immoral
• When writer and journalist Cathy Seipp died, at the age of 49, her friends and fans were left to fend for themselves
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Some 30 Holocaust deniers recently had a jamboree in Tehran
• John and Elizabeth Edwards announced that her cancer had returned, and that his campaign for president would continue
• Portents
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Keep surging
• The Cheerleaders
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Addressing an audience of local notables in San Francisco the other day, Ted Turner took a question about how to win China's cooperation in reducing greenhouse gases
• Within days of the Edwards announcement, Tony Snow learned he had also had a recurrence of his cancer
• For several years, the federal budget has included provisions ensuring that taxpayer funds will not be spent supporting abortion and related infringements of the sanctity of human life
• Notes & asides
• Anglospheres old and new
  by John O'Sullivan
• Good neighbor: President Bush's real record in Latin America
  by Otto J. Reich
• When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed during a recent hearing at Guantanamo Bay to masterminding the 9/11 attacks and a string of other terror plots, he gave us a chilling glimpse of how much worse things might have been
• The faculty senate of the University of Florida voted to deny Jeb Bush—who served as governor of Florida until January—an honorary degree
• Out like a Lam: the case of one U.S. attorney
  by Byron York
• Exit strategy
  by Ross Douthat
• Shelf life
  by Michael Potemra
• Debacles like that one make us less optimistic about the possibility of finding a compromise on immigration policy …
• The postcard solution
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• 'Thanks a lot': free speech and high schools
  by Robert H. Bork
• Inside the nightmare
  by Paul Hollander
• President Bush has said that he sees more support for his "comprehensive" immigration reform on Capitol Hill since last fall's elections
• Iran isn't making the work of its appeasers very easy
• Ask, tell, whatever? Gays-in-the-military comes up again
  by MacKubin Thomas Owens
• About rights
  by Ryan T. Anderson
• Katherine Babineaux Blanco announced that she would not run for reelection as governor of Louisiana
• The European Union is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and a dubious celebration it is
• A tyrant in Zimbabwe: though not the worst that continent can produce
  by Anthony Daniels
• The Death Of Holofernes
  by Richard O'Connell