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Articles in May 14, 2007 issue of National Review

• Senate majority leader Harry Reid made the mistake of saying what he and most Democrats believe about the Iraq War—that it's lost
• The new tax revolt
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Madness at Virginia Tech: doing nothing about the kid behind the sunglasses
  by Richard Lowry
• Patricia Taylor Buckley, R.I.P
• Japan again
  by Dan Blumenthal
• Barack Obama gave his take on Virginia Tech in a speech in Milwaukee
• What did the BBC ever do to—indeed, what has it ever not done for—the Palestinians?
• Harry Reid's Blooper
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Kurt Vonnegut was a last-century artifact, combining dogmatic left-wing politics with whimsy, sentiment, and a few science-fiction tricks in a way that led people, beginning with himself, to think of him as a Sage
• Hillary Clinton addressed Al Sharpton's National Action Network, and for the second time when speaking to a black audience her voice got positively … nappy
• The first-round results of the French presidential election have, as expected, set up a runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy of the Right and Segolene Royal of the Left
• A pox on Sarbox: the unintended and rotten consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley law
  by Jim Manzi
• One of a kind: some thoughts on Pat Buckley, 1926-2007
• The great professor
  by John Wilson
• Those $400 haircuts that John Edwards got from a Beverly Hills stylist were money well spent: since his hair is his best asset, he should take care of it
• An extraordinary tale of Cold War heroism has recently come to light
• Live free or else!
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The Louisiana wunderkind: beholding Rep. Bobby Jindal
  by John J. Miller
• Flawed liberator: what's right and wrong in President Bush's freedom crusade
  by Michael Knox Beran
• A don's delight
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• That's madam speaker, to you
  by Donald P. Kerwick
• What was the cause of the recent mass killings at Virginia Tech?
• More than a year after their ordeal began, the three Duke lacrosse players accused of raping a stripper at a team party were declared "innocent" by North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper
• Lullaby
  by Daniel Mark Epstein
• About to burst: taxes and spending will soon go crazy
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Supreme bias
  by Edgard Whelan
• Goin' mainstream
  by Alan Towson
• Paul Wolfowitz, Bush's appointee to the presidency of the World Bank, stands accused of using his position to get big raises and cushy jobs for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a fellow Bank employee
• Rock singer Sheryl Crow has joined the global-warming nags, touring the U.S. on a biodiesel-powered bus with environmental activist Laurie David to spread the good word on college campuses
• Single-parent blues
  by John Derbyshire
• Attorney general Alberto Gonzales's April 19 performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee—the appearance in which he admitted he could not remember why he fired some U.S. attorneys—embarrassed many members of his party
• Axis uber Alles? Bush is not dealing adequately with Iran and North Korea
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• True lies
  by Ross Douthat
• Playing the percentages
  by Tony Veiga
• The Pentagon is extending the tours of most active-duty Army units in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to ensure that troops have a full year at home between tours
• It is hard now to remember the days when Boris Yeltsin was regarded as a hero, but a hero he was
• The high cost of loving Dartmouth
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Out of mortal threat, an opportunity: the present situation will force Americans to define themselves
  by Wilfred M. McClay
• Hope floats
  by William Ryan
• Those Abortion Nuances
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Yahoo! is being sued in U.S. court on behalf of Wang Xiaoning, a Chinese citizen
• Johnny Hart won many awards from his fellow cartoonists
• Imus dead
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Call it the "can't cant."
• Conference-call transcript
  by Rob Long
• You should hear Alec Baldwin
• The Senate voted to provide federal funding for stem-cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos taken from fertility clinics
• Rampage
• Facing the unique
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Don Imus, universal bogeyman for a week, seems a million years old now
• If John McCain had jokingly sung "bomb, bomb Iran" during his 2000 nomination run, reporters would have dissolved in appreciative laughter, tickled at the rascally authenticity of the Arizona senator
• Georgia legislators recently passed a law that would require a woman seeking an abortion to sign a statement indicating whether she had taken the opportunity to view an image of the fetus
• Partial truth about partial-birth
• Miss America 1944 was Venus Ramey of Kentucky, the first redhead to win the title