National Review back issues from May 2007:
That's madam speaker, to you.(Letter to the editor)
May 14, 2007;
Goin' mainstream.(Letter to the editor)
May 14, 2007;
Playing the percentages.(Letter to the editor)
May 14, 2007;
Hope floats.(Letter to the editor)
May 14, 2007;
You should hear Alec Baldwin.
May 14, 2007
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.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Senate majority leader Harry Reid made the mistake of saying what he and most Democrats believe about the Iraq War--that it's lost.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Hillary Clinton addressed Al Sharpton's National Action Network, and for the second time when speaking to a black audience (the first was at a Baptist church in Selma in March) her voice got positively ... nappy.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Barack Obama gave his take on Virginia Tech in a speech in Milwaukee.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
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.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
What was the cause of the recent mass killings at Virginia Tech?(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
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.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
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.
May 14, 2007
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.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Those Abortion Nuances.(Poem)
May 14, 2007;
The Senate voted to provide federal funding for stem-cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos taken from fertility clinics.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
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.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
The new tax revolt.
May 14, 2007;
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.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
What did the BBC ever do to--indeed, what has it ever not done for--the Palestinians?(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Yahoo! is being sued in U.S. court on behalf of Wang Xiaoning, a Chinese citizen.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
An extraordinary tale of Cold War heroism has recently come to light.(Richard Fecteau, John Downey)(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Call it the "can't cant.".(Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid)(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
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.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Don Imus, universal bogeyman for a week, seems a million years old now.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
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.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Miss America 1944 was Venus Ramey of Kentucky, the first redhead to win the title.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
It is hard now to remember the days when Boris Yeltsin was regarded as a hero, but a hero he was.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
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.(Brief biography)(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Johnny Hart won many awards from his fellow cartoonists.(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 14, 2007
Rampage.(school violence)
May 14, 2007
Partial truth about partial-birth.
May 14, 2007
Patricia Taylor Buckley, R.I.P.(Obituary)
May 14, 2007
One of a kind: some thoughts on Pat Buckley, 1926-2007.(appreciation)
May 14, 2007
The Louisiana wunderkind: beholding Rep. Bobby Jindal.
May 14, 2007;
About to burst: taxes and spending will soon go crazy.
May 14, 2007;
Axis uber Alles? Bush is not dealing adequately with Iran and North Korea.(George W. Bush)
May 14, 2007;
Madness at Virginia Tech: doing nothing about the kid behind the sunglasses.(Seung-Hui Cho)
May 14, 2007;
Flawed liberator: what's right and wrong in President Bush's freedom crusade.(George W. Bush)
May 14, 2007;
A pox on Sarbox: the unintended and rotten consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley law.(PUBLIC POLICY II)
May 14, 2007;
Out of mortal threat, an opportunity: the present situation will force Americans to define themselves.(American identity)
May 14, 2007;
Conference-call transcript.(National Broadcasting Company)(Conference notes)
May 14, 2007;
Harry Reid's Blooper.(Poem)
May 14, 2007;
Live free or else!(Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement)(Book review)
May 14, 2007;
Lullaby.(Poem)
May 14, 2007;
Japan again.(Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose)(Book review)
May 14, 2007;
The great professor.(William Empson: Volume II: Against the Christians)(Book review)
May 14, 2007; ... William Empson: Volume II: Against the Christians, by John Haffenden (Oxford, 824 pp., $65) FORTY years ago, when the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war and President Lyndon Baines Johnson was being savagely and wittily caricatured in the pages of the upstart New ...
A don's delight.(A Path Remembered: The Lives of Gerhart and Lucie Niemeyer)(Book review)
May 14, 2007;
Supreme bias.(Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas)(Book review)
May 14, 2007;
True lies.(FILM)(Movie review)
May 14, 2007;
Single-parent blues.(THE STRAGGLER)
May 14, 2007;
The high cost of loving Dartmouth.(on the right)
May 14, 2007;
Imus dead.(on the right)
May 14, 2007;
Facing the unique.(on the right)
May 14, 2007;
Brutal math.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007;
Bitter (and unfiltered) ender.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007;
WFB & PTB.(letters to the editor)(William F. Buckley, Patricia Taylor Buckley)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007;
At least if Hillary wins in 2008.(The Week)(Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2008 United States presidential elections)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007
Ten Republican presidential candidates appeared onstage at the Reagan Library so that they could be hectored, bullied, and asked inane questions by Chris Matthews and John Harris.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007
George Tenet's memoir, At the Center of the Storm, has been slammed left and right, often for the wrong reasons.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007 ... George Tenet's memoir, At the Center of the Storm, has been slammed left and right, often for the wrong reasons. In what context did he use the words "slam dunk"? In asserting that Iraq had WMD, or in asserting that the case could be made? But why is slam-dunkitude the relevant category? ...
Talk about Democratic unity! When Washington Post columnist David Broder chastised Senate majority leader Harry Reid for declaring that the war in Iraq "is lost," all 50 of Reid's Democratic colleagues in the Senate dashed off a letter to the Post attacking Broder.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007
The arrest of six alleged jihadists for plotting to attack the U.S. military installation at Fort Dix, N.J., provided several useful lessons.(The Week)(United States, New Jersey)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007
Because the first Republican debate was held at the Reagan Library, with Nancy Reagan prominent in the audience, it was only natural that Reagan received respectful attention from the candidates.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007
When Rudolph Giuliani announced his presidential run, we hoped that he could find common ground with pro-lifers.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007
Cracked.(Critical essay)
May 28, 2007;