National Review articles from July 2007

National Review archives from July 2007

Immigrants and jobs.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
July 9, 2007... In "Comprehensively Awful" (June 11), John O'Sullivan calls it "well known that immigration redistributes income from the poor to the rich as immigrants are willing to work for lower wages than native-born Americans." Like so many "well known"...

The nuclear option.(Letter to the editor)
July 9, 2007... I was quite surprised that Jim Manzi's article on global warming ("Game Plan," June 25) totally overlooked the best alternative for clean power generation. I refer, of course, to nuclear power plants, which have zero C[O.sub.2] emissions....

Count him skeptical.(Letter to the editor)
July 9, 2007... Per Mr. Manzi's alarming piece on global warming: It is no longer possible, scientifically or politically, to deny that termite activities have very likely increased global temperatures; what remains in dispute is the precise magnitude of the...

Hillary Clinton's strongest supporters, her consultants say, are "women with needs.".(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Hillary Clinton's strongest supporters, her consultants say, are "women with needs." She can ask Bill how to court them.

Washington is whipping itself into a preemptive panic over a September progress report on the Iraq War.(The Week)
July 9, 2007... * Washington is whipping itself into a preemptive panic over a September progress report on the Iraq War. Republicans seem primed to abandon President Bush unless the much-anticipated report by Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker shows...

Sen. Barack Obama went after Hillary for her insufficient ardor against outsourcing, citing one of her Indian-American supporters, who said that she could be the senator from Punjab.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Sen. Barack Obama went after Hillary for her insufficient ardor against outsourcing, citing one of her Indian-American supporters, who said that she could be the senator from Punjab. We understand that Obama needs to show that he is tough...

The governor of California put el gato among las palomas at the annual convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists the other day.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * The governor of California put el gato among las palomas at the annual convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists the other day. Schwarzenegger urged Spanish-speaking immigrants to shun Spanish-language media. "You've got...

President Bush says he is "looking forward to vetoing excessive spending.".(The Week)(George W. Bush)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * President Bush says he is "looking forward to vetoing excessive spending." Lucky him: He is going to have several chances to do just that. He has the votes to sustain vetoes of most of the spending bills that are coming his way. If the...

Summertime is here, and with it, the annual spectacle of our representatives in Washington competing to see who can come up with the worst solution to the problem of higher gas prices.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Summertime is here, and with it, the annual spectacle of our representatives in Washington competing to see who can come up with the worst solution to the problem of higher gas prices. This year, Congress has outdone itself. First, the...

You can tell the immigration debate has gotten hot when Linda Chavez, normally the soul of reason, boils over.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * You can tell the immigration debate has gotten hot when Linda Chavez, normally the soul of reason, boils over. After getting one too many go-back-where-you-came-from emails--Chavez's roots in this country go back to the 18th century--she...

Nancy Pelosi has fallen for two types of stem-cell hype.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Nancy Pelosi has fallen for two types of stem-cell hype. One is scientific: She believes that embryo-destructive research "is biblical in its power to cure." The other is political: She apparently believes that this research is so popular...

The legislature in newly blue New Hampshire has voted to repeal its law mandating parental notification when minors have abortions.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * The legislature in newly blue New Hampshire has voted to repeal its law mandating parental notification when minors have abortions. Most people, including many people who favor legal abortion, support parental notification. But the Democrats...

Workaholics.
July 9, 2007... WHILE these pages have been critical of Europe's massive welfare states in the past, one must concede that Europeans have vastly superior cocktail parties. The potables tend to weigh in their favor, but the conversation does as well: Work is...

Legislators in Massachusetts voted not to hold a referendum on same-sex marriage, on the nonsensical theory that "you don't put civil rights up for a vote.".(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Legislators in Massachusetts voted not to hold a referendum on same-sex marriage, on the nonsensical theory that "you don't put civil rights up for a vote." Same-sex marriage was imposed on the state by a vote of seven judges. The public did...

The mills of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding small.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * The mills of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding small. Latest to learn this has been Mike Nifong, district attorney in Durham, N.C. Nifong's prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players went on for ten months, until the...

Enemies captured in the course of war are not common criminals.(The Week )(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Enemies captured in the course of war are not common criminals: This is a distinction made by custom older than the United States, and for good reasons. Combatants are held until a conflict is over so they cannot rejoin their forces; if they...

Sen. Harry Reid, former amateur boxer, recently threw a few punches at Marine general Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of multinational forces in Iraq.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Sen. Harry Reid, former amateur boxer, recently threw a few punches at Marine general Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of multinational forces in Iraq. According to Reid, who declared months...

Suppose a country funds, arms, and trains on its soil a force to infiltrate and destabilize its neighbor with a campaign of ethnic cleansing.(The Week)(Iran supporting Shiite terrorist groups )
July 9, 2007... * Suppose a country funds, arms, and trains on its soil a force to infiltrate and destabilize its neighbor with a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Would you call that an act of war? Sensible people, of course, would. But American politicians have...

Lieberman's logic.(Poem)
July 9, 2007... LIEBERMAN'S LOGIC On the bleak Iraqi border, There's a certain spot Where the Persians slither over-- To be frank, a lot. Lieberman, who turned Pelosi Apple-green and Reid Sickly mauve, suggests we bomb the...

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is weathering a political crisis after he suspended the chief justice of the supreme court for transparently trumped-up reasons.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is weathering a political crisis after he suspended the chief justice of the supreme court for transparently trumped-up reasons. It is bruited about that Musharraf may suffer an ouster like that of the...

When Ronald Reagan proposed sharing missile-defense technology with the Soviet Union in 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev scoffed at the idea.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * When Ronald Reagan proposed sharing missile-defense technology with the Soviet Union in 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev scoffed at the idea. More than 20 years later, however, Russian president Vladimir Putin is showing more interest--or so it would...

In a statement released on June 4, Speaker Nancy Pelosi commemorated the 18th anniversary of the protest and massacre at Tiananmen Square.(The Week)(Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * In a statement released on June 4, Speaker Nancy Pelosi commemorated the 18th anniversary of the protest and massacre at Tiananmen Square. Pelosi called the anniversary an opportunity not only to remember the protesters, but to "reaffirm our...

On June 12, the Victims of Communism Memorial was formally dedicated in Washington, D.C., to honor the 100 million people who are estimated to have died at the hands of a savage ideology.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * On June 12, the Victims of Communism Memorial was formally dedicated in Washington, D.C., to honor the 100 million people who are estimated to have died at the hands of a savage ideology. Located on Massachusetts Avenue, and with a clear view...

A spokesman for Fatah accused Hamas militiamen of looting Yasser Arafat's Gaza City home and stealing his Nobel Peace Prize medal.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * A spokesman for Fatah accused Hamas militiamen of looting Yasser Arafat's Gaza City home and stealing his Nobel Peace Prize medal. If found, please return to the Palestinian Authority, the Norwegian Storting, or your local dynamite...

George W. Bush received a hero's welcome during an eight-hour stop in Albania, which the American media noted with amusement, mixed with scorn (Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post called it a "reverse-Borat moment").(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * George W. Bush received a hero's welcome during an eight-hour stop in Albania, which the American media noted with amusement, mixed with scorn (Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post called it a "reverse-Borat moment"). Some of the enthusiasm...

The trouble with the practices of rational, consensual government--as Wordsworth pointed out when he referred to them as "the meagre, stale, forbidding ways / Of custom, law, and statute"--is that they are not very romantic.(The Week)(revolutionary romanticism of Che Guevara)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * The trouble with the practices of rational, consensual government--as Wordsworth pointed out when he referred to them as "the meagre, stale, forbidding ways / Of custom, law, and statute"--is that they are not very romantic. Revolution, by...

NASA administrator Michael Griffin recently caused an uproar when he told NPR that, although he has no doubt that global warming exists, he felt that NASA's role was solely to research climate change, and was "not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.".(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * NASA administrator Michael Griffin recently caused an uproar when he told NPR that, although he has no doubt that global warming exists, he felt that NASA's role was solely to research climate change, and was "not sure that it is fair to say...

U.N. secretary general Ban Ki-moon argued, in the Washington Post, that the 200,000-person body count in Darfur "derives ... from man-made global warming.".(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * U.N. secretary general Ban Ki-moon argued, in the Washington Post, that the 200,000-person body count in Darfur "derives... from man-made global warming." Well of course it does. And what about poverty, AIDS, and child pornography? Surely...

The "Hillary for President" website (prop. H. Rodham Clinton) has been seeking a campaign song for the former First Lady.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * The "Hillary for President" website (prop. H. Rodham Clinton) has been seeking a campaign song for the former First Lady. One of our own editors offered a modest submission based on a familiar hymn tune: "Onward Clinton soldiers / Don't talk...

A lot of people still think of Time as a news magazine, as opposed to the more opinionated variety like The Nation, The New Republic, or National Review.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * A lot of people still think of Time as a news magazine, as opposed to the more opinionated variety like The Nation, The New Republic, or NATIONAL REVIEW. A perusal of its recent cover stories proves otherwise. Its most recent cover as of...

Together, the Godfather novels and movies and The Sopranos bracket almost 40 years of a pop-culture love affair with the mob.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Together, the Godfather novels and movies and The Sopranos bracket almost 40 years of a pop-culture love affair with the mob. The first all-American icon, from James Fenimore Cooper to John Wayne, was the frontiersman. The West moved west,...

The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding, an Episcopal priest in Seattle, says she is simultaneously a Muslim. She was ordained as a priest in 1984, and became a Muslim last year.(The Week )(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding, an Episcopal priest in Seattle, says she is simultaneously a Muslim. She was ordained as a priest in 1984, and became a Muslim last year. Her bishop approves, as does the leader of the Islamic center she prays...

Skull and Bones is one of Yale's secret societies: freemasonry for kids, dating back to the 19th century.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Skull and Bones is one of Yale's secret societies: freemasonry for kids, dating back to the 19th century. The Bushes and John Kerry are Bonesmen, as is the founder of this magazine. It has long been a campus legend that the society owns the...

Poor Pluto!(The Week)(delisted by International Astronomical Union)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Poor Pluto! Stripped of its status as a planet by the International Astronomical Union last August, it has now been further demoted. Investigations by two Caltech astronomers, reported in a recent issue of Science, demonstrate that the more...

Millions of American children knew Don Herbert as Mr. Wizard, a TV regular from the 1950s even unto the 1980s.(The Week)(Obituary)
July 9, 2007... * Millions of American children knew Don Herbert as Mr. Wizard, a TV regular from the 1950s even unto the 1980s. Herbert was a bomber pilot in WWII and a small-time actor before developing his first TV show, Watch Mr. Wizard, which ran from...

Kurt Waldheim led an archetypal life. David Pryce-Jones gives the details.(The Week)(Kurt Waldheim )(Obituary)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... * Kurt Waldheim led an archetypal life. David Pryce-Jones gives the details (see p. 30). Here we stress the shape. Wherever Waldheim found himself--cheek by jowl with killing fields and deportation trains, snug in a ministry or U.N. office,...

Fool me twice.(PUBLIC POLICY)(immigration bill being revived by George W. Bush)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... PRESIDENT BUSH is working hard to revive his immigration bill. The status quo over which he has presided for six years is, he now says, "unacceptable." But the bill he supports, though it is labeled "comprehensive immigration reform," is really...

The lesser evil.(THE MIDDLE EAST)
July 9, 2007... THE news that Hamas has murdered its way to power over Fatah in Gaza could hardly be worse. At the street level, the violence is dreadful. Hostages are taken and shot. Handcuffed men, rightly or wrongly accused of belonging to Fatah, are thrown...

Against universal coverage.(PUBLIC POLICY)(presidential elections)
July 9, 2007... THE Democrats running for president are competing over whose health-care plan gets closest to "universal coverage." The Republican presidential candidates, meanwhile, have been mostly silent. Their inattention to the issue is a mistake. A great...

Animosity and amnesty: a grand failure.(Cover story)
July 9, 2007... WHEN addressing immigration reform, President Bush repeatedly admonishes, "We need to do this without animosity and without amnesty." The comprehensive bill he strongly supports and the contentious Senate debate it launched provide both, in...

'Give me the tools': they have them--so use them.(immigration reform in United States)(Cover story)
July 9, 2007... 'IF someone else has a better idea, I'd love to have them give it to us." That was John McCain, challenging his fellow Republican presidential candidates in early June to offer an alternative to the amnesty bill he helped craft with Ted...

In government, too: you'll find illegal aliens in the darndest places.(Cover story)
July 9, 2007... NEARLY everyone professes to agree that the government should crack down on employers who hire illegal aliens. But it appears that the government needs, first, to crack down on itself. That's the story told in a footnote of an audit report...

Mrs. Pelosi's dogs: Blue Dogs, that is--and they are part of her formidable majority.(POLITICS)(Nancy Pelosi)
July 9, 2007... RIGHT after the elections last November, we heard a lot about the new breed of conservative Democrats who had helped their party to gain control of Congress. Three of the most frequently mentioned new congressmen were Heath Shuler of North...

A 20th-century career: Kurt Waldheim, 1918-2007.(THE WORLD)(In memoriam)
July 9, 2007... KURT WALDHEIM was one of the most despicable--and most despised--public figures in the West since 1945. His whole career was an exercise in craft and evasion. As secretary general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982, he helped to put in...

Truth was not his bag: Richard Rorty, 1931-2007.(PHILOSOPHY)(In memoriam)
July 9, 2007... IF Richard Rorty hadn't existed, it would have been necessary for the academy to invent him. Rorty, who died at 75 on June 8, epitomized a hearty American version of the Teutonic epistemic gloom that has raged like wildfire through the American...

American party girl: the prisonerette in L.A.(CULTURE WATCH)(Paris Hilton)
July 9, 2007... FIRST, two confessions. When I saw the photographs of a sobbing, snot-faced Paris Hilton getting carted back to jail--she had been released for "an unspecified medical problem" after serving only a few days of her sentence--I got a creepy...

Economic reds: a diagnosis: understanding Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and their breed.(PUBLIC POLICY)
July 9, 2007... MORE amusing than apocalyptic Greens are economic Reds. An economic red is not necessarily a socialist; he does not necessarily believe in, for instance, the abolition of private property, the planned economy, or treating profit as an...

A sweeping presidential power: on Lewis Libby and pardons.(THE WHITE HOUSE)
July 9, 2007... CLAIR GEORGE knows pardons. The former chief of the CIA's clandestine operations, George was convicted in early December 1992 of two counts of lying to Congress in connection with the Iran-contra affair. Two weeks later, on Christmas Eve,...

The ethical case against withdrawal from Iraq: a matter urgently to consider.(AT WAR)
July 9, 2007... DEBATE over whether America should withdraw from Iraq has turned primarily on strategic questions. But one need not be a utopian--or, more dreaded still, a "Wilsonian"--to see that not all foreign-policy questions are strategic. Almost...

Candidate McCain.(HELP!!!)(Poem)
July 9, 2007... God knows he's been around the block, From Hanoi's Hilton to the lock He thought he had on Bush's base. Just yesterday he joined the chase With Hillary; but now the bus Reporters crammed and some of us Disported in (not me, I...

Transcript from Larry King Live June 27, 2008.(the long view)(Broadcast transcript)
July 9, 2007... LARRY KING: "From Atlanta, Georgia! Hello!" CALLER: "Hi Larry, hi William!" PRINCE OF WALES: "Hullo!" LARRY KING: "Do you have a question for the future king of England?" CALLER: "Um, yeah, Larry. First, I want to wish him all...

In a Strange Land.(books, arts & manners)(Robert Anson Heinlein )(Biography)
July 9, 2007... WHEN Robert A. Heinlein opened his Colorado Springs newspaper on April 5, 1958, he read a full-page ad demanding that the Eisenhower administration stop testing nuclear weapons. The science-fiction author was flabbergasted. He called for the...

The great consensus.(books, arts & manners)(The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture, by Brink Lindsey (HarperCollins, 400 pp., $26.95) THINGS are better than you think. And that means you, NATIONAL REVIEW readers, among many others. That's the...

Triumph of the new.(books, arts & manners)(Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, by Thomas K. McCraw (Belknap, 736 pp., $35) EVERY few years, public interest in innovation and entrepreneurship undergoes something of a revival. We're in one of those...

Bestriding our history.(books, arts & manners)(Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America, by Andrew Ferguson (Atlantic Monthly, 304 pp., $24) NO, not a gay Lincoln, or a racist Lincoln, or a warmongering Lincoln, or a big-government Lincoln, or--for that matter--a perfect Lincoln....

Punch the director!(FILM)(Hostel: Part II)(Movie review)
July 9, 2007... THERE are a variety of interesting observations that one might make about the trends in American popular culture that gave rise to Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II, the latest in a spate of gruesome, torture-heavy horror flicks that includes the...

February 12, 1809.(Poem)
July 9, 2007... You must have known, even when you were young, What the task was, and all that it would mean To set the people free, yet make them one. You must have looked ahead and seen it written, The simple words that needed to be...

Out of the box.(THE STRAGGLER)(television)
July 9, 2007... DID you catch the last episode of The Sopranos? I missed it. Worse yet, I missed the entire Sopranos phenomenon--have never seen a single episode, nor even a fraction of one. Matter of fact, there was another program on that night I wanted to...

Debasing democracy.(on the right)(No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... NEW YORK, JUNE 5 ROBERT Shrum has written a book in which he tells all, or at least leaves one hoping that what he has told is all there is to tell. If, in the dawn's early light, freshly empanelled fathers convened to found a civil...

Yes, free Libby.(on the right)(Lewis Libby)
July 9, 2007... NEW YORK, JUNE 8 THE talk about a pardon for Lewis Libby is food for thought. Partisans are grateful that there is time, even if not much time, to think, pending the appeals that are under way challenging the conviction at a technical...

Goodbye, Ton'.(on the right)(The Sopranos comes to an end)
July 9, 2007... NEW YORK, JUNE 12 THE genius of David Chase, the originator of The Sopranos, was never more evident than in the last episode of the series. I viewed it with an earnest and cosmopolitan young man and his lady, and we wondered, as we waited...

Spaced out.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
July 30, 2007... David Pryce-Jones quite rightly describes Kurt Waldheim as one of the most despicable and despised figures in the West since 1945 ("A 20th-Century Career," July 9). But, in the end, Waldheim may have the last laugh on all of us. Even as I...

Parisian philosopher.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
July 30, 2007... Paris Hilton, that "silly and pointless" lass, may find her end in obscurity, as Rob Long points out ("American Party Girl," July 9). If she does slide alone into the dark night like Willy Loman, it is worth remembering that all but a few...

Guess who's coming to dinner.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
July 30, 2007... As a longtime registered Republican, I wouldn't walk across the street to shake Sen. Ted Kennedy's hand, so what does NATIONAL REVIEW do to me? It puts him in my house via the U.S. Postal Service and the cover of the July 9 edition. Bah,...

How will history distinguish the Doctors' Plot (British Muslims) from the Doctors' Plot (Soviet Jews)?(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... How will history distinguish the Doctors' Plot (British Muslims) from the Doctors' Plot (Soviet Jews)? The Jews were innocent, and the Jews were executed.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Fred Thompson, in 1991, did some lobbying work for a pro-abortion group.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... The Los Angeles Times reported that Fred Thompson, in 1991, did some lobbying work for a pro-abortion group. According to the story, he was trying to persuade the first Bush administration to allow federal funds to go to family-planning clinics...

The White House invoked executive privilege to keep two former aides--counsel Harriet Miers and political director Sara Taylor--from having to testify before Congress about the firing of U.S. attorneys.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... The White House invoked executive privilege to keep two former aides--counsel Harriet Miers and political director Sara Taylor--from having to testify before Congress about the firing of U.S. attorneys. The administration is on solid legal...

While New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg denies that he is running for president, his minions work on the mechanics of a run.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... While New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg denies that he is running for president, his minions work on the mechanics of a run. Time magazine praises his post-partisan accomplishments. Most recently he cast off the GOP label that he adopted...

The Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, has two attached seminaries, for male and female religious students.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... The Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, has two attached seminaries, for male and female religious students. Two brothers who run this establishment have long been fanaticizing these students, of whom there are over 5,000. Their...

After two car bombs failed to explode in London, and a third car crashed in flames into a terminal building at Glasgow Airport, the would-be mass murderers turned out to be radical Muslims.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... After two car bombs failed to explode in London, and a third car crashed in flames into a terminal building at Glasgow Airport, the would-be mass murderers turned out to be radical Muslims. No surprise there, though many were shocked to find...

No artsy Sopranos ending for Tomorrow's Pioneers.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... No artsy Sopranos ending for Tomorrow's Pioneers. The series, a production of Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas's Gaza Strip station, starred Farfour, a Mickey Mouse rip-off, who sang tunes like "Oh, Jerusalem, we are coming. Oh, Jerusalem, it is the time of...

Get real.(The Week)
July 30, 2007... REALISM is making a comeback these days. Liberals in particular are embracing an approach to foreign policy that they could once be counted on to denounce righteously. The new realism has even infected the New York Times, whose editors now call...

The British are stingy when it comes to rewarding writers, and this makes Salman Rushdie's knighthood all the more exceptional.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... The British are stingy when it comes to rewarding writers, and this makes Salman Rushdie's knighthood all the more exceptional. Publication in 1988 of Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses had been taken in some Muslim ruling circles as an insult...

The French paper Liberation has published an article headed "Jogging: Is it right-wing?".(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... The French paper Liberation has published an article headed "Jogging: Is it right-wing?" The article questions President Sarkozy's dedication to jogging, which he does in his much-loved (and much-maligned) NYPD T-shirt. Le footing, you see, is...

Two Cuban democrats and patriots died, in very different circumstances.(The Week)(Emilio Ochoa and Manuel Acosta)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... Two Cuban democrats and patriots died, in very different circumstances. One died in exile, at almost 100; the other died in the hands of Castro's police, at 47. The first was Emilio Ochoa, called "Millo," who was the last remaining signer of...

Cameron Diaz, the blonde bombshell of an actress, has been forced to apologize to the nation of Peru.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... Cameron Diaz, the blonde bombshell of an actress, has been forced to apologize to the nation of Peru. While visiting Machu Picchu, she was spotted wearing a messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and Mao's slogan "Serve the People," a nifty...

Archbishop Pius Ncube, the leader of Zimbabwe's 1 million Catholics, has called on Britain to depose Robert Mugabe.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... Archbishop Pius Ncube, the leader of Zimbabwe's 1 million Catholics, has called on Britain to depose Robert Mugabe. The archbishop's plea, published in the Times of London, contained a reprise of much that has gone wrong with Zimbabwe: "People...

Socialized Medicine.(Poem)
July 30, 2007... Socialized Medicine In Canada, the prudent keep A vet filed with the V's; In Britain, when their water breaks, Expectant mothers freeze. But sicko Michael Moore, for whom An appendectomy's Exciting waiting in...

Nigerians went to the polls in April.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... Nigerians went to the polls in April. European election observers reported widespread violence prior to the vote, with perhaps 200 people killed by gangs of machete-wielding thugs hired by the candidates. The state-owned News Agency of Nigeria...

All hail new national hero Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... All hail new national hero Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif. In the annual hot-dog-eating contest at Coney Island, Mr. Chestnut dethroned Takeru Kobayashi of Japan, who had won the previous six of these events. The new champion ate 66 hot dogs...

Three years after the death of Ronald Reagan, nearly 100 public landmarks are named after him, according to the Reagan Legacy Project.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... Three years after the death of Ronald Reagan, nearly 100 public landmarks are named after him, according to the Reagan Legacy Project. Yet only 13 are schools. That figure may not grow much, judging from trends documented in a new report by the...

Ann Arbor, Mich., is a small citadel of the Left, on a par with Berkeley, Calif., Madison, Wis., and a few other places.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... Ann Arbor, Mich., is a small citadel of the Left, on a par with Berkeley, Calif., Madison, Wis., and a few other places. But they do have a Fourth of July parade. Not your typical, Norman Rockwell Fourth of July parade, however. This year, we...

When the NAACP announced that its 98th annual convention in Detroit would hold a mock funeral for what one nowadays calls "the N-word," our first thought was, Good luck.(The Week)(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... When the NAACP announced that its 98th annual convention in Detroit would hold a mock funeral for what one nowadays calls "the N-word," our first thought was, Good luck. "Nigger" is a linguistic kudzu vine, woven into American English. White...

But let's not kill innocent words along with the guilty.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... But let's not kill innocent words along with the guilty. Fashion has moved from colored to Negro to black to African-American, but sometimes you need the older forms. Vonetta Flowers won a gold medal in the two-woman bobsled at the 2002 Winter...