National Review articles from March 2004

National Review archives from March 2004

Passion problems.(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... In his column on Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, William F. Buckley Jr. suggests that Jewish concerns that the film could legitimize anti-Semitism through its depiction of Jews were "incautious" ("On the Right," Feb. 23). He goes on to say...

Fast-food families.(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... In the Jan. 26 issue, an important point is suggested by the juxtaposition of two book reviews: "Rediscovering the Family," about The Two-Income Trap, and "The Fat Police," about Food Fight. It is, namely, that the "obesity epidemic" is more...

Tracing the X.(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... I wanted to clear up the misperception--which appeared in William Wolf's letter in the Jan. 26 issue--that we use the term "Xmas" to save letters. This is not a "disrespectful habit of our times." Rather, the X in "Xmas" is actually the Greek...

Penny wise and dollar foolish.(outsourcing and its effect on the US labor market)
March 8, 2004... The Administration's top economists now claim that the outsourcing of America's service jobs is good for the U.S. economy. They say that consumers benefit when low paid foreign workers, operating overseas, provide America its software,...

In Fox News poll, President Bush tops Sen. John Kerry, 47 percent to 43 percent.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * In Fox News poll, President Bush tops Sen. John Kerry, 47 percent to 43 percent.... Bush, on the election, on Meet the Press: "I'm not going to lose."... More Bush: "It's fine to go after me, which I expect the other side will do. I...

Al Gore attacks Bush on Iraq: "He betrayed this country!(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Al Gore attacks Bush on Iraq: "He betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place."... Jane Fonda,...

Kerry on Bush and Iraq, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "If you were CEO of a company, you'd be fired immediately.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Kerry on Bush and Iraq, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "If you were CEO of a company, you'd be fired immediately. The arrogance, and the sheer sort of, almost stupidity of it, is stunning."... Sen. Zell Miller (D., Ga.): "They don't know...

In Rasmussen poll, 42 percent say Kerry is better than Bush on government spending and 33 percent say Bush.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * In Rasmussen poll, 42 percent say Kerry is better than Bush on government spending and 33 percent say Bush. Among conservative voters, 53 percent prefer Bush and 21 percent pick Kerry.... In Virginia, Sen. John Warner (R.) embraces efforts by...

In U-Conn poll, 65 percent say Gov. John Rowland (R.) should resign.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * In U-Conn poll, 65 percent say Gov. John Rowland (R.) should resign.... In Sioux Falls Argus Leader poll, Sen. Tom Daschle (D., S.D.) leads GOP challenger John Thune, 50 percent to 43 percent.... In Gallup poll, 47 percent favor...

Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, in New York Times: "We Europeans cannot simply resist forceful action by the United States and leave it at that.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, in New York Times: "We Europeans cannot simply resist forceful action by the United States and leave it at that. We have to take positive action also. We have to push the United States to use...

Jay Leno: "Former president Bill Clinton won a Grammy in the spoken-word category.(for the record)
March 8, 2004... * Jay Leno: "Former president Bill Clinton won a Grammy in the spokenword category. If you had told me a year ago that Bill Clinton would be a Grammy winner and that Janet Jackson would be the subject of a government sex investigation..."

Now we understand Ted Kennedy's enthusiasm.(The Week)
March 8, 2004... * Now we understand Ted Kennedy's enthusiasm for Kerry's candidacy.

The Story--you know what Story we are not talking about--has been denied by Senator Kerry et al., and there it will likely rest, pending further developments.(The Week)(sexual harassment)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * The Story--you know what Story we are not talking about--has been denied by Senator Kerry et al., and there it will likely rest, pending further developments. Should such stories see the light of day? The responsible answer is no: Privacy...

The flap over President Bush's National Guard service shrinks daily, but does not disappear.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * The flap over President Bush's National Guard service shrinks daily, but does not disappear. (For clinching details in the case, please see Byron York's piece, page 33.) While Democrats have had to back off Terry McAuliffe's assertion that...

The Scream will forever stand as the symbol of Howard Dean's self-immolation.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * The Scream will forever stand as the symbol of Howard Dean's self-immolation. But the flames had been licking around him well before that, stoked by the political vulnerabilities created by his total anti-Bush rejectionism (John Kerry pounded...

As for Wesley Clark, whose five-month presidential campaign ended after raising and spending 10 million dollars and winning one primary: he was a political novice and it showed.(The Week)
March 8, 2004... * As for Wesley Clark, whose five-month presidential campaign ended after raising and spending 10 million dollars and winning one primary: He was a political novice and it showed. Clark ran as a Democrat, though he had voted for Nixon and...

We all know that Democrats can say certain things that Republicans can't, and that the national media are biased.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * We all know that Democrats can say certain things that Republicans can't, and that the national media are biased. But still, sometimes something occurs that can astonish. Al Gore, in (another) vein-bulging speech, said of President Bush: "He...

Al Gore's claim of "betrayal" came at a rally for Tennessee Democrats.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Al Gore's claim of "betrayal" came at a rally for Tennessee Democrats. He accused the president of starting a war that was "preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place." The truth of the matter is that Bush was indeed interested in...

The Public's Steaming.(Poem)
March 8, 2004... THE PUBLIC'S STEAMING In a 4-to-3 that hits Kerry in the gut, Bay State judges have opined, When one's in the rut (Language coarsens, don't you think?) Marriage writs must go In the sleeper with...

The multiple panels investigating the intelligence pre-9/11 and pre-Iraq campaign are entangled in confusing issues over their scopes, deadlines, and agendas.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * The multiple panels investigating the intelligence pre-9/11 and pre-Iraq campaign are entangled in confusing issues over their scopes, deadlines, and agendas. But the Democrats' operative principles in these controversies are clear enough....

N. Gregory Mankiw, the head of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, produced a rare moment of Washington bipartisanship.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * N. Gregory Mankiw, the head of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, produced a rare moment of Washington bipartisanship. Republicans and Democrats alike say he should be sacked, or at least reprimanded. The economist provoked this...

Senate Democrats finally have the scalp they so desperately wanted.(The Week)(Manuel Miranda)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Senate Democrats finally have the scalp they so desperately wanted. On February 6--Reagan's birthday!--the Senate Republican leadership announced the resignation of Manuel Miranda, a top aide to majority leader Bill Frist. Miranda quit under...

Education in Urban America.
March 8, 2004... There was good news, bad news, and troubling nonsense associated with the December 17, 2003, release of scores for ten big cities in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The...

Republicans thought they were being clever.(The Week)(campaign finance)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Republicans thought they were being clever. The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance regulations were supposedly going to work in their favor. Republicans have been good at raising "hard money" contributions and Democrats at soft money. The new...

Free the digital economy.
March 8, 2004... FOR the past 150 years, a hallmark of the American economy has been that we are almost always first in inventing and adopting cutting-edge technologies. That has been true in every area from drugs and vaccines to automobiles, aeronautics, TV,...

It's about time to ... weigh down[TM] and stay healthy.(health food)(Advertisement)
March 8, 2004... Let's face it. Many of us long for a trim body for our own vanity, for self-esteem or to be more pleasing to others. However, if those were the only reasons for being thin then we, as nutritionists, would not have created a diet product. An...

Scientists in South Korea announced that they had cloned a human embryo.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Scientists in South Korea announced that they had cloned a human embryo. Supporters of "research cloning"--that is, the creation of human embryos for the purpose of research in which they are destroyed--said that the announcement showed the...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is an enemy in plain view.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is an enemy in plain view. Thirty-seven years old and a Jordanian by birth, he's a longtime Qaeda loyalist. He is known to have fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, and to have recruited for the Chechens. Above all, he was...

The criminal activities of Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of the Pakistani or "Muslim" bomb, read more and more like a doomsday thriller.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * The criminal activities of Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of the Pakistani or "Muslim" bomb, read more and more like a doomsday thriller. James Bond, where are you? First he purloined designs for the nuclear weapons. Then he set up a purchasing...

Muhammad Ismail Agha, aged 15, is back with his family in Afghanistan after two months' imprisonment at Bagram airbase north of Kabul, followed by a year in the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Muhammad Ismail Agha, aged 15, is back with his family in Afghanistan after two months' imprisonment at Bagram airbase north of Kabul, followed by a year in the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Human-rights groups have...

In the bicentennial year of its independence, Haiti faces a revolution against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former priest who was first elected in 1990, deposed in 1991, then restored by American arms in 1994.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * In the bicentennial year of its independence, Haiti faces a revolution against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former priest who was first elected in 1990, deposed in 1991, then restored by American arms in 1994. How many revolutions...

Randall Robinson is the black American scold who wants our government to pay reparations to citizens of his race, to atone for the crime of having permitted the enslavement of those citizens' ancestors.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Randall Robinson is the black American scold who wants our government to pay reparations to citizens of his race, to atone for the crime of having permitted the enslavement of those citizens' ancestors. Three weeks before the September 11...

"Why can't a woman be more like a man?" wondered Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" wondered Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Britain's parliament has been pondering the same issue, and has come to the conclusion that not only can a woman be as like a man as she pleases, she can actually...

Ever in the vanguard of political correctness, the Church of England has been debating the best way to refer to the Three Wise Men.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * Ever in the vanguard of political correctness, the Church of England has been debating the best way to refer to the Three Wise Men. A committee of that church's current synod, charged with rewriting the prayer book yet again, has changed...

The saving grace of George Steinbrenner, the principal owner of the New York Yankees, is that he understands the Yankee Idea, symbolized by those bronze plaques in the outfield at Yankee Stadium, the House that Ruth Built.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... * The saving grace of George Steinbrenner, the principal owner of the New York Yankees, is that he understands the Yankee Idea, symbolized by those bronze plaques in the outfield at Yankee Stadium, the House that Ruth Built. The Yankees'...

Betting on Bush.(Campaign 2004)
March 8, 2004... ALL of a sudden, Republicans are worried about President Bush's chances in the upcoming election. There are several reasons for the gathering gloom. Republicans had hoped to be able to run against Howard Dean, and will not. The economic...

Soldier and slander.(Campaign 2004 II)
March 8, 2004... IN his cover story last issue on John Kerry's other Vietnam war record--his record, that is, of slandering American troops--Mackubin Thomas Owens may have made a mistake. Owens wrote that Kerry "will have to explain to his fellow veterans why...

Notes & asides.(satire)
March 8, 2004... * Dear Bill: "Johannes Eff" rides again. Hope you'll enjoy. Cordially, Jack Kiley Portland, Ore. Dr. Dean and Doctor Faustus A Funversation Dr. D: I'll do anything to get out of the sticks. Dr. F: Anything? I know a few...

The bells are ringing ... Marriage, marriage, everywhere.(The Nation)(same sex marriage)
March 8, 2004... AS same-sex couples from neighboring jurisdictions and even states besiege San Francisco's city offices clamoring to be wed, one is half-tempted to grant them what they say they want--the stability of lifelong marriage. Suppose same-sex...

Sharon's moves: in Jerusalem and environs, pivotal times.(The Middle East)
March 8, 2004... POLITICAL turmoil is the normal state of affairs in Israel, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has never been one to avoid it. He thrives on risk. At the moment he is engaged in controversial policies that are either bold forays into the unknown...

You deserve a factual look at ... the Golan heights: to whom do they belong? Can Israel survive without them?
March 8, 2004... In a transparent effort to improve his thuggish image, Syria's president Bashar Assad has proposed to meet with Israeli government officials to discuss the possibility of peace. There can be no question that "peace" is not on Mr. Assad's mind,...

Up from Mapplethorpe: but far from a conservative darling: the arts endowment today.(Washington)
March 8, 2004... THE day after Janet Jackson's peep show at the Super Bowl, a joke made its way around the offices of the National Endowment for the Arts: Did we fund that? It's a fair question for a federal agency that has underwritten exhibitions far...

Is there a doctor-president in the house? The unhappy history of physicians as national leaders.(Culture Watch)(Column)
March 8, 2004... THE practice of medicine requires the exercise of a dispassionate compassion. Doctors are sympathetic yet objective, concerned yet detached, involved yet observant, feeling yet unsentimental; in other words, they have precisely those qualities...

A movie and its meaning: Mel Gibson's Passion is for all time.(The Passion of the Christ)(Movie Review)
March 8, 2004... BY the fifteenth minute of The Passion of the Christ, Jesus's right eye has swollen nearly shut. It stays that way for the next two hours. It is a brutal, almost unbearably brutal, movie. From the very beginning in the Garden of Gethsemane, the...

Bush and the National Guard: case closed: the facts about the president's service.(Campaign 2004)
March 8, 2004... ASK retired Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed whether the press has accurately reported what he said about George W. Bush, and you'll get an earful. "No, I don't think they have," he begins. Turnipseed, the former head of the 187th Tactical...

Leaving Republicans behind President Bush's signature education initiative is backfiring.(Public Policy)
March 8, 2004... WHEN George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, Republicans ranked more than 20 points behind Democrats on which party best handled the issue of education. In 2002, Republicans were delighted to find that that deficit had vanished--thanks...

What 'Republican' should mean: say it loud, say it proud.(Politics)
March 8, 2004... WHAT is a Republican? A boring, academic-sounding question, but an important one. We are headed into the most decisive presidential election since 1980. Democrats seem to know where they stand: Whatever President Bush is for, they're against....

The long view.(satire)
March 8, 2004... From the John Kerry Inbox TO: skindoc@cosmeticsurgerypartners.com FROM: PurrPlHrt@aol.com SUBJ: looseness around the jaw and neck??? Did you see the debate last night? Teresa tells me I looked loose and "raisin-y" again. When...

Help!!!!(Comic)
March 8, 2004... DO I? JANET JACKSON'S EXHIBITIONIST ACTS ARE WRONG AND SHOULD BE DONE ONLY WHEN THE LITTLE KIDDIES ARE SAFELY TUCKED IN BED. Thank you. Michael. "For a while we were saying that we 'cherish diversity'--then we decided, what the...

From the Osama CD.(Poem)
March 8, 2004... FROM THE OSAMA CD An Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Who seems to be starting to calve, Complains that a suicide bomber's A calling Iraqis don't have-- He has to import them; moreover, His goons can't suborn the...

The liberator.(Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America)(Book Review)
March 8, 2004... Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo (Simon & Schuster, 332 pp., $26) THERE was a time when every schoolboy learned that Abraham Lincoln was the "Great Emancipator" who freed the slaves, and...

An American original.(The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s)(Book Review)
March 8, 2004... The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s, edited by Thomas L. Jeffers (Free Press, 496 pp., $35) IN the old days, traditionalists and libertarians supposedly divided the American Right...

2004 Bermuda Cruise.(Sail With Us On The National Review)(Advertisement)
March 8, 2004... Sailing May 12-19 on Radisson Seven Sea Cruises' MS Navigator NEW SPEAKERS ADDED! WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. and RAMESH PONNURU to join former Education Secretary WILLIAM BENNETT, former CIA Director JAMES WOOLSEY, and NReditorial all-stars...

Friends in need?(Allies: The U.S., Britain, Europe, and the War in Iraq)(Book Review)
March 8, 2004... Allies: The U.S., Britain, Europe, and the War in Iraq, by William Shawcross (PublicAffairs, 272 pp., $20) IN late 1974, Jacques Chirac, then prime minister of France, traveled to Baghdad to meet Iraqi vice president Saddam Hussein. The two...

A Hill In Massachusetts.(Poem)
March 8, 2004... A HILL IN MASSACHUSETTS The slope down which, come snow, beginners ski, October hikers climb now with a will, Trudging up trails to see what they can see From crests that look out down the Great Blue Hill. The work,...

Tales of the flood.(Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis)(Book Review)
March 8, 2004... Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis, by Otis L. Graham Jr. (Rowman & Littlefield, 264 pp., $26.95) RADICALS loose in America. Unprecedented numbers of immigrants arriving, from countries less and less like those that...

Sparing the abusers.(Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Response to Intimate Abuse)(Book Review)
March 8, 2004... Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Response to Intimate Abuse, by Linda G. Mills (Princeton, 192 pp., $19.95) TRUE story, from Insult to Injury: A man beats and rapes his wife; later, he holds a loaded gun to her head in front of her small...

Culture heroes.(Shelf Life)(Educating for Liberty: The First Half-Century of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute )(Book Review)
March 8, 2004... AT mid-century, campuses slumbered acquiescently in the culture of entrenched post-New Deal statism. But a man named Frank Chodorov knew that if you were going to change the culture, you had to do it through the kids; accordingly, in 1953, he...

War games.(The Straggler)(Column)
March 8, 2004... Sunday afternoon, the eight-year-old knocking around the house. No one to play with: His pals have relatives over, or are themselves away on family visits. Sister has a play date in the next town, Mom is out shopping. The weather is nice and...

Enter the hague.(on the right)(Osbaldo Torres)
March 8, 2004... NEW YORK, JANUARY 16 THE "courtesy" exercised by the State of Oklahoma in the matter of Osbaldo Torres has enormous implications. The attorney general called it that--an exercise in courtesy--putting off the execution of the convicted...

The enlarging al-Qaeda front.(international politics)
March 8, 2004... GSTAAD, FEBRUARY 10 IF President Bush had had in hand the now-famous letter to the al-Qaeda leaders urging civil war in Iraq, would that have helped him in his encounter with Tim Russert on Meet the Press? Or for that matter, in his...

The Beacon Hill Nightmare.(John Kerry's mortgage)
March 8, 2004... GSTAAD, FEBRUARY 13 THE story of Sen. John Kerry's mortgaged home in Beacon Hill is worth looking at. What made the papers was the suggestion that his access to it, in usufruct, was threatened by the sheer size of the loan and the...

It is time to act on teacher quality.(Column)
March 8, 2004... "... our nation is at a crossroads. We will not continue to lead if we persist in viewing teaching--the profession that makes all other professions possible--as a second-rate occupation." This warning comes from the recent report of the...

Dubya's to lose.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... Regarding your "Betting on Bush" editorial (March 8, The Week): Well said. This election is the president's to lose. The case for war in Iraq is strong, notwithstanding the intelligence failures. And, interestingly, Senator Kerry has...

Kerry fact & fiction.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... Congratulations to Mackubin Thomas Owens for taking the high road while exposing John Kerry's post-Vietnam activities ("But Was It True?," Feb. 23). Using facts to debunk fiction, Owens presents a powerful argument against Kerry's version of...

For and agin'.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... I look to my NR subscription for political analysis to balance that found in The New Yorker. Yet time and again I find NR's political commentary to be infected with moralizing. Thus an article about the National Endowment for the Arts ("Up from...

Solving America's retirement problem.
March 22, 2004... America has a retirement crisis. If the U.S. manufacturing sector is allowed to shrink further, this crisis will devolve into a national economic catastrophe. The U.S. retirement crisis exists largely because of America's twin deficits--a...

In Fox News poll, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) tie at 45 percent apiece in prospective matchup.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * In Fox News poll, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) tie at 45 percent apiece in prospective matchup.... Bush: "The other party's nomination battle is still playing out. The candidates are an interesting group with diverse...

Kerry letter to Bush: "Over the last week, you and your campaign have initiated a widespread attack on my service in Vietnam, my decision to speak out to end that war, and my commitment to the defense of this nation.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * Kerry letter to Bush: "Over the last week, you and your campaign have initiated a widespread attack on my service in Vietnam, my decision to speak out to end that war, and my commitment to the defense of this nation.... I will not sit back...

Ben Chandler wins House seat in Kentucky, marking first Democratic victory in a special election since 1991.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * Ben Chandler wins House seat in Kentucky, marking first Democratic victory in a special election since 1991.... Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) files FEC complaint against Club for Growth for coordinating ads with primary challenger Rep. Pat...

Rates of teen pregnancy and abortion continue to decline, according to Alan Guttmacher Institute.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * Rates of teen pregnancy and abortion continue to decline, according to Alan Guttmacher Institute. Highest rate of teen pregnancy found in Nevada, lowest in North Dakota; highest rate of teen abortion in New Jersey, lowest in Kentucky and...

Digby Jones of Britain's Confederation of Business Industry: "I don't like to hear talk of 'Benedict Arnold CEOs,' which is completely unfair.(for the record)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * Digby Jones of Britain's Confederation of Business Industry: "I don't like to hear talk of 'Benedict Arnold CEOs,' which is completely unfair. Nor do I like to hear people replacing the phrase 'free trade' with 'fair trade' and then going on...

Jay Leno: "The Department of Homeland Security is now working with the United States Post Office.(for the record)
March 22, 2004... * Jay Leno: "The Department of Homeland Security is now working with the United States Post Office on a plan to deliver antibiotics to the American people in the event of a terrorist attack, which will work out great--unless of course the...

Iraqis have proposed a constitution.(The Week)
March 22, 2004... * Iraqis have proposed a constitution; no word yet on how the Massachusetts supreme court will rule.

President Bush, speaking at the Republican Governors Association, showed some of the feistiness that his well-wishers have been yearning to see.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * President Bush, speaking at the Republican Governors Association, showed some of the feistiness that his well-wishers have been yearning to see. About the Iraq war, he said, "Others would have chosen differently. They now agree that the world...

Last of the Democratic bathwater, John Edwards runs down the drain.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * Last of the Democratic bathwater, John Edwards runs down the drain. Edwards was an attractive figure, if you like after-shaved, multimillionaire lawyers. His lack of political experience--one term in the Senate is the whole of it--made him...

Finally, the mainstream press has taken some substantive interest in Mackubin Thomas Owens's NR cover story about John Kerry's 1971 congressional testimony.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * Finally, the mainstream press has taken some substantive interest in Mackubin Thomas Owens's NR cover story about John Kerry's 1971 congressional testimony. Kerry alleged widespread American war crimes such as rape and beheading, committed...

National Journal ranks senators on a liberal-to-conservative scale, and guess who the very most liberal senator of 2003 was?(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * National Journal ranks senators on a liberal-to-conservative scale, and guess who the very most liberal senator of 2003 was? That's right, one John Kerry of Massachusetts, who had an almost-perfect liberal score of 97, beating out his partner...

When it appeared that Kerry would win the nomination, we were sure of one thing: Teresa Heinz Kerry would be good for some entertainment (in that Martha Mitchell way).(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * When it appeared that Kerry would win the nomination, we were sure of one thing: Teresa Heinz Kerry would be good for some entertainment (in that Martha Mitchell way). And so she has been. A statement she made while campaigning in California...

In testimony before Congress, Alan Greenspan said the deficit should be eliminated through spending cuts, not tax increases.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * In testimony before Congress, Alan Greenspan said the deficit should be eliminated through spending cuts, not tax increases. He mentioned, in particular, the desirability of reductions in future Social Security and Medicare benefits....

Scott Peterson is being tried for double murder.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * Scott Peterson is being tried for double murder. That's because California law recognizes that the murder of a pregnant woman has two victims. Sharon Rocha, the mother of Laci Peterson and the grandmother of Conner Peterson, has asked...

There are strange doings in Palm Beach County, and we don't mean hanging chads.(The Week)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * There are strange doings in Palm Beach County, and we don't mean hanging chads. Rush Limbaugh is under shameful attack from Democratic prosecutor Barry Krischer, who is up for reelection this year. As the world knows, Rush became hooked on...

Rick Weiss of the Washington Post is one of the most respected and influential science reporters around, and deservedly so.(The Week)(cloning)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * Rick Weiss of the Washington Post is one of the most respected and influential science reporters around, and deservedly so. His articles have leaned toward the pro-cloning side of the debate. (An article from early 2002 became notorious for...

New Paltz, N.Y., is a Rip Van Winkle-ish town on the edge of the Catskills, founded by French Calvinists three centuries ago.(The Week)(same sex marriage)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... * New Paltz, N.Y., is a Rip Van Winkle-ish town on the edge of the Catskills, founded by French Calvinists three centuries ago. It recently turned in its sleep when Mayor Jason West performed a number of illegal same-sex weddings. Mayor West, a...