National Review articles from November 2004

National Review archives from November 2004

In his bid for reelection, George W. Bush deserves the support of conservatives.
November 8, 2004... In his bid for reelection, George W. Bush deserves the support of conservatives. His presidency has not turned out as anyone expected. The country was struck hard early in his term. He rose to the occasion. The terrorists had to be hunted down,...

Buffettville.(Letter to the Editor)
November 8, 2004... I was very impressed with John Berlau's incisive analysis of Warren Buffett's support of the estate tax ("Buffetted," Aug. 23). When someone as rich as Buffett espouses what seems to be so "unselfish" a view it immediately arouses suspicion. I...

More for less.(Letter to the Editor)
November 8, 2004... Richard Vedder is right on the mark in saying that Americans are paying much more for higher education but getting less serious learning ("A Fortune in Tuition," Oct. 11). As more and more federal, state, and private funding has become...

Rather delightful.(Letter to the Editor)
November 8, 2004... I must say I have never been so entertained as when Jonah Goldberg referred to Dan Rather's unraveling as "God's Own Pinata" ("Oh Happy Day!" Oct. 11). Indeed, the "sweet, sweet goodness" that flowed from this story simply made my day! Please...

In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 26 states worth 218 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 18 states worth 221 electoral votes (270 needed to win).(includes other news)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 26 states worth 218 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 18 states worth 221 electoral votes (270 needed to win).... ABC News/Washington Post poll: Bush 50 percent, Kerry 47...

Kerry on whether 9/11 changed him, in New York Times: "It didn't change me much at all.".(John F. Kerry)(includes other news)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Kerry on whether 9/11 changed him, in New York Times: "It didn't change me much at all."... More Kerry: "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."... Bush on Kerry's...

John Edwards, in vice-presidential debate: "The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * John Edwards, in vice-presidential debate: "The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?"... Edwards, next day:...

Senate races come down to wire.(congressional elections and candidates)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Senate races come down to wire.... In Colorado, Ken Salazar (D.) holds slight lead over Pete Coors (R.), according to recent polls, but GOP remains hopeful for win.... In North Carolina, Rep. Richard Burr (R.) closes gap and runs even...

Gov. Jeb Bush (R., Fla.), on ABC News: "I'm not going to run for president in 2008.".(includes other news)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Gov. Jeb Bush (R., Fla.), on ABC News: "I'm not going to run for president in 2008."... Sen. Mark Dayton (D., Minn.) closes Capitol Hill office, citing national-security threats.... Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) on Dayton, in Newsday: "To me...

Post Office announces that Ronald Reagan will appear on stamp early next year.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Post Office announces that Ronald Reagan will appear on stamp early next year.... Survey of high-school students, by National Research Center for College and University Admissions: 82 percent say it's not fair to use race or ethnicity as...

Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski: "It is really sad that a senator with 20 years of experience does not notice the Polish input into the coalition and the Polish sacrifice.(includes other news)(News Briefs)
November 8, 2004... * Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski: "It is really sad that a senator with 20 years of experience does not notice the Polish input into the coalition and the Polish sacrifice. It is immoral."... Spain's socialist government disinvites...

Jay Leno: "Besides being Columbus Day, today is also Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrating Native Americans.(Humor)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Jay Leno: "Besides being Columbus Day, today is also Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrating Native Americans. Today, John Kerry told the Native Americans he has a plan for withdrawing all the troops from America, but it's a secret plan."

Talk about dirty campaigning!(presidential campaign of John F. Kerry)
November 8, 2004... * Talk about dirty campaigning! Kerry's campaign manager declares Mary Cheney "fair game" and within days the candidate takes out a hunting license.

Matt Damon has said he'd pay a million dollars to get Kerry elected.(John F. Kerry)
November 8, 2004... * Matt Damon has said he'd pay a million dollars to get Kerry elected. He can save his money--Teresa's got a billion.

There is fitful progress in Iraq.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * There is fitful progress in Iraq. Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has made noises about joining the political process, and his forces have begun to sell heavy weapons to the Iraqi government in a "gun buy-back" program. Al-Sadr will probably...

"We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," John Kerry told The New York Times Magazine.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," John Kerry told The New York Times Magazine. "As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end...

If you relied exclusively on the mainstream media for the news, you'd surely believe that the war in Iraq was a distraction from the War on Terror.(media coverage of Iraq War)(Saddam Hussein's support of terrorist activity)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * If you relied exclusively on the mainstream media for the news, you'd surely believe that the war in Iraq was a distraction from the War on Terror. You would probably think the 9/11 Commission found no evidence of ties between Saddam's Iraq...

Eighteen reservists from the 343rd Quartermaster Company refused to convoy supplies over a 150-mile route in central Iraq, saying that their trucks were a) old and b) without armored escorts.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Eighteen reservists from the 343rd Quartermaster Company refused to convoy supplies over a 150-mile route in central Iraq, saying that their trucks were a) old and b) without armored escorts. The army is investigating their disobedience, and...

In all the debates, John Kerry criticized Bush for allowing Osama bin Laden to escape at the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001 by relying on unreliable local proxy forces.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * In all the debates, John Kerry criticized Bush for allowing Public races to get dollars by deadline Osama bin Laden to escape at the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001 by relying on unreliable local proxy forces. There is a pinch of truth...

Public races to get dollars by deadline: the rush to get them at Face Value may predict our next president.(buying and collecting of presidential Campaign Dollar; value of past political memorabilia)
November 8, 2004... Citizens across the nation are jamming National Hot Line phones in an effort to get the new Campaign Dollars for their favorite candidate. So far, George W. Bush is ahead in the first round of a very tight race to get the special Dollar...

One of the too-good-to-check stories of American politics is that George Smathers beat Claude Pepper in a Florida Senate race by telling audiences that Pepper's sister was a "thespian.".(references to Dick Cheney's family in political campaign of John F. Kerry )(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * One of the too-good-to-check stories of American politics is that George Smathers beat Claude Pepper in a Florida Senate race by telling audiences that Pepper's sister was a "thespian." Did John Kerry try a similar ploy in the third...

How do I disdain thee?(journalist Ron Suskind's criticism of President George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * How do I disdain thee? Let me count the ways. Ron Suskind rolled out a new attack on George W. Bush in a cover story for The New York Times Magazine, entitled "Without a Doubt." Suskind puts the payoff up front, in a quotation from...

20 Years, 5 Bills.(presidential candidate John F. Kerry)(Humor)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... 20 YEARS, 5 BILLS At last, like wooden stakes impaled In dreaded Dracula, George nailed John's desultory Senate years: There were no noticeable cheers Or clapping--all forbidden; though Later, on Fox, the...

John Kerry told the Des Moines Register that should President Bush win a second term there is "a great potential for a draft.".(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * John Kerry told the Des Moines Register that should President Bush win a second term there is "a great potential for a draft." Neither Bush nor the military wants a draft. But liberals have been hyping this fiction in the hope of swaying...

Christopher Reeve, Superman from the movies, is dead.(the topic of stem cell research in presidential campaigns)
November 8, 2004... * Christopher Reeve, Superman from the movies, is dead. After a riding accident in 1995, he put up a valiant fight to overcome his paralysis and to find a cure for spinal-cord injuries. After he died, John Edwards said, "If we do the work that...

Kerry went out of his way to invoke Ronald Reagan in the debates.(John F. Kerry)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Kerry went out of his way to invoke Ronald Reagan in the debates. Good. We're always happy to see anyone give the Gipper his due. But Kerry's fondness for Reagan was clearly opportunistic. During the Democratic primaries he went out of his...

The qualified teacher charade.(teacher certification as part of the No Child Left Behind Act)
November 8, 2004... No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is best known as a landmark--and controversial--effort by the federal government to hold public schools accountable for their performance by means of standards and tests. It is also a landmark in another, less...

Our vaccine-makers need a shot in the arm.(restrictive policies towards pharmaceutical companies)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Our vaccine-makers need a shot in the arm. The industry is highly regulated; the regulators prefer tried and true methods (injecting chicken eggs) that are costly; and the government has lowered profit margins by buying pediatric vaccines...

Democrats, outraged that Sinclair Broadcasting is airing parts of the anti-Kerry documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, are demanding equal time.(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Democrats, outraged that Sinclair Broadcasting is airing parts of the anti-Kerry documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, are demanding equal time. They don't get it: The broadcast is equal time. Thirty years ago, Kerry's Vietnam...

The next time you hear Kerry whining about Republican "scare tactics," remember Spokane, Wash.(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * The next time you hear Kerry whining about Republican "scare tactics," remember Spokane, Wash. There, on Oct. 11, Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters were broken into; a hole was kicked through the wall of an adjacent office, and cash was...

Republicans are crude, insensitive, and intolerant? They're not the ones making fun of the handicapped for political gain.(political campaign of Democratic representative Craig Fitzhugh)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Republicans are crude, insensitive, and intolerant? They're not the ones making fun of the handicapped for political gain. In Tennessee, a flier emerging from Democratic representative Craig Fitzhugh's campaign office mocks Bush...

The final result of the vote in Afghanistan won't be known for some time, though it looks as if Hamid Karzai has beaten off 16 contenders and will be elected president by a good majority.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * The final result of the vote in Afghanistan won't be known for some time, though it looks as if Hamid Karzai has beaten off 16 contenders and will be elected president by a good majority. The holding of this election is astonishing. Democracy...

You wouldn't know it from reading the New York Times, which buried the story on page 16, but Australia had an election and--guess what?(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * You wouldn't know it from reading the New York Times, which buried the story on page 16, but Australia had an election and--guess what?--the conservative guy who backs Bush and the Iraq war won! We can't help suspecting that the Times might,...

Babi Yar ... Katyn Forest ... the "killing fields" of Communist Cambodia ... Mass graves, filled with the corpses of unarmed people, executed en masse by despotic regimes, have been one of the most horrible features of our age of horrors.(discovery of mass graves in Iraq from Saddam Hussein's regime)
November 8, 2004... * Babi Yar... Katyn Forest... the "killing fields" of Communist Cambodia... Mass graves, filled with the corpses of unarmed people, executed en masse by despotic regimes, have been one of the most horrible features of our age of horrors. The...

The European Union has, naturellement, a Justice and Home Affairs Council, and that council needs a commissioner to represent it in the EU Commission.(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * The European Union has, naturellement, a Justice and Home Affairs Council, and that council needs a commissioner to represent it in the EU Commission. Got that? Well, Italy's nominee for the post of commissioner was turned down after, in...

The outspender.(The Week)
November 8, 2004... THIS may be the first presidential election in American history in which both major candidates suffer from severe fiscal dementia. Bush's record on controlling federal spending has been woeful, as has been pointed out in these pages time and...

After intense negotiations, the Senate has unanimously passed the North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004.(defense of human rights in North Korea)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * After intense negotiations, the Senate has unanimously passed the North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004. The bill provides support to non-governmental groups aiding North Koreans; demands that the U.N. confront China regarding its policy of...

Democracy--you gotta love it.(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Democracy--you gotta love it. There will be an election October 31 in Ukraine, and campaigners for candidate (and current prime minister) Viktor Yanukovich have organized a free striptease show at a Donetsk bar in a bid to win votes for their...

The "hip-hop artist" KRS-One, ne Kris Parker, thinks the 9/11 attacks served us right.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * The "hip-hop artist" KRS-One, ne Kris Parker, thinks the 9/11 attacks served us right. He thinks, in fact, that they were a splendid thing, happily admits to having cheered them, and claims that many other black Americans did likewise. The...

The Great Scandinavian Frolic of the Nobel Prize usually enlivens the fall season.(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * The Great Scandinavian Frolic of the Nobel Prize usually enlivens the fall season. This year's Frolic is particularly rich in human comedy. Wangari Maathai, a lady from Kenya, wins the Peace Prize for starting a movement that is both green...

The Economics Prize, fortunately, is more serious.(economists Edward Prescott, Finn Kydland)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * The Economics Prize, fortunately, is more serious. The latest one went to Edward Prescott, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota, and Finn Kydland of Carnegie Mellon University. Their work contributed to the dethroning of the...

Facing the "crippling prospect" of "worldwide inter-Anglican conflict," a commission appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury has rebuked the Episcopal Church of the United States for ordaining Bishop Gene Robinson, a divorced gay man who lives with his lover.(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Facing the "crippling prospect" of "worldwide inter-Anglican conflict," a commission appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury has rebuked the Episcopal Church of the United States for ordaining Bishop Gene Robinson, a divorced gay man who...

Jazz at Lincoln Center, a popular and well-funded New York City jazz program, has opened in new quarters at the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, to a spate of articles on its famous artistic director, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Jazz at Lincoln Center, a popular and well-funded New York City jazz program, has opened in new quarters at the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, to a spate of articles on its famous artistic director, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. We hear...

The latest group to claim "pride" in their lifestyle choice is the asexuals.(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * The latest group to claim "pride" in their lifestyle choice is the asexuals. One percent of respondents to a recent survey agreed with the statement "I have never felt sexually attracted to anyone at all." Researchers believe the true...

Jacques Derrida was a thinker of many facets.(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... * Jacques Derrida was a thinker of many facets. His method of analysis, known as "deconstruction," could be seen, on a narrow view, as a close reading of texts with the aim of analyzing ambiguities and seeming contradictions, issuing sometimes...

Unlucky Pierre Salinger was a one-man epitome of the unraveling of post-war liberalism.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
November 8, 2004... * Unlucky Pierre Salinger was a one-man epitome of the unraveling of post-war liberalism. He hunted Japanese subs during World War II, and labor racketeers as a reporter and a congressional staffer, then served as John F. Kennedy's charming,...

Rodney Dangerfield was a great American, leading a classic American life.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
November 8, 2004... * Rodney Dangerfield was a great American, leading a classic American life. Born Jacob Cohen, he grew up poor, in a broken home. He was desperate for show business, but failed. He settled down to a conventional life--but he tried again, and...

Notes & asides.(William F. Buckley, Jr.'s speech to launch Hillsdale College's Founders' Campaign, Buckley Online)(Transcript)
November 8, 2004... * WFB's remarks recorded for Hillsdale College's gala dinner launching the Founders' Campaign and celebrating the unveiling of Buckley Online (www.hillsdale.edu/Buckley). Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Dressed as you are in your...

President for life: what the election means for abortion and related issues.
November 8, 2004... IN the 1857 Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that "Africans"--that "unfortunate race"--had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect." What Chief Justice Roger Taney said then about black people, John Kerry says today...

Kerry's cold war: lest we forget ...(political activity and opinions of John F. Kerry related to Cold War events)
November 8, 2004... IN the first presidential debate, John Kerry, adopting his most statesmanlike pose, scored President Bush for damaging U.S. "credibility" among world leaders. "We need to rebuild our alliances. I believe that Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, and...

Don't know much about politics: the curse of the ignorant voter.(American voters' knowledge of current affairs)
November 8, 2004... THE breathless coverage that greets every new poll tracking the candidates' support delicately avoids the depressing reality of just whose opinion is being so scientifically sliced and diced. Despite the thousands of campaign ads and the oceans...

The old (electoral) college cheer: why we have it; why we need it.
November 8, 2004... AS the late Rodney Dangerfield might say, the Electoral College just don't get no respect. Polls show that most Americans, given the opportunity, would cashier it tomorrow in favor of so-called direct election. That they'd live to regret their...

An amazing pass: one minute, we're talking about tolerance for homosexuals; the next, we're watching them marry.
November 8, 2004... THE final weeks of the presidential campaign are filled with talk of homosexuality, specifically the vice president's daughter. Beyond and behind this, of course, is the recent sight of homosexual couples lining up to receive marriage licenses....

Country at a crossroads: November 2 will say a lot about the American people, and our future.(Campaign 2004)
November 8, 2004... HAD Lincoln lost the 1864 vote, a victorious General McClellan would have settled for an American continent divided, with slavery intact. Without Woodrow Wilson's reelection in 1916--opposed by the isolationists--Western Europe would have lost...

Lies, damned lies, and journalists: who's telling the biggest whoppers?(Campaign 2004)
November 8, 2004... MARK HALPERIN, the political director of ABC News, became the center of a minor tempest when an internal memo of his leaked to the Drudge Report. The memo, dated October 8, said that the Bush campaign was telling more, and bigger, lies than the...

The democrats' fantasy island: where they will be if they lose.
November 8, 2004... WITH the race tightening in the final stretch, Democrats have begun to believe--for the first time since the Boston convention--that Kerry really will win. Their spirits are rising, their "get out the illegals" drives in full swing, their...

The long view.(presidential elections)(Humor)
November 8, 2004... NSA Surveillance Records EXTRACT 1: 11/02/04 23:47 EST [cellphone static] [background noise] UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE #1: "Hello?" UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE #2: "We're all wondering when your candidate is going to have the...

God Bless Australia.
November 8, 2004... GOD BLESS AUSTRALIA Down under, where the koala bears Tilt toward Conservative, John Howard gave that Labour guy The sharp end of the shiv, Distressing Kerry's sister, who'd Been stumping for the slain--...

Just say non.(Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France, by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky (Doubleday, 304 pp., $24.95) WHY are relations between France and the United States so bad these days? After reading this...

Reagan as pundit.(Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings, edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson (Free Press, 538 pp., $35) IT has been said that history is too important to be left to...

Queen of the desert.(Florence of Arabia)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... Florence Of Arabia, by Christopher Buckley (Random House, 272 pp., $24.95) ALL it takes for evil to prevail, warned Burke, is "for enough good men to do nothing." True; but that doesn't mean that the good men cannot occasionally relax with...

Hardy perennial.(The Secret Life of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate, by Marilyn S. Greenwald (Ohio University, 384 pp., $32.95) THE Hardy Boys books have sold more than 50 million copies since the first volume appeared in 1927....

December Fifth.(Poem)
November 8, 2004... DECEMBER FIFTH The wind came before the snow and Before the darkness. The forest that Was settled, brown and gray and auburn, Beneath a light sky and a fine, Driven snow, had its trees turn Black, against the...

Living text.(The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times, by David W. Kling (Oxford, 408 pp., $35) ACCORDING to the demographer David Barrett, there were roughly 34,000 Christian denominations at the beginning of the 21st century, a total...

Team spirit.(Team America: World Police)(Movie Review)
November 8, 2004... SOMETHING strange happened after the first screenings of Team America: World Police: The Left squealed and squealed--not with delight, but in indignation, disbelief, and fury. They were being skewered, in this movie, and they weren't used to...

Boxing day.(boxing for sport and recreation; narrative)(Column)
November 8, 2004... 'THREE! (... two, three)--Go!--Switch! Six! (... four, five, six)--Go!--Switch!--Switch! Twelve! (... ten, eleven, twelve)--Go!--Switch!..." I am watching my son, Daniel, age nine, working the big bag. The instructor calls out how many...

Saddam lives.(legality of trial and possible conviction of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein)
November 8, 2004... NEW YORK, OCTOBER 5 IT seems curious that as long ago as March 2003, we tried to kill Saddam Hussein. We had it all worked out that he was in hiding at a particular dwelling in Baghdad, and we launched a missile attack against it. Our...

Dissimulation reigns.(Comprehensive Report of the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction)
November 8, 2004... NEW YORK, OCTOBER 8 ATTENTION focuses on what exactly went through the minds of the major players on the scene. When John Kerry voted to authorize military action by the president, did he expect such action to be taken? If he expected...

Long live oil.(social, economic, and military importance of petroleum)
November 8, 2004... NEW YORK, OCTOBER 13 MRS. Kerry's reference to "greed for oil" can be passed over, and is being passed over, as routine political hyperbole. But maybe the time has come to examine the words and their meaning. This is so because "oil" is...

Horse and carriage.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 29, 2004... I strongly agree with the editors that unelected judges should not presume to "discover" that gay marriage has been constitutionally mandated ("The Week," Oct. 25). Judicial activism, however, cannot be contained by giving activist judges still...

Mystic Madonna.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 29, 2004... I must object to your reference to Kabbala as being on the "exotic fringes of religious inquiry... colorful and New Agey" ("The Week," Oct. 11). The study of Kabbala and its major written work, the Zohar, is serious stuff. Many rabbis feel...

Correction.(letters to the editor)(Correction Notice)
November 29, 2004... In the book review "Taming the Beast" (Oct. 11), John Hood wrote that Donald Trump "stormed out of a John Stossel interview." Mr. Trump actually stormed out after the interview was over; we apologize for the error.

President Bush defeats Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.): 286 electoral votes to 252.(for the record)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * President Bush defeats Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.): 286 electoral votes to 252.... Wins more than 58 million total votes, breaking previous record of 54.5 million set by Ronald Reagan in 1984.... Becomes first presidential candidate to win...

Kerry concedes: "In an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans.(for the record)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * Kerry concedes: "In an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans. And that--that is the greatest privilege and the most remarkable good fortune...

Gov. Ed Rendell (D., Pa.) on why Kerry lost, on CNN: "I think he was running against an incumbent president in the middle of a war who had successfully defended this country for three years from another terrorist attack.(for the record)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * Gov. Ed Rendell (D., Pa.) on why Kerry lost, on CNN: "I think he was running against an incumbent president in the middle of a war who had successfully defended this country for three years from another terrorist attack. And I think that was...

Former White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, on Hardball.(for the record)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * Former White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, on Hardball: "Given the mandate, given the increase in the Senate, given the defeat of Daschle--where judicial obstructionism, frustrating the president's nominees was an issue, and helped defeat...

Evan Thomas of Newsweek, on Hardball: "I just know a lot of people in the media, and most of them don't like Bush and they do like Kerry.(for the record)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * Evan Thomas of Newsweek, on Hardball: "I just know a lot of people in the media, and most of them don't like Bush and they do like Kerry.... Of course they deny it. And then there are a lot of excellent journalists, who do try. But,...

McLaughlin & Associates polls Republicans on 2008 preferences: 34 percent pick Rudy Giuliani, followed by 15 percent for Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), and 7 percent for Gov. Jeb Bush (R., Fla.).(for the record)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * McLaughlin & Associates polls Republicans on 2008 preferences: 34 percent pick Rudy Giuliani, followed by 15 percent for Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), and 7 percent for Gov. Jeb Bush (R., Fla.).... Among Democrats: 31 percent choose Sen....

Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, in Wall Street Journal: "Hope has triumphed, and with it the confidence of the American people in the values and principles upon which our shared civilization on both sides of the Atlantic is based.".(for the record)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, in Wall Street Journal: "Hope has triumphed, and with it the confidence of the American people in the values and principles upon which our shared civilization on both sides of the Atlantic is...

Jay Leno: "John Kerry conceded today.(for the record)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * Jay Leno: "John Kerry conceded today. He would have conceded earlier, but he had to meet with the French, the Germans, and Russians first. Get their feeling on the whole situation."

Avoiding breadlines for flu vaccines.
November 29, 2004... A recent New York Times article on the shortage of vaccines stated that "the heart of the problem, experts say, may be that no one person or agency is in charge of making sure the United States has an adequate vaccine supply." In fact, the...

We demand a recount!(The Week)
November 29, 2004... * We demand a recount! Just to relive the election, you understand.

Count.(The Week)
November 29, 2004... * Count every vote!

There was another, small campaign on November 3, the day after: Who would give the better concession speech?(The Week)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... * There was another, small campaign on November 3, the day after: Who would give the better concession speech? John Kerry thanked his supporters, and congratulated President and Mrs. Bush; he said that, while he had watched for every reasonable...