National Review articles from October 2004

National Review archives from October 2004

Mustering the energy.(Letter to the Editor)
October 11, 2004... Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren paint a bleak landscape beyond the "Energy Mirage" described in the September 13 issue. While I share their skepticism of glib promises of energy independence, I think the authors are too quick to dismiss...

Off the cuff.(Letter to the Editor)
October 11, 2004... In the August 23 issue, Ramesh Ponnuru made an understandable mistake that was not his fault ("The Politics of Silence"). The Democratic convention asked all speakers to provide a text in advance. I do not like to speak from a prepared text,...

Fundamental.(Letter to the Editor)
October 11, 2004... Thanks to Andrew Stuttaford for his great piece on Gareth Jones ("A Hero of Our Time," September 27). As someone who published an English-language weekly in Ukraine from 1994 to 2003 and always naively assumed professional writers were a...

In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 306 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 17 states worth 212 electoral votes (270 needed to win).(includes other news)(News Briefs)
October 11, 2004... * In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 306 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 17 states worth 212 electoral votes (270 needed to win).... Time poll: Bush-Cheney 54 percent, Kerry-Edwards 42...

Kerry, in Time: "I've made mistakes, and I've done things that I regret, sure.(John F. Kerry)(includes other news)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Kerry, in Time: "I've made mistakes, and I've done things that I regret, sure. I regret voting for Justice Scalia. I regret that any of us put faith in what the president said about how he would take America to war."... Kerry, in speech to...

Rep. Artur Davis (D., Ala.), in Baltimore Sun: "The [Democratic] party falls short in using us beyond the constraints of race.".(includes other new)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Rep. Artur Davis (D., Ala.), in Baltimore Sun: "The [Democratic] party falls short in using us beyond the constraints of race."... Teresa Heinz Kerry on term "First Lady," in Harper's Bazaar: "Ick."... In Bendixen/Tarrance poll of Asian...

Rep. Jim Nussle (R., Ia.) invites Gov. Bill Owens (R., Colo.) to Iowa: "Governor Owens is an emerging leader in our party.(includes other news)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Rep. Jim Nussle (R., Ia.) invites Gov. Bill Owens (R., Colo.) to Iowa: "Governor Owens is an emerging leader in our party. He has an outstanding record of accomplishment in his state."... In Quinnipiac University poll of New Yorkers on...

Al Gore, in The New Yorker: "The Republican right wing has launched a kind of civil cold war in a very ruthless fashion.".(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Al Gore, in The New Yorker: "The Republican right wing has launched a kind of civil cold war in a very ruthless fashion."... Gore on Bush's faith: "It's the American version of the same fundamentalist impulse that we see in Saudi Arabia, in...

Congress lets expire assault-weapons ban signed by Clinton in 1994.(includes other news)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Congress lets expire assault-weapons ban signed by Clinton in 1994.... GAO says former Medicare administrator Thomas Scully should repay his government salary for efforts to hide true cost of prescription-drug bill from Congress.... In South...

U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan on U.S.-led invasion of Iraq: "It was illegal.".(includes other news)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan on U.S.-led invasion of Iraq: "It was illegal."... Britain says it will send more troops to Iraq if they're deemed necessary to safeguard voting.... As national elections approach, Australians worry about...

Jay Leno proposes new campaign slogan for Kerry.(John F. Kerry)(Humor)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Jay Leno proposes new campaign slogan for Kerry: "Undecided voters, I'm just like you."

Canada has seen its first gay divorce.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Canada has seen its first gay divorce. Our question: What took so long?

Fallujah turns out to have been an experiment that failed.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Fallujah turns out to have been an experiment that failed. Pulled back in April, possibly just days from taking the city from insurgents, Marines have had to watch the city provide a base for terrorists who have created a steady diet of...

John Kerry was against the war after he was for it, before he stopped being against it, prior to supporting it.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * John Kerry was against the war after he was for it, before he stopped being against it, prior to supporting it. That is the recent history of Kerry's Iraq positions. At least he seems now to have settled on more or less forthright opposition...

Kofi Annan denounced the Iraq war as illegal, which we take to mean he didn't like it one bit.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Kofi Annan denounced the Iraq war as illegal, which we take to mean he didn't like it one bit. Since the beginning there has been debate about how to read the U.N. charter. The interpretation behind Annan's recent pronunciamento--essentially...

James Carville and Paul Begala are busy men.(political commentators and advisers to John F. Kerry's campaign)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * James Carville and Paul Begala are busy men. They represent the left end of the spectrum on CNN's Crossfire, and they are advisers (unpaid) to John Kerry. It will certainly make Crossfire more efficient: No need to argue over what the Kerry...

Tom Coburn, the Republican Senate candidate from Oklahoma, is a strong conservative.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Tom Coburn, the Republican Senate candidate from Oklahoma, is a strong conservative. His critics consider him extreme but nobody has denied that he is a man of principle. Until now. In recent weeks, the liberal website Salon has claimed that...

Left-wing gay activists have begun to "out" lawmakers, and others, who support the Federal Marriage Amendment, or who oppose it but take other positions that the activists consider "anti-gay.".(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Left-wing gay activists have begun to "out" lawmakers, and others, who support the Federal Marriage Amendment, or who oppose it but take other positions that the activists consider "anti-gay." The same activists have also sought to out people...

Putin Goes Retrograde.(totalitarianism in Russia)(Humor)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... PUTIN GOES RETROGRADE Peter would have understood; So would Ivan, whose Happy talk would often flag When he got the blues. Maybe if the Russians make Nice with each decree, Vlad will skip the...

The Washington Post claims that Bush's plans on taxes and Social Security carry a "price tag" of $3 trillion.
October 11, 2004... * The Washington Post claims that Bush's plans on taxes and Social Security carry a "price tag" of $3 trillion. Does this mean taxpayers are going to have to shell out an extra $3 trillion to pay for it? Well, no. It's not that kind of price...

In 1994, President Clinton enacted a ban on "assault weapons," a category of guns that differed from other guns chiefly in cosmetic ways.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * In 1994, President Clinton enacted a ban on "assault weapons," a category of guns that differed from other guns chiefly in cosmetic ways. That ban has now expired, the Republican Congress having no desire to see it continue. Studies have not...

Social Security is hot on the hustings these days.(possible social security coordination agreements between U.S., other countries)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Social Security is hot on the hustings these days. But while there's been haggling over retirement savings accounts, one crucial element of reform has been overlooked. As a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies demonstrates, Social...

The Department of Homeland Security's Asa Hutchinson, in charge of enforcing our immigration laws, told the Washington Times recently that it is simply "not realistic" to expect the number of illegal aliens in the country to be reduced.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * The Department of Homeland Security's Asa Hutchinson, in charge of enforcing our immigration laws, told the Washington Times recently that it is simply "not realistic" to expect the number of illegal aliens in the country to be reduced....

The United States recently lifted Cold War restrictions on trading nuclear and space technology with India.
October 11, 2004... * The United States recently lifted Cold War restrictions on trading nuclear and space technology with India. A State Department spokesman said the two countries also agreed to "expand our dialogue" on missile defense. For decades India was a...

In its annual report on religious freedom, the State Department has for the first time identified Saudi Arabia as a country that violates such freedom.
October 11, 2004... * In its annual report on religious freedom, the State Department has for the first time identified Saudi Arabia as a country that violates such freedom. The seven other countries that share its new designation (all are considered "of...

The rich and taxes.
October 11, 2004... IT's not often you get attacked as a "liar" by Paul Krugman and a "clown" by a member of the UC Berkeley economics faculty on the same day, but that happened to me recently, in response to an NRO article I wrote on tax fairness. The Berkeley...

The killing by Chechen Islamists of several hundred hostages, mainly children, in the southern Russian town of Beslan should be a defining moment in the War on Terror.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * The killing by Chechen Islamists of several hundred hostages, mainly children, in the southern Russian town of Beslan should be a defining moment in the War on Terror. President Vladimir Putin has to explain how this atrocity happened, and...

Jiang Zemin, the most powerful figure in China for most of the past 15 years, has relinquished his sole remaining official position, chairman of the Central Military Commission.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Jiang Zemin, the most powerful figure in China for most of the past 15 years, has relinquished his sole remaining official position, chairman of the Central Military Commission. The 78-year-old Jiang has now handed all his positions over to...

Senate Democrats are holding up the North Korea Human Rights Act, which would provide humanitarian aid to North Koreans, give grants to private organizations that promote North Korean human rights, and give legal and other aid to North Korean defectors.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Senate Democrats are holding up the North Korea Human Rights Act, which would provide humanitarian aid to North Koreans, give grants to private organizations that promote North Korean human rights, and give legal and other aid to North Korean...

An election is being held in the world's largest Muslim nation.(Indonesia)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * An election is being held in the world's largest Muslim nation. That would be Indonesia, of course. At the time we go to press it looks as though Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is headed for an overwhelming victory over the incumbent president,...

Krakow survived the world war unscathed, a monument to the great days of Poland, with its historic castle and cathedral and its market dating back to the Renaissance.(Krakow's Central Square to be renamed Ronald Reagan Square)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Krakow survived the world war unscathed, a monument to the great days of Poland, with its historic castle and cathedral and its market dating back to the Renaissance. Postwar Communists aimed to change all that by imposing heavy industry on...

They shall tally-ho no longer.(banning of fox hunting in Great Britain)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * They shall tally-ho no longer. Prime Minister Tony Blair, responding to the baying of his Labour party, is close to outlawing hunting with dogs--a longtime bugbear of the urbanized Left. Foxhunting, a centuries-old sport, appeals to mostly...

Modern industrialized processes, from factories to farms, have characteristic noxious byproducts, from smog to hog waste.(author Kitty Kelley's book on the Bush family)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * Modern industrialized processes, from factories to farms, have characteristic noxious byproducts, from smog to hog waste. Kitty Kelley is a byproduct of celebrity. Become tabloid-famous, for whatever reason--supreme beauty (Elizabeth Taylor),...

What constitutes a sex crime in these enlightened times?(outlawing of necrophilia in California)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * What constitutes a sex crime in these enlightened times? Modern liberal dogma asserts that for a sex crime to take place, one of the parties must be unwilling, underage, or too feebleminded to give rational consent. Fair enough; but what if...

The pop singer Madonna has become an adherent of Kabbalah, a body of mystical Jewish lore going back to late antiquity.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... * The pop singer Madonna has become an adherent of Kabbalah, a body of mystical Jewish lore going back to late antiquity. She has taken a new name, Esther, and become a thoroughly spiritual girl, most recently attending a five-day retreat with...

Rather shoddy.(CBS, Dan Rather apologize for news report on President George W. Bush based on false information )
October 11, 2004... TWELVE days after airing a story that questioned George W. Bush's National Guard service--a story built on forged documents--CBS apologized. So did Dan Rather, personally. Now they should apologize for their apologies. They are still misleading...

Notes & asides.(William F. Buckley, Jr.'s acceptance speech of Alexander Hamilton Award)(Transcript)
October 11, 2004... * WFB's remarks on accepting the Manhattan Institute's Alexander Hamilton Award, April 29, 2004 Mr. Chairman, David [Brooks]: I am glad that I was able, as host of a dinner three years ago, to record full-throatedly my admiration for...

Not Tiffany, but Tin: CBS is tarnished, along with other houses of liberalism.(television network's alleged support of liberal politics)(news report on President George W. Bush based on false documents)
October 11, 2004... CBS, the old Tiffany network that was the gold standard in the days of the Murrow boys, is cracking up with a vengeance, in the same mode as some other old liberal entities that are also mired in woes. Like dissolute heirs to great fortunes,...

Men, not machines: the Internet and cable TV are important, but far from all-important.(liberals' control of the media)(political interests in media policies)
October 11, 2004... THIS is the bloggers' hour. The blogs have exposed CBS, beaten the New York Times, and made fools of all the professional press critics at the Columbia Journalism School and the Poynter Institute. PowerLineBlog and Little Green Footballs and...

One vet's valor: B. G. Burkett is a myth-buster, a truth-teller, and a hero.(veteran exposes false media reports, news, related to Vietnam War veterans, events)(Interview)
October 11, 2004... OVER the past 20 years, determined Vietnam veteran B. G. "Jug" Burkett has succeeded in challenging hundreds of phony military records--but he has not succeeded in holding the media accountable when they carelessly rely on bogus service stories...

Oh happy day! Ding dong, the witch is ...(news report by Dan Rather, CBS, on President George W. Bush based on false information)
October 11, 2004... ACROSS the media universe the questions pour out: Why is Dan Rather doing this to himself? Why does he drag this out? Why won't he just come clean? Why would he let this happen in the first place? Why is CBS standing by him? Why... why......

The Kerry comeback: how it could happen.(John F. Kerry's presidential campaign)
October 11, 2004... THINGS are looking pretty grim for John Kerry as I write in mid-September. A few polls have him trailing President Bush by double digits, with Bush way ahead on national security and pulling even on traditional Democratic issues such as health...

Banking on the Brewer: in Colorado, Republican hopes rest on Pete Coors.
October 11, 2004... Grand Junction, Colo. ON April 4, Pete Coors was on his way to church with his wife, Marilyn, when conversation turned to Colorado's Senate race. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the GOP incumbent, had issued the surprise announcement that he...

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan ... how it's going, three years after invasion/liberation.
October 11, 2004... NOTHING like hot dust in one's face and the roar of a low-flying helicopter gunship to make a man feel alive. The last time I heard that sound in Afghanistan was in 1987: A patrol of Soviet Mi-24s were spitting gunfire at the house in which I...

A fortune in tuition: why does college cost so darn much?
October 11, 2004... TUITION fees at the typical American state university rose "only" 9 percent this year, USA Today tells us, down from 14 percent last year. For every single year for over 20 years, average tuition hikes have exceeded the inflation rate. When I...

Choice struggles on: the progress of a great and necessary idea.(school choice and educational vouchers)
October 11, 2004... THE year 2004 will be remembered as a pivotal year for the school-choice movement for multiple reasons, not least of which is that this was the year the president of the United States endorsed school choice. Not George W. Bush--he's been a...

Sparing rods, spoiling children: the impossibility of school discipline.
October 11, 2004... LAST November in Las Vegas, ten students on the Cheyenne High School football team were involved in a melee with the opposing squad immediately following a game. The incident was broadcast repeatedly on local television and led Jerry Hughes,...

No-limit child care funding.
October 11, 2004... A strange thing happened in the Senate earlier this year. Thirty-one Republican senators joined forty-six Democrats in voting to increase federal child care funding by an additional $6 billion over the next five years, or by 25 percent. The...

The limits of money: schools K-12 have plenty of dough, but what have they to show?
October 11, 2004... JOHN KERRY has repeatedly denounced the Bush administration for promoting an ambitious education agenda but refusing to foot the bill. Kerry charged in his campaign book, A Call to Service, that the administration has "undermin[ed] education...

The good and the bad (plus some ugly): moments on campus.(instances of excessive liberalism, political correctness, on college campuses)
October 11, 2004... TODAY'S college campus is a study in contrasts. Professors and administrators cling to their grotesque orthodoxies, but students seem to be getting saner by the year. What follows are five of the most outrageous campus incidents of the last...

The long view.(Humor)
October 11, 2004... http://ratherman.blogspot.journalspace.com September 21st, 2005 Current Mood: feeling fat Current Music: Tori Amos So it's been, like, almost a year since I left CBS News for a lot of stupid reasons which, if you're still...

Whither Rather?(Dan Rather)(Humor)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... WHITHER RATHER? He twists on the set in prime time. Thigh-slapping convulses Karl Rove. At Black Rock, where CBS spins, Their tootsies and toesies turn mauve. The old lady plainly said, "fakes." Fans...

Class struggle.(The Uncivil War: How a New Elite Is Destroying Our Democracy)(Book Review)
October 11, 2004... The Uncivil War: How a New Elite Is Destroying Our Democracy, by David Lebedoff (Taylor, 208 pp., $24.95) WITH America more divided than at any time since the 1960s, it's time to take a step back and thoughtfully puzzle out the causes of...

Marching Band.(Poem)
October 11, 2004... MARCHING BAND Life will ever go on When death swings her baton, Leads crowds of marching souls Unsmiling, there to pay their toll While we, sidelined, gape at first Then losing interest, slake our thirst At...

The inhumanities.(The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art)(Book Review)
October 11, 2004... The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, by Roger Kimball (Encounter, 186 pp., $25.95) ROGER KIMBALL's Tenured Radicals (1990) is one of the indispensable books of the last quarter-century, for its lucid analysis...

Bad press.(Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib)(Book Review)
October 11, 2004... Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh (HarperCollins, 370 pp., $25.95) THIS side of Dan Rather, no one has more cause for concern about fallout from CBS's scandalous document hoax than Seymour Hersh. For...

Land of plenty.(On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense)(Book Review)
October 11, 2004... On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, by David Brooks (Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $25) IT'S Big Map season again. Art departments in every newspaper and TV station are humming with activity, as...

Mother tongue.(The Stories of English)(Book Review)
October 11, 2004... The Stories of English, by David Crystal (Overlook, 584 pp., $35) YOU are awfully lucky to be reading this page. I'm not referring to my review, for heaven's sake--I'm referring to the language. We are awfully lucky to have English, the...

Taming the beast.(Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty)(Book Review)
October 11, 2004... Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty, by Clint Bolick (Hoover, 208 pp., $15) IN 1651, Thomas Hobbes presented his vision of the social contract, and of the authoritarianism that he believed would be its...

God, man & the founding.(Shelf Life)(Protestantism and the American Founding)(Letters to a Young Catholic)(Book Review)
October 11, 2004... TO understand America, one must understand the religion of its Founders: This is the clear lesson of the fine new anthology Protestantism and the American Founding (Notre Dame, 281 pp., $25), edited by Thomas S. Engeman and Michael P. Zuckert....

Gruesome and constitutional.(possible interpretations of partial-birth abortion laws)
October 11, 2004... NEW YORK, AUGUST 27 HERE are some useful givens in the matter of the partial-birth-abortion litigation. In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court promulgated (vouchsafed?) a right to abortion. Although the decision was qualified, it...

Dead ahead.(financing War on Terrorism)(nuclear disarmament of Iran)
October 11, 2004... NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 14 EVENTS in Iraq bring home the mess we are in. To acknowledge this isn't to say that we were wrong in going to war. But the daily reports instruct us in the need for strategic thought of a kind that we are unlikely to...

The influence behind W.(alleged misconduct of George W. Bush while in National Guard)
October 11, 2004... NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 17 THE charge of scandalous behavior by Lt. George W. Bush in the National Guard evolves, on reflection, into scandalous behavior by CBS and Dan Rather. Mr. Rather is standing by his story, but hanging on by his...

A presidential address.(Letter to the Editor)
October 25, 2004... As the president of Borders Books & Music stores worldwide, I read with disappointment Jay Nordlinger's piece "Little Suppressors" (Sept. 27) and would like to take this opportunity to respond. First, let me apologize to any customer of a...

Stomach.(Letter to the Editor)
October 25, 2004... John O'Sullivan asks ("Tall Order," Sept. 27) whether the United States has the political cohesion to wage a long war in Iraq. Militant Muslims believe in the justice of their cause. After one to three generations of multiculturalism, blaming...

ABC (C is for Chomsky).(Letter to the Editor)
October 25, 2004... The summer is over and now it's back to the college grind. One professor recently asked who was going to win the November elections. After resounding applause for Kerry, the entire room broke out into hissing noises when Bush's name was...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
October 25, 2004... A book review in the Sept. 27 issue by Ron Capshaw ("Inside the Left") incorrectly stated that Barnard College has an endowed chair named for Alger Hiss. The reference should have been to Bard College--which has an Alger Hiss professorship in...

In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 291 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 15 states worth 185 electoral votes (270 needed to win).(George W. Bush; John F. Kerry)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 291 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 15 states worth 185 electoral votes (270 needed to win).... CNN/USA Today poll: Bush 49 percent, Kerry 47 percent,...

Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi, in address to Congress: "We Iraqis are grateful to you, America, for your leadership and your sacrifice for our liberation and our opportunity to start anew.(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi, in address to Congress: "We Iraqis are grateful to you, America, for your leadership and your sacrifice for our liberation and our opportunity to start anew.... Your decision to go to war in Iraq was not an...

Kerry, on ABC: "We should not have gone to war knowing the information that we know today.".(John F. Kerry)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * Kerry, on ABC: "We should not have gone to war knowing the information that we know today."... House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.): "This war has been a grotesque mistake that has diminished our reputation in the world and has not...

In Senate races, Democrats anticipate victory in Illinois and Republicans are confident in Georgia.(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * In Senate races, Democrats anticipate victory in Illinois and Republicans are confident in Georgia.... Toss-up races include Alaska, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota.... Louisiana contest probably...

X-rated film industry partisans release "Porn for Kerry DVD," with proceeds earmarked for Kerry's use in swing states, according to New York Post.(John F. Kerry)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * X-rated film industry partisans release "Porn for Kerry DVD," with proceeds earmarked for Kerry's use in swing states, according to New York Post.... Newsweek polls under-30 voters: Kerry 45 percent, Bush 44 percent, Nader 6 percent.......

Der Spiegel reports that Kerry adviser Richard Holbrooke promised German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that he and French president Jacques Chirac will be first foreign leaders invited to White House.(John F. Kerry)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * Der Spiegel reports that Kerry adviser Richard Holbrooke promised German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that he and French president Jacques Chirac will be first foreign leaders invited to White House.... British prime minister Tony Blair: "I...

Conan O'Brien: "CBS has been receiving a lot of e-mails calling to fire Dan Rather.(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * Conan O'Brien: "CBS has been receiving a lot of e-mails calling to fire Dan Rather. In fact the only people that want him on the air are Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings."... David Letterman: "Before I begin, I just have to warn you, CBS cannot...

Can't we have a debate with Teresa.
October 25, 2004... * Can't we have a debate with Teresa, please?

Three thousand soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division and 2,000 Iraqis took the city of Samarra in the Sunni triangle, profiting from lessons learned in the recent battle for Najaf by eschewing a go-slow strategy.(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * Three thousand soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division and 2,000 Iraqis took the city of Samarra in the Sunni triangle, profiting from lessons learned in the recent battle for Najaf by eschewing a go-slow strategy. "We just came out of a...

The vice-presidential debate featured two political pros, neither of whom was knocked off his stride for very long.(Dick Cheney; John Edwards)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * The vice-presidential debate featured two political pros, neither of whom was knocked off his stride for very long. Partisans on both sides are satisfied with their man's performance--which, for the Republicans, represented an improvement on...

In between denunciations of the president for valuing allies insufficiently, John Kerry relishes sticking the knife in the ones we have.(presidential candidate's derogatory comments on Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * In between denunciations of the president for valuing allies insufficiently, John Kerry relishes sticking the knife in the ones we have. After Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi addressed Congress, this is what Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart had to...

When Richard Holbrooke, Kerry's shadow secretary of state, went to Berlin in June to chat up Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, he said one of a President Kerry's first actions would be to invite Schroeder and Jacques Chirac to the White House.(John F. Kerry)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * When Richard Holbrooke, Kerry's shadow secretary of state, went to Berlin in June to chat up Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, he said one of a President Kerry's first actions would be to invite Schroeder and Jacques Chirac to the White House....

The author in his work, said Flaubert, should be like God in the universe: everywhere present, but nowhere visible.(Teresa Heinz Kerry's comments on political life)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * The author in his work, said Flaubert, should be like God in the universe: everywhere present, but nowhere visible. In the matter of candidates' wives, Teresa Heinz Kerry cleaves to the first part of this principle, though not, alas, the...

The Democrats' resort to scaremongering and race-baiting about the GOP's alleged ballot-rigging in 2000 (and 2004) makes an unwholesome sight.(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * The Democrats' resort to scaremongering and race-baiting about the GOP's alleged ballot-rigging in 2000 (and 2004) makes an unwholesome sight. Now Jimmy Carter--masquerading as an impartial observer of American politics--has weighed in with...

At a townhall meeting at Emory University, Jimmy Carter said his favorite movies were Casablanca and Fahrenheit 9/11.(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * At a townhall meeting at Emory University, Jimmy Carter said his favorite movies were Casablanca and Fahrenheit 9/11. The obvious and the dishonest: What else would you expect from Carter? But let's think what sort of a movie Michael Moore...

Karl Rove recently noted that Republicans have tended not to run ads on black radio stations.(Black America's Political Action Committee's campaign aimed at African American voters)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... * Karl Rove recently noted that Republicans have tended not to run ads on black radio stations. One organization, America's PAC, is doing something about that, with a series of hard-hitting ads narrated by businessman-turned-politician Herman...

Two Sharpies.(French, German motives for not supporting Iraq War)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... TWO SHARPIES Paris and Berlin both get Upset when Iraqi debt Comes up; Baghdad owes a bunch, So these two are "out to lunch" When the IMF calls, or Washington becomes a bore: That's when they start kicking...