FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008

AN NRO SYMPOSIUM.  Caroline Glick, Anne Bayefsky, Tom Gross, Daniel Pipes, and Meyrav Wurmser discuss Israel at 60.

ILLEGITIMATE GRIEVANCES.  Mona Charen counters those who question Israel’s right to exist after 60 years of sovereignty. Lisa Schriffren celebrates Israel’s vulnerable strength.

NOT-SO-BEAUX STRATAGEMS.   Mark Hemingway notes the incompetence of Hillary’s chief strategist, Mark Penn. Charles Krauthammer assesses that Hillary found the right strategy to win the nomination — altogether too late.

ATHEISTS ARE PEOPLE, TOO.  Kathryn Jean Lopez gives kudos to Mitt Romney for his speech on religious freedom, available here. Ann Corkery’s introduction of Mitt is here.

WHAT MOM REALLY WANTS.  This Mother’s Day, Kathleen Parker suggests that we honor the heroism of mothers like veterans-issue activist Cynde Collins-Clark.

KIDS THOSE DAYS.  Rich Lowry remembers the insanity of 1968, and argues that the Left is still tainted by it:

The freedoms fought for in the student revolt soon curdled into the opposite: free speech became speech codes; sexual liberation became the regime of sexual harassment; civil rights became quotas. Meanwhile, Mark Rudd and a fringe of the New Left spun off into the Weather Underground, which took the destructive spirit of the campus protests to its logical conclusion in a campaign of terrorist bombings. Jonah Goldberg reminds us in his book Liberal Fascism that the radical Left committed roughly 250 attacks from September 1969 to May 1970.

If the academics gave in, another segment of the parents resisted. They were the Nixon voters, reacting against the disorder and cultural radicalism with which liberalism became identified. Republicans held the White House for 28 of the next 40 years, and the alternative history of the 1960s is the rise of the Right. Even now, with Barack Obama dogged by his association with a former member of the Weather Underground, the Democratic Party’s challenge is to free itself from the taint of 1968.

UNREASONABLE.  Jonah Goldberg describes what’s so deeply wrong with the Reasonable Profits Board.

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE.  Peter Robinson and Tom Wolfe discuss what’s so great about America.

Go BETWEEN THE COVERS with John J. Miller as he talks about the new book The New Destroyer: Dead Reckoning with its author, James Mullaney.

NRO MAILBAG.  John Derbyshire writes back to David Berg on Expelled. Craig Mokhiber writes back to Anne Bayefsky about Durban II.

TGINROW…Thank goodness it’s NRO WEEKEND!

MUCH ADO ABOUT MILEY.  Jennifer Graham draws some lessons for parents (and children) from the Miley Cyrus scandal.

ON THE HOMEFRONT.  Nancy French shares her story as the wife of a deployed serviceman.  James S. Robbins speaks about his life as a military husband.

WOE IS SHE.  Myrna Blyth reviews the personal drama in Barbara Walters’s new book, Audition.

“HELLO KITTY ON BAD ACID.”  Peter Suderman needs a stiff drink after the swirling overstimulation of Speed Racer.

DERB RADIO. John Derbyshire on Obama’s “higher purpose”, Lebanon’s latest crisis, the U.S.S. Cole, and much more.

IT TAKES A PARENT.  Betsy Hart and special guest David Staal are going to teach moms seven magic phrases that all kids need to hear regularly.  Tune in to learn what they are.

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