First the bad news — Congress will be in a lame duck session smack dab in the middle of NR’s Post-Election sojourn on the Mexican Riviera, which means that Congressman John Shadegg, the ace conservative solon who was to be part of our merry sailing-and-seminaring band, won’t be able to join us. Duty may call, but to quote Charlie Brown, “Rats!” Now the good news. The GREAT news! Judge Robert Bork and NRO mega-contributor Cliff May have agreed to join us. So here’s the new speaker line-up: Milton Friedman, Bill Buckley, Bernard Lewis, Ken Starr, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Ward Connerly, Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Steyn, Dinesh D’Souza, David Pryce-Jones, Pat Toomey, Kate O’Beirne, Rich Lowry, Ramesh Ponnuru, Jay Nordlinger, John O’Sullivan, Robert Bork, and Cliff May. Wow. How could you not want to be part of this incredible event, these 7 sunny days and nights of luxury cruising and schmoozing with this amazing contingent of scholars, experts, and policy-makers? There are still some cabins left on the National Review 2006 Post-Election Mexican Cruise, but not many — maybe a dozen (already over 230 have been booked!). If you want to grab one of them, you’d better do it now, before the sell-out becomes a fact, at www.nrcruise.com .