National Review Roundup

NRO has been slow this month . . . must be a latent and repressed affinity for the French.

That'll get The Monk blacklisted.

Anyway, today NRO is hitting hard with some sharp articles:

Jim Geraghty on New Jersey's reputation for political corruption. He kept the focus to the last few years, otherwise the article would become novella-sized.

Andy McCarthy's back, and he exposes some aspects of Islam that the media doesn't discuss.

Denis Boyles, the original foreign press anthologizer before Arthur Chrenkoff devoted his blog to it, reviews recent Europress reports on what a "sensitive" war entails.

And Victor Hansen has his weekly "SMARTEN UP" column wherein he turns his gaze to Bush hatred and concludes:

September 11 cooled the furor of [Bush's] aristocratic critics, but Iraq re-ignited it. Not voting for George Bush is, of course understandable and millions in fact will do precisely that. But for those haters who demonize the man, their knee-jerk disgust tells us far more about their own shallow characters than it does anything about our wartime president.

And there is a great danger in all these manifestations of pure hatred. We are in a war. And in these tumultuous days, the Left's unhinged odium will resonate with and embolden not only our enemies abroad, but also the deranged, dangerous folk here at home.