NRO Digest: The media should learn about guns before they demand gun control

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NRO Digest

July 23, 2012

Today on National Review Online . . .

ROBERT VERBRUGGEN: Some advice for gun-ignorant journalists. The Media Botches Aurora.

JOHN O'SULLIVAN: To understand the Colorado tragedy, we might enlist the help of the great Viennese psychologist Viktor Frankl. Seeking Meaning in Aurora.

ROBERT COSTA: Majority whip Kevin McCarthy wants to make sure the GOP will keep control of the House. California King.

JOHN FUND: One leftist intellectual got more and more "right" over the course of his career. Alexander Cockburn: Mellowed Radical.

CHARLES C. W. COOKE: The Iron Lady was lukewarm on the EU before she was against it. How Thatcher Came to Be Euroskeptic.

KATRINA TRINKO: Fiscal conservatives think Mike Huckabee's not conservative enough. Huckabee's Endorsements.

GEORGE WEIGEL: Our Eastern European allies think there's more at issue in November than the U.S. economy. The Polish View of the 2012 Campaign.

HARRY GRAVER: A bipartisan law may save Cleveland's failing school district. Cleveland's Education-Reform Plan.

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: The case against Mark Regnerus is a ballad for dishonesty. Science Lies Bleeding.

MICHAEL BARONE: No political or government leader can forecast the future. Booming North Dakota.

JAY NORDLINGER: How it can go in journalism today. A Nasty Little Storm.

DAVID FRENCH: The mayor of Boston seems willing to shred the Constitution to keep the conservative-owned Chick-fil-A out of his city. The Sexual Revolution Gets (More) Totalitarian.

MARIO LOYOLA: President Bush ended the war in Iraq, and attempted to leave behind a strategic presence. What Obama Ended Was Our Influence There.

DAVID PRYCE-JONES: The Arab world has left its dictators, such as Bashar Assad, no chance but to fight on forever. Kill-or-Be-Killed.