Articles from National Review (December 31, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'Torture' and Interrogation.			745
A good question.	McCort, Tom	Letter to the Editor	81
A Trapp Family Christmas: shouldn't this year be more spiritual? Good luck!	Heath, Aloise Buckley		2390
Back in the CNMI: The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is no model when it comes to immigration.	Krikorian, Mark		1563
California is home to 36 million people, but apparently none of them is a Republican who is also qualified to serve as chief of staff to the governor--or so it would seem, based on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bizarre decision to hire Susan Kennedy as his top aide.		Brief Article	200
Christians afoot.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		628
Comes Christmas, with the Christmas wars.		Brief Article	132
For more than a decade, a bipartisan group of anti-Communists has hacked its way through a thicket of federal bureaucracy to build a memorial in Washington dedicated to the 100 million people who died in Communism's wars, revolutions, and purges.		Brief Article	179
Former senator Eugene McCarthy died, age 89.		Obituary	137
Haven't you noticed that everyone in the Washington.		Brief Article	15
Honorable error.	Snider, Mark A.	Letter to the Editor	60
House and Senate conferees have finally struck a deal to reauthorize all 16 Patriot Act anti-terrorism measures set to expire at the end of this year.			160
House of War.	Pham, J. Peter	Book Review	874
Howard Stern's move to satellite radio places him beyond the reach of the Federal Communications Commission, which has fined his broadcasters $2.5 million over the years.		Brief Article	110
If even Mohamed ElBaradei--director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize--says that the "international community" is "losing patience" with Iran over its nuclear program, well, the mullahs must really be out of line.		Brief Article	188
In 1979 Stanley Tookie Williams murdered Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Chen Yang, and Yu-Chin Yang Lin in two robberies.		Brief Article	112
In a speech before students at the University of Havana, Fidel Castro taunted Gov. Jeb Bush as fat.		Brief Article	30
In his brilliant campaign to become leader of Britain's opposition Tories, David Cameron avoided categorizing himself ideologically as best he could.		Brief Article	295
Iraq: The Last Word.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		746
Liberte, egalite, colonialisme: a new French law stokes interesting fires.	Daniels, Anthony		1552
Mother's Milk.	Edwards, Lee	Book Review	1036
Murrow vs. McCarthy.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		674
Nation building.	Valiunas, Algis	Book Review	1619
Notes & asides.			1540
Numbers game.	Rose, Alexander	Letter to the Editor	219
Obstacle in chief: Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) does all he can to hamper the administration in the War on Terror.	York, Byron		1950
Paradise lost?	Hill, Kate	Letter to the Editor	277
Pay attention now, technically challenged readers.		Brief Article	186
Pelosi's limb.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	43
President Hosni Mubarak has ruled Egypt by emergency decree for over 20 years, and after recent parliamentary elections is in a position to continue in power for another six years, by which time he will be well into his eighties.		Brief Article	197
Reagan the poverty-slayer.	Hassett, Kevin A.		520
Rep. Budget Reform: Jeb Hensarling (R., Tex.) is doing vital work.	Miller, John J.		1497
Saddam Hussein, his bushy beard and off-the-rack suit making him look like a crazed accountant, shouts and points during his Baghdad trial.		Brief Article	176
Sen. Joe Lieberman, lonely voice of Democratic sanity on the Iraq War, may have a challenger in 2006--former senator Lowell Weicker, the incumbent he ousted in 1988.		Brief Article	172
Texas judge Pat Priest threw out one of three indictments against Tom DeLay, finding that prosecutor Ronnie Earle, in charging DeLay with conspiring to commit election fraud, misinterpreted the state's election code.		Brief Article	165
The American Legislative Exchange Council gives a very nice award: the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism, named after the late columnist of the Detroit News (and other papers), who was an eloquent champion of free markets, honest inquiry, and human dignity.		Brief Article	88
The idea of the (feminized) university: coeds are one thing ...	Gilder, George		1293
The inherent contradiction between the two modern notions of "hate speech" and "identity pride" showed up the other day in San Francisco, when a group of lesbian motorcycle enthusiasts persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to award them rights to the phrase "Dykes on Bikes.".		Brief Article	138
The long view.	Long, Rob	Transcript	823
The news from Afghanistan is good, which is why the media have gone quiet on it.		Brief Article	192
The School Of Athens.	Lombardy, Anthony	Poem	88
The Syrian regime has long specialized in violence tempered with deception and lies. This deadly mixture is now in full swing.		Brief Article	214
The will to lose.			513
Under the heading "Life Imitates Parody," a Nobel Prize-winning Italian Communist clown has written a play entitled Peace Mom that depicts Cindy Sheehan's valiant antiwar efforts.		Brief Article	170
War for the homeland.	Herman, Arthur	Book Review	1634
Why we're there: we went into Iraq, and persist there now, for sound reasons.	Casey, Lee A.		2827
Wild about Earl.	Nordlinger, Jay		1435
Witness.	Teachout, Terry	Book Review	1485