Articles from National Review (May 9, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Unlike some, I'll pay him what I owe him," wrote George Orwell in a 1943 poem giving a leftist's tribute to Winston Churchill.		Brief Article	201
A couple of weeks ago, Flight KLM 685 took off from Amsterdam, headed for Mexico City with 278 passengers on board.		Brief Article	204
A spy, indeed.	Radosh, Ronald	Book Review	1277
A turn for the verse.	Bramwell, Sarah	Book Review	1432
Andrea Dworkin, radical feminist and anti-pornography zealot, died age 58.		Obituary	80
Appeals-court judge Guido Calabresi told a lawyers' meeting last summer that Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court decision that put Bush in the White House, was an "illegitimate act" by a "legitimate institution.".		Brief Article	153
Arlen Specter is trying to patch together a coalition to pass a bill settling asbestos litigation.		Brief Article	136
Can we stop illegals?	Buckley, William F., Jr.		694
Captive continent.	Pryce-Jones, David	Book Review	1074
Chinese resentment of Japan has been one of the invariants of the modern world, going all the way back to the May Fourth movement of 1919, when mass protests erupted in China over the transfer of German concessions in that country to Japan after World War I.		Brief Article	207
Confusion and gays.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		615
Connecticut lawmakers are in the process of establishing civil unions for homosexuals.		Brief Article	150
Deciding abortion: the key questions.	Oliver, Daniel		1562
Environmental false alarms.	Anderson, Terry L.		463
Eric Robert Rudolph pleaded guilty to four bombings (two abortion clinics, a gay club, and the Atlanta Olympics).			110
Federal spending on Medicaid is projected to increase by 36 percent (or $70 billion) between 2006 and 2010.		Brief Article	133
For the first time since Iran's Islamic revolution, the U.S. government is preparing to give funds to Iranians and U.S. organizations working in Iran to promote human rights and democracy.		Brief Article	161
Fountains and stuff.	Derbyshire, John		1048
Friendship between President Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel goes back to long before either man held his present office.		Brief Article	220
His Hispanicness.	Goldberg, Jonah		528
If Social Security is the third rail of American politics, then the first two rails probably belong to Amtrak.		Brief Article	188
In an article starting on page 25, Dan Oliver dispels some confusions surrounding the abortion issue.		Brief Article	177
In Iraq, they've found new mass graves, holding about 5,000 of those happy, kite-flying subjects Michael Moore depicted in his movie.			117
Injudicious comments.			732
John Bolton, the Bush administration's nominee to be ambassador to the U.N., is some Tartar.		Brief Article	221
Laurence Tribe, the liberal Harvard law professor, has been reprimanded by Harvard for a "significant lapse in proper academic practice".		Brief Article	164
Mexican foreign secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez showed up the other day to give an address to students at the University of Texas Pan-American.		Brief Article	179
Notes & asides.	Quezada, J. Gilberto		616
Pity Rhode Island.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		715
Politically correct.	Huber, Jim		28
Recent polls show French voters poised to reject the proposed EU constitution when it is put to a referendum on May 29.		Brief Article	134
Red-diaper baby, ex-radical, and now outspoken conservative commentator David Horowitz got a pie in the face when addressing students at Indianapolis's Butler University the other day.			126
Republican political consultant Arthur Finkelstein hopes to raise $10 million for a STOP HER NOW effort directed against Hillary Clinton's reelection to the Senate in 2006.		Brief Article	156
Seeing red.	Runyeon, William W.	Poem	91
Several provisions of the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism law Congress passed after September 11, expire this year.			398
Sometime ... in the not-too-distant future ...		Cartoon	27
Soros, Inc.	Continetti, Matthew	Book Review	1363
The British elections on May 5 will probably return Labour and Tony Blair to power.		Brief Article	157
The campaign to take out Tom DeLay as House majority leader continues, but the pickings are pretty slim.		Brief Article	201
The estate tax complicates the tax code, impedes capital formation, and misallocates resources.		Brief Article	193
The liberals killed Kenny!	Potemra, Michael	Book Review	1764
The long view.	Long, Rob	Transcript	800
The marriage war.	Rauch, Jonathan	Letter to the Editor	244
The new Ireland: it's not Catholic, for one thing.	Daniels, Anthony		1411
The Old Hillary.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	56
The U.N. story.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	54
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has, one hopes, just hastened its own demise.		Brief Article	167
Tony and Tories: a little excitement on the way to Blair's third term.	O'Sullivan, John		1557
Wallis's politics: not to be confused with God's. Or are they?	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Book Review	1914
We hear Catholic liberals are going to demand a recount.			10
What to do about the gas 'crisis': maybe nothing.	Van Doren, Peter		1543
What went right: how the U.S. began to quell the insurgency in Iraq.	Lowry, Richard	Cover Story	7910
Whose justice?	Paglee, M. Robert	Letter to the Editor	85
You might be forgiven for assuming that Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, upon becoming pope, took the name of "Hard-line" rather than "Benedict XVI.".		Brief Article	173