Articles from National Review (April 24, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A lot of companies have not set aside enough money to pay for promised pensions, and the federal government is on the hook for a lot of the gap.		Brief article	122
A reckless bill.			591
A tax reform to run with: $5,000 per child, and other winning ideas.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		2702
A two-step for America: addressing our immigration problems.	O'Beirne, Kate	Cover story	1003
Abdul Rahman, the Afghan convert to Christianity who was not a poster child for interfaith dialogue in his native country, has been granted asylum in Italy.		Brief article	147
Among the darkest pits of cruelty and horror in today's world are the labor camps of North Korea.		Brief article	204
An impossible deal.	Hudak, K. Christopher	Letter to the editor	242
An old statute in Massachusetts keeps couples from coming to the commonwealth to get married in violation of their home states' laws.		Brief article	107
An Unprintable Reaction.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	49
Catalogue aria.	Brookhiser, Richard		991
Columbia University held a two-day conference to discuss democracy with Libyan academics, culminating in a lecture by Moammar Qaddafi himself.		Brief article	195
Congress is losing a man of principle.		Brief article	144
Following the Midwinter Holiday comes the Spring Holiday; and wouldn't you know it, those darn Christians are trying to make something religious out of this one, too.		Brief article	196
For weeks, President Bush's congressional allies have grumbled that the White House is too insular, arrogant, and worn out to remedy what ails the GOP.		Brief article	129
Funding democracy.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		714
Glamour-girl Gov, gone? An interesting election in Michigan.	Miller, John J.		1618
Gripped by principle, four Christian peace activists traveled to Iraq to protest the war, up close and personal.		Brief article	164
Hillary gets religion.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	45
In other news from the region, Mr. Ibragim Ismatullayev, a farmer in the republic of Kyrgyzstan, was about to dispatch a rooster so he could put it in the pot for his dinner when the rooster suddenly crowed "Allah! Allah!".			70
Invited to deliver the opening address at a summit meeting of European business leaders, French steel tycoon Ernest-Antoine Seilliere stood up and began speaking in English.		Brief article	191
Islamic purity.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		672
Jimmy Carter has charged President Bush with many shortcomings and crimes, but he recently came up with a new one--new to us, at least.		Brief article	177
Just five Jews escaped from Auschwitz and lived to tell the tale.		Brief article	200
Kos world: the power, glory, and weakness of the bloggy left.	York, Byron		2598
Last fall French cities blazed with the light of burning cars.		Brief article	144
Like father like son.	Shadwick, Floyd H.	Letter to the editor	99
Long ago, during a tirade against the Senate Steering Committee, Sen. Robert C. Byrd thundered, "Who is Margo Carlisle?".		Obituary	168
Lyn Nofziger, R.I.P.	Cannon, Lou	Obituary	648
Mike Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, says that America needs illegal immigrants.		Brief article	45
Night.	Creagan, Michael	Poem	81
Nutty while black.	Goldberg, Jonah		485
Permanent revolution.	Aeschliman, M.D.	Book review	1250
Political commentator/actress Sharon Stone: "I think Hillary Clinton is fantastic.			63
Political mythology.			430
Prisoner of The PRC: the experience of a Falun Gong practitioner.	Nordlinger, Jay	Biography	1455
Quest for community.	Person, James E., Jr.	Book review	1463
Reagan's Cap, and ours: the late, great Caspar W. Weinberger.	Schweizer, Peter	Biography	1075
Scientists have been able to take cells from the testes of mice and transform them into "pluripotent" stem cells--the same kind of stem cells that can be derived from embryos.		Brief article	89
Sometime around 1950, the clock stopped in the corner of the former Soviet Union known as Belarus.		Brief article	203
Tailor-made justice.	Givens, Austen	Letter to the editor	179
The 2004 presidential campaign brought to light one of John Kerry's less attractive character traits, his habit of asking lesser mortals: "Do you know who I am?".		Brief article	202
The bishops and the laws.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		638
The bishops' borders: a question of principles and practicalities.	O'Sullivan, John		2665
The European Union may be hesitant over such issues as tyranny in Africa or China, and distracted about Iraq, Hamas, or Iran's nuclear program, but it is decidedly firm on the question of the pipes in church organs: These must be banned forthwith.		Brief article	178
The ex-Neo.	Fonte, John	Book review	1537
The fear in France: what rioting and the rest of it means.	Pryce-Jones, David		1551
The Great Uninsured: a meditation on the covereds and the uncovereds, and other things.	King, Florence		1563
The long view.	Long, Rob		774
The New Yorker has run a profile of lefty actor Sean Penn, son of the late Leo Penn.		Brief article	152
The Senate has voted 90 to 8 to approve a lobbying-reform bill.		Brief article	123
The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment within 30 days or else ... or else ... what?		Brief article	106
To win the Distinguished Texas Scientist award, you might think you'd need to research some obscure topic, of interest only to Texas scientists--the mating patterns of the nine-banded armadillo, or industrial applications of Mexican-free-tailed-bat guano.		Brief article	195
Was there anything Caspar Weinberger did not do?		Brief article	152
We're old enough to recall a time when the GOP mainstream was against restricting campaign finance.		Brief article	176
What does the world need?		Brief article	59
When it comes to global warming, the mainstream media have never met a hysterical prediction of doom they didn't like.		Brief article	155
Writing the war.	Lowry, Richard	Critical essay	2615