Articles from National Review (February 27, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"We can't lock members up in a cubbyhole here in Washington and never let them see what's going on around the country and around the world," says Boehner, attempting to justify lobbyist-paid trips for congressmen.		Brief article	133
Among the legislators elected to the Palestinian parliament is 56-year-old Mrs. Mariam Farhat, mother of three.		Brief article	188
An enterprising Louisiana man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple, the maker of the iPod.		Brief article	126
And what if George Clooney got an Oscar (or three)? There are few better ways of derailing somebody's career than handing him a statuette.		Brief article	145
Art imitates life.		Brief article	152
Betty Friedan's 1963 nit, The Feminine Mystique, was part an expression of a Smith girl's ambition, yearning for the life her education had accustomed her to expect.		Obituary	172
Born in the U.S.A.: should that automatically make you a citizen?	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1543
Bush's new conservatism: its internal contradictions start to show.	O'Sullivan, John		1554
BushCare: the answer to ClintonCare, and a very good one.	Goodman, John C.		1174
Clarity.			556
Congress approved $40 billion in spending restraint.		Brief article	114
Coretta Scott King was the Martha Washington of the civil-rights movement, famous mainly for the accomplishments of her husband but also admired in her own right.		Obituary	133
Culture War.			567
Democracy as spinach.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		673
Faith-based initiative?	Levenick, Christopher	Book review	1347
For years, Republicans have treated health care as a "Democratic issue" to pay attention to only when necessary.		Brief article	148
Forebodings.	McWhorter, John	Book review	1298
Google announced that its search engine would be made available to China's 100 million users with restrictions on politically sensitive terms and websites mandated by Beijing.		Brief article	173
How Goes the Base?	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	107
Ibn Warraq is the nom de plume of a Pakistani Muslim living in the United States and writing about Islam as he sees it.		Brief article	182
Ignoring the rich.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		696
In his State of the Union address, Bush declared America addicted to oil.		Brief article	247
Indentured servitude?	McCarthy, Andrew C.	Letter to the editor	409
Julian Bond, the chairman of the NAACP, gave a typical speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.		Brief article	111
Let's hope the veneer of change counts for something.		Brief article	225
Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island is the most liberal Republican in the Senate.		Brief article	210
Lincoln.	Runyeon, William W.	Poem	299
Listening to the enemy: the legal ground on which the president stands.	York, Byron		1480
Long live the monarchs! The struggles and triumphs of our favorite butterflies.	Miller, John J.		1445
Modest proposal.	Swagel, Phillip	Book review	1514
Notes & asides.			1891
One of the more fanciful dreams we at NR sometimes have--right after the one about immigration reform--is that some Hollywood bigwig will make a movie about the real Che Guevara, something different from the cloying mess that now passes for the Che biographic canon: a film about the murderous thug whose tenure as Cuba's chief executioner saw the death of thousands, often by Guevara's own hand.		Brief article	193
Oprah Winfrey, who had made James Frey's lying memoir of addiction and recovery, A Million Little Pieces, a best-seller, hauled him on television to confront him with his deceptions and apologize to her fans.		Brief article	134
President Morales aboard.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		699
Saddam Hussein has sued President George Bush--and Prime Minister Tony Blair, to boot.		Brief article	25
Some Woodshed.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	48
Speech impediment.	Goldberg, Jonah		550
Staccato phrases, all caps; twisted locutions--everything punctuated by the ubiquitous STOP, which meant a period, but also said, Stop and read this.!		Brief article	116
The Czech Republic and Cuba have long had a special relationship--from Vaclav Havel down, Czechs have taken an extraordinary interest in Cubans' suffering and unfreedom.		Brief article	239
The Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism is given once a year, by the News Corporation.		Brief article	95
The Left's civility was on display upon the release of Kate O'Beirne's new book, Women Who Make the World Worse.		Brief article	208
The triumph of wills.	Potemra, Michael	Book review	1513
The unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent, the lowest rate in four and a half years.		Brief article	84
The worst bill money can buy: revisiting asbestos--again.	O'Beirne, Kate		1335
They're revising the estimates of how much the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit will cost--revising them, amazingly enough, downward.		Brief article	158
Tough, and uphill.	Steorts, Jason Lee	Book review	978
Transcript: Larry King Live, February 24th, 2006.	Long, Rob		775
Unenlightened: as extremist Muslims react to the Danish cartoons, the Enlightenment doesn't look so bad, huh?	Dalrymple, Theodore		1301
Up in Davos: the annual global confab, in which the author gets pushed around by a girl, etc.	Nordlinger, Jay		2490
War Power.			498
When New York transit workers recently went on strike, leaving thousands of commuters without a means of getting to work, they met with plenty of grumbling but nothing more.		Brief article	124
When President Bush called, in the State of the Union address, for a ban on "human-animal hybrids" in addition to a ban on cloning, most listeners were baffled.		Brief article	169
When the International Atomic Energy Agency referred Iran to the U.N.		Brief article	153
Where the girls are.	Wilson, John	Letter to the editor	208
Work it out.	Brookhiser, Richard		980