Articles from National Review (July 3, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A fight to the finish: what the GOP Congress should do to stay on top.	Lowry, Richard	Cover story	3280
A policeman's lot is not a happy one, according to Gilbert & Sullivan, and the blunders of the British forces in the effort to contain terrorism are proving the point over and over again.		Brief article	194
Along with Rocky and the Liberty Bell, Philadelphia is famous for cheesesteaks--fried steak, sliced or chopped, garnished with cheese and fried onions, served in a long roll.		Brief article	120
Back to the future: if Mexicans in America fail to assimilate, we could see the return of something ugly.	Frum, David		1743
Big day at New Paltz.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		742
California voters delivered a well-deserved defeat to Proposition 82, a ballot referendum that would have created a multibillion-dollar program for universal preschool in the state.		Brief article	115
Clarification.	Steorts, Jason Lee	Letter to the editor	254
Cloak and founders.	Herman, Arthur	Book review	1052
Dear editor.	Derbyshire, John		1036
Death of a monster.			1026
Decorum vs. terror.	Hart, Jeffrey	Book review	742
Enshrining the trees.	Coyne, John R., Jr.	Book review	1177
Every year, News Corporation--Rupert Murdoch's company--hands out the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism.		Brief article	53
Five years ago, a Washington Post poll asked whether race should be a factor in congressional redistricting "in order to elect more minorities to public office.		Brief article	230
George Will vs. the social cons: what's his beef?	Ponnuru, Ramesh		2122
Harvard is going to get into the field of human cloning: creating human embryos for the purpose of stem-cell research that will kill them.		Brief article	140
Hawaii will remain intact for now, despite the best efforts of Sen. Daniel Akaka.		Brief article	147
Hillary's past.	von Dreele, W.H.	Brief article	129
How quickly things change.		Brief article	216
If Republicans were having a good year, they would have prevailed in abolishing the estate tax permanently.		Brief article	120
In the category of stories that rumble away in the background of the news while rarely making it to our front pages, let us not forget the ongoing immiseration of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.		Brief article	202
In the name of the animals: America faces a new kind of terrorism.	Miller, John J.		2145
Islamic militants have driven U.S.-backed warlords out of Mogadishu and may be poised to turn Somalia into a Taliban-style state.			172
Let's just classify Zarqawi's martyrdom.		Brief article	9
Mark Malloch Brown, a Briton who serves as Kofi Annan's deputy at the U.N., lashed out at the United States in a move even the New York Times called "highly unusual".		Brief article	137
Mountain Trail.	Runyeon, William W.	Poem	153
Much ado about movies.	Teachout, Terry	Book review	1237
Music, Congreve told us, has charms to soothe the savage breast.		Brief article	134
News that three Guantanamo Bay detainees had hanged themselves quickly became propaganda.			112
Not ready yet.	Lowry, Richard	Book review	1604
Notes & asides.			1000
On ice.	Michaels, Patrick J.	Letter to the editor	253
Pope Dan I: the author of The Da Vinci Code shepherds a new religion.	Novak, Michael		2553
Same-sex amendment?	Buckley, William F., Jr.		705
Shortly after Canadian authorities arrested a dozen men plus five juveniles in an alleged terrorism plot, an official with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that the accused hailed from "the broad strata of our society.		Brief article	172
Six years ago, we told President-elect Bush that majority whip Tom DeLay was his "most valuable asset in Congress".		Brief article	170
Speaking of which, one of the Somalian militants in question, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, insisted, "We do not want to impose sharia law.		Brief article	78
The American colossus, in perspective.	Hassett, Kevin A.		453
The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is not something out of a farce, it is Saudi Arabia's official morality police force.		Brief article	194
The case for constitutional monarchy has rarely been better illustrated than by King Bhumipol of Thailand, who celebrated the 60th anniversary of his accession on June 9.		Brief article	170
The complicated life: what computer geeks (and others) wrought.	King, Florence		1447
The concept of a humanoid mechanical robot, which has been around in one form or another since the 16th-century "Golem" tales, may finally be approaching realization.		Brief article	153
The Department of Homeland Security announced allocations for the Urban Areas Security Initiative--a grant program Congress designed in 2003 to fund terrorism prevention in high-threat, high-risk areas.		Brief article	154
The Duke lacrosse scandal is trailing off into a whimper.		Brief article	149
The federal government instituted a tax on long-distance phone calls to pay for the Spanish-American War.		Brief article	35
The great loser.	Spalding, Matthew	Book review	1285
The House passed a new telecom bill after rejecting an amendment that would have given the FCC the power to enforce "net neutrality.		Brief article	138
The Marine staff sergeant who led the squad in Haditha has now, through his attorney, provided his side of the story of how 24 Iraqi civilians ended up dead.			184
The president says it again.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		640
The Senate voted against a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.		Brief article	120
The Supreme Court announced that it will hear a pair of cases involving racial preferences in its next term--the most important such cases since its ruling on the University of Michigan's admissions system declared "racial diversity" a compelling interest justifying discrimination.		Brief article	155
The terms of debate: if you want to get anywhere, you have to show you're 'progressive'.	Goldberg, Jonah	Essay	1465
The victory of Republican Brian Bilbray in a special election to fill an empty House seat representing San Diego was by no means inevitable.		Brief article	183
Viva Kos Vegas? How the big lefty jamboree went down.	York, Byron		1456
We Get Zarqawi.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	44
We think that the Supreme Court got it wrong when it ruled that the First Amendment protects flag burning.		Brief article	121
Welcome to your afterlife!	Long, Rob		704
When an FBI bribery investigation turned up $90,000 in cash stashed in Rep. William Jefferson's freezer, he became the rightful target of a storm of bipartisan anger.		Brief article	170
Why would the U.S. back the offer of a light-water nuclear reactor to a country on its list of terror sponsors?		Brief article	197
Yugoslavia, dead and gone: the meaning of the Montenegrins and their breakaway.	Pryce-Jones, David		1605