Articles from National Review (June 19, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
... And the last first.	Owens, Mackubin Thomas	Book review	1119
A bad dinner date.	Skurkiss, Peter	Letter to the editor	102
A dictator's scribe.	Radosh, Ronald	Book review	1622
A headline over an AP story was priceless: "EU Trying to Reconnect with Europeans.".		Brief article	21
A swap.	Viega, Tony	Letter to the editor	73
Almost every week sees a new protest against the Iranian regime.			134
Barbaro, the glorious thoroughbred who won the Kentucky Derby, lost his Triple Crown hopes, and very nearly his life, when he broke down in the Preakness.		Brief article	192
Barry Bonds has piled up amazing numbers in a game that worships them.		Brief article	159
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe won a richly deserved second term on May 28, capturing 62 percent of the vote in a three-way contest.		Brief article	140
Deconstructing America.			571
Defeat this monstrosity: what Hill conservatives can do on immigration.	O'Sullivan, John		1677
Democratic campaign lore holds that John Kerry lost his 2004 bid because he failed to refute decisively the charges launched by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.		Brief article	165
Developing countries often complain about the "theft" of their cultural artifacts by archaeologists and collectors in the United States and Europe.		Brief article	202
Easy answers.	Wroblewski, J.	Letter to the editor	110
Enfeebling the presidency: the executive branch is a co-equal branch, or so the Framers said.	Casey, Lee A.		3765
Fizzes and fizzles: how goes the struggle against demon Coke?	Miller, John J.		1668
Funny business at Fannie Mae: how'd those Clintonites get so rich?	York, Byron		1541
George Galloway, a member of the British parliament, accuses Tony Blair of ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis, going on to say that it would be "morally justified" if a suicide bomber killed the prime minister.		Brief article	213
Global warming, cont.	Steorts, Jason Lee	Letter to the editor	526
Haditha is an insurgent stronghold 150 miles west of Baghdad.		Brief article	229
Hollywood director Rob Reiner has united California's forces of compassion behind a June 6 ballot initiative seeking to create a state universal-preschool program.		Brief article	171
House Republicans passed a $2.8 trillion budget that does little to rein in spending and even less to reform entitlements.		Brief article	144
If anyone wonders why many conservatives recoil in disgust from the current Congress, look no further than Kentucky Republican Harold Rogers.		Brief article	136
If it hadn't been for Peter Viereck, there still would have been conservatives--but we might have gone by a different name.		Brief article	162
If there is a hell, Moammar Qaddafi has reserved a retirement home in its tropics.		Brief article	137
Illegals' class interest.			650
Imagine that you are one of that small number of super-duper-celebrities whose careers and personal lives are followed obsessively by millions--a Jennifer, a Katie, a Tom, or a Brad.			200
Immigration: the ABC's.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		638
Into Egypt: a country invites the world, and its scrutiny.	Nordlinger, Jay		2994
John McCain went to the New School in New York City's Greenwich Village to deliver a commencement address about the importance of civil debate and respecting the deeply held beliefs of others.		Brief article	71
Just what did you mean?	Buckley, William F., Jr.		761
Just when John Kerry had the French vote wrapped up.		Brief article	17
London's Tate Modern gallery, always at the cutting edge of the art world, has done a major "rehang" involving 400 items, many of them new acquisitions.		Brief article	216
Long live rock 'n' roll.	Heckenberger, Michael	Letter to the editor	107
Mccain makes nice.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	82
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin won reelection in a narrow victory against Louisiana lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu.		Brief article	166
Old profession, new toleration: the state of prostitution, and the harm it causes.	Scruton, Roger	Essay	2005
Only one person has been named an honorary citizen of Paris since Picasso.		Brief article	208
Pandemic Studios of Los Angeles is a maker of video games.		Brief article	158
Poor judgment.			556
Rock 'n' roll is dead.	Tarbell, Richard	Letter to the editor	96
Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox, the New York Post, and a jillion other media properties, will hold a fundraiser for a senator from New York.		Brief article	139
Same Ol' Gore.	Goldberg, Jonah		645
Senate minority leader Harry Reid criticized an amendment to the Senate's immigration bill that would make English the national language.		Brief article	151
Sonetto.	Mezey, Robert	Poem	94
Taylor Hicks won the latest round of American Idol, and if you don't know that, you are in a tiny minority, probably visually challenged and without electricity.		Brief article	132
Temporary madness.			725
The Anglican Church marches steadily forward from its origins as an elegantly anglicized variant of the great Catholic tradition.		Brief article	202
The anti-Americanism of many Americans advanced into new territory last week with an attempt by the Michigan Department of Education to ban the use of "America" and "Americans" as synonyms for these United States and their inhabitants.		Brief article	187
The conventional wisdom was that President Bush wouldn't be able to get someone of stature to take the post of Treasury secretary whenever John Snow's much-rumored departure finally happened.		Brief article	169
The Iranian street: we should help an increasingly restive population against its rulers.	Steorts, Jason Lee		1470
The long view.	Long, Rob	Letter to the editor	831
The U.S. has announced its willingness to hold direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program if Iran first suspends uranium enrichment and reprocessing.			219
The Washington Post editorializes that "there is a danger in" the convictions of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.		Brief article	189
There is pop music; there is bad pop music; there is truly dire, terrible pop music; and then there is Euro-pop.		Brief article	154
To the source.	Beran, Michael Knox	Book review	1896
Tortured memories.	Levenick, Christopher	Book review	1283
Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia, now numbers among its many other attractions a rock opera about Genghis Khan, the great medieval conqueror.		Brief article	176
Uneasy democrats.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	34
University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, who became a national figure after likening 9/11 victims to Nazis, has been slapped with a damning 125-page investigative report, commissioned by the university in response to allegations of academic misconduct.		Brief article	171
We all know that liberals are sophisticates who understand the complex nature of reality, while conservatives see the world in absolutes.		Brief article	172
Whoever believes that the children are our future--that we should teach them well and let them lead the way--ought to take a trip to Saudi Arabia.		Brief article	179
Woman of the future?	Tyrrell, R. Emmett, Jr.	Book review	1594