Articles from National Review (March 27, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Too many bills passed by Congress include unnecessary spending," complained President Bush on March 6--raising, once again, the question of why he has not vetoed one of them in five years as president.		Brief article	157
A few days after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush stated that no one had anticipated a breach of New Orleans's levees.			162
A gang of French shun-dwellers who kidnapped and killed a 23-year-old cellphone salesman "acted for villainous and sordid reasons--money," said interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy.		Brief article	187
A peek at the books: new regulations shed light on Big Labor.	Miller, John J.		1381
A triumph in India.			598
A Wedge Issue?	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	46
Almost everyone agrees that the U.N. Human Rights Commission needs fixing.		Brief article	167
An inward turn.	Kimball, Roger	Book review	1593
Austrian justice.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		662
Back from the brink.			613
Bolton at bat: in February, the American ambassador was president of the Security Council.	Nordlinger, Jay		2041
Cartoon.		Cartoon	50
Chief of the fat police: Bill Clinton's new role.	Shiflett, Dave		1472
Clash by night.	Douthat, Ross G.	Book review	1454
Close readers of Andrew Sullivan will be familiar with some of his less endearing habits: his promiscuity in handing out misleading labels to those with whom he disagrees ("Christianist" is his way of comparing conservative Christians to al-Qaeda), his tendency to shift ground in the middle of a debate, his apparent lack of interest in describing his opponents' views accurately.		Brief article	260
Costly gestures.			776
Curse of the militias: what Balkanization has done to Iraq, Lebanon, and others.	Pryce-Jones, David		1513
Extra credit.	Jones, Douglas	Letter to the editor	102
First they came for the smokers.		Brief article	138
Fishing Around.	Mezey, Robert	Poem	112
Goodbye to All That.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	56
Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate for president in 1996 and 2000, has died at the age of 72.		Obituary	186
Heavenly read.	Buckley, William F., Jr.	Book review	1168
Helena Stone, 70 years old, of New York City, has been working as a telephone repairperson at Grand Central Station, and wishes to use the ladies' restroom in that terminus.		Brief article	206
Illegal detour: thinking reasonably about immigration.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1512
In a swipe at Bush, Jimmy Carter told the Council on Foreign Relations, "We worship the prince of peace, not of preemptive war.".			40
International longshore and warehouse union grievance committee.	Long, Rob		998
It didn't work.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		633
Jilted.	Hassett, Kevin A.	Book review	1060
Kids and cars used to mean hot rods, T-birds, little deuce coupes.		Brief article	86
Larry Summers ran the white flag up the crimson flagpole, announcing that he would step down as president of Harvard.		Brief article	165
Liberals were outraged by the news that Justice Samuel Alito had written Focus on the Family's James Dobson a letter thanking him for his support and prayers.			51
Living in the real world: everyone has to do it, including conservatives.	Goldberg, Jonah		1512
Messin' with Texas: Tom DeLay's redistricting affair comes to the Supreme Court.	Spruiell, Stephen		1224
Michael S. Joyce, who died on February 24 at the age of 63, was one of the conservative movement's great venture capitalists.		Brief article	186
Next step.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		635
Notes on the passing scene.		Concert review	768
Pollster John Zogby claims that 72 percent of our soldiers in Iraq want the U.S. to withdraw by the end of the year.		Brief article	192
Respectfully submitted.	Goulding, Matthew	Letter to the editor	324
Rioting over the Danish cartoons has spawned two "manifestos" against Islamic extremism.		Brief article	136
Run, Rudy, run? The former New York mayor is a favorite, but not visible.	York, Byron		1453
That answers that.	Eney, Dick	Letter to the editor	124
The 'to hell with them' hawks: and what's wrong with them.	Lowry, Richard	Cover story	3417
The 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have their own ideas about the proposed human-rights council.		Brief article	127
The authority of Pope Benedict XVI now has some competition from the House Democratic Catholic caucus, which has issued an election-season encyclical.		Brief article	237
The demagogues win.			347
The eugenicist temptation.	Smith, Wesley J.	Book review	1589
The New York Times ran a series of articles, by Andrea Elliott, on Sheik Reda Shata, a Cairo-trained imam in Brooklyn.		Brief article	141
The New York Times reports, based on its study of six states, that parental-consent and parental-notification laws do not reduce abortion as a percentage of pregnancies.		Brief article	182
The Oscars were a red-state surge, as half the films winning the big four categories--Best Picture (Crash), Best Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote), Best Actress (Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line), Best Director (Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain)--were about heterosexuals.		Brief article	61
The Pope turned out to have more divisions than the Soviets thought.		Brief article	167
The Supreme Court dismantled the protests of liberal law professors in an 8-0 ruling against a challenge to the Solomon Amendment.		Brief article	195
To the Talibs down at Mory's ... Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former roving ambassador for the Taliban regime of Afghanistan, is now a 27-year-old undergraduate at Yale.		Brief article	198
Walk the talk.	Brookhiser, Richard		993
When Colorado high-school student Sean Allen brought home a recording of his geography teacher ranting that President Bush sounded like Hitler, that capitalism was at odds with human rights, and that the United States was the most violent nation in all of history, his father was none too pleased: "'I had no idea he was this nuts.".		Brief article	198
Why wets are all wet: conservatives ought to run dry--i.e., as conservatives.	O'Sullivan, John		1630
With so many artists being so courageous these days, it's hard to salute them all.		Brief article	142