Articles from National Review (February 12, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
... as critics of Israel, like the New York Times, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and David Duke, never tire of saying ...		Brief article	18
... Do or die.	Edwards, Evan	Letter to the editor	171
A surge in candidates.			599
Art Buchwald's best days as a humorous political columnist were long past when he was suddenly given a new subject.		Brief article	137
Bart Didden used to own a property in Port Chester, N.Y., on which he had plans to build a CVS pharmacy.		Brief article	187
Bed reading.	Buckley, William F., Jr.	Critical essay	628
Books in brief.	Dick, Anthony	Book review	560
Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo has said in the past that it would be "delusional" to think he could win the presidency, but he has nonetheless announced his intention to explore a run.		Brief article	107
Con man.	McNiesh, Joseph	Letter to the editor	78
Congress's dilemma.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		720
Democratic congressmen Maurice Hinchey and Dennis Kucinich and socialist senator Bernie Sanders are trying to combat the pernicious influence of conservative media by reviving the Fairness Doctrine.		Brief article	185
Dept. of Unmade Distinctions.		Brief article	29
Fables and foibles.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	893
Facing reality: toward a conservative foreign policy.	O'Sullivan, John		4745
Families and first principles: the conservative fight to protect life and defend marriage.	George, Robert P.		6157
Family time.	Hassett, Kevin A.		487
Federal prosecutors in New York, in cooperation with the New York district attorney, have indicted the man who ran the U.N. oil-for-food program.		Brief article	193
Flow ho ho.	Derbyshire, John		1056
Hawaii's John C. Calhoun, Sen. Daniel Akaka, is sponsoring, for the second time, legislation that would hand over sovereignty of our island state to native Hawaiians.		Brief article	122
Help!!!!		Cartoon	24
Hot properties.	Nordlinger, Jay		1627
In his book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis wrote of Jesus: "Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.".		Brief article	169
In May 2006--news travels slowly out of the Hermit Kingdom--Dear Leader Kim Jong Il asked Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa to lead the National Symphony Orchestra of North Korea.		Brief article	57
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has created a world-storm, but things aren't all going his way.		Brief article	189
Is tightening the screws a form of torture?		Brief article	108
Lais Dedicates to Aphrodite the Tools of Her Trade.	Mezey, Robert	Poem	83
Make war, not arrests.	Ramsay, Kent	Letter to the editor	95
McCarthy-era America, a frequent target of the New York Times and Pravda ...		Brief article	12
Nancy Pelosi's hundred hours are over, and the republic has sustained no serious damage.		Brief article	118
No shock, no awe.			603
NSA surveillance transcript.	Long, Rob	Interview	795
One of the lesser-known of the 20th century's gangster-despots was Mengistu Haile Mariam, who ran Ethiopia as a Leninist-style "people's republic" from 1974 to 1991, complete with nationalization of industry and commerce, secret-police terror, mass killings of "class enemies," and famines brought on by forced collectivization of agriculture.		Brief article	172
One radical suggestion that has been put forward for reforming and modernizing Islamic societies is the "weapons of cultural mass destruction" strategy: seduce pious Muslims with decadent Western pop artifacts like junk food, heavy-metal music, and Desperate Housewives--doing to their culture what we have done to our own.			180
President Bush awarded the second Congressional Medal of Honor for actions in the War on Terror.		Brief article	180
Readers may recall Chen Guangcheng, the blind human-rights activist in China about whom we have written before.		Brief article	122
Saving remnant.	Aeschliman, M.D.	Book review	1303
Six years ago, a panel led by Donald Rumsfeld warned about the possibility of a "space Pearl Harbor.".		Brief article	159
Symbolism in the Senate.			646
The administration announced that the president will stop authorizing the NSA's terrorist-surveillance program.		Brief article	217
The big dig.	Crawford, Alan Pell	Book review	1163
The Clinton-Obama race is getting hotter.		Brief article	21
The Doomsday Clock is a silly reaction to deadly serious things.		Brief article	219
The home front: what to do about domestic policy.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		6547
The House of Representatives has five members who never vote on the floor: they're called "delegates," and they hail from the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.		Brief article	185
The Sundance Film Festival got under way in Park City, Utah, and at the opening-day news conference inaugural chairman Robert Redford took the opportunity to correct any misapprehension the press might have about the festival's political tone.		Brief article	180
Wal-Mart, like many other large companies, is a perpetual target of abuse from raving leftists hurling accusations of corporate greed and worker exploitation.		Brief article	149
Washington is preoccupied with the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.			227
When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California, conservatives who supported him reasoned that while he was a social liberal, he was also a disciple of Milton Friedman.		Brief article	127
When the Duke lacrosse story broke, it immediately became a rallying cry for "social justice.".		Brief article	229
Without claiming any real knowledge of the matter, we have always supposed the world of professional meteorologists to be a calm and collegial sort of place, where earnest weatherpersons chat quietly about isobars, dew points, and orographic precipitation while sipping from cups of herbal tea with pinkies extended.		Brief article	171
Words and history.	Hart, Jeffrey	Book review	1389
Yes or no to Bush?	Buckley, William F., Jr.	Interview	634
You may have heard about the two Border Patrol agents who got sentenced to more than ten years in prison for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler.		Brief article	235