National Review articles from January 2006

National Review archives from January 2006

Friends in need.(Letter to the editor)
January 30, 2006

Little red lies.(Letter to the editor)
January 30, 2006

Tooting our horn.(Letter to the editor)
January 30, 2006

A blue mag.(Letter to the editor)
January 30, 2006

So Jon Stewart's hosting the Oscars?(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

In questioning Judge Alito on one day of the hearings, Senator Biden spoke 3,673 words.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Miners cheat death.(mine accidents)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Iraq held its third national elections in a year.(The Week)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

For 37 years John Murtha was in the Marine Corps, and the Marine Corps Reserve (he retired as a colonel).(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Just when everyone knows that Saddam Hussein had no ties to terrorists, Stephen F Hayes of The Weekly Standard comes along and reports that some 8,000 terrorists were trained at Iraqi camps between 999 and 2002.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

When the Senate failed to reauthorize the Patriot Act last month, Harry Reid was exultant.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

What should House and Senate Republicans do in the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal?(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

The stock market rose above 11,000 for the first time since September 11.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Thanks to a recess appointment, John Bolton is doing indispensable work at the United Nations.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Chief Justice John Roberts issued the annual report on the state of the federal judiciary--his first.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Pat Robertson said that Ariel Sharon's stroke was a punishment from God for--wait a minute.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

"During the next 35 years," Peter Singer wrote last year, "the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments.(The Week)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

On December 30, with the new year bearing down, President Bush gave free traders an occasion to toast.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

10 million missing girls.
January 30, 2006

Eliot Spitzer, New York State's attorney general, is running for governor, but maybe he should also consider running for head of one of the five families.(The Week)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

California law currently imposes a minimum wage of $6.75 per hour, which is $1.60 above the federal level.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

It's Poignant.(Poem)
January 30, 2006

The smallest of Florida's three voucher programs, the Opportunity Scholarship Program, was declared unconstitutional by the Florida supreme court.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

When Harry Belafonte visited Venezuela's Hugo Chavez--in the company of Prof. Cornel West and other lovelies--he called President Bush "the greatest tyrant in the world" and "the greatest terrorist in the world.".(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Russia started the new year by cutting off supplies of natural gas to Ukraine, its neighbor and former vassal.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

When people die at the hands of Third World despotisms, no one cares much.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

If there were any doubt about Iran's inclusion in the Axis of Evil, it has certainly been dispelled in the last few months.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Supporting the Palestinian cause is not easy.(The Week)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

A favorite game of liberals is Moral Equivalence.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Fox News star and populist icon Bill O'Reilly went on the David Letterman late-night show, and a clash of personalities ensued.(Fox News Network L.L.C.)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Renegade Member of Parliament and FOSH (that is, friend of Saddam Hussein) George Galloway is one of the participants in the British version of the reality TV show Big Brother.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

Sometimes when a game ends it deserves to be instantly replayed on ESPN Classic.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

The Winter Olympics are coming--they start February 10--and it seems the battle to save Turin has been lost.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

You-Can't-Help-but-Smile dept.(Marion Barry robbed)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006

On The Homefront.
January 30, 2006

The president's duty.(National Security Agency monitoring al-Qaeda )
January 30, 2006

Without DeLay.(Tom Delay steps out as he continues to fight to clear his name in the Texas-redistricting and Abramoff cases)
January 30, 2006

A sober judge.(strip searches)
January 30, 2006

A leader's courage.(Ariel Sharon)
January 30, 2006

Shameful acts: why the wartime leaking has hurt.(Cover story)
January 30, 2006

Let's play small ball! An appropriately modest agenda for 2006.(THE WHITE HOUSE)(lobbying)
January 30, 2006

Giving enforcement a chance: before we give up on immigration enforcement--why don't we try it?(PUBLIC POLICY)
January 30, 2006

A case of liberation: think, for a moment, about Iraq's Marsh Arabs.(AT WAR)(Mesopotamian Marshlands)
January 30, 2006

A wiser Holland: the Dutch, mugged by reality, toughen up on radical Islam.(EUROPE)
January 30, 2006

Israel' necessary man: the one and only Sharon.(THE MIDDLE EAST)(Biography)
January 30, 2006

How to 'connect the dots': well, for one thing, you use surveillance.(Cover story)
January 30, 2006

A dem golden boy: if not Hillary--why not Virginia's Mark Warner?(POLITICS)
January 30, 2006... In the days following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the two men who were then running for governor of Virginia suspended their campaigns. The election was less than two months away, but calling off million-dollar fundraisers and canceling...

59 Cents, and other rot: a look at some feminist myths.(SOCIETY)
January 30, 2006

The Gas Man.(HELP)(Poem)
January 30, 2006

Help!!!(satire)(Brief article)(Cartoon)
January 30, 2006

Clicking around the dial ...(the long view)(satire)
January 30, 2006

Re: us.(The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times)(Book review)
January 30, 2006

Closer to the prize.(Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America)(Book review)
January 30, 2006

Inscription.(Poem)
January 30, 2006

A time to lead.(Rebel-in-Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush)(Book review)
January 30, 2006

Nasty piece of work.(Our Endangered Values. America's Moral Crisis)(Book review)
January 30, 2006

An American original.(Mark Twain: A Life)(Book review)
January 30, 2006

Quiet hero.(The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer)(Book review)
January 30, 2006

Exit Gene McCarthy.(on the right)(Eugene McCarthy)(Obituary)
January 30, 2006... NEW YORK, DECEMBER 13 THE death of Eugene McCarthy marks the end of a cycle and almost certainly the beginning of a new cycle with similar hallmarks. The day McCarthy died, Virginia's popular Democratic governor, Mark Warner, signaled his...

On the whole, well done.(on the right)(eavesdropping and the Constitution)
January 30, 2006

Praiseworthiness.(on the right)(Joseph of Nazareth)
January 30, 2006

If someone told you there was a "gruesome cycle of murders, kidnappings, and torture" in Colombia, you might be tempted to blame the usual crowd: drug smugglers, leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, narcoterrorists, etc.(The Week)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006... * If someone told you there was a "gruesome cycle of murders, kidnappings, and torture" in Colombia, you might be tempted to blame the usual crowd: drug smugglers, leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, narcoterrorists, etc. But if...

Unable to think of any satisfactory verbal riposte while in a heated argument with a neighbor, Raymond Hugh McNealy of Germantown, Md., resorted to "mooning," which is to say, contemptuously presenting his bared buttocks to his antagonist.(The Week)(Brief article)
January 30, 2006... * Unable to think of any satisfactory verbal riposte while in a heated argument with a neighbor, Raymond Hugh McNealy of Germantown, Md., resorted to "mooning," which is to say, contemptuously presenting his bared buttocks to his antagonist....