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National Review archives from March 2006
Enlighten us.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
March 13, 2006
Major-league problems.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
March 13, 2006
Law of diminishing returns.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
March 13, 2006
Counterintuitive, perhaps.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
March 13, 2006
There was a time--e.g., the first decade of the 19th century.(The Week)
March 13, 2006
In pursuit.(The Week)(happiness)
March 13, 2006
A sensible compromise has ended the Senate logjam over renewal of Patriot Act provisions.(This Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
Okay.(This Week)(eavesdropping)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
Congress set expiration dates for President Bush's tax cuts in order to reduce their impact on the budget.(This Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006... * Congress set expiration dates for President Bush's tax cuts in order to reduce their impact on the budget. From the beginning, liberals denounced the time limits as a phony maneuver to mask the tax cuts' true cost. Congress, they said, would...
Adios to asbestos?(This Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
Sen. Jim Talent of Missouri has cosponsored Sam Brownback's bill to ban human cloning for three years.(This Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
South Dakota is on the verge of enacting a law to ban abortion.(This Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
It would be nice if there were tapes of Saddam Hussein saying, "I've got weapons of mass destruction.(This Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
Kofi Annan has asked President Bush for a little favor.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
Cheney Carries On.(The Week)(Poem)
March 13, 2006
It is somewhat surprising to learn that Danish pastries are very popular in Iran.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
The USS Iowa, America's first 45,000-ton battleship, was commissioned in February 1943.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006... The USS Iowa, America's first 45,000-ton battleship, was commissioned in February 1943. During World War II she helped take the Marshalls, the Carolines, the Marianas, and the Philippines, and was in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender. In the...
In the matter of demonstrating respect for the law and intolerance of willful law-breaking, you might think that the American Bar Association would be way out in front of the rest of us.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006... In the matter of demonstrating respect for the law and intolerance of willful law-breaking, you might think that the American Bar Association would be way out in front of the rest of us. Think again. The ABA's committee on legal education,...
If you want to get ahead, get a hat.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
Former actor Tom Malin is hoping to be a Democratic candidate for the Texas house of representatives.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
There never was an icon of American manhood to compare with the cowboy.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
We like Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
We like Edward Cave, editor of Gentleman's Magazine.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 13, 2006
A case of rabies.(The Week)(media coverage of Dick Cheney shooting incident)
March 13, 2006
The agony of assimilation.(AT WAR)(Danish cartoon protests)
March 13, 2006
The greatest story ever told: (they wish).(media coverage of White House)(Cover story)
March 13, 2006
Off track: both parties bet on the other's flaws.(POLITICS)(US political situation)
March 13, 2006
Judging Saddam: no easy thing, to try a mass-murderer.(AT WAR)(trial of Saddam Hussein)
March 13, 2006
Crying wolf: is America a dangerous place for its Muslim citizens?(THE NATION)
March 13, 2006
Wrong man, wrong war: a case of mistaken identity in the war on drugs, and not an isolated case, either.(PUBLIC POLICY)
March 13, 2006
If you're going to tell a joke ... try to get it right.(Dana Milbank's joke about Dick Cheney's shooting accident)
March 13, 2006
A law school with a twist: at George Mason University, the Left doesn't reign, believe it or not.(HIGHER EDUCATION)
March 13, 2006
The prosecutor's brief: what does Patrick Fitzgerald know? When did he learn it? And other questions.(THE CAPITAL)
March 13, 2006
Tolerance, if not respect: living with the beliefs of others--even Danish cartoonists.(AT WAR II)
March 13, 2006
Hillary's Progress.(HELP!!!!)(Poem)
March 13, 2006
Help!!!!(Cartoon)
March 13, 2006
National Review travel experience exclusive! book now!: a farewell to Europe! October 11th-October 23rd, 2010.(the long view)
March 13, 2006
Harvest Ground.(Poem)
March 13, 2006
We are the world.(Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers)(Book review)
March 13, 2006
Gray eminence.(The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill)(Book review)
March 13, 2006
What it says.(The Heritage Guide to the Constitution)(Book review)
March 13, 2006
Ten pianists, briefly.(MUSIC)(Sound recording review)
March 13, 2006
A room of one's own.(THE STRAGGLER)(designing a study away from the family)(Column)
March 13, 2006
The ongoing Reagan.(on the right)(President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination)(Book review)
March 13, 2006
Restraining democracy.(on the right)
March 13, 2006... NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 14
Our love affair with democracy is here and there unrequited. Sixty years ago the essayist Albert Jay Nock remarked that if you freeze a frame on a member of the American clerisy you will find his mouth open having...
Killer Cheney.(on the right)(Dick Cheney)
March 13, 2006
Respectfully submitted.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
March 27, 2006... In his "Tolerance, If Not Respect" (March 13), Theodore Dalrymple writes: "I learned early in life that tolerance and respect are quite different things. One does not have to respect a man's opinions to respect his fight to have them: Indeed,...
That answers that.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
March 27, 2006... In the February 27 issue Mr. Dalrymple wonders where one would get a Danish flag to burn in Damascus. And an editorial asks, "How many Danish flags are normally available in Gaza, or Jakarta?" The answer: As many as you can make.
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Extra credit.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
March 27, 2006... In the February 13 issue, NR praises Alan Greenspan's successful two decades fighting inflation in deficit-prone America, and notes that "his predecessor, Paul Volcker, began the fight against inflation." That's a bit of an understatement....
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.(The Week)
March 27, 2006... 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. They will be even less happy to see the postscript to the letter, which NR has...
A few days after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush stated that no one had anticipated a breach of New Orleans's levees.(The Week)
March 27, 2006... A few days after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush stated that no one had anticipated a breach of New Orleans's levees. The AP recently reported, however, that a videotape documented that Bush was warned about the failure of the levees on the...
In a swipe at Bush, Jimmy Carter told the Council on Foreign Relations, "We worship the prince of peace, not of preemptive war.".(The Week)
March 27, 2006... In a swipe at Bush, Jimmy Carter told the Council on Foreign Relations, "We worship the prince of peace, not of preemptive war." Before judging another man's soul, Brother Carter, you might check your relations with the Father of Lies.
The authority of Pope Benedict XVI now has some competition from the House Democratic Catholic caucus, which has issued an election-season encyclical.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... The authority of Pope Benedict XVI now has some competition from the House Democratic Catholic caucus, which has issued an election-season encyclical. That effort was spearheaded by Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and the former executive...
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.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... 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. The methodology is uncannily reminiscent of Glen Harold Stassen's 2004...
Pollster John Zogby claims that 72 percent of our soldiers in Iraq want the U.S. to withdraw by the end of the year.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... Pollster John Zogby claims that 72 percent of our soldiers in Iraq want the U.S. to withdraw by the end of the year. The same survey reports that 42 percent of the troops do not understand the U.S. mission there, and 85 percent think we went to...
"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.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... "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. In the future, however, Bush may be able...
The Supreme Court dismantled the protests of liberal law professors in an 8-0 ruling against a challenge to the Solomon Amendment.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... The Supreme Court dismantled the protests of liberal law professors in an 8-0 ruling against a challenge to the Solomon Amendment. The law schools want to be able to exclude military recruiters from campus as a way of protesting the "don't ask,...
Almost everyone agrees that the U.N. Human Rights Commission needs fixing.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... Almost everyone agrees that the U.N. Human Rights Commission needs fixing. But the U.N. has a knack for taking something broken and making it worse. The proposed U.N. human-rights council--whose creation depends on a vote of the General...
The 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have their own ideas about the proposed human-rights council.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... The 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have their own ideas about the proposed human-rights council. They want its charter to ban all "defamation of religions and prophets," and the council to "bring to justice" the...
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.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... 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. But they also "had the belief, and I quote, 'that Jews have...
Rioting over the Danish cartoons has spawned two "manifestos" against Islamic extremism.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... Rioting over the Danish cartoons has spawned two "manifestos" against Islamic extremism. The first is called "Together Facing the New Totalitarianism." It is signed by a dozen intellectuals--including celebrated figures Salman Rushdie, Irshad...
The Pope turned out to have more divisions than the Soviets thought.(The Week ...)(Pope John Paul II)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... The Pope turned out to have more divisions than the Soviets thought. And the Soviets seem to have had one more assassin than previously acknowledged, in light of an Italian panel's conclusion that the Soviet Union was "beyond any reasonable...
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.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... 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. When she tries to do so, however, she gets arrested, because she is...
The New York Times ran a series of articles, by Andrea Elliott, on Sheik Reda Shata, a Cairo-trained imam in Brooklyn.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... The New York Times ran a series of articles, by Andrea Elliott, on Sheik Reda Shata, a Cairo-trained imam in Brooklyn. They were the kind of pieces big newspapers can do well--long, detailed, worth reading. But maybe the headline on the second...
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.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... 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. A profile of the young man in The New York Times Magazine says that when he...
Larry Summers ran the white flag up the crimson flagpole, announcing that he would step down as president of Harvard.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... Larry Summers ran the white flag up the crimson flagpole, announcing that he would step down as president of Harvard. News stories revisited this or that episode from his tenure--his remarks on the scientific achievements of women, his run-in...
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.".(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... 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...
Kids and cars used to mean hot rods, T-birds, little deuce coupes.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
March 27, 2006... Kids and cars used to mean hot rods, T-birds, little deuce coupes. Reza Taheri-azar, a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina, took it to a new level when he plowed his Jeep Cherokee through the Pit, an outdoor student gathering...