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Articles in June 5, 2006, issue of National Review

• Rockin' the right
  by John J. Miller
• Nostra culpa
  by David Morgenstern
• The decision by Florida house speaker Allan Bense not to seek the Republican U.S. Senate nomination practically guarantees that it will go to Rep. Katherine Harris in September—and this, in turn, practically guarantees the reelection of Democratic se
• There was hype aplenty about an "opening of dialogue" when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, sent President Bush a letter; but in reality the missive was full of sound and fury signifying nothing
• Abroad at home
• Approval Hell: Americans are an accepting people, to a fault
  by Florence King
• Opera boss
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Greetings!
• Judicial Watch has uncovered documents showing how aggressively the Clinton administration pushed to bring RU 486, a regimen of drugs to induce abortion, to the United States
• In a mid-April raid of an al-Qaeda hideout in Iraq, Coalition forces uncovered a trove of valuable documents
• Misplaced fears
• Putin, Alarmed
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Reading Lolita in Long Island
  by John Dervyshire
• Not to be overly dismissive of worried civil libertarians
• A new report by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, finds that fewer women are using contraception, and that abortion rates are therefore declining more slowly than they used to
• Recall that the old U.N. Human Rights Commission came under fire for including as members some of the world's worst human-rights abusers: China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia among them
• The bureaucracy wins
• The change will come
  by Michael M. Uhlmann
• Hanging right there …
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Congress voted, by healthy margins , to extend the tax cuts on dividends and capital gains through the end of 2010
• After complications during surgery at a hospital in Houston, Andrea Clark, 54, ended up on a respirator and in need of kidney dialysis
• Rule One: do not give in to the demands of terrorists, because that will only lead to more demands
• A. M. Rosenthal, R.I.P
• Accomplice
  by Dana Gioia
• Is there a solution?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The judicial-confirmation wars have started again—sort of
• A California newspaper has reported that the Department of Homeland Security provides the Mexican government with intelligence about the activities of American citizen groups that promote border security, such as the Minuteman Project
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somalian-born member of the Dutch parliament who has risked life and limb by criticizing Muslim brutality, may be ejected from Holland
• Notes & asides
  by Ron Trowbridge
• Bush the evangelist?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• 'Mr. Counter-Terrorism Guru': he says he's not, but others say he is
  by Byron York
• Howard Dean, interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network, said that the Democratic platform regards marriage as between a man and a woman
• No dragons here
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Thanks to the efforts of the Bush administration, the Sudanese government and the country's largest rebel group have made a deal for peace in Darfur
• Good economy, bad polls: Bush and the Republicans can't seem to catch a break
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The last word
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Your 'Robber Baron,' my American hero: or at least that's true in many cases
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Congressional mandate
  by Andy Collingwood
• Sen. John McCain gave the commencement address at Liberty University, founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell
• Sen. Daniel Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, wants to create a new "native" Hawaiian government
• Tony Blair needs the skills of an escape-artist if he is to free himself from the chains now binding him
• What's the holdup? More stalling, smearing, and fumbling on judicial nominees
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Space is for science: and not for shuttles, stations, and Bushian 'vision'
  by John Derbyshire
• A misleading picture
  by Barbara Dahlin
• Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy had a spot of bother the other day
• Alphonso Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, says that, during his tenure, "no contract has ever been awarded, rejected or rescinded due to the personal or political beliefs of the recipient"
• The United States and Japan have reached a new defense agreement
• Inventing abuse: if the administration isn't violating civil liberties in its pursuit of terrorists, some people will say it is anyway
  by Stephen Spruiell
• Target: Hezbollah: it may well make sense for Israel, and for an endangered world
  by David Pryce-Jones
• High on life
  by Raymond C. Hoy
• Liberals are touting a study by, of all people, William Niskanen of the Cato Institute
• The Hour's Late
  by W.H. von Dreele
• When it comes to Middle East scholarship, Yale is headed the way of Columbia University
• Scare of the century: the alarms and assertions about global warming have gone reprehensibly too far
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Smoke 'em if you got 'em
  by Mark Kolakowski
• What is it about the price of oil that drives otherwise sensible pundits batty?
• A late Mother's Day message, from a videotape played in Brooklyn Federal Court at the trial of Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani national charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station in New York City
• Dan Brown's amazingly successful novel The Da Vinci Code deserves most of the criticisms it has gotten—as history, it is hogwash; as theology, it is garbage; and as a piece of literature, it is at best a readable thriller
• The new immigration politics: wherein, for example, the rich and the poor join hands
  by Victor Davis Hanson