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Articles in July 18, 2005, issue of National Review

• Mitt 'n' marriage
  by Jonathan Goulding
• Congress is about to miss a deadline
• Riding through Checkpoint Charlie on a U.S. Army bus during the Cold War was an eerily formal experience
• The Islamic Republic of Holland: how one nation deals with a revolutionary problem
  by John O'Sullivan
• Nick Cannon is a rapper who has released a track called "Can I Live?" in which he thanks his mother for not aborting him
• Economy-class syndrome
  by Gary T. Fisher
• During the controversy over Terri Schiavo, we argued that it was wrong deliberately to bring about the death of an innocent human being, whatever her condition
• Winning in Iraq
• The bad decision that started it all: Griswold at 40
  by Robert P. George
• One church, after all
  by Michael Potemra
• If, following standard tourist guides, you wander through Toronto's homosexual district, at the corner of Alexander and Church streets you will find a statue of one Alexander Wood
• Trying Again
• The majority of Iranians long ago lost confidence in their rulers
• Politically correct
  by Jim Huber
• Correction
• The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution says that the government may take your property "for public use" so long as it provides "just compensation"
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• There was a certain bitter amusement in Vietnamese prime minister Phan Van Khai's call on President Bush at the White House: amusement, from seeing Communists grovel for a slice of the wealth they affect to despise; bitter, because they have enjoyed 30 ye
• Newspapers report that the Clintons have paid all of their legal bills
• Karl Rove, receiving an award from the Conservative party of New York, surveyed the differences between conservatives and liberals
• George W. Bush is the first president to visit a nuclear-power plant since Three Mile Island, way back in 1979
• Summer arrived, and with it the Gay Pride parade in Gotham
• Home, Sweet Home
  by W.H. von Dreele
• At the east end of Long Island stand the Hamptons, once sleepy farming and fishing hamlets, now prime real estate, containing the summer homes and playgrounds of the super-rich
• From on high
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Friedman night
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Easy riders
  by Andrew Stuttaford
• Whether developing ballistic missiles, threatening Taiwan with truculent language, shrugging at North Korea's nuclear ambitions, or permitting the piracy of intellectual property, China's rulers do little to inspire confidence in their goodwill
• "Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line," said Richard Durbin, the second-ranking Democratic leader in the Senate
• Notes & asides
• Still the one
  by Jeffrey Hart
• Edward Klein's The Truth About Hillary is so Nineties
• Love story?
  by Allan Carlson
• Keeping an orderly foundation
• Gotta be the shoes
  by Richard Brookhiser
• A race-based state: Hawaii wants a segregation that would boggle your mind
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The dress of thought
  by John Derbyshire
• The Circle Dance
  by Daniel Mark Epstein
• What to do with the site in lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center stood?
• The Iraqi Baathists are hoping to return to power by provoking civil war
• The board of the Berkeley Unified School District voted, 3-2, to retain the name of Jefferson Elementary School, after a two-year campaign to yank the third president because he was a slaveowner
• Mr. Smith went to Washington and he was something different at the FEC
  by Byron York
• KO by Michael
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Ortega, again: the Left's dear comandante comes back in Nicaragua
  by Otto J. Reich
• John Bolton has been twisting in the wind for weeks now, but the case against his nomination has been getting weaker all the while
• "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region … and we achieved neither
• Hot enough for you? The state of the global-warming debate, and politicking
  by Jerry Taylor
• The mounting protests
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Orwell in The Tropics: the nightmare of Cuban refugees continues in the Bahamas
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Democrats want a commission to investigate Guantanamo Bay in the manner of the 9/11 commission
• Some Time Later
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Wal-Mart is American liberalism's favorite corporate punching bag, and the pugilists of the day are Sens. Ted Kennedy and Jon Corzine and Rep. Anthony D. Weiner
• He has prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease, a broken hip and pelvic bone
• Righteous protests: when the Vietnamese prime minister came to the United States, he heard from Vietnamese Americans
  by Rachel Zabarkes Friedman
• According to reports, Oprah Winfrey was denied entry to Hermes in Paris because, as one employee said, they had been "having a problem with North Africans"
• Sugar daddies: how sugar interests rip off America and harm the national interest
  by Jason Lee Steorts