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Articles in April 10, 2006, issue of National Review

• Once upon a time the press was so proud of its skepticism
• We hesitate to read too much into the presidential straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Memphis—but since everyone else is, this is how we see it: Bill Frist won with 36 percent, but in his home state that showing was merely
• A new U.N. human-rights council has been created by a General Assembly vote of 170 to 4
• The city of Calabasas, in southern California, has banned smoking outdoors
• Terror on trial: thinking about shining path, and those like them
  by Jay Nordlinger
• The year that was
  by John Derbyshire
• Dear Mr. Buckley: November 16, my first visit to New York City
  by Steve Ritchie
• The best way to cut Washington down to size would be to encourage the presidential ambitions of more members of Congress
• Sleaze is swamping Tony Blair and his Labour party
• Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick … Mike Wallace, 87, retired from 60 Minutes
• Get ready for Senator Bernie: a letter from Vermont
  by Geoffrey Norman
• Ports without a home
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Enforcement first
• South Dakota's monkey wrench
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Dubai ports controversy ended, with the United Arab Emirates-owned company succumbing to congressional browbeating and agreeing to sell its U.S. operations to an American entity
• They're rioting on the streets of Paris, and tear gas is the scent of the season
• Slobodan Milosevic was one of the many monsters spawned by Communism
• Help!!!!
• Milosevic cheats death
  by William F. Buckley, JR.
• It was an anti-climactic end to the great Patriot Act debate
• They're rioting on the streets of Paris, and tear gas is the scent of the season
• Year three
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Two more women's deaths have been linked to RU-486, the combination of two drugs used to induce abortion
• Last year the socialist government of Spain legalized samesex marriage and adoption
• Fool's gold
• A better deal
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Looking for a reason to be gloomy about the economy? Really looking? New York Times economics reporter Louis Uchitelle has just the thing to get you frowning
• A message from Ronald S. Lauder
  by Ronald S. Lauder
• "Islamic Prison Chaplain Accused of Hate Speech" is one of those headlines the newspapers should keep at the ready
• With the debut of HBO's new polygamy television drama, Big Love, it's getting tougher to laugh off the argument that same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy, polyamory, and ultimately to the replacement of marriage itself by an infinitely flexible partner
• To stifle or to compete: that is the question of 527s
  by Byron York
• A brutal constant
  by Mackubin Thomas Owens
• Crunchy contretemps
  by Rod Dreher
• Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was handed a bombshell—and opportunity—right before that Tennessee straw poll: Catholic Charities in Boston announced that they would end their adoption work rather than continue it under a state law requiring
• Re-enter, James Baker
  by W.H. von Dreele
• It's Frist!
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Bush is your soft drink: republicans 'distance' themselves at their peril
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Seeking God's face
  by Michael Potemra
• Off the dole, ten years later
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Some liberals are encouraging the Catholic Church to defy the law
• Chunky contretemps
  by Bob Chitester
• Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested that congressional critics of the Court's use of foreign law were indirectly to blame for a death threat she had received
• V for Vendetta, produced by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the brothers who gave us The Matrix, is, like that flick, a paranoid futurist thriller
• Every man's burden: will the Voting Rights Act be necessary … forever?
  by John J. Miller
• Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today
  by Anthony Dick
• After years of delay, the intelligence community has begun sharing with the public the millions of files from the intelligence haul amassed in the War on Terror
• Students of corporate law learn about the celebrated British case of Salomon v. Salomon & Co. in which a shoemaker successfully sued a corporation whose only shareholders were himself, his wife, and his children
• A work of charity
  by S.A. Cortright
• The Bush administration issued a new National Security Strategy, a usefully chastened version of the 2002 document
• With Sarandon playing Sheehan in that biopic, there is yet more reason to feel sad when you replay your mental DVD of Bull Durham
• The threat Saddam posed: a dictator and his WMD
  by James Lacey
• The capital burns
  by Ross G. Douthat
• Many Old Blues want to know why Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman with a fourth-grade education, is now an undergraduate at Yale. Sen. John Cornyn wants to know how he got into the country
• What Susan Sarandon may look like in her turn as 'Mother Sheehan'
• Abdul Rahman, 41, is on trial for his life in a Kabul court for the crime of converting to Christianity 16 years ago
• "You'd scarce expect one of my age / To speak in public on the stage," began the traditional school declamation exercise
• 'Isolationism!' They cried: mainstream journalists misunderstand conservatives
  by Jonah Goldberg
• On Fire
  by Olivia Ellis Simpson