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Articles in Dec 5, 2005, issue of National Review

• Iraq's comeback kid: Chalabi keeps his eyes on the prize
  by Michael Rubin
• The front lines
  by Stefan Beck
• The story—broken by the Washington Times—that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote, in 1985, that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" set off a furor among the usual suspects in the stop-Bush-nominees coaliti
• By succeeding Rudy Giuliani in office, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg inherited a governable city rather than an ungovernable one
• Forget solidarity with Palestinians, harassment of military recruiters, and "Free Mumia!" rallies
• Panic in a small town: a new documentary stokes a pathological fear of … Wal-Mart
  by Byron York
• Winners' circle
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• If the Bush administration is under any illusions about the sorry political state of the Iraq war, recent action in the Senate should dispel them
• President Bush's nomination of Ellen Sauerbrey to be assistant secretary of state for the bureau of population, refugees, and migration is opposed by a host of feminist groups and has been the subject of hostile editorials likening the talented former Mar
• It is a universal truth about public affairs that politicians, who must always be doing something, will, when they have lost control of large matters, busy themselves with trivia
• 2005 Ad
• A horse of a different color: Maryland's Michael Steele and the courage of the black Republican
  by Jay Nordlinger
• The Whig World
  by Austin W. Bramwell
• The Republican infighting that has stalled approval of a budget bill to trim spending is, in part, a tribute to Nancy Pelosi's success in whipping her troops to oppose the measure unanimously
• When is plagiarism not plagiarism?
• Under a new law making its way through the Florida state legislature, Spanish lessons will become compulsory in the state's public schools from kindergarten through second grade
• Citizens of the world! You have nothing to lose but your countries, and your freedoms, and …
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Bonfire memories
  by John Derbyshire
• "Enforcement First" is the battle cry of House members seeking to restore order to immigration
• Not Ready yet
  by W.H. von Dreele
• San Francisco's recent election offers a tale of two pinks
• Battleground: France
• Notes & asides
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Rove's Mood
  by W.H. von Dreele
• It can't be said in simple words
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• President Bush warned after 9/11 that the War on Terror would be fought in the shadows
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is from Jordan, and the Madrid bombers were from Morocco
• Barbra Streisand, a lounge singer popular around 1970, has called for the impeachment of George W. Bush and an unspecified number of his colleagues
• The suburbs are burning: is France a failed state?
  by Anthony Daniels
• Official Transcript: "Larry King Live," November 17, 2006
  by Rob Long
• Presidential dilemmas
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• "The newly declassified information provides additional dramatic evidence that the [Bush] administration's prewar statements regarding links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda represents [sic] an incredible deception."
• Hugo Chavez continues to behave like a satirist's creation
• One has to feel sorry for the planet Pluto
• An old mistake: why are they trying to punish the oil companies?
  by Jerry Taylor
• The lion king
  by John J. Miller
• Gallic disruptions
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The establishment, anew
  by Charles Mitchell
• When the school board in Dover, Pa., introduced intelligent design into the curriculum as an alternative to the theory of evolution, a group of parents sued in federal court
• Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted the police to detain suspected terrorists for 90 days instead of the 14 currently allowed under the law
• The luxury cruise ship Seabourn Spirit was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia
• The right justice: Alito isn't just confirmable—he's a great choice
  by Edward Whelan
• A sad case
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Orders of truth
  by John A. Howard
• In the president's request for $7.1 billion to prepare the U.S. for a flu pandemic, one senses his desire not to be blamed—as he was following Hurricane Katrina—for events largely beyond his control
• We were quite interested in something John Vinocur had to say, in his International Herald Tribune column: "In a new book about his time as foreign minister, called 'Les Cent semaines,' [Dominique de Villepin] is portrayed through a series of negativ
• Among the recipients of President Bush's Medals of Freedom was Robert Conquest, the English-American historian, poet, and all-purpose truth-teller
• Let's play hardball! Or better yet, let's tell the truth
  by Stephen Spruiell
• The Master
  by Richard O'Connell
• The old black
  by John Richmond
• By late December 2003, the members of the New York Times editorial board were losing their patience
• On the occasion of the visit by Chinese president Hu Jintao to Britain in early November, the kingdom's cultural elites painted the town red for him
• The influence of Peter F. Drucker is hard to overestimate; postwar America, indeed the postwar world, might have looked dramatically different but for the contributions of this premier theorist of business management
• Gitmo legal: why are top-notch law firms aiding Gitmo detainees?
  by Deroy Murdock
• The man upstairs.
  by S.T. Karnick
• Samuel Alito submitted an article to NR for publication in the 1980s
• In August, New York Times public editor Byron Calame criticized the paper for its derelict coverage of the financial scandals at the liberal Air America radio network: weeks after the scandal broke, the Times had run one small story in the Metro section o
• Robert Mugabe was not very pleased with our ambassador, Christopher Dell, who said some honest things about the country Mugabe rules and brutalizes, Zimbabwe