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Articles in Dec 31, 2005 issue of National Review

• Notes & asides
• Obstacle in chief: Sen. Carl Levin does all he can to hamper the administration in the War on Terror
  by Byron York
• Witness
  by Terry Teachout
• Numbers game
  by Keir Boyd
• Wild about Earl
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Saddam Hussein, his bushy beard and off-the-rack suit making him look like a crazed accountant, shouts and points during his Baghdad trial
• In 1979 Stanley Tookie Williams murdered Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Chen Yang, and Yu-Chin Yang Lin in two robberies
• Iraq: The Last Word
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The inherent contradiction between the two modern notions of "hate speech" and "identity pride" showed up the other day in San Francisco, when a group of lesbian motorcycle enthusiasts persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to
• A Trapp Family Christmas: shouldn't this year be more spiritual? Good luck!
  by Aloise Buckley Heath
• The idea of the university: coeds are one thing …
  by George Gilder
• Paradise lost?
  by Kate Hill
• Why we're there: we went into Iraq, and persist there now, for sound reasons
  by David B.J. Rivkin
• Mother's Milk
  by Lee Edwards
• Reagan the poverty-slayer
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Murrow vs. McCarthy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• If even Mohamed ElBaradei—director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize—says that the "international community" is "losing patience" with Iran over its nuclear program,
• Christians afoot
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Sen. Joe Lieberman, lonely voice of Democratic sanity on the Iraq War, may have a challenger in 2006—former senator Lowell Weicker, the incumbent he ousted in 1988
• Back in the CNMI: The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is no model when it comes to immigration
  by Mark Krikorian
• Honorable error
  by Mark A. Snider
• The news from Afghanistan is good, which is why the media have gone quiet on it
• Former senator Eugene McCarthy died, age 89
• Pelosi's limb
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The School Of Athens
  by Anthony Lombardy
• House of War
  by J. Peter Pham
• Pay attention now, technically challenged readers
• Rep. Budget Reform: Jeb Hensarling is doing vital work
  by John J. Miller
• In his brilliant campaign to become leader of Britain's opposition Tories, David Cameron avoided categorizing himself ideologically as best he could
• Comes Christmas, with the Christmas wars
• Haven't you noticed that everyone in the Washington
• California is home to 36 million people, but apparently none of them is a Republican who is also qualified to serve as chief of staff to the governor—or so it would seem, based on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bizarre decision to hire Susan Kennedy as
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Texas judge Pat Priest threw out one of three indictments against Tom DeLay, finding that prosecutor Ronnie Earle, in charging DeLay with conspiring to commit election fraud, misinterpreted the state's election code
• House and Senate conferees have finally struck a deal to reauthorize all 16 Patriot Act anti-terrorism measures set to expire at the end of this year
• In a speech before students at the University of Havana, Fidel Castro taunted Gov. Jeb Bush as fat
• For more than a decade, a bipartisan group of anti-Communists has hacked its way through a thicket of federal bureaucracy to build a memorial in Washington dedicated to the 100 million people who died in Communism's wars, revolutions, and purges
• 'Torture' and Interrogation
• The will to lose
• Liberte, egalite, colonialisme: a new French law stokes interesting fires
  by Anthony Daniels
• War for the homeland
  by Arthur Herman
• Howard Stern's move to satellite radio places him beyond the reach of the Federal Communications Commission, which has fined his broadcasters $2.5 million over the years
• The Syrian regime has long specialized in violence tempered with deception and lies. This deadly mixture is now in full swing
• The American Legislative Exchange Council gives a very nice award: the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism, named after the late columnist of the Detroit News , who was an eloquent champion of free markets, honest inquiry, and human dignity
• President Hosni Mubarak has ruled Egypt by emergency decree for over 20 years, and after recent parliamentary elections is in a position to continue in power for another six years, by which time he will be well into his eighties
• A good question
  by Tom McCort
• Under the heading "Life Imitates Parody," a Nobel Prize-winning Italian Communist clown has written a play entitled Peace Mom that depicts Cindy Sheehan's valiant antiwar efforts
• Nation building
  by Algis Valiunas