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Articles in Feb 28, 2005 issue of National Review

• Joined at the hip
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Lt. Gen. James Mattis of the Marine Corps commanded Task Force 58, which secured early turf in Afghanistan in 2001, and the 1st Marine Division, which marched to Baghdad in 2003
• Brewing scandals: Milwaukee is the home of some Democratic dirty trickery
  by Byron York
• Dutch boy paints
  by James Panero
• According to the government's survey of payrolls, the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.2 percent, the lowest level since September 11
• In the winter, these sunglasses may save your life! In the summer, sunglasses are a fashion accessory …
• Jimmy Carter—the man who gave his stamp of approval to the sham election of Palestinian dictator Yasser Arafat in 1996 and to the questionable victory of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez in 2004—decided not to put in an appearance during the rec
• It is a pity that, in this age of universal niceness, we still have to conduct wars by maiming and killing people
• You deserve a factual look at … those "Palestinian Refugees": who are they, what is the real story?
• What will we do when the bell sounds?
  by Kurt M. Landgraf
• Look who's voting
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wowed the Europeans on her first trip abroad
• In re World War IV
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Cole disaster
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The pundits are saying that Tony Blair will call for a general election as early as May 5, on the grounds that the polls show him easily defeating the Conservative Michael Howard
• A Grave Poem For a Gift
  by Michael Creagan
• Confronting Iran: anyone with sense perceives a threat: what are our options?
  by Rachel Zabarkes Friedman
• Outing Ataturk
  by Kerem Bilge
• One evening last July, two teenaged Colorado girls decided to bake cookies and give them to neighbors as a treat
• Shut Up, Al-Jazeera
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In a welcome change from his first few years in office, President Bush plans to impose some restraint on domestic spending
• At last, a happy follow-up to a story we recently covered in this space: the one about the heist of a truck hauling 3.6 million nickels to the Federal Reserve in New Orleans
• Swiss misses: and some hits, too: scenes from the party in the Alps
  by Jay Nordlinger
• False idols
  by Armando Valladares
• The Democratic candidate for governor of Washington state, Christine Gregoire, seemed to lose narrowly on November 2, and then lost a recount as well
• We note with regret the passing of Africa's longest-serving head of state, Gnassingbe Eyadema, president of the Francophone nation of Togo
• A crack in the wall: Iraq's election deals a blow to absolutism; there will be others
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Social Insecurity
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The liberation of Auschwitz just 60 years ago prompted the United Nations General Assembly to hold a special session concerning the Holocaust
• Philip Johnson, who died age 98, had an immensely long and successful career as an architect
• How sweet it is
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Next acts: President Bush needs to rumble on
  by Paul Johnson
• Help!!!!
  by Jim Huber
• We heard that there was an irregularity in the Iraqi election
• Eason Jordan, chief news executive of CNN, broke some big news at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland
• Notes & asides
  by Ed Capano
• Indiana has a Republican governor for the first time in 16 years—and a conservative Republican, with a Republican legislature behind him, at that
• Doomed like ClintonCare? Opponents of Social Security reform only wish
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Joe Lieberman may be wrong about a number of things, but when it comes to the War on Terror he has proven himself stalwart
• Politically correct
• It seemed the 2004 elections would provide a "teachable moment" for the Democratic party
• Ward Churchill, a Cherokee Indian, was chairman of the department of ethnic studies at Boulder, Colorado
• Max Schmeling, German boxer, was heavyweight champion of the world from 1930 to 1932
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• A New York state judge ordered New York City to accord legal standing to same-sex "marriages"
• There is a bright spot on the Dartmouth College horizon, namely the possibility that Peter Robinson, known to our readers, will be backed to run for the Dartmouth board
• The finger
• The Resurgence of Traditional Catholism
• When theories collide
  by John Derbyshire
• The blind men and the high school
  by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
• Prose against death
  by Jeffrey Hart
• A once-in-a-lifetime experience: the National Review 2005: British Isles Cruise
• Terrorists in Iraq claimed to have kidnapped a U.S. soldier after a firefight in which several of his comrades were killed
• LeMoyne College, in Syracuse, N.Y., has expelled a student for writing a paper in which he defended the use of corporal punishment in schools
• Early returns
• Giant Leaps … off a cliff: why U.S. space policy is all wrong
  by Alexander Rose
• The border between Vietnam and Cambodia remains a perilous spot for Sen. John Kerry
• Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana is a moderate Democrat
• Global warning
  by Andrew Stuttaford
• Who is the bravest man in the world? Ali Fadel is certainly in the running
• The Seven Deadly Sins are Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Lust, Avarice, and Gluttony, traditionally remembered with the aid of the acronym PEWSLAG
• The GOP's Pataki problem: what to do with the governor of New York? Not much, probably
  by John J. Miller
• Knowledge & delight
  by Tracy Lee Simmons
• Hillary Clinton won plaudits for saying that abortion is a tragedy and that all Americans should agree to take steps to reduce its incidence, such as funding sex education and contraception