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Articles in May 23, 2005 issue of National Review

• Saudi police busted a secret ring of Christians, arresting 40 Pakistani men, women, and children who were praying in a Riyadh apartment
• State of the cousins: what the British elections mean for the U.S
  by John O'Sullivan
• Branching out
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Made in America
  by John R. Coyne, Jr.
• They do things their own way in Russia
• Among the minor misfortunes of life, being left at the altar has always been considered one to arouse unqualified sympathy
• Following the spread of right-to-carry laws , Second Amendment enthusiasts are now promoting right-to-shoot laws, affirming that a citizen may "stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he or she reasonably believe
• Out of Lebanon: and Bashar Assad may find himself out of power
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Capitalism's boil
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Sheikh Salah al-Luhaidan, chief justice of the supreme judicial council of Saudi Arabia, declared that it is lawful for young men to go to Iraq "to raise up the word of God," i.e., kill Iraqis and Americans
• Still waters run deep, so they say, and that's certainly true of Canada, which sometimes errs into holier-than-thou territory when it comes to its warmongering, rapacious, intolerant neighbor to the south
• Help!!!!
  by W.H. von Dreele
• According to the papers, Hillary Clinton is quite the moderate on abortion, leading her party to a less absolutist position
• Iraq and journalism
  by J. Peter Freire
• What the 9/11 Commission Got Wrong …
• With the cancellation of the TV show Enterprise, the Star Trek franchise, for the first time in years, offers nothing new on the large or small screen
• The doctor is not a criminal: a painful drug-war case in Virginia
  by Jacob Sullum
• Evangelical Bush?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Democrats are carrying on as though there were an unbroken tradition, stretching back to the Founders, of using filibusters to require a 60-vote supermajority to confirm judges
• Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, Americans can reflect that the Vietnam War did confine the virus of Communism to former Indochina
• Lai With Sounds of Skin
  by Chryss Yost
• The liberal God as father
  by J. Stephen Lang
• Democrats think they have won a great victory against House majority leader Tom DeLay
• The president leads
• You may remember Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American radical who was crushed to death when she jumped in front of an Israeli army bulldozer
• The new-time religion: liberalism and its problems
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The masterly Bradbury
  by James E. Person, Jr.
• Zimbabwe was reelected to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, eliciting fierce protest from the U.S. and a handful of other countries
• Chief among equals
• Bad surge
  by Stephen Moore
• Re: immigration: ten points for a successful presidential candidate
  by Mark Krikorian
• Filthy lucre
  by Alexander Rose
• Chiefs choice
  by Steven I. Wallach
• Independence day: thinking seriously about judicial independence, and the state of our courts
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• What is it about independent counsel David Barrett's final report that Sens. Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, and other Democrats don't want us to see?
• From time to time, these pages have mentioned Jian-li Yang, the Chinese democracy activist who is languishing in some PRC prison
• The Nuclear Option
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Business investment soared in 2003 and 2004—but early reports suggest that it has more recently dipped
• About Sudan: what has been done? What can be done?
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Hasan Akbar, an Army sergeant, was sentenced to death for a grenade and rifle attack he launched on sleeping comrades at the start of the Iraq war in March 2003
• Fidel Castro reads NR, but he doesn't learn anything from it
• The music teacher
  by James Panero
• Powell vs. Bolton
• Travels in Fidel-land: what a visit revealed
  by Radek Sikorski
• As anybody—well, anybody who has been to journalism school—knows perfectly well, the Democratic party represents working families, while Republicans are the party of the rich
• Nuclear options?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Notes & asides
• From "The Blue Helmet" … the United Nations Employee Mental Health Task Force Newsletter, September 2005 issue … Q&A
  by Rob Long
• Kerry's Case
  by W.H. von Dreele
• A new government has been agreed on and approved by the parliament in Iraq
• Blowing their stack: the Democrats go nutso over John Bolton
  by Byron York
• Benedict's bookshelf
  by Michael Potemra