Articles from National Review (August 18, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'Hear Me, Earthlings!': citizen Obama addresses the world.	Goldberg, Jonah	Cover story	1748
A call, and an answer: two recent Dartmouth grads explain why they joined the Marines.			1415
A factional battle involving as many as 300 combatants left several injured but resulted in no fatalities.		Brief article	53
A grammar of ascent.	Steorts, Jason Lee		812
A reader of ours spotted a bumper sticker: "Faith ... Hope ... Obama.".		Brief article	16
Acts of mercy.	Brookhiser, Richard		989
Al Sharpton has fastened on one of the nastiest and least-known aspects of the Cuban regime, and good for him.		Brief article	131
Among national leaders who have chosen not to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics is Mirek Topolanek, the prime minister of the Czech Republic.		Brief article	183
Barack Obama took note of our cover story about his wife ("Mrs. Obama's America," April 21), citing it, in an interview with Glamour, as an instance of "the erosion of civility in our political culture.".		Brief article	138
Bob Novak, the renowned conservative columnist, has a brain tumor.		Brief article	27
Books do furnish ...	Simmons, Tracy Lee	Book review	1286
Citizen Obama.			576
Clarification.		Correction notice	54
Communion no more: as Anglicanism's transcontinental unraveling continues.	Kavulla, Travis		1609
Drill, don't redistribute.	Hassett, Kevin A.		391
During the upcoming Democratic convention, homeless residents of Denver will be given bus tokens as well as tickets to movies, the zoo, and museums--all located at conveniently great distance from the convention center.		Brief article	104
Egyptian officials get very huffy when you describe the Egyptian government as a dictatorship, even a "presidential dictatorship.".		Brief article	74
Facial politics.	King, Florence		985
Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke talked tough about inflation during his two-day testimony before Congress.		Brief article	137
Fiction abandoned.	Aeschliman, M. D.		1909
General Motors is not too big to fail: it's just the right size.		Brief article	210
Help!!!!		Cartoon	66
Inside job: how Fannie and Freddie got away with it.	Spruiell, Stephen		1630
It can be hard to retire, especially for politicians who have tasted power.		Brief article	166
Leaving in peace.			649
Let's see if we've got this straight: Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats want to enact another "economic-stimulus package," yet they remain opposed to long-term tax relief.		Brief article	180
Lopez Lomong was one of Sudan's "lost boys.".		Brief article	155
McCain knows whom to blame for the subprime-lending crisis, and he has found him just where Frank Capra would have told him to look.		Brief article	90
McCain says young people should be allowed to invest some of their Social Security funds, and he wants a bipartisan group to figure out how to make the program solvent.		Brief article	142
Merci beaucoup, Barack: on the matter of Americans and foreign languages.	Nordlinger, Jay		1664
Not so swift.	Post, Lawrence A.	Letter to the editor	213
Obama shot a three-pointer.		Brief article	9
One of Alaska senator Ted Stevens's most memorable moments in the last few years came during the Senate fight over the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere.".		Brief article	172
One of the leading scientific conundrums of our time is the Great Silence--the utter absence of any sign of intelligent life beyond our own planet.		Brief article	146
One state chapter of the ACLU is bucking the national organization on guns: "The ACLU of Nevada will defend this right as it defends other constitutional rights.".		Brief article	60
PBS anchor Jim Lehrer told MarketWatch.com that he doesn't think the press leans on the side of Barack Obama.		Brief article	113
President Bush abandoned his veto threat and signed a housing bill that offers a federal bailout to the lenders and borrowers who helped inflate the housing bubble and now find themselves struggling to stay afloat.		Brief article	141
Right from the start.	Lund, Nelson	Book review	1110
San Francisco liberals are amusing themselves: They have proposed to name a sewage plant after George W. Bush.		Brief article	38
Some people, Senate majority leader Harry Reid says, "you cannot negotiate with.".		Brief article	114
The 1972 federal law popularly known as Title IX forbids sexual discrimination "under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.".		Brief article	138
The age thing.	Buckley, Christopher		965
The fashion among certain young males is to wear pants low and baggy, with colorful underwear on display.		Brief article	91
The founder of our magazine, William F. Buckley Jr., hardly ever wanted America to imitate Europe.		Brief article	152
The Last Laugh?	Munson, Zack	Book review	1159
The Morning Call ...	Long, Rob	Discussion	946
The New York Times published an op-ed on Iraq by Barack Obama.		Brief article	125
The Rev. Kevin P. Fitzpatrick, S.T.D., who died suddenly on July 20 at the age of 52, was one of the most important people in Bill Buckley's life from the late 1980s until February 27, 2008, the day Bill died.		Brief article	202
The Secret history of John Edwards: is a scandal a scandal if no one reports it?	York, Byron		1178
The Supreme Court, in the Boumediene case, invented a constitutional right for our alien enemies to challenge their detention in federal court.		Brief article	171
The toughest fight: Sen. John Sununu's travails in the Granite State.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1171
There are a few things in this world that truly live up to their reputations for excellence: a .44 Magnum, a convertible Ferrari, Pavarotti hitting a high C, the United States Marine Corps.		Brief article	159
These past 13 years, everyone has been looking for Radovan Karadzic.		Brief article	208
Tilting we will Go? Windmills are not an energy policy.	Tucker, William		2663
Too many rules.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	1079
Uncharitable Catholics.	Jochnowitz, George; Williamson, Kevin D.	Letter to the editor	166
Uribe to the rescue: Colombia's president is winning the battle for his country's future.	Reich, Otto		2379
Walpurgisnacht.	O'Connell, Richard	Poem	43
Ward Connerly is trying to put an initiative on Arizona's ballot to ban racial preferences in state contracting, employment, and university admissions.		Brief article	127
When the Supreme Court handed down District of Columbia v. Heller in June, it looked like curtains for the capital's draconian gun laws.		Brief article	144
With gas at $4 a gallon, plenty of people are announcing that they have the scheme to save us further pain.		Brief article	156
Wrong then, too: let's not repeat Jimmy Carter's energy mistakes.	Taylor, Jerry		1466
Zimbabwe's currency has long been literally worth less than the paper it's printed on.		Brief article	225