Articles from National Review (August 4, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national-security objectives we've set," Obama proclaimed in a recent speech.		Brief article	102
A black hole is an object--commonly a collapsed star--so dense that even light cannot escape its gravitational field.		Brief article	177
A computer, not a divider.	Douthat, Ross		894
A right restored.			370
Ahmad Batebi is one of the most famous of Iranian dissidents, known to the world ever since The Economist published his picture on its cover, in 1999.		Brief article	201
Back in April 2006, the White House desperately needed Tony Snow.		Brief article	206
Bench marks: sizing up McCain on judges.	York, Byron		1132
David H. Koch is a businessman, billionaire, and doer of good deeds.		Brief article	160
Dismal arithmetic.	Hand, Lois A.; Hassett, Kevin A.	Letter to the editor	235
Distant voices.	Derbyshire, John	Sound recording review	1032
Divisive optimism.	Langworth, Richard M.; Pryce-Jones, David	Letter to the editor	174
Enforcement at work: the strategy of attrition is bearing fruit.	Krikorian, Mark		1457
Following the example of Seoul in 1988, Chinese authorities have banned the sale of dog meat and dishes made from dog for the duration of the Summer Olympics, so as not to offend the sensibilities of visiting foreigners.		Brief article	76
For a brief moment, it appeared that Obama might be moderating on abortion.		Brief article	158
Game plan: should McCain care to win ...	Lowry, Richard; Ponnuru, Ramesh		3684
Hamilton warned against "the propensity of the legislative department to intrude upon the rights, and to absorb the powers, of the other departments.".		Brief article	185
Have you ever said anything critical of Obama? Shame on you.		Brief article	193
Hell on a tarmac: it's time to address airport congestion.	Verbruggen, Robert		1670
Help!			110
In a TV interview, Barack Obama's children, ages ten and seven, revealed something about their dad: He doesn't like ice cream.		Brief article	27
In praise of drabness.	Teachout, Terry		1365
Ingrid Betancourt's ordeal is finally over.		Brief article	209
Iranian TV has been delivering to its viewers a documentary series on Hollywood--Jewish-Zionist domination of.		Brief article	132
Jesse Helms, R.I.P.		Obituary	264
Jesse Jackson confided to a hot mike the kind of thought that every politician harbors about at least some of his peers.		Brief article	116
John McCain's economic plan heavily emphasizes growth, competitiveness, investment, and spending restraint.		Brief article	138
Kick saves in St. Paul: but can Tim Pawlenty put a puck in the naval observatory?	Miller, John J.		1878
Lost generation: adoption in America has collapsed; here's what to do about it.	Williamson, Kevin D.	Cover story	3858
Obama has released his first two national television ads.		Brief article	165
Obama said that Americans should worry more about whether their own kids learn Spanish than about whether immigrants' kids learn English.		Brief article	128
On July 8, the Czech Republic agreed to participate in a missile-defense system with the United States.		Brief article	165
On the other hand, Reverend Jackson.			13
One-Nation Conservatism.	Siegel, Fred	Book review	1164
Other half-read open-microphone apologies ...	Long, Rob	Letter to the editor	836
Patricia Buckley Bozell was the seventh of the Buckley children and, as WFB put it, the one with whom he was "paired from infancy.".		Brief article	199
Phil Gramm, a top adviser to McCain, said that we are in a "mental recession," not a real one, and that "we have sort of become a nation of whiners.".		Brief article	157
President Bush signed a surveillance-reform bill that the Democrat-controlled Congress, after a shamefully acrimonious three-year onslaught, passed overwhelmingly.		Brief article	144
Right song, wrong place: 'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' makes the news.	Nordlinger, Jay		1649
Sir John Templeton was one of the world's great stock pickers.		Brief article	147
Sounds of Babel.	Cowen, David C.	Letter to the editor	119
Still the one.	Hillen, John	Book review	1321
Swimming pool.	Baer, William	Poem	120
Tayside is in Scotland, and its police put out an advertisement for a new telephone number, attracting attention by showing a police cap with a German Shepherd puppy sitting on it.		Brief article	185
Teetering on the edge of another "flip-flop," this time on the Iraq War, Barack Obama reaffirmed his support for a 16-month timetable for withdrawal.		Brief article	254
The Bush administration decided to remove North Korea from its list of terror sponsors, and to lift some economic sanctions against it, in return for details about the plutonium it acquired from the now-shut-down Yongbyon reactor.		Brief article	206
The enemy speaks.	Potemra, Michael	Book review	520
The law, business, and economics faculties at the University of Chicago had a bright idea--actually, a rather obvious one.		Brief article	157
The practice of text messaging on cellphones has added some new abbreviations to the language, not all of them welcome to fastidious users of the English language.		Brief article	117
The right remedies.	Nadler, Richard	Book review	1226
The Supreme Court, in holding the death penalty for child rape unconstitutional, found a supposed national consensus against it.		Brief article	178
The U.S. government's implicit guarantee of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac appears to have finally come due.		Brief article	205
The U.S.-India nuclear-technology accord is barely news in Washington but dominates the headlines in New Delhi, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh risked the collapse of his government trying to hammer through the accord before George W. Bush hangs up his spurs.		Brief article	194
The United Nations Security Council has rejected a resolution by the U.S. and the U.K. to impose tougher sanctions on Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe these past 20 years, and key members of his government.		Brief article	144
Tyranny by camera: some thoughts on a pestiferous swarm.	Long, Rob		1411
Vice trade.	Goldberg, Jonah		479
VP questionnaire.	Buckley, Christopher		558
We admired President Bush's 2003 initiative to invest $15 billion to prevent and treat AIDS in Africa.		Brief article	195
When Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige drew up his "Rules for Staying Young," the first item on the list was "Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.".		Brief article	165
When the public-works department of the city of Atlanta needed to dig up a street or erect a utility pole, they put out orange signs with black lettering saying "Men At Work" or "Men Working Ahead.".		Brief article	111