Articles from National Review (December 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Emanuel.".			10
"Hi. We're from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," says an actor playing a Mormon missionary.		Brief article	256
Amid the generally dismal election news, there were occasional positive results, and several of these came from a most unlikely place: San Francisco.		Brief article	134
An economic growth rate of 5.8 percent doesn't sound too bad, does it? It does if you're one of the technocrat-thugs who run China.		Brief article	184
Back to basics, ahead to particulars: reflect on your beliefs, then explain their relevance.	Levin, Yuval	Viewpoint essay	1416
Backcountry boy.	Beran, Michael Knox	Book review	1564
Beyond tax cuts: to win, the GOP must comprehensively address the cost of middle-class living.	Salam, Reihan		1265
Brand: old party :but marketing is only part of the GOP's problem.	Hood, John		1571
Brave new volume.	Smith, Wesley J.	Book review	1886
Britain's Queen Mother--which is to say, the mother of the present monarch--died in 2002 at the age of 101.		Brief article	255
Celebrating Horne.	Nordlinger, Jay	Interview	1552
Congressman Kemp's playbook: conservatives should modernize the supply-side message.	Miller, John J.		1373
During the campaign, Obama said he would raise taxes on capital gains, dividends, and high earners.		Brief article	108
Every election ends in unifying rhetoric, and this one was no different.		Brief article	161
Exit stage right.	Goldberg, Jonah		665
Going mainstream: the right faces new media realities.	Spruiell, Stephen		1548
Help.		Cartoon	65
Here's a crime-fighting advance not to be sniffed at.		Brief article	107
Hispanics favored Obama over McCain by 67 to 31 percent.		Brief article	168
Hope amid the ruins.			736
In Minnesota, Republican senator Norm Coleman is, at this writing, sweating out the results of a tight reelection contest with faded jokester Al Franken.		Brief article	206
In the snake pit: the sad end of the McCain campaign.	Lowry, Richard		2490
In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Joe Biden said: "Mark my words.		Brief article	163
It's said that Barack Obama has chosen to go the good cop/bad cop route in running his White House.		Brief article	213
John Leonard was an omnivorous and omnicompetent reviewer, for the New York Times and a raft of other publications.		Obituary	140
Michael Crichton was a wildly successful novelist because he told stories well. Yet he was more than an entertainer.		Obituary	109
No need for elites.	Davidson, Jim; Ponnuru, Ramesh	Letter to the editor	172
No, we can't.	Derbyshire, John		1044
Not dead yet: there's life in the old GOP--if it will fight.	O'Sullivan, John		2353
Obama has signaled that one of his first items of business will be to ask Congress to pass a massive economic-stimulus package.		Brief article	125
On Election Day, three states passed referenda against same-sex marriage, including notoriously liberal California, which undid a state-supreme-court decision in the process.		Brief article	76
One of John McCain's most potent enemies was time.		Brief article	143
One of President Bush's unheralded achievements has been his success at keeping left-leaning creative types in obscurity.		Brief article	203
Out of darkness.	Wilson, John		1200
Pity Michael Bloomberg. For all his billions, and all his power as mayor of New York (for which office he recently bought himself the chance to seek a third term), there is one place in the city where he cannot indulge his greatest pleasure--running other people's lives.		Brief article	176
Roadway socialism.	Rasmussen, Kristina; VerBruggen, Robert	Letter to the editor	311
Roots of defeat: let us study, and emulate, the left's online tactics.	Ruffini, Patrick		1251
Sarah Resartus: Tailoring Palin for the future.	Douthat, Ross	Viewpoint essay	1311
School bake sales are tons of fun, and that worries California's committees for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, whose blue-nosed busybodies fret that their young wards are packing too much tonnage.		Brief article	162
Since 1996, Ward Connerly has pushed ballot initiatives to ban racial preferences in California, Washington, and Michigan, where they were approved.		Brief article	147
That $700 billion rescue package for banks is in danger of turning from a safety net into a slush fund.		Brief article	154
The campaign continued for Sarah Palin, as blame-shifting McCain aides accused her, anonymously, of not knowing that Africa is a continent rather than a country.		Brief article	158
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, standing on a site believed to be that of Christ's Resurrection, is managed by six different Christian sects under a complex set of protocols dating from the Ottoman Empire.		Brief article	185
The election added another kink to Joe Lieberman's relationship with the Democratic party.		Brief article	180
The election was hardly over before Obama received a letter of congratulation from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--a sort of love letter, really, in the way it mentioned past quarrels only to rise above them.		Brief article	207
The Final Toast.	Akhmatova, Anna	Poem	62
The four horsemen of Barack Obama: why markets are predicting apocalypse.	Hassett, Kevin A.		1104
The mainstream media's left-wing bias is no secret to anyone who can read, but we're always impressed when someone within the establishment has the temerity to admit it.		Brief article	196
The National party, Kiwi conservatives, will lead New Zealand's new government.		Brief article	130
Transcript: Larry King Live! January 12, 2012.	Long, Rob	Broadcast transcript	789
Two odious items top the Democrats'wish list as the coronation approaches.		Brief article	215
Washington is abuzz with speculation that Obama might nominate Jamie Gorelick to be the next attorney general.		Brief article	161
Watershed.			415
When Obama first visited Kenya, his father's country, in 1988, he was greeted by his aunt Zeituni Onyango.		Brief article	191
Why McCain lost: the republican nominee played his bad hand badly.	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Viewpoint essay	1918
You paid what for that? We can win the cap-and-trade fight in 2009.	Manzi, Jim		1236