Articles from National Review (December 29, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"This is very good port they have given me," remarked William Ewart Gladstone, visiting the home of the young Bertrand Russell, "but why have they given it me in a claret glass?".		Brief article	155
'The freedom speech' in retrospect: it was not the grossly simplistic vision of the second inaugural that saved Iraq.	Lowry, Richard	Cover story	1407
A properly powerful executive: Bush has done a solid job of safeguarding presidential prerogatives.	Franck, Matthew J.		1741
Agent provocateur.	Goldberg, Jonah		638
Archaeologists investigating a 2,700-year-old tomb in the Xinjiang-Uighur region of China have identified a substance found in a wooden bowl as Cannabis sativa--marijuana.		Brief article	165
At press time, Congress and the president appeared close to a deal to bail out the Detroit automakers.		Brief article	159
Before you say no ... a correspondence, nonfictional, between a young boy, a housewife, a headmaster, and the young boy's brother.	Heath, Aloise Buckley		1684
Bill and Ron.	Hayward, Steven F.	Book review	1611
Centenarian of the hour.	Nordlinger, Jay		1853
Charlie Rangel just can't stay out of the news.		Brief article	174
Christmas shopping got you stumped? Here's the ideal present for the man who has everything, or the woman who has everyone: a Planned Parenthood gift certificate, now on sale at PP outlets in Indiana and Illinois.		Brief article	63
Dead Reckoning.	Daniel Mark, Epstein	Poem	159
Deflation.		Brief article	20
Diplomatic health: on Bush, our alliances, and varied perceptions.	Nordlinger, Jay		1425
Five top Qaeda terrorists--including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the network's operational commander and choreographer of the 9/11 atrocities--surprised the judge in their military-commission trial with a joint demand to admit guilt and move straight to the death penalty, their coveted martyrdom.		Brief article	154
Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has put his state-of-the-city speech on YouTube--all seven and a half hours of it.		Brief article	64
Haunting us still.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	1021
Help!!!!		Cartoon	70
His uncle's son.	Rapp, Christopher	Book review	1017
In 1994, O. J. Simpson killed two people--Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman--and got off.		Brief article	110
In 48 states, it is illegal for doctors to try to kill their patients even at the patients' request.		Brief article	117
It's the economy, Steyn.	Christensen, Jake	Letter to the editor	100
Jeb Bush does not hunger for Washington, which is one reason we want him there.		Brief article	183
Latin lovers anonymous.	Ramirez, Jose A.	Letter to the editor	206
Like a bunch of irresponsible college kids who have burned through their cash and maxed out their credit cards on a Spring Break bender, some of America's governors, led by Arnold Schwarzenegger, are crying "uncle"--Uncle Sam.			185
Lincoln, Churchill, Bush? Of the president's strengths and weaknesses as supreme commander.	Donnelly, Thomas	Cover story	2212
Looking back.			562
Michelle Malkin joked that after the money-lenders and jalopy-makers, ailing U.S. newspapers would come around asking for a government handout.		Brief article	140
Missed Opportunities: on domestic policy, Bush's record is mixed.	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Cover story	2067
Never give in.	Pryce-Jones, David	Book review	1646
Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, met with the Dalai Lama in Gdansk, Poland.		Brief article	131
Obama's economic team has received too much praise from Republicans, including Karl Rove.		Brief article	118
On December 2, Republican senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia trounced his Democratic challenger in a special election, 57 percent to 43 percent.		Brief article	154
One of the unseemly features of the 2008 election and its aftermath is the persistent conspiracy theory that Obama was not born in the United States.		Brief article	87
Out with the old, in with the new.		Brief article	120
Republicans aren't supposed to win in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, where nearly two-thirds of the residents are black.		Brief article	154
Shirwa Ahmed was a jihadist: a suicide terrorist who killed 29 people in a bombing in northern Somalia in October.		Brief article	169
Some of the same people who believed the governor of Alaska to be grossly unqualified to serve as vice president of the United States are settling on a candidate for the U.S. Senate: the honorary chairman of the American Ballet Theatre.		Brief article	149
Supreme success: thanks to Bush, we have a chance for a Roberts Court.	Whelan, Edward	Cover story	1359
The actor Robert Redford has supported left-wing causes for decades, and his Sundance Film Festival is a stalwart supporter of independent films, many with gay themes.		Brief article	157
The Biden family wishes you and yours a very merry holiday season!	Long, Rob		791
The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have called for Islamic prayer rooms to be provided in their parochial schools, 30 percent of whose students are non-Catholic.		Brief article	121
The cold eye.	Derbyshire, John		1048
The contempt of our political classes for us, the Great Unwashed, is for the most part kept decently well hidden.		Brief article	141
The Doom of statism.	Masters, Gerald K.	Letter to the editor	189
The Indian front.			551
The latest manifestation of Che-worship is a film by Steven Soderbergh called, simply, Che.		Brief article	156
The myth of Bush's torture regime: dissecting the anatomy of a smear.	McCarthy, Andrew C.	Cover story	1954
The New York Times published a piece by William Ayers on its op-ed page.		Brief article	164
The politics of everyman: George W. Bush, American--and his melange of influences.	O'Sullivan, John	Cover story	1493
The presumption of innocence is a fine principle for the criminal-justice system to follow, but it need not keep us from reaching the obvious conclusion that Rod Blagojevich, the Democratic governor of Illinois, is a crook.		Brief article	79
What would Christmas be without some new War on Christmas outrage?		Brief article	132
When Canada's Conservatives won the most seats in October's parliamentary election, their leader, Stephen Harper, retained his post as prime minister.		Brief article	206
Will it stimulate?			574