Articles from National Review (June 16, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Public service" is a slippery term that might refer to anything from heroic deeds by military personnel to make-work paper shuffling in pointless federal bureaucracies.		Brief article	166
"We won the recount, and they won the movie," says Republican lawyer Ben Ginsberg of the new HBO picture Recount.		Brief article	189
'Ask Michelle,' continued.	Ol'Boy, Good; Obama, Michelle	Letter to the editor	232
A safe Labour seat in the north of England has been captured in a by-election by the Conservatives in spectacular fashion.		Brief article	173
A Texas appeals court ruled that the state's child-protective-services agency failed to show that the children of schismatic Mormon polygamists seized in a massive April raid were in "immediate" or "urgent" danger to "physical health or safety.".		Brief article	140
After the Burmese cyclone, the Sichuanese earthquake: the heart groans with sympathy.		Brief article	129
Against the cartel: how to reform higher education.	Hood, John		2924
All talk.			498
Back at the altar: same-sex marriage returns to politics.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1526
Bush speaks: the president does Davos (in the desert).	Nordlinger, Jay		1734
Changes are afoot in Saudi Arabia, and they are changes for the good.		Brief article	102
Congress hauled in the oil executives to justify their outrageous habit of maximizing profits rather than setting prices charitably.		Brief article	103
Dismaying distractions.			376
Drawing upon substantial support from congressional Republicans, the House and Senate overrode President Bush's veto of the farm bill, thereby enacting an expansion of farm subsidies at a time when high food prices have sent farm incomes 51 percent higher than their previous ten-year average.		Brief article	177
Dull gray euphemism.	King, Florence		990
Entrepreneurial exceptionalism.	Hassett, Kevin A.	Brief article	292
Gathering storm.	Thornton, Bruce S.	Book review	1651
George Packer, writing in The New Yorker, reports that conservatives are divided and discouraged.		Brief article	107
Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's campaign director and White House chief of staff, was a political animal as sharp as he was indefatigable.		Brief article	126
Happy days.	Edwards, Lee	Book review	1354
Help!!!!		Cartoon	83
Hezbollah may have overplayed its hand by provoking a confrontation with Israel in 2006, but since then it has been running rings around the United States and the United Nations, acting as Iran's proxy army in Lebanon.		Brief article	204
I am not depraved.	O'Toole, Lenora C.	Letter to the editor	142
In a refreshingly lopsided 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court has upheld a federal law against child pornography.		Brief article	183
In the mid-1980s, something peculiar happened: the U.S. acquired a "poet laureate".		Brief article	164
It is not every day we agree with an International Herald Tribune editorial, but we must hail one the paper had about Frank-Walter Steinmeier.		Brief article	133
Leo ex machina.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	1031
Linda Douglass is leaving the media to take up a post in the Obama campaign.		Brief article	25
Lion in winter: why Teddy ran.	Beran, Michael Knox		1850
Lt. Gen. Franklin "Buster" Hagenbeck, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, has decided to gender-neutralize the lyrics of West Point's two most hallowed songs, the alma mater ("Guide us, thy sons, aright") and "The Corps" ("We sons of today, we salute you," etc.).		Brief article	183
Marital strife.			549
Most Americans can agree that veterans should have more education benefits (the existing G.I. Bill provides a significant range of benefits).		Brief article	187
Nuclear power? Yes, please.	Murray, Iain	Cover story	3258
On May 13, Elaine Chao became the longest-serving labor secretary since the Second World War.		Brief article	162
One big step forward, two small steps back for school choice.		Brief article	135
One of them.	Beran, Michael Knox	Book review	1633
Phone purgatory.	Brookhiser, Richard		997
President Bush recently drew attention to a dog not barking: he has not played golf since 2003.		Brief article	148
Proposal.	Reeser, Jennifer	Brief article	99
Rejoice, ladies and gentlemen: there is a new magazine in Britain called Standpoint.		Brief article	97
Sen. Edward Kennedy's diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor produced an outpouring of tributes.		Brief article	43
Senator Obama blames Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs for doubling the number of hate crimes against Hispanics: "there's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year," Obama proclaimed, before naming the two commentators.		Brief article	126
Some mandate: in the popular vote, the inevitable candidate is hardly that.	York, Byron		1088
The award for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival has gone to Benicio del Toro for his portrayal of the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's worshipful four-and-a-half-hour biopic of the charismatic thug.		Brief article	157
The Houston Rodeo is the biggest in the world.		Brief article	163
The Interior Department decided, mostly on the basis of speculation, that global warming is threatening the polar bear.		Brief article	83
The Law Offices of Michelle Obama: in re: letter dated 27 MAY 2008.	Long, Rob	Brief article	167
The surrender of Nelly Avila Moreno, a top commander in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (known by its Spanish acronym FARC), is yet another milestone in Colombian president Alvaro Uribe's remarkable campaign against the leftist guerrilla group.		Brief article	187
The villain of the summer blockbuster this year is Rep. Collin Peterson, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Agriculture Committee.		Brief article	163
Two decades late: a post--Cold War military for a post--Cold War world.	Kagan, Frederick W.		4026
Two of a kind: on the friendship--and political alliance--of Lindsey Graham and John McCain.	Miller, John J.		1612
War and indecision.	West, Bing	Book review	1408
What has just happened to Lenny Woodward is a symptom of something gone wrong in the England where he lives.		Brief article	191
What keeps Barack Obama up at night?		Brief article	133
When Gen. David Petraeus testified before Congress in April about Iraq, Democrats hammered what then seemed a botched Iraqi-government offensive against Shiite militias in Basra.		Brief article	139
Wilmer, Patton: in re: Clinton/Clinton continuation of marriage agreement 2000, and addenda.	Long, Rob	Brief article	326
Wilson & Sterling, Attorneys at Law: in re: Clinton/Clinton continuation of marriage agreement 2000, and addenda.	Long, Rob		404
You'd better not shout, you'd better not cry, and you'd certainly better not engage in "profiling" or "hate speech": the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance is coming to town.		Brief article	188