Articles from National Review (May 5, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"That really ticked me off," said New Mexico governor Bill Richardson.		Brief article	182
A new production of Verdi's Masked Ball has been launched in Erfurt, Germany.		Brief article	109
A small (32-cabin) French luxury ship was boarded by Somali pirates April 4 while sailing from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.		Brief article	160
A tiger, he's not: enough with the Obama-Woods comparison.	York, Byron		1156
Allan Carlson calls it "the demographic paradox of the welfare state": Entitlement programs depend for their financing on a growing population, but suppress fertility rates.		Brief article	154
An original voice.	Pryce-Jones, David	Book review	1324
And we wonder: If Hillary is so frayed at 11 P.M. that she can't keep her memories straight.		Brief article	32
Ask Michelle Obama[TM]: united feature syndicate.	Long, Rob		841
Bear politics.			479
Blinkered sages.	Gilder, George	Book review	1991
Bob Casey Sr., the governor of Pennsylvania, was not allowed to speak at the 1992 Democratic convention because he opposed abortion.		Brief article	129
By his friends ye shall know him: the trial of Tony Rezko spells trouble for Barack.	Spruiell, Stephen		1566
Congratulations to Texas for shutting down the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Eldorado without loss of life.		Brief article	150
Few institutions are dearer to the heart of an Englishman than his local pub.		Brief article	158
Fighting right.	Owens, MacKubin Thomas	Book review	1304
Filth before freedom.	Goldberg, Jonah		561
Green the tree of life.	Derbyshire, John		1046
Heaven's Neighbors.	Epstein, Daniel Mark	Poem	117
Help!!!!		Cartoon	156
Heroic patience.			783
Hugo Chavez smiled as the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement fell victim to election-year politics.		Brief article	185
If he wants to see bitter.		Brief article	13
In 1985 Eugene Ehrlich published a compendium of Latin phrases called Amo, Amas, Amat and More.		Brief article	174
In recent years Muslims in Britain have demanded, and received, exemptions from the nation's laws to accommodate their religion and customs.		Brief article	139
In the Catholic understanding, conversion is not a discrete event.		Brief article	127
Jimmy Carter went to the Middle East hoping to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus.		Brief article	174
Last year Texas enacted a $5-per-customer tax on bars and clubs that feature nude dancing.		Brief article	123
Machina ex machina: greendom has drawn the wrong moral from the catalytic-converter story.	Schwarz, Fred		1549
McCain-Rice in 2008?		Brief article	171
Michael A. Monsoor, of Garden Grove, Calif., became a Navy SEAL in 2004.		Brief article	209
Nepal's Maoists have made worrisome advances in that country's elections.		Brief article	164
Oliver Stone is creating a film about the presidency of George W. Bush, and there is every indication that the movie will alloy the worst elements of the Stone style, combining the historical tendentiousness of JFK with the prurience of Natural Born Killers.		Brief article	123
Perhaps Italians like their politics al dente.		Brief article	78
President Bush can claim one major achievement from the NATO conference in early April: Over objections from Russia, NATO endorsed U.S. plans to build a small missile-defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland.		Brief article	79
Readers of National Review have appreciated the cartoons of Michael Ramirez for years.		Brief article	126
Remembering 1968: the student movement that set the stage for the center right.	Novak, Michael		3638
Richard Dreyfuss said it best.		Brief article	157
Round two?	Stuttaford, Andrew	Book review	1348
Saved! Barack Obama's "bitter" comment came to light just in time for the old lucky dog Bill Clinton.		Brief article	121
Straw predators: for the mortgage meltdown, the Left deserves a share of blame.	VerBruggen, Robert		1635
Syrian hopes: a political party and its mission.	Nordlinger, Jay		1619
Telescope of a conservative.	Howe, Robert	Letter to the editor	225
Texas holds 'em: how Lone Star republicans stopped abusive medical-malpractice lawsuits.	Williamson, Kevin D.		1651
The Aldous factor.	Douthat, Ross		904
The classic account of the social origins of our presidents is The Log Cabin Myth, by Edward Pessen, who decided that only six presidents could claim to have been born in one, or its equivalent: Fillmore, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Garfield, Nixon, Reagan.		Brief article	171
The Obama way: a Chicago pol's special brand of insincerity.	Siegel, Fred	Cover story	2157
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has dismissed a complaint of Islamophobia against Maclean's, a weekly magazine.		Brief article	153
The spirit is not weak.	Smith, Lynn C.	Letter to the editor	194
The Supreme Court is taking up the question of whether states should be able to execute child rapists.		Brief article	109
Thus are we coarsened: lessons from a sex scandal.	Daniels, Anthony		1440
Time magazine offers a bracing report on biofuels headlined "The Clean Energy Scam.".		Brief article	154
Unified theory: the candidate of change forbids you to disagree.	Goldberg, Jonah		2601
We reported in our last issue that, "as we write, the results of Zimbabwe's March 29 election are still uncertain.".		Brief article	120
What do Albania, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, and Ukraine have in common?		Brief article	176
What's the matter with Obama?			501
Wordsmith to a hero: of pens, swords, and Mark Salter.	Miller, John J.		1610