Articles from National Review (November 3, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'A fragile state': impressions from Iraq.	Nordlinger, Jay		2579
A small movement of people wanted Hu Jia to win the Nobel Peace Prize.		Brief article	137
ACORN, the community-organizing outfit with which Barack Obama has a long and fruitful history, has put together a team of voter-registration workers drawn in no small part from that most reliable Democratic constituency: felons.		Brief article	234
Against the wind: McCain keeps up the fight, in the worst conditions imaginable.	York, Byron	Cover story	2458
An insider reports.	King, Tom	Letter to the editor	273
Ask Michelle Obama[TM]: our new first lady responds to your questions.	Long, Rob		812
Barack's grenade-lobber: meet political strategist David Axelrod.	Hemingway, Mark		1250
Bare-knuckle campaigning is as old as the hills, as are complaints about it, so when Rep. John Lewis (D., Ga.) accuses John McCain and Sarah Palin of "sowing the seeds of hatred and division," and evokes George Wallace and the four girls murdered in the Birmingham church bombing, one might shrug and let it pass.		Brief article	193
Burning man, at both ends.	Steorts, Jason Lee	Critical essay	1514
Cars for communism.	Moore, Victoria	Letter to the editor	271
Christians are under attack in the Indian states of Orissa and Karnataka, where Hindu mobs have driven them from their homes and carried out forced conversions.		Brief article	135
Closing arguments.		Essay	747
Confirm thy soul.	Potemra, Michael	Book review	889
De haut en bas.	Derbyshire, John		1029
Dept. of unfortunate controversies.			114
Economic basket cases abound at the moment, but none quite so fraught as Iceland.		Brief article	189
Emergency planning.		Essay	605
Era error: talk of liberalism's triumph is overblown.	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Essay	1748
Gov. Sarah Palin showed considerable moxie and talent in overthrowing Alaska's Republican establishment.		Brief article	112
Health scare.			525
Help!!!!		Cartoon	62
Henry Howard.	Mezey, Robert	Poem	111
Imagine if Senator McCain had a chum who had bombed abortion clinics.		Brief article	123
Imagining the Chairman.	Stuttaford, Andrew		1506
In its June Boumediene ruling, the Supreme Court dreamed up a constitutional right for alien enemy combatants to challenge their detention in court.		Brief article	204
Jorg Haider was one of the most disturbing figures in Europe.		Brief article	184
Linus Pauling was a great scientist and was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.		Brief article	137
Many media outlets publish "fact check" features during campaigns.		Brief article	122
Not so great, Scott.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	848
O. J. Simpson was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping, for breaking into a Las Vegas hotel room with five cronies and straight-arming two dealers of sports memorabilia.		Brief article	166
Obama's core: the West, for him, is not the best.	Beran, Michael Knox		1292
On what they call "Saviours' Day," Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, spoke to a mass of his followers.		Brief article	95
Pushing 60: democrats could acquire a filibuster-proof majority.	Freddoso, David		1371
Real change, real hope.	West, Bing	Book review	1449
Reinier Alcantara tried very, very hard to make Cuba's soccer roster, because World Cup qualifying was being played in Washington, D.C.		Brief article	171
Ride of the regulators: the question is not whether, but how.	Stuttaford, Andrew		1529
Sarah Palin, the world's most famous hockey mom, dropped the ceremonial first puck before the Philadelphia Flyers' home opener.		Brief article	121
Shed a tear with the bereaved--journos mourning the passing of their friend and hero, the good, old John McCain.		Brief article	152
The Bush administration removed North Korea from its list of terror sponsors.		Brief article	237
The courts vs. marriage.			377
The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism.		Book review	608
The McCain campaign launched a salvo of new economic proposals, the most ambitious of which is a plan to buy distressed mortgages at face value.		Brief article	162
The real Ayers issue: it's about revolution, not terrorism.	McCarthy, Andrew C.		1874
The way this campaign is going, Obama might be able to go back to Trinity.		Brief article	15
There's a new Washington game. A cabinet department requests a "study" of some important issue by an outside group with a patina of bipartisan fairness.		Brief article	187
Though the vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden now seems as old as the Wars of the Roses, it should not be forgotten that the moderator, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, had an interest in the outcome.		Brief article	182
Under current law, in order to represent a workplace, a union must allow a vote by secret ballot--if the union wins, which it does more than half the time, it can organize the workers.		Brief article	174
Venezuela's oil production has fallen by a quarter since Hugo Chavez took over, and the country isn't even getting market price for half of its product, which is diverted and sold at a discount to Cuba and other Chavez allies under the Petrocaribe arrangement.		Brief article	72
Vladimir Putin's mid-life crisis grows ever more bizarre.		Brief article	177
Walls, brakes, and risk: we can learn from the market turmoil, or we can make things worse.	Manzi, Jim	Essay	2578
When California began registering same-sex marriages earlier this year, the state had to change its license forms.		Brief article	120
Within seconds of John McCain's selection of Palin, her political enemies in Alaska began spreading word about "Troopergate.".		Brief article	246
Worse than you think: what went wrong at Fannie and Freddie--and what still might.	Wallison, Peter J.; Pinto, Edward	Essay	2013