Articles from National Review (September 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A military-commission trial finally took place.		Brief article	199
According to the latest official statistics, the economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the last quarter of last year, then grew by 0.9 percent and 1.9 percent in the first two quarters of this one.		Brief article	124
After the House adjourned for summer recess without voting on an energy bill, half a dozen Republicans stayed in the empty chamber, razzing the majority and calling for offshore drilling.		Brief article	143
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P.		Obituary	599
Anne Armstrong, who died on July 30 at age 80, was a long-time Republican leader and adviser to presidents from Richard Nixon to George H. W. Bush.		Obituary	183
At a campaign stop in St. Cloud, Democratic-Farmer-Labor party candidate Al Franken.		Brief article	47
Caucasus Belli.			606
Climate-change hysteria is at least offering endless opportunities for entrepreneurship.		Brief article	108
Correction.		Correction notice	60
Determined to end its troubled anthrax investigation, the Justice Department held a press conference to identify Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the Army's infectious-diseases laboratory in Maryland, as the lone culprit.		Brief article	206
Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick just can't stay out of trouble.		Brief article	145
Don't try this at home, guys.		Brief article	18
Dr. Obama's prescription: it isn't one we should want to take.	Capretta, James		1446
Giant.	Buckley, Christopher	Obituary	845
Help!		Cartoon	28
Hero of a dark century.	Mahoney, Daniel J.		2948
How high-minded of Moqtada al-Sadr.		Brief article	133
Idle youth vote.	Goldberg, Jonah		526
In the early 1970s, when John M. Olin wanted to turn his private foundation into the powerful underwriter of ideas that it would become, he summoned Frank O'Connell to his office.		Obituary	143
In the first week following its publication, Know Your Power, by Speaker Pelosi, sold all of 2,737 copies.		Brief article	70
John Edwards's confession that he had an affair with former campaign videographer Rielle Hunter was front-page news, and possible holes in his story--he denied fathering Hunter's out-of-wedlock child, saying he would take "any test necessary" to prove it, though Hunter's lawyer declared that she would "not participate"--have been well covered elsewhere.		Brief article	84
Life opportunities: why McCain shouldn't run away from the abortion issue.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1258
McCain showed off his "populist" side in a recent ad.		Brief article	178
Meandering toward disaster: the perils of making a left-wing ideologue commander-in-chief.	McCarthy, Andrew C.		1503
Night Wind.	Runyeon, William W.	Poem	119
Not ready for prime time: when you act too cool to be president ...	Long, Rob		970
On the shelf.	Derbyshire, John		1050
Pakistan has always been a dictatorship masquerading as a democracy, and right now this equivocal country is very troubling.		Brief article	241
Pelosi has clearly been feeling the pressure, and has recently said that she might allow a vote on drilling after all.		Brief article	97
Peter Rodman, R.I.P.		Obituary	601
Question: what's the difference between MoveOn.org and a mob protection racket?		Brief article	187
Quota quest: of Obama's vulnerability on racial preferences.	Miller, John J.		1217
Scenes of intimacy.	Beran, Michael Knox	Book review	936
Schedule changes for the democratic convention.	Long, Rob	Calendar	373
Schedule changes for the republican convention.	Long, Rob	Calendar	385
Senator stealth: how to advance radical causes when no one's looking.	Kurtz, Stanley	Cover story	4075
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, top McCain advisers, proposed legislation to counter the worst excesses of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling, which gave enemy combatants a constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court.		Brief article	210
Since Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign began to sputter, way back when, the Democratic political class has been fixated on the infighting and internal rivalries that plagued the effort.		Brief article	182
So you're selling my baby.	Stupp, Herbert W.; Williamson, Kevin	Letter to the editor	509
Social scientists in Britain have conducted a survey of attitudes toward Islam among the nation's university students.		Brief article	127
Soldier for Stroger: the candidate of change helped keep Chicago politics dirty.	Freddoso, David		2792
Some observers--most notably, Reason magazine's Radley Balko--have long been documenting U.S. police forces' increasingly militaristic approach to the drug war.		Brief article	132
Some years ago we quipped that if a tornado were ever to pass through Manhattan, the New York Times headline on the story would include: "Blacks and Hispanics Hardest Hit.".		Brief article	119
Staying power.	Hanson, Victor Davis	Book review	1507
Tales of Waugh.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	1032
The left wing of the Democratic party still holds up Canada's "single payer"--that is, entirely government-financed--health-care system as a model.		Brief article	145
The resignation of prime minister Ehud Olmert has gladdened most Israelis.		Brief article	208
The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union recently negotiated a new five-year contract at the Tyson Foods poultry-processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn.		Brief article	143
The social benefits of pet ownership are manifold.		Brief article	156
We have been here before.		Brief article	135
What began as a trivial and unedifying sally in the presidential campaign became something more.		Brief article	190
Who is Barack Obama? His autobiography paints a disturbing picture.	Gledhill, Michael		3326
Wicca economics: the theory with a magic leader.	Hood, John		1627