Articles from National Review (April 20, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"What's good for the country is good for General Motors," Charles Wilson, the company's president in the 1940s and early 1950s, is supposed to have said.		Brief article	160
A good plan in Africa: facing the realities of tribalism.	Kavulla, Travis		1638
A twitter-istory of the world ...	Long, Rob		718
According to Obama administration lawyers, the McCain- Feingold campaign-finance law empowers the federal government to censor books and films if their content and funding do not conform to its stipulations.		Brief article	163
Almost miraculously, there is a youth orchestra in the Palestinian refugee camp at Jenin.		Brief article	135
At a news conference held by retired admiral Dennis Blair, our new director of national intelligence, the issue of terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay came up.		Brief article	108
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies.	Potemra, Michael	Book review	495
Beyond terrorism: the Islamist threat is worse than you think.	McCarthy, Andrew C.	Essay	3740
Bill "We Didn't Do Enough" Ayers was invited to speak at Boston College by two student groups (one of them was the College Democrats), but after talk-radio host Michael Graham kicked up a fuss, BC administrators cancelled the event, "out of concern for the safety and well being of our students.".		Brief article	157
By the waters ...	Douthat, Ross	Obituary	2831
Carter-era Fiat.		Brief article	12
Clinton also visited the basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where she was given a special up-close viewing of the cloak on which Catholics believe that an image of the Virgin Mary was miraculously imprinted almost 500 years ago.		Brief article	158
Correction.		Correction notice	29
Daniel Hannan is one of a number of conspicuously bright young Conservatives in Britain.		Brief article	183
Everyone knows that the Catholic Church opposes abortion, but the basis and implications of its teaching are surprisingly unfamiliar to many people and even many Catholics.		Brief article	222
First, the House passed a 90 percent tax targeted at AIG bonuses.		Brief article	143
George Bush saw an "axis of evil": America confronted by a trio of rogue nations.		Brief article	161
Globaloney.		Brief article	285
Green bubbles bursting: the delusions of renewables and the realities of nuclear power.	Alexiev, Alex		1626
House Republicans stumbled into a PR disaster when they rushed out a half-baked budget blueprint in response to the Obama administration's taunts that they were the "Party of No.".		Brief article	114
How we fight: the right way to take on the Obama administration.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1457
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the senior Republican on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.		Brief article	161
In a (related?) development, at the behest of dictator Kim Jong-il, North Korea has opened its first pizzeria.		Brief article	45
In Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of America's "shared responsibility" for the horrific drug violence now plaguing that nation: "We know very well that the drug traffickers are motivated by the demand for illegal drugs in the United States, that they are armed by the transport of weapons from the United States.".		Brief article	187
Keeping the peace.	Mercado, Christopher D.	Letter to the editor	167
Khaled Abu Toameh is a Palestinian journalist who knows as much about the Palestinian world as anybody: its history, its players, its contentious.		Brief article	157
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.	King, Florence		1039
Mickey Kaus, sprightly e-pundit, posts a thread from JournoList, the secret online barbershop where liberal pundits share story ideas, but so much more.		Brief article	103
Nagasaki resident Mr. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.		Brief article	158
New Hampshire, which already has civil unions for same-sex couples, is considering treating such couples as though they were married.		Brief article	89
New York governor David Paterson and the state legislature have agreed to undo the last vestiges of the Rockefeller drug laws: 1970s legislation that imposed draconian penalties on drug offenders.		Brief article	136
On our side.	Penzler, Otto	Book review	1267
On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship.	Potemra, Michael	Brief article	261
Open city.	Brookhiser, Richard		999
Overstimulated.	Hassett, Kevin A.		380
Paleo Khan.	Allen, Charlotte	Critical essay	2357
Robbing Bismarck to pay Boston: cap-and-trade is an interstate wealth-transfer program.	Currie, Duncan		1561
The cautious surge.			560
The first to go was "enemy combatants.".		Brief article	183
The image is lurid: a headless, goose-stepping soldier, pushing a Star of David whose front-most points are transformed into a shark's jaws, pursuing a tiny mother and child, labeled "Gaza," off a cliff.		Brief article	164
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is commonly known as "the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog.".		Brief article	192
The Iranian new year is called "Nowruz," and President Bush used to send a message of solidarity to Iranians on that day.		Brief article	257
The least-bad option: under current conditions, government seizure of shaky firms may be a necessary evil.	Spruiell, Stephen; Williamson, Kevin D.		2951
The little town of Eufaula, Ala., is home to Alatech Healthcare, which boasts on its website of being the "largest state-of-the-art condom production facility in the U.S." and "exclusive American supplier of condoms to USAID.".		Brief article	144
The new Afghan war: with patience and the right strategy, we can win.	Lowry, Richard		3555
The Political Philosophy of George Washington.	Potemra, Michael	Book review	68
The president continues to say that he wants Congress to enact a cap on carbon emissions this year.		Brief article	101
The reality is much worse.	McDonald, Pat	Letter to the editor	123
The Social Security surplus has vanished, not that anyone has noticed.		Brief article	84
The special election in New York's 20th congressional district, for a seat vacated by newly appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, won't be decided for a while.		Brief article	100
The trial of abortionist George Tiller resulted in no conviction, but it did serve to remind any who needed reminding of the seediness of the abortion racket.		Brief article	162
The view.	Epstein, Daniel Mark	Poem	149
Though reputed to be extremely bright, Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.) has made a fool of himself in attacking Justice Antonin Scalia as "homophobic.".		Brief article	135
Tip jar nation: we can no longer afford to feel special.	Long, Rob		989
Toxic for taxpayers.			444
Was there a more inspiring story last month than the people of Fargo, and other Red River towns, tirelessly filling and piling sandbags in hellacious weather, in a mostly successful attempt to stop the waters, swollen by rain and snow and jammed by ice, from flooding their homes and businesses?		Brief article	121
Watch the skies over the Pacific these days and you are likely to see an intercontinental missile with a range of 6,000 miles winging from North Korea over Japan and towards Hawaii.		Brief article	215
We once called Arlen Specter "the worst Republican senator.".		Brief article	92