Articles from National Review (August 10, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Not a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu Zubaida's tortured confessions," two Washington Post reporters boldly declared on March 29.		Brief article	149
"We are told not to work on Saturdays, and Protestants take this to mean that we are not to play on Sundays," grumbled Bertrand Russell in regard to the Fourth Commandment.		Brief article	151
[Cartoon].		Cartoon	12
A Jerusalem Post interview of a member of Iran's Basiji militia has shed light on horrific practices toward female inmates in the country's prisons.		Brief article	70
A Nuremberg gallery owner created a furor when he placed a garden gnome giving the Nazi salute in his shop window.		Brief article	169
Al Franken (D., Minn.) took his seat in the U.S. Senate.		Brief article	108
Arab News reported that executives of Human Rights Watch have raised funds from Saudi plutocrats by touting HRW's harsh criticism of Israel.		Brief article	162
Brainy Bronx kid against terror: a conversation with Judge Michael B. Mukasey, George W. Bush's last attorney general.	Nordlinger, Jay		2196
City of New Haven, CT. firefighters exam.	Long, Rob		733
Condition critical.			480
Congress has found a perfect issue: one that complicates life for the CIA and evokes the evil specter of Dick Cheney.		Brief article	190
Defending space exploration.	Cor, Joe	Letter to the editor	379
During his visit to Moscow, Obama signed a new arms-control deal with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.		Brief article	182
Goldman Sachs reports strong profits for the quarter, and the world rages.		Brief article	150
Here's the outrage.	Douthat, Ross	Critical essay	835
In 2001, Robert Fisk, the hard-Left, jihad-sympathetic British journalist, was attacked by Afghan refugees along the Afghan-Pakistani border.		Brief article	181
In his new encyclical on the Catholic Church's social teaching, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI stresses humanitarian action rather than the profit motive as the solution to man's socioeconomic problems.		Brief article	168
In its original form, the mendaciously misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would have stripped American workers of the right to conduct secret-ballot elections on the question of whether to organize a union.			194
Loose facts, and women.	Barba, Joseph	Letter to the editor	120
Marion Barry, four times mayor of Washington, D.C., and currently a council member representing the city's eighth ward, can always be relied upon to add to the gaiety of the nation.		Brief article	170
Not your father's Latin America: its troubles continue, but the region has made real progress.	Currie, Duncan	Essay	2015
Obama also addressed the NAACP. He spoke a fair amount of left-liberal claptrap.		Brief article	96
Obamanopoly: in which the government's tentacles choke health-care consumers.	Herzlinger, Regina E.	Essay	1670
Of course Obama hasn't read the health-care bill--he's probably still working his way.		Brief article	16
President Obama has made an excellent choice in his nomination of a new director for the National Institutes of Health.		Brief article	107
President Obama's address to the Ghanaian parliament in Accra may be the best speech of his administration so far.		Brief article	152
President Obama's stimulus is a failure on his own terms.		Brief article	219
Romney's folly: health-care mandates are a middle-class tax.	Cannon, Michael F.		1748
Sarah Palin's independence day came just before America's, when she announced that she would step down as governor of Alaska not next year, when her term ends, but now.		Brief article	161
Several members of the U.S. military are resisting orders to deploy to Afghanistan under the specious argument that the president of the United States holds his office illegitimately.		Brief article	180
Stars and state.	Goldberg, Jonah	Viewpoint essay	548
Struggle for a continent.	Dalrymple, Theodore	Book review	1812
Summertime blues.	Derbyshire, John		1032
Target.	Ruden, Sarah	Poem	165
The carrie effect: notes from the frontlines of the marriage war.	Gallagher, Maggie	Viewpoint essay	4989
The crackdown in Iran is intensifying.		Brief article	246
The deepest roots.	Lindberg, Tod	Book review	2226
The office of surgeon general has never really recovered from the incumbency of Joycelyn Elders in the early Clinton years.		Brief article	152
The political showdown in Honduras is about far more than the future of a tiny, strategically insignificant country nestled between the Caribbean and the Pacific.		Brief article	185
The Sears Tower, once the tallest building in the world, and then merely the tallest building in America, is no more.		Brief article	111
The world's oldest man, and one of the few remaining survivors of World War I, died in England, aged 113.		Obituary	145
Those images, strange not because of the scenery, which was prosaic, but because of the peculiar brightness; the astronauts' scratchy voices and bulky movements; the windless flag they planted.		Brief article	147
Tom Watson is one of the greatest golfers of all time, the winner of eight majors, plus many other tournaments.		Brief article	196
Unsettling.			548
Walter Cronkite, longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News, was the voice of received opinion.		Obituary	153
What's wrong with cap-and-trade? Everything.	Spruiell, Stephen	Essay	2121
When President Kennedy asked 44-year-old Robert McNamara to be secretary of defense, McNamara said, correctly, that he was "not qualified.".		Obituary	164
When Secretary of State Clinton visited India, she signed accords on issues of importance to both nations: a defense pact that will allow the sale of advanced American weaponry to India, a commitment to cooperate in commercial space exploration, and an agreement that will permit U.S. companies to sell two civilian nuclear reactors to India.		Brief article	249
Wrong big picture, dangerous fine print: but otherwise Obamacare is swell.	Capretta, James C.; Troy, Tevi		1631
Your friend Priscilla.	Nordlinger, Jay		1189