Articles from National Review (February 23, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A cat may look at a king, goes the old proverb.		Brief article	136
A great and stirring hour: Israel's president Shimon Peres shines at Davos.	Nordlinger, Jay		1630
A lead sentence in a Washington Post article deserves to enter the annals of political-reporting history: "Just days after taking office vowing to end the political era of 'petty grievances,' President Obama ran into mounting GOP opposition yesterday to an economic stimulus plan that he had hoped would receive broad bipartisan support.".		Brief article	66
A small tent.	Radosh, Ronald	Book review	1642
According to news reports, an unmarried California mother of octuplets--she already had six children--had all 14 through in vitro fertilization.		Brief article	80
Al-Arabiya, the Arab satellite channel based in Dubai, obtained the first televised interview of the Obama administration.		Brief article	167
An article from the Associated Press focused on a little-covered aspect of Obama's greatness: "Rick Bayless," a Chicago chef, "says Obama's comfortable demeanor at the table--slumped contentedly in his chair, clearly there to enjoy himself--bodes well for the nation's food policy.		Brief article	100
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre nicely illustrated the dead end of "traditionalist" opposition to Vatican II.		Brief article	157
At what cost? Conservatives should rethink their opposition to 'comprehensive' immigration reform.	Nadler, Richard		2502
Back in China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 40 years ago, anyone who wanted to avoid a beating by Red Guards made sure to carry a copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, more familiarly known as the Little Red Book.		Brief article	173
Boring from within.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	857
Cellphobjects.	Brookhiser, Richard		988
Democrats in Congress put provisions into the stimulus bill that would prohibit the procurement of foreign-made steel and iron for use in most of the bill's infrastructure projects.		Brief article	171
Ever since Obama's election, the State Department has been busy drafting a letter to Iran, or so the London Guardian confidently reports and everyone seems to believe.		Brief article	210
Factory man: Nostalgia is wonderful. It won't solve our problems.	Manzi, Jim		2768
February.	Gilley, Ted	Poem	119
Former senator Tom Daschle, who withdrew his nomination to serve as secretary of health and human services, faced three problems.		Brief article	195
From the POTUS inbox ...	Long, Rob	Letter to the editor	811
Geithner, whose offenses were worse, should be dismissed.		Brief article	170
H. Walker Royall is a Dallas real-estate developer who ought to be ashamed of himself twice over--once for trying to abuse eminent domain to seize property from its rightful owners for his purposes, and again for trying to silence those who have criticized this low tactic.		Brief article	154
If President Obama is sincere in his stated intention to reform entitlements, he needs Republican support.		Brief article	210
Iraqis voted in peaceful and orderly provincial elections, another sign that the improved security environment forged by the surge is sustainable.		Brief article	226
Israel has derived several advantages from its recent campaign in Gaza.		Brief article	161
It's a story out of Shakespeare, with dialogue by Mamet.		Brief article	144
It's time the West started looking to China for human-rights inspiration.		Brief article	118
Just two decades after the Cold War's end, we shouldn't need Armando Valladares to point out the horrors of Communism.		Brief article	90
Last year Dutch conservative parliamentarian Geert Wilders made a short film titled Fitna, that being the Arabic word for "discord.".		Brief article	144
Linguistic conservatives should arm for battle: The humble apostrophe is under threat in various parts of the Anglosphere.		Brief article	179
Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, won the race to be chairman of the Republican National Committee.		Brief article	107
Not our stars but ourselves: Skinny actresses and models do not make girls anorexic.	Schwarz, Fred		1565
Nurse Caroline Petrie, a Christian, making her departure after a home visit to 79-year-old May Phippen in an English town, offered to pray for the patient.		Brief article	104
Obama also issued an executive order overturning the pro-life "Mexico City" policy that Republican presidents have followed over the last three decades.		Brief article	93
Obama has changed one more thing: business casual is acceptable in the White House on weekends, and he takes his jacket off in the Oval Office when he cranks up the thermostat.		Brief article	138
Olympic medalist Michael Phelps got his picture, smoking a bong, in the Brit tabloid News of the World.		Brief article	118
On January 31, the Communist party in the Czech Republic--yes, it still exists--delivered a letter to Obama at the U.S. embassy in Prague.		Brief article	178
Our Lincoln: Obama, he was not.	Guelzo, Allen C.		3088
Over in England, a cricket club named the Middlesex Crusaders has felt obliged to change its name to the Middlesex Panthers.		Brief article	92
Pennsylvania-Kentucky longrifles.	Rose, Alexander	Letter to the editor	445
President Obama has boldly followed through on his commitment to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay--sort of.		Brief article	201
President Obama took a swipe at Rush Limbaugh, telling Republicans whom he'd brought into the White House to discuss the stimulus bill that "you can't just listen" to him "and get things done.".		Brief article	127
Rabbit's great run.	Brookhiser, Richard	In memoriam	1270
Richard Nadler has a bracing piece in this issue (see page 28) arguing that the restrictionist position on immigration is political disaster for Republicans.		Brief article	103
The anti-Keynes: Friedrich Hayek sheds light on our economic troubles.	Ebenstein, Lanny		1446
The ascent of Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to the Senate seat sought, then not sought, by Caroline Kennedy, puts the baroque calculations of Albany on the national stage.		Brief article	175
The best conservative movies.		List	3317
The classless society.	King, Florence		1019
The hot seat: can pro-life democrats continue to make a difference?	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1506
The right stimulus.			375
The second coming of Keynes.	Hassett, Kevin A.		401
The stimulus package is a magic hat out of which Democrats pull rabbits to feed to their pet causes.		Brief article	205
The survivor: rep. Peter King points the way for Republicans in the Northeast.	Hemingway, Mark		1567
Understandably, the Left doesn't like it much when you say that too often politics is their religion, or environmentalism is their religion, or something other than religion is their religion.		Brief article	75
We bid farewell to John Updike, R.I.P., elsewhere (see p. 43).		Obituary	135
We liked limousine liberals better when they paid.			12
While campaigning for president, Barack Obama repeatedly pledged that lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House.".		Brief article	128
While we'd like to believe that the Obama administration has caught a sudden case of acute federalism, we do not believe that explains the president's desire to allow California to enforce its own strict auto-emissions rules, which exceed federal standards.		Brief article	186