Articles from National Review (February 9, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A law passed in a panic over tainted toys from China now threatens to put thousands of small American vendors out of business.		Brief article	104
A number of erstwhile supporters of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program have expressed their dissatisfaction with the way the initial $350 billion has been spent.		Brief article	172
A Rhapsode and a question mark: the Obama inauguration, placed in history.	Brookhiser, Richard		1653
A spiritual force: Fr. Richard John Neuhaus and the reinvigoration of religious conservatism.	O'Sullivan, John	Biography	1609
A tour of unreality.	Pryce-Jones, David	Book review	1592
Andrew Roberts, the British historian, was rung up by an "American lady" who wanted him to appear on her radio program.		Brief article	104
Barack Obama wants Timothy Geithner to administer the Treasury.		Brief article	209
Barack Obama went to a dinner with conservative columnists at George Will's house.		Brief article	37
Captain extraordinary: Ivan Castro of the U.S. Special Forces.	Nordlinger, Jay	Biography	1598
Chance of a ghost.	Derbyshire, John	Viewpoint essay	1023
Democrat Charlie Rangel wants to bring back the draft.		Brief article	166
Democratic Washington is consumed by the alleged need to pass a "stimulus bill" that would keep consumption strong in the short run.		Brief article	222
Events in Gaza have been explaining to the locals that messing with Israel is costly.		Brief article	215
Faith-based economics: Keynes makes a comeback, but his ideas are still wrong.	Reynolds, Alan	Viewpoint essay	3420
Federal roadblocks: a saner regulatory regime would help us update our transportation infrastructure.	Verbruggen, Robert		1353
For decades now, Jimmy Carter has been a purveyor of PLO propaganda.		Brief article	126
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, R.I.P.		Obituary	628
G. K. Chesterton thought Rudyard Kipling, for all his bellicosity, best understood the arts of peace: the work of the administrator and the engineer that keeps the world going, and that is often heroic because life and death depend on its successful execution.		Brief article	171
Hitler and Churchill were both competent painters, though both showed a marked aversion to the human form, preferring still lifes and landscapes.		Brief article	183
If Eric Holder were a Republican, his nomination to be attorney general, and even more so his confirmation, would be inconceivable.		Brief article	164
In France, Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy proposed some school reforms.		Brief article	92
Into the abyss.	Person, James E., Jr.	Book review	1490
It's always something stupid that people remember you for.		Obituary	162
Jim Boulet Jr. was a hero of the culture wars: as executive director of English First for more than two decades, he defended our common language against the relentless assaults of multiculturalism.		Obituary	86
Left-wingers such as House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers demand a special commission to investigate Bush's "crimes.".		Brief article	80
Lincoln.			9
Looking good.	Dowd, Roger	Letter to the editor	112
Loyal Republicans.	O'Shea, M. Lester	Letter to the editor	77
Memorandum: April 20, 2009.	Long, Rob		810
Mother of her country.	King, Florence	Book review	1441
My fellow ideologues.	Goldberg, Jonah		613
NR argued that, while the Senate may have had the right to reject the appointment of Roland Burris to Barack Obama's vacated seat, it would be unwise to do so, the corruption of the process inhering in the appointer, Governor Blagojevich, not the appointee.		Brief article	126
On May 9, 2001, President Bush unveiled his first set of nominees to the federal appellate bench.		Brief article	200
One of Those Moments.	Mezey, Robert	Poem	65
People in Arab countries and even Iran have participated only on a very limited scale in demonstrations against Israeli action in Gaza.		Brief article	195
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has opened a campaign against fishing-or, in animal-rights Newspeak, against "the hunting of sea kittens.".		Brief article	109
Recent reports indicate that 40 al-Qaeda members have died of the plague.		Brief article	49
Righteous rebel.	Crawford, Alan Pell	Book review	1139
Robert Rubin, dean of the Goldman Sachs Democrats, is resigning from the board of Citigroup.		Brief article	127
Russia exports huge quantities of natural gas through pipelines in Ukraine and then onward to many countries in Europe.		Brief article	159
Should a municipal utility district in Austin have to ask the U.S. attorney general before it moves a polling place across the street?		Brief article	171
Slow boat to China: a writer's retreat becomes a view of global recession.	Long, Rob	Short story	2151
Some employees are simply irreplaceable.		Brief article	134
Someone HELP! this Child.	Gibbs de San Martin, Susan	Letter to the editor	124
The Associated Press tells us: "A court in central China has sentenced a woman to death for hiring someone to strangle her 9-year-old son so she could have another child with her new husband without violating population laws.		Brief article	110
The Chinese government has announced that March 28 will henceforth be celebrated as Serf Liberation Day in Tibet, commemorating the day in 1959 when China took full control of Tibet, sweeping away the evils of the old clerico-feudal order and bringing all the blessings of Communism and Mao Tsetung Thought to the long-suffering Tibetan peasantry.		Brief article	186
The current financial disorder results in no small part from political monkeying with the credit markets.		Brief article	121
The media did not pay much attention to Joe Biden during the 2008 presidential campaign, in part because they were too busy with Sarah Palin: Did she censor books in her local public library?		Brief article	177
The movie Notorious, a life of the rapper known as the Notorious B.I.G., opened to some acclaim-also one shooting and four stabbings, at last count.		Brief article	37
The new old thing.		Brief article	322
The next secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, told her fellow senators that she was all for "smart power.".		Brief article	117
The Obama campaign's anti-war critique of Bush security policy was doctrinaire.		Brief article	183
The weather doesn't always cooperate with the plans of human beings, but thankfully, it has agreed to work with the U.S. political timetable.		Brief article	62
There is so much patriotism on the left, anno Obama, that they might now own more flags than Che shirts.		Brief article	98
Twelve ideas for the middle class: a policy symposium.	Lowry, Richard; Ponnuru, Ramesh	Cover story	5605
Uprisings.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	856