Articles from National Review (July 20, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A second stimulus?		Brief article	151
Abandoning longstanding U.S. policy, the administration has not only negotiated with a network of secret jihadist cells operating in Iraq (instruments of Iran, which is duplicating the Hezbollah model it has used in Lebanon); it has now released outright one of the terrorists responsible for the murder of five American soldiers in Karbala back in 2007.		Brief article	132
ACES low.			580
American troops left Iraqi cities. Iraqis celebrated the occasion as a great nationalist victory.		Brief article	145
Among the many projects hatched under the scar-spangled banner of Bailout Nation is the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, through which the government backs debt sold by banks.		Brief article	102
An occurrence on Fuyou Street: the communist myth of Falun Gong's original sin.	Gutman, Ethan	Essay	3300
As we went to press, the U.S. military was tracking a North Korean vessel called the Kang Nam 1, which is suspected of carrying illicit weaponry.			150
As we wrestle with wars, recession, epidemics, and climatology, let us pause for a moment to cast an envious glance at parts of the world whose problems are local and tractable: the sleepy island of Tasmania, off the south coast of Australia, for example.		Brief article	111
At first blush, the news from Honduras sounds like a sad return to Latin America's past.		Brief article	198
Atroublemaker says, "Let's you and him fight.".		Brief article	93
Bocage 1789.	Baer, William	Brief article	107
Democracy drifting away.	Rahe, Paul A.	Letter to the editor	429
Dependence day: state control of health care will change our political culture, for the worse and forever.	Steyn, Mark		2781
Enemies of the state.		Movie review	861
Every year, the National Endowment for Democracy gives an award, and every year the winner or winners get some presidential attention.		Brief article	171
Expectant mothers can now get an even clearer sense of what's growing inside their bodies.		Brief article	136
Flowering industry.	King, Florence		971
From the desk of Bernard Madoff.	Long, Rob		808
Gerald Martin's Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life, a definitive biography of the Colombian novelist, was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review by Paul Berman and in the New York Review of Books by Michael Greenberg.		Brief article	200
Going Alamo: why jobs and companies are flocking to a big small-government state.	Williamson, Kevin D.		2898
Have you heard the latest comedy stylings of Sen. John Kerry?		Brief article	101
Is Canterbury gay enough?		Brief article	160
It is typical of Washington in the wake of a crisis to eschew sound reform for the Big Gesture.		Brief article	136
It sure is nice to have missile defenses when you need them: In anticipation of North Korea's test of a long-range rocket over the Pacific Ocean, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ordered interceptors to Hawaii.		Brief article	139
Journalists come and go in Washington, but for more than 60 years Mary Lou Forbes was an ongoing and formidable presence.		Brief article	120
Let's hope he turns out to be a better senator.			15
Man, machine, and copyright.	Thierer, Adam	Book review	1474
Media technology marches on, as it has since cuneiform tablets (is the magazine baked yet?) yielded to ink on papyrus.		Brief article	119
Medical arrogance.			367
Michael Jackson was such an infectiously lively kid.		Obituary	108
Motto scrawled by students at Berkeley's Black Pine Circle School under a hammer-and-sickle motif: "Capitalism Will Fail.".		Brief article	36
Nobody ever considered Richard Nixon a pro-life stalwart, and the latest batch of his White House tapes confirms the impression.		Brief article	62
Obama's health-care gamble: the stakes for the president are high.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1544
Our common foe: Obama should support the Iranian people by speaking out against their oppressors.	Rubin, Michael		1675
Podium prodigy.	Nordlinger, Jay	Interview	1670
Politics, it is said, resembles sausage: best not to see it being made.		Brief article	150
Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy attacked the burka in a speech to France's parliament.		Brief article	153
President Obama says that he wants to let gays serve openly in the military and to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, but he has not pushed for either policy.		Brief article	114
President--free market think tank.			229
Revolutionary types: Iran's is a peaceful uprising.	O'Sullivan, John		1696
Sanford's seventies show: the South Carolina governor's place in the pantheon of political adulterers.	Long, Rob		987
Scapegoats in white coats: doctors are not to blame for the high cost of medical services.	Goodman, John C.	Brief article	283
Several months ago, a pair of scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency completed a study that questioned many of the assumptions underlying the EPA's doomsday scenario for climate change.		Brief article	124
Sitting down for a television interview, President Obama swatted a fly--swatted it dead.		Brief article	99
Skull session.	Brookhiser, Richard		994
Stimu-late.	Hassett, Kevin A.		417
Story morals.	Miller, Cheryl	Book review	2810
The city of New Haven, Conn., gave firefighters a test to secure a promotion.		Brief article	164
The Iranian front.			497
The saga of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford and his Argentinian mistress displayed two of America's least attractive traits--preening and prurience.		Brief article	106
The venerable College of William and Mary had to stop calling its sports teams the Indians back in the 1980s, for reasons with which we are all familiar.		Brief article	138
Wanted! Reward.		Viewpoint essay	1291
We are thankful that New York Times reporter David Rohde, who was kidnapped by the Taliban and held for seven months in Afghanistan and Pakistan.		Brief article	178
When Barack Obama writes his next autobiography, he should call it Dick Cheney Was Right After All.		Brief article	197
When the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, it included a provision that required some jurisdictions.		Brief article	140