Articles from National Review (July 6, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A fiasco in the making.		Brief article	390
A handful of large banks are repaying, with interest, the money they received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), prompting some to wonder whether the taxpayer might make money on the deal after all.		Brief article	150
Adult Western: a mental movie.	O'Connell, Richard	Poem	103
As part of an effort to sell the American public on the stimulus package, Obama, then the president-elect, commissioned his economic advisers to do a study demonstrating how many jobs would be "created or saved" by his proposal.		Brief article	126
Asked whether he was in touch with a prominent former member of his flock, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said no: "Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me.		Brief article	41
Blame not the deregulator: it was market distortions that created the bubble.	Spruiell, Stephen		1508
Buttering parsnips.			447
Congress passed a measure to regulate cigarettes, and the legislation was filtered through the business interests of tobacco giant Philip Morris.		Brief article	204
Correction.		Correction notice	76
David Letterman welcomed Sarah Palin on a visit to New York City by musing on her daughter's man trouble: Alex Rodriguez had "knocked [her] up" during a Yankees game, and Eliot Spitzer was after her too.		Brief article	203
Eamon Javers reports in Politico that President Obama refers in public to Jesus Christ more often than Bush ever did. We don't object.		Brief article	117
Europe's disintegrating left: analyzing the recent elections.	O'Sullivan, John		1663
Farce and tragedy.			698
Fossil future: new supplies of oil and coal must be part of any rational energy policy.	Goldberg, Jonah		3905
From the Iranian airwaves ... official transcript: the McKhameini Group.	Long, Rob		831
Green flags and brown shirts: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 'reelection' reveals a deep and restive Iranian opposition.	Pryce-Jones, David		1607
Harvard senior Chanequa Campbell was barred from graduating after police linked her to a drug-related murder on campus.		Brief article	98
Heart of darkness.	Stuttaford, Andrew	Book review	1522
House Democrats, indebted to the Code Pink wing of their party, have pressed for the publication of photographs documenting the abuse of prisoners by military personnel.		Brief article	152
In 2007, Sen. Arlen Specter supported legislation to get rid of the secret ballot in elections to unionize companies--legislation at the top of the labor movement's agenda.		Brief article	68
In 2008 Democrats won control of the New York state senate, 32 seats to 30, for the first time since the Sixties.		Brief article	166
In an English county-council election in the Cambridgeshire district of St. Ives, the Labour party finished fourth, behind the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, and, in third place, Lord Toby Jug, representing the Official Monster Raving Loony party.		Brief article	140
In the news now is another big Cuba spy case. A married couple, Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers, spied for Castro for a full 30 years.		Brief article	139
In their primary for governor, Virginia Democrats rejected a left-wing crusader (Brian Moran) and a Clinton crony who parachuted into the state (Terry McAuliffe) in favor of the candidate endorsed by the Washington Post: Creigh Deeds.			146
It took only a few hours for the "Wise Latina" cover of our last issue to be roundly denounced as offensive by lefty bloggers (about a week later, Frank Rich caught up and denounced it too) for reasons they couldn't quite settle on.		Brief article	147
James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist and anti-Semite, walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with a .22 rifle and killed Stephen Johns, a security guard.		Brief article	163
Japanese crossroads: does our most important asian ally face another decade of decline?	Currie, Duncan		1604
Judge Sonia Sotomayor's remark about the special qualities of a "wise Latina woman" was no outlier. Sifting her record shows the trope of "wise woman" or "wise Latina woman" running through her speeches for 15 years.		Brief article	235
Leon Panetta, the CIA director, had something to say about Dick Cheney's criticisms of Obama national-security policies.		Brief article	82
Less knife, more invisible hand.	Barron, Patrick	Letter to the editor	194
Let's implement pay-as-you-go budgeting (PAYGO), Obama recently said, to keep the deficit from getting bigger.		Brief article	132
Like an old-fashioned burlesque performer, Timothy Geithner reveals, bit by bit, the administration's plans for policing Wall Street.		Brief article	209
Magnificent folly.	Derbyshire, John		1050
Misanthropy on tour.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	859
Misremembering Reagan: the gipper still has lessons to teach--just not the ones we usually hear.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		2021
Most observers were expecting that Hezbollah would win the general election in Lebanon.		Brief article	189
Nothing new under the sun? That does not apply in chemistry, where every few years there is an addition to the periodic table of elements.		Brief article	105
One little-noticed line in his much-dissected Cairo speech was President Obama's complaint that American "rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill ... zakat," the alms-giving obligation that is central to Islam, as to other religions.		Brief article	191
Public lotteries are in effect a tax on the poor and innumerate, and so not to be approved of in the generality.		Brief article	170
Pushback from Congress and a disgruntled public forced the Obama administration to reverse course on resettling 17 Gitmo detainees--Uighurs from Chinese Turkestan who received terrorist instruction in jihadist camps--in the United States.		Brief article	193
Rick Duncan campaigned for anti-war Democrats in Colorado last year: Hal Bidlack, who lost a race for the fifth congressional district; and Rep. Jared Polis (second district) and Sen. Mark Udall, who won.		Brief article	145
Say it!	Goldberg, Jonah		471
The Asian experience with sex-selective abortion--the destruction of fetal daughters to accommodate future sons--typifies the instrumentalization of human life.		Brief article	198
The bent pin: with liberty and pug noses for all.	King, Florence		969
The dark lord.	Pryce-Jones, David	Biography	2561
The details remain unclear as we go to press, but President Obama's firing of Corporation for National and Community Service chairman Gerald Walpin does not smell good.		Brief article	145
The editors of the Washington Post are spluttering because a bill to give D.C. residents a voting representative in the House has stalled.		Brief article	105
The Obama administration has been pounding on the Israelis, demanding an end even to the "natural growth" of settlements in the West Bank.		Brief article	104
The Obama Justice Department is giving captured terrorists in Afghanistan Miranda warnings.		Brief article	189
The price that U.S. Treasury bonds command on the market plunged in recent weeks, meaning that lenders are demanding higher returns in order to loan Washington money with which to finance the sundry mischief Washington does.		Brief article	210
The redhunters: a remarkable duo's pursuit of former spies and historical truth.	Miller, John J.	Book review	2003
The United Nations has expanded sanctions against North Korea, with Resolution 1874.		Brief article	115
Two soldiers, Pvt. William Long and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, were shot outside a Little Rock recruiting center; Long died.		Brief article	129
Undies, comrade? The problem of products bearing communist symbols.	Nordlinger, Jay		1688
We record with sadness the passing of Omar Bongo, president of the West African republic of Gabon since December 1967.		Brief article	162
What grandma read.	Teachout, Terry	Book review	1830
Wise Latin man.	Moscinski, Joseph	Letter to the editor	171