Articles from National Review (June 22, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"From behind a burning bus barricade Saturday night comes the gunfire of soldiers advancing toward Tiananmen Square.".			187
"We expected broken promises," writes Ted Rall, left-wing cartoonist.		Brief article	116
... and Away!	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	890
A conversation from heaven: in an interview with Newsweek, Obama responds to the critics of his critics.	Long, Rob	Interview	859
As the Associated Press informed us, "Fidel Castro criticized former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for defending American interrogation methods against terror suspects, saying ... that torture should never be used to extract information.".		Brief article	47
Attention getting.	Brookhiser, Richard		995
Ayman Nour is a brave man, and as a democrat and opposition leader in Egypt he needs to be.		Brief article	186
Benno Ohnesorg was a model young German in the legendary Sixties: a hippie, pacifist, and poetry lover, naturally antifa (the lingo of that day for "anti-fascist").		Brief article	194
But it worked.			7
California has historically been a good place to start a tax revolt.		Brief article	185
Can we outlast the contradictions?	Voegeli, William	Book review	2050
Career prosecutors at the Justice Department went after some Obama supporters in the New Black Panther Party following shocking allegations that those supporters had intimidated voters with threats, racial epithets, and a nightstick.			197
Consent denied.			348
Correction.		Correction notice	86
Cuban hopes: the people find their voice--but will the world help the Castros silence it?	Reich, Otto J.; Gutierrez, Orlando		1169
Do blondes have more fun?		Brief article	183
Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita abortionist, was shot and killed at his church on a Sunday, in the presence of his wife.		Brief article	180
Elizabeth Dean was nine weeks old when the Titanic, which was taking her and her family to America, sank off Newfoundland.		Obituary	134
Government Motors?		Brief article	208
How it was.	O'Sullivan, John	Book review	2345
In his speech at the National Archives, President Obama indulged his penchant for rebuking his predecessor even while adopting his counterterrorism policies.		Brief article	198
Integration now: the Supreme Court should scrap an antiquated and unconstitutional rule.	Thernstrom, Abigail		1944
Jon Corzine's governorship of New Jersey has veered from one crash to another (sometimes literally, as when his state-trooper-driven SUV hit a guardrail going 90 miles an hour).		Brief article	153
Judging from experience: Sonia Sotomayor's rhetoric and rulings give cause for alarm.	McCarthy, Andrew C.		1597
Maryland has discovered that you can try to soak the rich, but the rich know how to swim across the Potomac.		Brief article	92
Mexico's cartel wars: in some ways, the nation's rampant violence is a sign of progress.	Loyola, Mario	Report	2961
North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon and test-fired long-range missiles, shattering more than two years of U.S.-led diplomacy.		Brief article	175
Obama's playbook, in paperback: liberal fascism and its critics.	Goldberg, Jonah		1863
Obsession.	Epstein, Daniel Mark	Poem	173
One by one, the lights have gone out in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela; there is almost none left.		Brief article	122
Pastor David Jones and his wife, Mary, hold a regular dinner and Bible study in their Bonita, Calif., home.		Brief article	212
President Obama has led many to think that he would favor the Palestinians at the expense of Israel, and sure enough, here comes evidence for it.			199
Queen Elizabeth was not invited to the ceremony marking D-Day this year--it is the 65th anniversary.		Brief article	71
Recession blues.	Hassett, Kevin A.		409
Regulated to death: Obama's CAFE standards will prove bad for business and lethal for consumers.	Kazman, Sam		1584
Sen. Roland Burris (D., Ill.) wants you to know that he did not pay for his seat, and he didn't, but is that enough?		Brief article	176
Specifically intended.	Shadle, Matthew	Letter to the editor	468
States of mind: some notes on Sotomayor, race, and nagging questions of identity.	Nordlinger, Jay		1735
Ted Olson, President Bush's solicitor general and a Federalist Society mainstay, has found a new legal cause: same-sex marriage, which he believes the Constitution requires all states to recognize.		Brief article	156
Tens of thousands died in Buchenwald, one of the most infamous Nazi concentration camps, and it is right for President Obama, or indeed anyone, to go there in commemoration.		Brief article	175
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that America's out-of-wedlock birthrate hit a record high in 2007, when nearly 40 percent of all births were to unmarried women.		Brief article	164
The Obama administration's fiscal incontinence has awakened the "bond vigilantes," investors around the world who are driving up the yields on ten-year Treasuries.		Brief article	202
The Obama Justice Department filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to let stand a ruling that denies 17 Uighurs--Muslims from Chinese Turkestan--a right to be released into the United States.		Brief article	161
The other O'Connor.	Teachout, Terry	Book review	1789
The Pakistani army has driven the Taliban out of the Swat Valley and recaptured Mingora, the one sizable town there.		Brief article	178
The Parliament expenses scandal in Britain has claimed victims in all the major parties.			183
The self-taught intellectual used to be an American type.		Obituary	120
The timing was regrettable (or fortunate, depending on your perspective).		Brief article	155
There are few sounds more pleasing to the conservative ear than the clang of colliding liberal pieties.		Brief article	181
Undue deference: the wisdom of opposing Sotomayor.	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Cover story	1731
We always welcome encouraging signs on the pop-culture front, and the new ABC series from Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill, is one such sign.		Brief article	129
Years ago, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was a high-profile advocate of human rights in China.		Brief article	115