Articles from National Review (June 8, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'All the gaps are bridgeable': what a PLO man and an Israeli think of peace between their sides.	Nordlinger, Jay	Essay	1620
Among the 31 colleges of Cambridge University in England are three that admit only women.		Brief article	160
Ask Nancy Pelosi: the Speaker of the House responds to your questions.	Long, Rob		834
Beyond 'no': as the GOP argues for spending restraint, it should also address the concerns of the middle class.	Ponnuru, Ramesh; Lowry, Richard	Essay	1904
Busy days in the world of poetry.		Brief article	178
California, its budget a sinkhole, has proposed the most modest of trims--$74 million from a program that subsidizes the wages of (unionized, of course) health-care workers who tend the sick in their homes.		Brief article	179
Day after day, week after week, the lights go out in Venezuela.		Brief article	59
Democratic representative Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, unveiled a bill that would create a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions and require utility companies to generate 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources.		Brief article	129
Dick Cheney is the madwoman in the attic, the crazy voice that Republicans ought to stifle.		Brief article	124
Dunce cap-and-trade: the Waxman-Markey global-warming bill cannot survive cost-benefit analysis.	Manzi, Jim	Essay	2935
Finding Mum and Pup.	Freeman, Neal B.	Book review	1386
For four months, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian American with dual citizenship, was held in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.		Brief article	83
For the birds.	Freeman, Kristin K.	Letter to the editor	134
Gil Kerlikowske, the new drug czar, suggests abandoning the phrase "war on drugs.".		Brief article	154
In the bloodstained history of terrorism, the Tamil Tigers will always have a place, alongside the IRA, the Taliban, the Chechens, and the PLO.		Brief article	211
In the late Seventies, Farrah Fawcett had the face that launched a thousand fantasies, as a crime-fighting babe in Charlie's Angels and poster girl.		Brief article	159
It is a good general rule that any congressional bill named after some victim of a crime or misfortune is a bad bill.		Brief article	181
It is becoming a Friday ritual--the weekly announcement of the embarrassing news that yet another Bush national-security policy labeled a war crime or a rule-of-law violation by the Obama campaign has been adopted by the Obama administration.		Brief article	183
It's all in your head.		Essay	593
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is going through an ugly divorce from his wife of 29 years.		Brief article	122
Manmohan Singh and his ruling Congress party expanded their margin in India's latest parliamentary elections, which means that the reform-minded economist should be able to liberate himself from the worst of the far-left coalition partners with which political necessity had saddled his government.		Brief article	179
Masaharu Nakagawa, the financial-affairs spokesman for Japan's opposition Democratic party, elevated eyebrows by suggesting that Japan cease buying U.S. Treasury obligations unless they are "samurai bonds"--meaning those denominated in yen instead of dollars.		Brief article	194
Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has opposed a resolution, scheduled for a vote by RNC members as we went to press, that calls on the Democrats to rename themselves the Democrat Socialist Party.		Brief article	115
Mitch the knife: at OMB they called him 'The Blade'--and now he's taking a scalpel to Indiana's budget.	Hemingway, Mark	Cover story	2511
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd got caught lifting a sentence--with only one tiny change--from Josh Marshall's left-wing blog, Talking Points Memo.		Brief article	62
Next year's Senate elections won't be easy for Republicans.		Brief article	214
Nicholas Winton is a name that ought to be better known.		Brief article	179
Obama met with the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan, whose security problems are conjoined.		Brief article	245
Of beauty and loss.	Shippey, Tom	Critical essay	1626
Office romance.	Derbyshire, John	Essay	1030
One of Obama's few genuine non-defense budget cuts is a sharp reduction in funding for the agency that polices "embezzlement from labor organizations, extortionate picketing, deprivation of union members' rights by force or violence, and fraud in union officer elections.".		Brief article	156
One of the most aggravating features of Communist life is the loudspeakers: the broadcasting of propaganda over loudspeakers in the streets.		Brief article	116
Over the last 15 years, pollsters have found that the number of Americans who consider themselves "pro-life" rather than "pro-choice" has been slowly increasing.		Brief article	155
Performance art and panache: remembering editorial conferences with William F. Buckley Jr.	Brookhiser, Richard	In memoriam	1814
Postcard from Hubbard Hall.	Mueller, Joseph	Poem	61
President Obama and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out of their White House meeting smiling and paying the usual compliments to each other--there was even lip service about a supposed "historic opportunity.".		Brief article	192
President Obama cashiered his commanding general in Afghanistan, a stunning move and welcome break from the excessive deference President Bush showed his generals until near the end of his presidency.		Brief article	96
President Obama gave the commencement speech, and accepted an honorary degree, at Notre Dame.		Brief article	138
Putting Specter in his place.	Bettin, Brad	Letter to the editor	60
Shelf life.	Potemra, Michael	Book review	218
Since Barack Obama did not have much time to learn before becoming president, he must of necessity learn on the job.		Brief article	128
The 'enduring majority'--again: no, the Democrats will not be in power forever ...	Cost, Jay	Essay	3124
The auto bailout keeps getting weirder: General Motors announced plans to sell itself to the government.		Brief article	100
The Committee to Reinflate the Bubble: the real-estate lobby wants another boom--but what about the bust?	Williamson, Kevin D.	Essay	1576
The faculty of Brown University voted to change the name of Columbus Day to something safe: "Fall Weekend.".		Brief article	72
The hot seat.	Nagel, Robert F.	Book review	1908
The King and I.	Heideman, George J.	Letter to the editor	267
The littlest totalitarian.	Goldberg, Jonah	Essay	594
The magic wand the White House plans on using to control health-care costs is showing signs of malfunction.		Brief article	210
The Obama administration has announced that it intends to step up antitrust prosecutions, and the likely targets of opportunity are situated in Silicon Valley.		Brief article	190
The parent problem: on the persistent link between family structure and black poverty.	Currie, Duncan		1382
The word "liar" is thrown around too much in our politics, but it is difficult to conclude that the term does not fit Nancy Pelosi.		Brief article	190
This vice-president.			10
Trust the Afghan army: a 'new approach' that will work.	West, Bing	Essay	1802
Utah governor Jon Huntsman, a Republican, will be Obama's ambassador to China.		Brief article	125
Wanda Sykes, yukking it up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, said that Rush Limbaugh's kidneys should fail, and that he needed "a little waterboarding.".		Brief article	159
Waste watching.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	796