Articles from National Review (March 23, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Livestock-emissions research" is a fast-growing topic among global-warming propagandists.		Brief article	112
"Surprised by joy," William Wordsworth turned to share it with his daughter Catharine, only to realize with a double shock, as memory caught up with reality, that she was dead.		Brief article	128
"We will end education programs that don't work," promised Obama in his address to Congress.		Brief article	167
A strong foundation.	Beito, David T.; Bean, Jonathan		2844
A World Conference on Racism is due to be held in Geneva at the end of April, under the auspices of the United Nations Human Rights Council.		Brief article	175
A world-class deficit.	Hassett, Kevin A.		410
A year ago, Candidate Obama endorsed the "concept" of medical marijuana, and promised to stop federal raids on dispensaries in states that have passed medical-marijuana laws (14 at the latest count).		Brief article	103
An overreaching plan for government-run health care, big ideas from Newt Gingrich, Clinton and Netanyahu preparing to face off in the Middle East.		Brief article	34
At these costs.	Smith, Lamar		442
Bobby Jindal got poor reviews for his response to Obama's address to Congress.		Brief article	114
Congress is on the verge of granting the District of Columbia statehood on the cheap, by awarding it a permanent seat in the House of Representatives.		Brief article	188
Duty dance.	Brookhiser, Richard		997
Employee no choice act: the Democrats, the unions, and the workers they manipulate.	Kirsanow, Peter		2481
Fr. Francis Canavan, S.J., was a Jesuit of the old school; he had little time for the theological heterodoxy and left-wing political radicalism for which his order became notorious in the last century.		Obituary	107
Geert Wilders had a busy month, with little or no time to focus on his duties as a member of the Dutch parliament and leader of the Party for Freedom.		Brief article	178
George Bush famously admonished, "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.".		Brief article	191
Great society II: with a budget proposal, Obama's governing philosophy comes fully into view.	Capretta, James C.		1461
Gwain and the Green Knight.	O'Connell, Richard	Poem	120
Having ripped the Bush administration's detention of enemy combatants as a top Obama campaign adviser, now--attorney general Eric Holder pronounced himself "impressed" upon finally visiting Guantanamo Bay.		Brief article	155
In response to a housing meltdown caused in part by 1) loose lending standards, 2) shenanigans at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and 3) perverse financial incentives, President Obama proposes.		Brief article	252
It was a pleasant surprise when the Senate voted 87-11 to prohibit the FCC from reimposing the Fairness Doctrine on America's broadcasters.		Brief article	78
Land sakes!	King, Florence	Column	992
Larry King Live!	Long, Rob		850
LBJ returns.			566
Negroponte talks: a capable man for a dangerous world.	Nordlinger, Jay		1496
One of history's quaintest mathematical curiosities is the Indiana pi bill of 1897.		Brief article	180
Pierre Berge was the life partner of Yves St. Laurent, the late fashion designer.		Brief article	109
President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu are already performing an awkward two-step, and this will determine the future of Israel, the Palestinians, and perhaps the wider Middle East as well.		Brief article	187
President Obama announced his plan to withdraw from Iraq. It's noticeably more reasonable than his rhetoric from the campaign, when he at times seemed to be saying he would pull out entirely in 16 months.		Brief article	174
President Obama brushed aside concerns about the stockmarket crash that accompanied his first month in office, comparing its "fits and starts" to the fickle swings one sees in political tracking polls during campaigns.		Brief article	174
Pumping up Joe: when you can't give your vice president an ice bath ...	Long, Rob		870
Rocky ride: the Republicans' fall from power in Colorado--and how the Democrats hope to replicate it.	Witwer, Rob		2881
Rush Limbaugh delivered a stemwinder at the Conservative Political Action Committee's annual conference.		Brief article	183
Sen. Jim Bunning won reelection in Kentucky in 2004 by a whisker even as President Bush carried the state by 20 points.		Brief article	110
Several Republican governors have signaled that they will reject some stimulus money on the grounds that it would saddle them with new permanent entitlements to fund.		Brief article	137
Shelf life.	Potempra, Michael	Book review	390
Something pleasant is afoot in Connecticut--just possibly. Christopher Dodd has been senator from there for a very long time: since 1981.		Brief article	139
Squeamish readers might want to skip this paragraph, in which we pass on a sudden flush of news stories relating to ... evacuation.		Brief article	193
Standing athwart history: half a century later.			3666
Tax and spin.			395
The first week in March was No Cussing Week in Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous.		Brief article	102
The headline read, "Jewish Leaders: She's Not the Hillary We Knew.".		Brief article	92
The Obama administration reversed an 18-year-old ban on photographing flag-draped coffins of servicemen arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.		Brief article	175
The pride of the liberals: 'what don't you understand? We won.'.	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Viewpoint essay	1535
The Rocky Mountain News, which began publication in April 1859 on Cherry Creek (later Denver), in the Kansas Territory (later Colorado), folded, two months before its sesquicentennial.		Brief article	174
The way we live now.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	1005
To lead the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, a post calling for nonpartisan, academic rigor, Obama chose Dawn Johnsen, a Bush-bashing, left-wing ideologue so extreme that she has analogized abortion restrictions to state "conscription" of the woman's body and called them a form of "involuntary servitude" in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of slavery.		Brief article	203
To shape the intelligence on which policy is made, Obama has chosen Charles W. "Chas" Freeman to run the National Intelligence Council.		Brief article	188
Washington State is about to put into effect a referendum, passed by voters in November, to allow the terminally ill to ask physicians to assist their suicides.		Brief article	87
Why do they fight?	West, Bing	Book review	1141
Wilbert Tatum was a newspaper publisher who made his mark with imaginary news: His Harlem-based New York Amsterdam News played a key role in furthering the Tawana Brawley hoax.		Brief article	143
William Rusher was publisher of this magazine from 1957 to 1988, a key lieutenant to WFB.		Brief article	111
Worlds old and new.	Daniels, Anthony	Book review	1641