Articles from National Review (March 9, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A Wolfe Tome.	Siegel, Fred	Book review	1277
Abdul Qadeer Khan is a real-life Dr. Strangelove whose career casts a menacing shadow over the future.		Brief article	192
After steering the nomination of Holder through his Judiciary Committee by giving short shrift to Holder's prior stewardship of the blatantly politicized Clinton Justice Department, Sen. Patrick Leahy promptly called for a "truth and reconciliation commission" to investigate the politicization of Bush's DOJ.		Brief article	196
An important blow for public health was struck on February 12 when a special federal court ruled there was no evidence of a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism in children.		Brief article	148
As predicted, General Motors and Chrysler need more money.		Brief article	142
As we go to press, jurors in Arizona are considering a complaint against Roger Barnett, an Arizona rancher.		Brief article	113
Away from the gated community: Republicans should not build a strategy around courting 'upscale' voters.	Ponnuru, Ramesh; Salam, Reihan	Essay	1796
Bank job.			666
Bill Clinton, it must be owned, has a way with words.		Brief article	235
Charles de Gaulle regarded NATO with deep suspicion as a conspiracy by les Anglo-Saxons to dominate Europe.		Brief article	172
David Lloyd George once dismissed an irresolute rival thus: "Like a cushion, he always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him.".		Brief article	216
Down in the dumps.	Derbyshire, John		1020
Everything about Sen. Judd Gregg's recent turn in the spotlight was odd.		Brief article	88
Excerpts from the unread parts of the American recovery and reinvestment act.	Long, Rob	Excerpt	785
Fairy tale and nightmare.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	883
Fire has been a recurring part of Australia's natural history for millions of years.		Brief article	144
Geert Wilders, Dutch politician, was invited to Britain to screen Fitna, his film blaming jihadist violence on the Koran.		Brief article	185
Governor girly-man: Arnold Schwarzenegger caves to the Democrats as his state drowns in red.	Hayward, Steven F.	Cover story	3001
Here is an abortion story: in the Miami area, a woman named Sycloria Williams went to get an abortion.		Brief article	234
In 1985 Congress made it unlawful to use lead pigments in the inks, dyes, and paints in children's books, though there was no evidence that any child had ever been harmed thereby.		Brief article	198
In a closely watched case in California's Ninth Circuit federal appeals court, the Obama Justice Department reaffirmed the Bush administration's assertion of the state-secrets privilege in order to block a civil lawsuit brought on behalf of five men who claim they were kidnapped by the CIA and dispatched to countries that tortured them.		Brief article	210
Lawyer's lawyer, radical's radical: meet Obama DOJ nominee Dawn Johnsen.	McCarthy, Andrew C.		1552
Living inspiration.	Murphy, James F.	Letter to the editor	133
Lo, a smart grid! The Left's energy miracle turns out not to be that.	Tucker, William		1447
Losing Gordon Gekko: Wall Street has gone over to the Democrats. Should conservatives miss it?	Williamson, Kevin D.	Essay	2521
Magical mystery tour: David Cameron and the need for nastiness.	O'Sullivan, John		2567
Muzzammil Hassan is a businessman in the Buffalo area.		Brief article	102
National Review readers, along with our writers and editors, all (we are pretty sure) belong to the species Homo sapiens.		Brief article	167
One thousand pages of stimulus legislation.			22
Politicians like to say the only poll that matters is the one taken on Election Day.		Brief article	258
President Obama, hailed as a verbal master, uses "enormity" a lot.		Brief article	67
Prince Harry's sins against multicultural orthodoxy just go on multiplying.		Brief article	161
Ready to snap fingers?		Brief article	114
Smile.	Goldberg, Jonah	Essay	538
Starry Night.	Williams, Donald T.	Poem	132
Stimulus for Liberals.			533
Such a catholic.	Wood, Ralph C.	Book review	2956
The bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln should not obscure that of Charles Darwin.		Brief article	155
The Democrats have enacted a major expansion of the federal-state health-insurance program for children, S-CHIP.		Brief article	110
The Democrats have made a number of personnel blunders, Republicans have mostly held together against the stimulus, and the public shows little confidence that the stimulus will save the economy.		Brief article	91
The Democrats' Senate scrapper: Harry Reid in the new Washington.	Nordlinger, Jay		2043
The depravity of Islamofascism, the depravity of the jihad, knows no bounds.		Brief article	109
The future of military-commission prosecutions for terrorist war crimes remains in doubt.			205
The old-fashioned virtues are still alive in Omaha, Neb., where a man named Anthony Burres accidentally dropped his wallet and then sped off on his motorcycle as $100 bills began flying away in the breeze.		Brief article	106
The recession economy is playing havoc with some of our received wisdom.		Brief article	127
The saga of Nadya Suleman, better--much better--known as Octomom, continues to enthrall and appall.		Brief article	129
The tacky index: Hollywood writer + Los Angeles address + Filet-O-Fish = Danger!	Long, Rob	Essay	1283
The tactic of accusing Israel of war crimes whenever it takes steps to defend itself should by now have been worked too often to be effective any longer.		Brief article	200
The trouble with the Israeli election is that Tzipi Livni of the center-left Kadima party and Bibi Netanyahu of center-right Likud won it more or less equally.		Brief article	234
The U.S. government created this country's ethanol industry.		Brief article	145
The world makes too little of the oppression of Palestinians--by other Palestinians.		Brief article	119
This magazine has often expressed ambivalence about the government's war on drugs, but private-sector prohibition is another issue.		Brief article	149
Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez won a referendum, giving him the possibility of remaining in power forever.		Brief article	175
Very superstitious.	Cavanagh, James	Letter to the editor	276
Watts up.	Murray, Iain	Book review	1502
We at National Review believed that the Senate should seat Roland Burris, Barack Obama's successor, despite the corruption of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, the man who appointed him, on the grounds that Burris himself was untainted by sleaze.		Brief article	181
Why we hate us: the business of making movies drives Hollywood nuts.	Kahane, David	Viewpoint essay	1568