Articles from National Review (May 25, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A world event occurred in April--on a TV show called Britain's Got Talent.		Brief article	151
ABC News revealed the identities of two CIA contractors--covert agents--who allegedly oversaw the harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees.		Brief article	141
After Souter.			498
Ahmadinejad's last stand? The meaning of Iran's upcoming presidential election.	Taheri, Amir		3390
Any new president's cabinet is something like a field of horses coming out of the gate.		Brief article	166
Bright wings.	Brookhiser, Richard		986
Chrysler declared bankruptcy, despite President Obama's attempts to avoid that outcome.		Brief article	185
D., himself.			415
Defeating Obamacare: why and how.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1498
Diagnosis: what, precisely, is wrong with the American health-care system?	Herzlinger, Regina E.		2676
Disregard the tip jar.	Hird, John T.	Letter to the editor	140
Even though the Clean Air Act was designed to address conventional forms of pollution, the Supreme Court held in 2007 that its language could be read to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases.		Brief article	149
Four nights.	Nordlinger, Jay	Concert review	1525
Gao Zhisheng is one of the many remarkable people who do China proud.		Brief article	135
Gov. Sarah Palin's youngest child, Trig, has Down Syndrome.		Brief article	98
Government-sponsored fiscal crisis.	O'Malia, David	Letter to the editor	45
Hidden crisis.	Hassett, Kevin A.		341
Hinge of history.	Radosh, Ronald	Book review	1532
If Charles Hurley, currently nominated to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, gets his way, the law will forbid Beltway commuters and Montana ranchers alike to drive faster than 55 mph.		Brief article	45
In a recent press conference, a New York Times reporter asked President Obama what had "enchanted" him the most during his first 100 days as president.		Brief article	33
In Aristophanes' play Lysistrata, the women of Greece go on a sex strike in hopes of forcing their menfolk to end the Peloponnesian War.		Brief article	204
In the Catholic Church's view, abortion is a grave injustice, and support for its legality a sin at least as great as support for racial discrimination.		Brief article	159
Ireland's constitution requires punishment for blasphemy, and Irish statute law is framed accordingly.		Brief article	105
Is there an American mind?	Guelzo, Allen C.		2917
It seems military commissions might not be so bad after all.		Brief article	186
It's the little things.	Singleton, Cynthia Maggard	Letter to the editor	179
Jimmy Carter is a democrat, and a former American president.		Quotation	101
Joe Biden has calmed the American public during the flu crisis by saying, "I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now....		Brief article	99
Krystian Zimerman is a Polish pianist, and one of the best musicians in the world.		Brief article	145
Lewis Carroll brilliantly represented a collection of people who had lost touch with reality as a mad hatter's tea party, and that is the exact metaphor for the U.N. conference known as "Durban II" but actually held in Geneva.		Brief article	196
Obama's year zero.			364
One recent Sunday, at a flea market in Waterford, Mich., Dorothy Utley was selling knickknacks with her pet Chihuahua, Tinker Bell, at her side.		Brief article	185
Opposed by Republicans such as Arlen Specter, and by Democrats such as Arlen Specter, "card check" provisions are expected to be stripped from the cynically named Employee Free Choice Act.		Brief article	192
Pakistan is on the edge.		Brief article	220
Placebo: why the democrats' proposals will not work.	Cannon, Michael F.		3443
Pleasantly peasantry.	King, Florence	Column	1008
Prescription: a politically salable approach to market-based reform.	Capretta, James C.		2540
President Obama put on an amazing performance at the Summit of the Americas, held in Trinidad and Tobago.		Brief article	91
President Obama, thrifty as always, has ordered his staff to go through the federal budget "line by line" and find $100 million worth of wasteful spending that can be cut.		Brief article	161
Quarterback Jack.		In memoriam	492
Readers may recall how I. F. Stone was lionized during his long, laureled life.		Brief article	137
Several large banks, including J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, have announced that they would like to repay the funds they took from the government as part of the TARP, but the Obama administration is discouraging them.		Brief article	140
Since tobacco came into general use four hundred years ago, compulsory smoking has not been a prominent feature of civilized life.		Brief article	168
Socialized failure: dissecting health-care data from Britain, Canada, and elsewhere.	Goodman, John C.		1514
Strange voyage.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	1019
The arrest in Tehran of Roxana Saberi is a nasty slap in the face for President Obama.		Brief article	142
The aura of inevitability.	Steyn, Mark		914
The Harvard Crimson often has scoops in the local sphere, and one is to have recorded the opinion of the university's Islamic chaplain Taha Abdul-Basser that there is "great wisdom" in killing Muslim apostates even if that makes some people in the modern world "uncomfortable.".		Brief article	88
The Inheritance.	Simpson, Olivia Ellis	Poem	133
The Justice Department finally dropped its espionage case against two officials from the pro-Israeli lobbying group AIPAC.		Brief article	169
The less said about former senator John Edwards, the ... oh, who are we kidding?		Brief article	142
The literary Arlen Specter.	Long, Rob		757
The national odometer that measures taxing and spending has ticked from billions to trillions, but don't be alarmed.		Brief article	224
The Supreme Court ruled in Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations that the FCC could fine broadcasters who allowed even fleeting expletives to be aired.		Brief article	136
Torture is a state of mind: mens rea and the jurisprudence of coercive interrogations.	McCarthy, Andrew C.		1598
Tortured position.			474
Who is Carrie Prejean?		Brief article	160
You may remember our old friend "Asian values": the phrase used by Asian dictators and their apologists.		Brief article	181