Articles from National Review (May 4, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.".		Brief article	204
A Colorado jury recently found that Ward Churchill, a tenured professor at the University of Colorado, had been improperly fired.		Brief article	214
A crackdown on tax havens was on the agenda of the recent G20 meeting.		Brief article	162
A Dutch master rediscovered.	Kimball, Roger		1315
A recession's import: the economic troubles were not made in America.	Reynolds, Alan		1329
At an Ohio State University law symposium, liberal Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the practice of citing foreign law in U.S. court decisions.		Brief article	159
Automobile license plates in Saudi Arabia carry three letters of the Arabic alphabet and three numbers.		Brief article	105
Black American political figures have long had a romance with Fidel Castro and the Communist dictatorship on Cuba.		Brief article	192
Bo joins the ranks of famous White House hounds.			12
Budget defense: President Obama proposes to spend dangerously little on the military.	Loyola, Mario		1742
Congress is considering whether health-care reform should include a "public option" that would allow all Americans to sign up for government-provided insurance.		Brief article	125
Cruz control: a Republican star rises in Texas.	Hemingway, Mark		1411
Epic in miniature.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	798
For years, the U.N. Human Rights Commission was dominated by the worst human-rights offenders in the world: China, Cuba, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia--everybody.		Brief article	188
Global kohordinates: meet the radical transnationalist preparing to take up residency at state.	McCarthy, Andrew C.		1623
In 2008, the Supreme Court manufactured a constitutional right for enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay to challenge their detention in court.		Brief article	147
Is President Obama really committed to pushing for an amnesty and a guest-worker program in the middle of a recession, when resistance is likely to be at its peak, business isn't hiring, and illegal immigrants are leaving the country on their own?		Brief article	76
Isn't Obama a little young to be so overcome with regret?		Brief article	119
Juvenal delinquent.	Derbyshire, John	Critical essay	1033
Kim Jong Il, the mini-Mao of North Korea, is very pleased that his scientists and technicians "with their own wisdom and technology" have successfully developed and fired a three-stage missile.		Brief article	230
Laissez-faire is French: there is much that's right in Europe's thinking on the financial crisis.	Williamson, Kevin D.		1638
Larry King live!	Long, Rob		764
Last year, Obama indicated a willingness to approach school choice with an open mind: "Let's see if the experiment works," he told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.		Brief article	148
Madonna is the pop star known as "the Material Girl.".		Brief article	156
Marriage and civilization.			781
Mortal remains: the wisdom and folly in Albert Jay Nock's anti-statism.	Goldberg, Jonah	Critical essay	3166
New York governor David Paterson's plan to raise taxes on high earners led Rush Limbaugh to declare his intention to abandon the state.		Brief article	138
No new president has elicited such different reactions from Republicans and Democrats.		Brief article	149
Obama bowed before the Saudi king Abdullah--bowed literally, and obsequiously.		Brief article	153
On April 7, a federal judge overturned the conviction of former Republican senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, citing prosecutorial misconduct.		Brief article	135
Pakistan has its own version of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and it is all too successful.		Brief article	213
Piracy and civilization: a lesson for our time.	O'Sullivan, John		2508
President Obama hopes to stabilize the U.S. housing market, and thereby the broader economy, by helping struggling homeowners renegotiate their mortgages on more favorable terms.		Brief article	224
President Obama tacked a surprise trip to Iraq on the end of his foreign tour.		Brief article	104
Romancing the state.	Goldberg, Jonah		540
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is the skeleton at the feast.		Brief article	129
Sen. Chuck Schumer recently said: "The world has changed.		Brief article	106
Social security myths: they are vanishing along with the surplus.	Blahous, Chuck		1353
The cost of audacity: Obamanomics means less growth.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1720
The greatest service President Obama has rendered the nation thus far came when he hired the actor Kal Penn as associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison.		Brief article	85
The hills are alive.	Nordlinger, Jay		1397
The innocent abroad.			693
The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel recently released a report finding that it's unconstitutional to give congressional representation to the District of Columbia.		Brief article	105
The New York Times editorial board is a great champion of organized labor.		Brief article	140
The Obama administration's unattractive habit of taking frequent potshots at George W. Bush took a turn for the absurd when Vice President Joe Biden tried to portray himself as an unheeded adviser to the former president.		Brief article	173
The Pet Shop Boys, a British pop-music duo, were recently approached by PETA, the animal-rights organization.		Brief article	98
The Poznan Zoo, in western Poland, has a problem.		Brief article	144
Three Somali pirates found out the hard way that the most dangerous thing in the water is a seal: Navy special-operations sharpshooters killed three of the four brigands who had hijacked the Maersk Alabama and held its captain hostage.		Brief article	114
Trail Blazer.	King, Florence	Brief article	1469
Trinity.	O'Connell, Richard	Poem	126
We're warning you.	Fink, Andrew	Letter to the editor	446
Western civ.	Miller, John J.		2036
What do you give to the person who has everything--really everything, including several palaces, a large stable of racehorses, an art collection worth billions, and a jewelry collection no one has even attempted to value?		Brief article	188
Which is not to say that Texas politics is free of anti-market folly.		Brief article	152
Why constitutions matter: examining the legal root of the financial crisis.	Epstein, Richard A.	Critical essay	3116