Articles from National Review (November 2, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"I will end 'don't ask, don't tell,'" President Obama told the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights lobbying group, though he did not tell them when.		Brief article	158
"What does good health mean to you?" the magazine Prevention asked Michelle Obama.		Brief article	124
'The Last Right-Wing Intellectual ...'.	Dugan, Lawrence	Poem	127
A century behind: our electricity regulations are stuck in the Progressive era.	Yeatman, William Y.; Murray, Iain	Essay	844
A few months after the ruling party of Pres. Cristina Kirchner took a drubbing in congressional elections, Argentina enacted legislation that will significantly expand government regulation of the country's broadcast-media outlets.		Brief article	137
A fitting prize.			407
A proper revolution?	Stuttford, Andrew	Book review	1594
A smiling gloominary.	Smith, Kyle	Book review	1558
A vision shall guide them? The strategic risks of President Obama's call for nuclear disarmament.	Payne, Keith B.	Viewpoint essay	1499
An expensive way to die.			331
An unpretty pass: what a song without words says about American life.	Nordlinger, Jay	Essay	1641
Approximating the Essence of Romney.	Saylor, Andy	Letter to the editor	128
As we noted in our last issue, the nonpartisan Law Library of Congress (LLC) has published a report affirming that Manuel Zelaya's removal from the Honduran presidency was lawful and constitutional, even if his subsequent deportation to Costa Rica was not.		Brief article	152
Citigroup has unloaded its proprietary trading division, Phibro, for a song: $250 million for a business with an average annual net income of $372 million.		Brief article	175
Colonialism and its aftermath have been themes of postmodern literature, generating both masterpieces and literary prizes (sometimes the prizes have gone to masters, e.g., V. S. Naipaul).		Brief article	140
Congress apparently has given up on the idea of securing the U.S.-Mexico border with a fence, having excised money for the project from a recent appropriations bill.		Brief article	75
Drill: petroleum is, and will remain, a major part of America's energy picture. shall we get it here or abroad?	Palin, Sarah		1011
Dudley Do-Right would be proud.		Brief article	177
Encounter books, under the leadership of the idea- and good idea-filled Roger Kimball, is now embarked on a project called "Encounter Broadsides": "a series of pamphlet-like essays," says the house, that will reflect "an 18th-century sense of political urgency and rhetorical wit.".		Brief article	124
Every-which way Joe: the vice president's plan for Afghanistan is only his latest exercise in folly and self-contradiction.	Fly, Jamie M.		1772
Facing facts in Afghanistan.		Essay	699
Far be it from us to complain about a little Deaverism: the use of stagecraft in politics, even in governance.		Brief article	141
Fight.	Draksler, Chuck	Letter to the editor	99
Fission, Baby, fission! We need a hundred new nuclear plants.	Alexander, Lamar		929
Gun nuts: Montana sends a shot across the bow of federal regulation.	Avulla, Travis K.		1458
Hugo Chavez and Moammar Qaddafi, generalissimo and colonelissimo of Venezuela and Libya respectively, have revealed that they are soulmates.		Brief article	115
In a C-SPAN interview, Justice Antonin Scalia expressed his disappointment that "so many of the best minds in the country" are devoted to lawyering.		Brief article	113
In May this year the new administration got the U.S. elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council.		Brief article	173
In the Canadian parliament, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant testified against Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.		Brief article	155
Intellectual feast.	Eastland, Terry	Book review	1808
Jon Corzine, the Democratic governor of New Jersey, is deeply unpopular, and rich. His money has funded ad after ad savaging his opponent, Republican Chris Christie.		Brief article	101
Lone star showdown: an up-close look at the Hutchison-Perry gubernatorial contest.	Miller, John J.		2263
Marco Rubio, the Florida conservative who is running for Senate, is not going to raise as much money as his primary rival, Gov. Charlie Crist.		Brief article	91
Market power: the mistake of subsidizing pet energy causes.	Taylor, Jerry; Van Doren, Peter		993
Media malpractice: the fourth estate is certainly doing its part for Obamacare.	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Essay	1432
MEMRI turns up a little gem of jihadist insanity.		Brief article	131
Multiculturalism displays many ironies--often where Islam meets homosexuality, and some of the people we are required to respect notably fail to respect others.		Brief article	144
Naive Statistics: or was the Obama team's case for the stimulus cynical instead?	Staley, Samuel R.		1528
Once or twice a year there erupts a story that the oil sheiks or the ChiComs are plotting to dump the dollar as the go-to currency for oil trading or foreign reserves.		Brief article	142
Our advice to Obama.		Brief article	13
Out of the Whirlwind.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	925
Pond-scum power: going really green.	Green, Kenneth		990
Realism minus reality, idealism minus ideals: the left's foreign policy waxes stupid and mean.	Goldberg, Jonah		3248
Remember the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran?		Brief article	214
Revising the revolution.	Johnson, Paul	Book review	1303
Rush Limbaugh is part of a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, a professional football team.		Brief article	168
Smile.	Sterling, Robert	Letter to the editor	89
The Federal Trade Commission has embarked upon a daft assault on free speech, specifically social-media users' endorsement of products or businesses.		Brief article	187
The golden road to unlimited devotion is paved with taxpayer dollars.		Brief article	180
The Great Alexander.	Brookhiser, Richard	Essay	989
The handful of politicians who drive the European Union in Brussels have long been trying to create a single state out of 27 countries.		Brief article	266
The insurance fix: we need targeted reforms, not a federal takeover.	Capretta, James C.; Miller, Thomas P.		2230
The long view.	Long, Rob		757
The news of President Obama's Nobel wiped out the news of his failure to persuade the International Olympic Committee to pick Chicago as the site of the 2016 summer games.		Brief article	109
This could take a while.		Brief article	145
Wait for patients to die before taking their organs, and the organs won't be as fresh.		Interview	224
We all know that jihadists believe that pious Muslim males will be rewarded with 72 virgins in paradise.		Brief article	167
When lust meets power, favoritism ensues (consult the lives of Louis XIV, the twelve Caesars, and the first Neanderthal clan leader).		Brief article	154
Youth tax.	Goldberg, Jonah	Viewpoint essay	562