Articles from National Review (November 23, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Police, so what?		Brief article	190
A rising and not a setting sun.	Brookhiser, Richard	Book review	1599
At the end of August, the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Megrahi was sent home to Libya, officially on grounds of compassion.		Brief article	145
Bad election news for Republicans.		Brief article	12
Be careful what you ask for.	Teachout, Terry		1502
China Alone?	Chang, Gordon G.	Book review	1584
Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the outstanding intellectuals of the 20th century.		Brief article	202
Correan war: with help from an old friend of President Obama, Ecuador declares war on capitalism.	Williamson, Kevin D.		1599
Critic-in-chief: Obama's hour is also Charles Krauthammer's.	Nordlinger, Jay	Cover story	3013
Dark and wild.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	880
Dazed and confused: the Israelis can't figure out U.S. policy. For that matter, who can?	Abrams, Elliott		1265
Democrats talk a good game about the middle class, but their party doesn't much represent it: A recent USA Today analysis finds that Democratic members of the House represent the majority of the wealthy and the majority of the poor.		Brief article	184
Driveway drama.	Derbyshire, John	Essay	1061
Economic growth for the third quarter of the year clocked in at 3.5 percent.		Brief article	164
Eric Holder's Justice Department strikes again.		Brief article	178
For some time now, Human Rights Watch has been zealously anti-Israel.		Brief article	178
From the Barack Obama archives ...	Long, Rob		902
Here comes the sun.	Wolovick, A.L.	Letter to the editor	369
If you think you can't use the word "black," and must use "African-American" instead, you may find that you can't talk straight.		Brief article	192
In 1992, Bill Clinton campaigned mercilessly against Bush 41 as a friend of China's Communist government and therefore not a friend to Chinese people, certainly Chinese democrats.		Brief article	174
In recent elections for the European parliament in Brussels, the British National party got about 900,000 votes, entitling it under the system of proportional representation to two seats.		Brief article	200
In Scotland, it's a crime to have fat children.		Brief article	130
In the English city of Norwich, 67-year-old grandmother Pauline Howe joined a peaceful protest by Christians against the city's gay-pride parade.		Brief article	143
It is almost impossible to hand out truckloads of cash without some of it falling into the hands of swindlers, but Congress's stimulus dollars seem to have been particularly susceptible to graft.		Brief article	202
Just because stories.	King, Florence		1007
Ken Cuccinelli, the successful Republican candidate for attorney general of Virginia, told an interviewer, "My view is that homosexual acts--not homosexuality, but homosexual acts--are wrong.".		Brief article	164
Kenneth Feinberg, President Obama's pay czar, hath spoken: Thou shalt not collect cash bonuses, thou shalt accept the halving of thy pay, thou shalt do penance.		Brief article	164
MSNBC snarler Keith Olbermann, who specializes in hysterical vituperation, referred to "the total, mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.".		Brief article	152
My Stars.	Mezey, Robert	Poem	56
NR will review the new biographies of Ayn Rand in due course.		Brief article	160
Penguin Classics has come out with a "deluxe edition" of Huey Newton's memoir, Revolutionary Suicide.		Brief article	73
Pope Benedict created an express lane for disaffected Anglican congregations to join the Catholic Church, with their married priests.		Brief article	106
President Obama signed a bill that expanded federal hate-crimes laws and added crimes motivated by bias against homosexuals to the list.		Brief article	120
Presidents have been complaining about the press since George Washington.		Brief article	143
Referendum 71 was a referendum on the ballot of Washington State, put there by marriage supporters who wanted to overturn the state's latest domestic-partnership law, for being too close to gay marriage.		Brief article	146
Rocco Landesman, head of the National Endowment for the Arts, says Obama will be good for creative types because he is "the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln".		Brief article	198
Rush Limbaugh lost his bid to be part-owner of the St. Louis Rams.		Brief article	154
Some 2.3 million immigrants have settled in Britain so far this decade.		Brief article	126
Tarnished state: but California can shine again.	Hanson, Victor Davis		4004
The comeback begins.			368
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of the end of the short and horrible 20th century (1914-1989), characterized by bloodshed and totalitarianism.		Brief article	157
The great Afghan election drama ended in a fizzle.		Brief article	228
The inevitable debacle.			367
The Justice Department has announced that it intends to take a light hand when it comes to investigating medical-marijuana transactions in states such as California, where they are legal.		Brief article	69
The management of an apartment building in Albany, Ore., forbade the flying of flags or display of flag decals anywhere on the premises.		Brief article	86
The Obama administration hoped to have 40 million doses of swine-flu vaccine available by the end of October, but came up 12 million doses short.		Brief article	117
The poor need capitalism.	Hassett, Kevin A.		454
The premise of Obama's Iran policy has effectively been that the mullahs are reasonable and reasonably trustworthy, and that it takes little but carrot-heavy diplomacy to influence them.		Brief article	260
The road from 1989: reflections on the greatest peaceful transformation in history.	O'Sullivan, John		3201
The view from Man Bear Pig: on the ground in Afghanistan, it's still a question of power, not politics.	West, Bing		1685
There is a newish group called J Street, which is a left-liberal American Jewish organization, meant to counter the traditional Jewish organizations, which it considers too hawkish.		Brief article	250
Time travel in a melting pot.	Gunlock, Julie	Book review	1284
Unholy union: why is the SEIU boss the White House's most frequent visitor?	Spruiell, Stephen		2897
We were just tweeting about that.	de Laubenfels, Ralph	Letter to the editor	73
What just happened in Honduras?		Brief article	173
What won Virginia: examining the strategy behind Bob McDonnell's victory.	Atkinson, Frank		1706
When Atlanta elected its first black mayor, in 1973, it was a huge step forward for the entire South.		Brief article	144
When democratic protests broke out in Iran last summer, the Obama administration gave the impression of considering such protests a nuisance--a hindrance to the real work of dealing with the regime in place.		Brief article	117
When she went on the warpath against Fox, Dunn became famous.		Brief article	165
When the cost of living rises, Social Security checks rise too, which seems reasonable.		Brief article	93
When the U.N. Human Rights Council takes a break from criticizing Israel, it turns to its next-highest priority: ensuring that counterterrorism measures do not interfere with the full self-realization of anyone's socially constructed sexual identity.		Brief article	170