Articles from National Review (October 19, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Hello, Mister President.		Brief article	122
"I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed," President Obama proclaimed to his admirers at the United Nations. But he knew even when giving this "order" that it would not actually mean Guantanamo's closure.		Brief article	189
A new Law Library of Congress (LLC) report confirms what we have been arguing for three months.		Brief article	212
A typology of tyrants: clowns can be scary too--especially with the wrong person in the white house.	Long, Rob		1044
Against the darkness.	Radosh, Ronald	Book review	1576
As the financial crisis has waned, so has the G-20's appetite for consequential reforms.		Brief article	138
Chief Justice John Roberts was taking questions from students at the University of Michigan Law School.		Brief article	42
Col. Moammar Qaddafi, fresh from welcoming Lockerbie bomber Abdel al-Megrahi back home, was pumped for his maiden speech to the United Nations General Assembly.		Brief article	121
Director Roman Polanski was arrested while visiting Switzerland, and faces extradition to the United States for a 32-year-old crime.		Brief article	148
Economics in the red zone.	Hassett, Kevin A.		496
End the special-ed racket: vouchers can reduce false diagnoses of learning disabilities while helping both the truly disabled and the misdiagnosed.	Winters, Marcus A.; Greene, Jay P.		1118
For years there has been a struggle over the Metropolitan Opera.		Brief article	208
French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced that from now on his country's economic statisticians should include "happiness" in their official calculations of gross domestic product.		Brief article	165
George Stephanopoulos asked President Obama whether his proposed requirement that everyone buy health insurance is a "tax.".		Brief article	132
Gone with the windbags.	King, Florence		1009
Hiding in plain sight.			602
Holocaust deniers, it is generally held, are trading in conspiratorial fantasies, and are therefore beyond the reach of rational discourse.		Brief article	129
How many times have you read that deregulation has been discredited by the financial crisis?		Brief article	156
Humana, a large private insurer, told its Medicare Advantage customers that if Obamacare passes, "millions of seniors and disabled individuals ... could lose many of the important benefits and services that make Medicare Advantage health plans so valuable.".		Brief article	118
In a matter of about three weeks, the Left's view of Afghanistan has gone from "the good war" to "the next Vietnam.".		Brief article	248
Iran outlook: grim: the failed policies of Presidents Bush and Obama have brought us to a difficult pass.	Bolton, John R.	Column	3149
Irving Kristol grew up in that greenhouse of American intellectual life, lower-class Jewish New York.		Obituary	154
Literary classics: the official ACORN[TM] editions.	Long, Rob		741
Ms. Bair stays in Washington: the head of the FDIC, under Bush and Obama, is a poor fit for the job.	Berlau, John	Essay	1746
Obama had his U.N. debut.		Brief article	219
Obamacare in practice: New England has already tried much of it, and the results are not encouraging.	Spruiell, Stephen		1613
Out in left field.	Heavner, John	Letter to the editor	127
Parallel lives.	Lettow, Paul	Book review	2421
Pop economics: greed did not cause the financial crisis; bad investments did.	Williamson, Kevin D.	Essay	1629
Populists are sometimes right.	Minnott, Michael	Letter to the editor	283
President Obama loves to say that he wants to "look forward, not backward" when it comes to evaluating Bush-era interrogation policies.	Hassett, Kevin A.	Brief article	168
President Obama's recent flurry of TV interviews included one with the Spanish-language network Univision.		Brief article	115
Psalm of Pernett Du Gillet.	Epstein, Daniel Mark	Poem	74
Romney reboots: thinking about 2012.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		2214
Saif and Aisha Qaddafi are Libyan royalty--they are the son and daughter of the dictator--and they head up a couple of foundations.		Brief article	126
Sarah Palin gave her first paid speech after stepping down as governor of Alaska.		Brief article	47
Since 1991, every president has met with the Dalai Lama.		Brief article	156
Something about Arizona: a state that gets under skin.	Nordlinger, Jay	Essay	2587
Status symbol.	Klinghoffer, David	Book review	1556
The administration has canceled the deployment of a powerful radar in the Czech Republic and interceptors in Poland.		Brief article	105
The case against Baucus.			452
The difference is.		Brief article	16
The Empire State Building, an enduring symbol of capitalism and aspiration, was defaced: lit up red and yellow in honor of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China.		Brief article	139
The equilibrist: Irving Kristol and the politics of ma non troppo.	McClay, Wilfred M.	In memoriam	2012
The Glorious eighteenth.	Derbyshire, John		1051
The good news is that the worst domestic-terrorism plot since 9/11--a plan reminiscent of the attacks that rocked London in 2005--was aborted without any bombings of New York's transit system.		Brief article	192
The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire was Mehmet the Sixth.		Obituary	152
The peak of William Safire's early career is a twice-told tale, but it deserves one more telling.		Obituary	162
The president's "safe-schools czar," Kevin Jennings, is the latest in a long line of ill-considered choices for high-level appointments (previous selections include everyone from tax cheats to an admitted former Communist and self-described "rowdy black nationalist").		Brief article	149
The United Nations cultivates animus against Israel with unbounded enthusiasm.		Brief article	267
The wrong man.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	928
To nobody's surprise, once the Cash for Clunkers program expired, auto sales plummeted.		Brief article	144
Washington Post managing editor Raju Narisetti has deep-sixed his Twitter account after being criticized for sharing his liberal enthusiasms with Post readers.		Brief article	65
We cannot always be responsible for who praises us, it is true.		Brief article	113
What if Israel preemptively takes out Iran's nuclear plants?		Brief article	118