Articles from National Review (September 21, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A Dose of Reality: don't believe Joe Biden about the swine flu--or anything else.	Hemingway, Mark		1453
A few days before the 2004 presidential election, Osama bin Laden released a threatening videotape.		Brief article	131
A myth is as good as a mile: why the assisted-suicide movement is winning.	Smith, Wesley J.		2156
After a long bout of homesickness, Sen. Mel Martinez (R., Fla.) resigned this summer, 16 months before the end of his term.		Brief article	120
After the 1917 revolution, the USSR adopted the Communist Internationale as its anthem.		Brief article	216
All wee-weed up: protests on the right, hypocrisy on the left.	Nordlinger, Jay	Viewpoint essay	2633
Attorney General Eric Holder is apparently not as fixated on the future as his boss, who has repeatedly said he doesn't want to investigate the CIA for what it did in the past.		Brief article	231
Back in Cold War days, apologists for Communism had a standard line about human rights.		Brief article	158
Blame Milton Friedman: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bailout.	Williamson, Kevin D.	Viewpoint essay	1498
Britain's disgrace.			412
Congress has passed and President Obama has signed a law to make September 11 a "national day of service and remembrance.		Brief article	164
Dazed and confused.	Smith, Kyle	Book review	1454
Desmond Tutu went to the Holy Land, doing his act.		Brief article	70
Edward Kennedy , R.I.P.		Obituary	455
Freedom Communications, one of America's greatest newspaper companies and publisher of the Orange County Register, is entering bankruptcy.		Brief article	197
From the creators of the great society: Obamacare is a tough sell because we've seen how grandiose plans turn out in Washington.	Schwarz, Fred		1427
George Will urged the U.S. to pull out of Afghanistan and rely on drone attacks and special-forces raids from afar.		Brief article	219
Getting to the truth: newly declassified documents show that the Bush administration's interrogation policies were both responsible and effective.	Lowry, Richard		2461
Holder's Justice Department also quietly killed an ongoing pay-for-play corruption investigation of New Mexico governor Bill Richardson--a key Obama ally whose nomination to be commerce secretary the probe derailed.		Brief article	144
In defense of the book: a reply to the critics of digital barbarism.	Helprin, Mark	Viewpoint essay	2426
In late August, the State Department announced that it was suspending "non-emergency, non-immigrant visa services" at the U.S. embassy in Honduras, as a way of pressuring the interim Honduran government to reinstall the exiled Manuel Zelaya as president.		Brief article	177
It's no secret that Obama has ties to the far left; during the campaign, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and Bernardine Dohrn were frequent topics of conversation.		Brief article	117
Japan's landslide election, in which the ruling Liberal Democratic party lost power for only the second time since 1955, is being hailed as a "revolution.".		Brief article	202
Juvnile but brlliant.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	925
Mohamed ElBaradei has been a depressing and vexing director of the International Atomic Energy Agency.		Brief article	226
Mr. Suburbia: what the GOP can learn from Virginia's Bob McDonnell.	Currie, Duncan		1615
Obama's false witness: in accusing the Right of lying about health care, the Left shows its disregard for the truth.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1827
On a Friday afternoon, the Obama White House released a new budget projection that added a cool $2 trillion to projected deficits over the next ten years.		Brief article	115
One relatively easy way to reduce the amount that Americans spend on health care would be to reform the laws governing medical-malpractice lawsuits.		Brief article	216
Our colleague of 17 years, Barbara Nowack, secretary to NR chairman Dusty Rhodes, has died of cancer.		Obituary	99
Picture, if you will, an ordinary suburban gas station.		Brief article	166
President Obama is not shy about using religious language and religious imagery.		Brief article	75
Put down that pitchfork.	King, Florence		992
Reagan: freeway or detour?	Voegeli, William	Book review	3148
Remains there doubt that Charles Rangel is a scoundrel?		Brief article	241
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has taken to the airwaves to vow that Republicans will defend Medicare from any cuts entailed by Obamacare.		Brief article	98
Stimulating foreigners.	Hassett, Kevin A.	Statistical data	531
Taro Aso, the outgoing Japanese prime minister, has done something remarkable.		Brief article	108
The ACLU has hired photographers to surreptitiously take pictures of people it thinks are covert CIA agents.		Brief article	110
The bad news for Ted Kennedy is that it's not the press.		Brief article	18
The Department for Creating Problems Where None Exist is advancing with leaps and bounds.		Brief article	167
The federal government's "Cash for Clunkers" policy of giving people rebates to trade in their old cars for new ones found a lot of takers, to the surprise of no one--no one, that is, except the federal government.		Brief article	161
The great Dr. K.	Black, Conrad	Book review	1701
The longevity of generals.	Wysocki, Alex F.	Letter to the editor	265
The Los Angeles County coroner ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide, thanks to the cocktail of drugs, topped off by Propofol, his body contained.		Brief article	112
The Marsh Birds.	Ruden, Sarah	Poem	131
The National Endowment for the Arts joined the White House Office of Public Engagement and United We Serve, the post-campaign Obama campaign, in a conference call to 75 creative types.		Conference news	150
The Obama administration deserves praise for its reappointment of Ben Bernanke, first elevated by Pres. George W. Bush, as chairman of the Federal Reserve.		Brief article	167
The president gave a speech to a VFW convention in Phoenix, and among the crowd outside were about a dozen people carrying firearms.		Brief article	155
There will be rationing: sifting out what's right in Sarah Palin's 'death panels' hyperbole.	Goodman, John C.		1131
Transcript: Interrogation of Detainee 00-287, codenamed: MasterMind.	Long, Rob		751
We expect demagogues to be fiery, so the fact that Obama is not works to his advantage.		Brief article	243
Who needs the oxford English dictionary?	Polley, Kenneth	Letter to the editor	131