Articles from National Review (September 7, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'Defecting' conservative.	Armour, Eric	Letter to the editor	85
[Cartoon].			12
A matter of scale: cap-and-trade, despite some successes, is no panacea for greenhouse-gas emissions.	Schwarz, Fred	Viewpoint essay	1555
A necessary attribute of diplomats is the poker face.		Brief article	159
Adverse reactions.			607
Annually, thousands of Americans defend themselves with guns.		Brief article	151
Attorney General Eric Holder may soon name a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogators.		Brief article	147
Bear right: the specter of a Greater Russia?	O'Sullivan, John	Viewpoint essay	1667
Being a surgeon must be great.		Brief article	169
Bernanke's war.	Williamson, Kevin D.	Book review	1729
Betsey Wright is in the news again.		Brief article	80
Blue dog blues: Nancy Pelosi and the House's moderate Democrats are making life tough for each other.	Spruiell, Stephen		1647
Budd Schulberg was a Hollywood brat, a Dartmouth man, a novelist (What Makes Sammy Run?), a screenwriter (On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd), a journalist, a matchless boxing writer, and an OSS officer in World War II.		Obituary	156
Congressmen's town-hall meetings on the president's health-care plan have caused a backlash of un-American fury.		Brief article	156
Creative destruction.	Derbyshire, John		1055
Defining 'conservative'.	Mencher, Daniel	Letter to the editor	249
Democrats launched nasty campaigns against Republican Supreme Court nominees in 1987 and 1991.		Brief article	154
Direction, anyone? What the GOP needs is not a leader, but political entrepreneurs.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1333
Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a rare person, a member of a prominent political family who made her own, highly individual mark on society.		Obituary	101
Former president Bill Clinton made a trip to North Korea to secure the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two American journalists imprisoned there since March.		Brief article	145
Forty years ago, 300,000 kids or more converged on a dairy farm in upstate New York for a weekend of rock and roll.		Brief article	128
Hillary's innocence abroad: in Africa, Clinton offered sermons rather than diplomacy.	Johnson, R.W.		1159
Hunting Nazis.	Goldberg, Jonah		651
In halls great and small.	Nordlinger, Jay	Concert review	1617
Inner space.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	878
John Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc., the nation's largest retailer of organic foods.		Brief article	193
Les Paul never became quite as famous as the musicians who play his guitars--a group that has included Eric Clapton, Ace Frehley, Jimmy Page, and Slash--but make no mistake about it.		Obituary	85
Lots of good people hold up British socialized medicine as the example to follow, but that is not the view of Daniel Hannan.		Brief article	197
Madison and public reason.	Watson, Bradley C.S.	Book review	1522
Michael Vick, the hotshot quarterback who spent a year and a half in prison for running an illegal dog-fighting ring, has been hired by the Philadelphia Eagles.		Brief article	124
Nancy Pelosi started it.		Brief article	155
New left-wing slogan.		Brief article	10
One bystander at a town hall has received special attention.		Brief article	218
Our secretary of state also told political activists in blood-drenched, corruption-wracked Nigeria that she understands their plight.		Brief article	149
Rather than leave students free to choose, the professor of Economics 301 at the University of Chicago assigned seating by alphabet.		Brief article	148
Reportedly, John Edwards--the former North Carolina senator, vice-presidential nominee, and presidential candidate--has been confirmed as the father of a campaign worker's child and is set to publicly admit paternity.		Brief article	67
Revenge of the castle people: Reagan and Thatcher revived the principles of the marketplace. Can we restore its culture?	Beran, Michael Knox		3460
Robert Novak was a figure of the telephone/shoe-leather/ source-lunch era.		Obituary	180
Rubio rising: the Florida GOP has a new star.	Miller, John J.	Cover story	2070
Sens. Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad, Democrats both, again were given a sweetheart deal by friends in high places.		Brief article	126
So the president decided that health-care costs were too high and boldly implemented measures to curb them.		Brief article	144
Speaking from Martha's Vineyard (civic motto: "Begone, peasant!"), Obama-administration "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg has announced that he will be reviewing, with a gimlet eye, the paychecks handed out to workers at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other financial institutions.		Brief article	102
Stuck there in the middle: for better and for worse, Max Baucus is driving the health-care agenda.	Kavulla, Travis		1553
The Human Space Flight Plans Committee, a ten-person panel appointed by President Obama to work out a future strategy for NASA, has met with administration officials prior to its final report at the end of August.		Brief article	185
The Left's main complaint about the stimulus was that it was too small.		Brief article	156
The lights keep going off in Venezuela.		Brief article	161
The Pure Gift.	Epstein, Daniel Mark	Poem	155
The Social Security Administration has published its lists of the most popular baby names in 2008.		Brief article	114
This is how it flops.	Suderman, Peter	Book review	1096
Town hall summer: it's about health care, sure; it's also about watching Arlen Specter look like he's about to cry.	Long, Rob		1074
Transcript: Larry King Live, Sept. 7, 2012.	Long, Rob	Fictional work	814
What, if anything, should be done about global warming is a knotty issue.		Brief article	173
Why the stimulus failed: fiscal policy cannot exnihilate new demand.	Riedl, Brian	Viewpoint essay	1884
Would the private sector be allowed to compete on even terms with Obamacare?		Brief article	179
Yale University Press--after the usual vetting process, hich drew rave reviews from prominent Muslims--agreed to publish Brandeis professor Jytte Klausen's book The Cartoons That Shook the World, about the Danish caricatures of Mohammed that triggered global Islamist mayhem.		Brief article	174