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Articles in June 2, 2008 issue of National Review

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• Cindy McCain refuses to release her tax returns
• For decades Burma has been an impoverished autarchy, ruled by the army
• America is fascinated by Niko Bellic, a blizzard of pixels taking the form of an imaginary immigrant from Eastern Europe, the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto IV
• Undetermined: there is danger in assuming that genes explain all
  by Jill Manzi
• Touring the horizon
  by Thomas P.M. Barnett
• Be not afraid
  by Lester Joe Santos
• The news keeps getting worse for House Republicans
• After Awad al-Qiq was killed in a recent Israeli air strike in Gaza, he was unmasked as the Hannah Montana of the elite U.N.-run Rafah Prep Boys School: popular headmaster and science teacher by day, bomb-maker by night
• In our last issue we alerted you to the death in Baghdad of Staff Sgt. Ronald Blystone, whose image appeared on a 2005 cover of National Review
• 2008 Ad
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Parallel lives
  by Paul Johnson
• O, I wish I was in the land of Karom!
  by R. Graham Daniell
• There are those candidates who make themselves ridiculous by repeatedly running for president: Stassen, Keyes, Buchanan, Nader
• Who governs Lebanon? Since last November, the Lebanese have been trying and failing to elect a president
• "How small of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure."
• Beneath the hope: Obama and the politics of grievance
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Chinese rug
  by Len Krisak
• You read us right
  by Clinton Braganza
• Congress is debating a $178 billion supplemental-spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
• In October 2000 the destroyer U.S.S. Cole was attacked and damaged by two suicide bombers in a plot hatched by al-Qaeda
• Obama victorious
• AFTRA—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists/News Division Mental Health Clinic—therapist's notes
  by Rob Long
• More than hustlers
  by Jay Winik
• Hillary Clinton says she is winning the votes of "hardworking Americans."
• Ward Connerly once envisioned sponsoring ballot referenda to end racial preferences in five states this November, just as he has done previously in California, Michigan, and Washington
• The Muslim world does not seem to suffer from those tiresome conflicts between science and religion that have vexed Christendom these past 400 years
• Do nothing, congress
• Stark mad
  by Ross Douthat
• Turning the tide
  by Richard V. Allen
• You would think, from the cartoons and the commentary, that Clinton had revived the politics of the young Robert Byrd
• In most of the country, Catholic education is in retreat as sparser attendance and higher costs force parishes to shutter schools
• Zimbabwean junta head honcho Robert Mugabe has slithered into a runoff election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
• Sixty years of success
• New every morning
  by John Derbyshire
• McCain assailed activist judges, saying that his judicial appointees would interpret the law rather than make it
• Michael Antonovich, conservative Republican member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, has issued yet another of his analyses of the county's Department of Public Social Services figures
• Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, the colorful president of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006, got everyone's attention by giving his nation's calendar a makeover, renaming the months and days after himself, his mother, and various historical figures he favored
• A heap of troubles: and how John McCain should try to surmount them
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• McCain reiterated his support for a "cap and trade" approach to global warming
• Two hundred-plus people blocked traffic in six spots in New York City to protest the acquittal of the detectives who shot Sean Bell, and were briefly arrested
• Boris Johnson is already a celebrity known to most British people by his first name only
• Obama's white problem: it could cling to him all the way to November
  by Byron York
• Environmentalists have sued to get the Interior Department to list the polar bear as an endangered species
• A 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana voter-identification law
• Where have we heard this story before?
• Transgenic travesty: genetically modified crops could help poor farmers—if rich Western greens allowed it
  by Fred Schwarz
• 'Writing is a spiritual process': the novels—and ideas—of Dean Koontz
  by John J. Miller
• McCain's health-care plan would make health insurance affordable for the first time for millions of Americans, by eliminating tax penalties on and regulatory obstacles to the purchase of insurance by individuals
• Scare tacticians
  by Jonah Goldberg
• We extend our congratulations to Mrs. Michelle Duggar of Tontitown, Ark., who has learned that she is expecting her 18th child
• Filth matters: the moral squalor of Hollywood
  by Jonah Goldberg