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Articles in June 8, 2009 issue of National Review
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For the birds
by Kristin K. Freeman -
Putting Specter in his place
by Brad Bettin -
The King and I
by George J. Heideman - This vice-president
- The auto bailout keeps getting weirder: General Motors announced plans to sell itself to the government
- California, its budget a sinkhole, has proposed the most modest of trims$74 million from a program that subsidizes the wages of health-care workers who tend the sick in their homes
- Gil Kerlikowske, the new drug czar, suggests abandoning the phrase "war on drugs."
- The Obama administration has announced that it intends to step up antitrust prosecutions, and the likely targets of opportunity are situated in Silicon Valley
- One of Obama's few genuine non-defense budget cuts is a sharp reduction in funding for the agency that polices "embezzlement from labor organizations, extortionate picketing, deprivation of union members' rights by force or violence, and fraud in uni
- It is a good general rule that any congressional bill named after some victim of a crime or misfortune is a bad bill
- President Obama and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out of their White House meeting smiling and paying the usual compliments to each otherthere was even lip service about a supposed "historic opportunity."
- Obama met with the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan, whose security problems are conjoined
- In the bloodstained history of terrorism, the Tamil Tigers will always have a place, alongside the IRA, the Taliban, the Chechens, and the PLO
- Day after day, week after week, the lights go out in Venezuela
- One of the most aggravating features of Communist life is the loudspeakers: the broadcasting of propaganda over loudspeakers in the streets
- Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is going through an ugly divorce from his wife of 29 years
- Among the 31 colleges of Cambridge University in England are three that admit only women
- Busy days in the world of poetry
- The faculty of Brown University voted to change the name of Columbus Day to something safe: "Fall Weekend."
- In the late Seventies, Farrah Fawcett had the face that launched a thousand fantasies, as a crime-fighting babe in Charlie's Angels and poster girl
- New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd got caught lifting a sentencewith only one tiny changefrom Josh Marshall's left-wing blog, Talking Points Memo
- It's all in your head
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Beyond 'no': as the GOP argues for spending restraint, it should also address the concerns of the middle class
by Ramesh Ponnuru; Richard Lowry -
The Committee to Reinflate the Bubble: the real-estate lobby wants another boombut what about the bust?
by Kevin D. Williamson -
Dunce cap-and-trade: the Waxman-Markey global-warming bill cannot survive cost-benefit analysis
by Jim Manzi -
Performance art and panache: remembering editorial conferences with William F. Buckley Jr
by Richard Brookhiser -
Ask Nancy Pelosi: the Speaker of the House responds to your questions
by Rob Long -
Of beauty and loss
by Tom Shippey -
Postcard from Hubbard Hall
by Joseph Mueller -
The hot seat
by Robert F. Nagel -
Finding Mum and Pup
by Neal B. Freeman -
Shelf life
by Michael Potemra -
Waste watching
by Ross Douthat -
Office romance
by John Derbyshire - Dick Cheney is the madwoman in the attic, the crazy voice that Republicans ought to stifle
- The word "liar" is thrown around too much in our politics, but it is difficult to conclude that the term does not fit Nancy Pelosi
- President Obama gave the commencement speech, and accepted an honorary degree, at Notre Dame
- Over the last 15 years, pollsters have found that the number of Americans who consider themselves "pro-life" rather than "pro-choice" has been slowly increasing
- Since Barack Obama did not have much time to learn before becoming president, he must of necessity learn on the job
- It is becoming a Friday ritualthe weekly announcement of the embarrassing news that yet another Bush national-security policy labeled a war crime or a rule-of-law violation by the Obama campaign has been adopted by the Obama administration
- President Obama cashiered his commanding general in Afghanistan, a stunning move and welcome break from the excessive deference President Bush showed his generals until near the end of his presidency
- Wanda Sykes, yukking it up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, said that Rush Limbaugh's kidneys should fail, and that he needed "a little waterboarding."
- Next year's Senate elections won't be easy for Republicans
- Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has opposed a resolution, scheduled for a vote by RNC members as we went to press, that calls on the Democrats to rename themselves the Democrat Socialist Party
- Utah governor Jon Huntsman, a Republican, will be Obama's ambassador to China
- The magic wand the White House plans on using to control health-care costs is showing signs of malfunction
- Democratic representative Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, unveiled a bill that would create a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions and require utility companies to generate 20 percent of their energy from renewable
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The littlest totalitarian
by Jonah Goldberg - For four months, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian American with dual citizenship, was held in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison
- Masaharu Nakagawa, the financial-affairs spokesman for Japan's opposition Democratic party, elevated eyebrows by suggesting that Japan cease buying U.S. Treasury obligations unless they are "samurai bonds"meaning those denominated in yen i
- Manmohan Singh and his ruling Congress party expanded their margin in India's latest parliamentary elections, which means that the reform-minded economist should be able to liberate himself from the worst of the far-left coalition partners with which poli
- Nicholas Winton is a name that ought to be better known
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Trust the Afghan army: a 'new approach' that will work
by Bing West -
'All the gaps are bridgeable': what a PLO man and an Israeli think of peace between their sides
by Jay Nordlinger -
The parent problem: on the persistent link between family structure and black poverty
by Duncan Currie -
Mitch the knife: at OMB they called him 'The Blade'and now he's taking a scalpel to Indiana's budget
by Mark Hemingway -
The 'enduring majority'again: no, the Democrats will not be in power forever …
by Jay Cost
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