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Articles in June 16, 2008 issue of National Review

• One of them
  by Michael Knox Beran
• Lt. Gen. Franklin "Buster" Hagenbeck, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, has decided to gender-neutralize the lyrics of West Point's two most hallowed songs, the alma mater and "The Corps"
• The villain of the summer blockbuster this year is Rep. Collin Peterson, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Agriculture Committee
• A safe Labour seat in the north of England has been captured in a by-election by the Conservatives in spectacular fashion
• One big step forward, two small steps back for school choice
• Two decades late: a post—Cold War military for a post—Cold War world
  by Frederick W. Kagan
• Against the cartel: how to reform higher education
  by John Hood
• Gathering storm
  by Bruce S. Thornton
• In the mid-1980s, something peculiar happened: the U.S. acquired a "poet laureate"
• Most Americans can agree that veterans should have more education benefits
• Entrepreneurial exceptionalism
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Senator Obama blames Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs for doubling the number of hate crimes against Hispanics: "there's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year," Obama proclaimed, before naming the two commentators
• Proposal
  by Jennifer Reeser
• 2008 Ad
• Congress hauled in the oil executives to justify their outrageous habit of maximizing profits rather than setting prices charitably
• It is not every day we agree with an International Herald Tribune editorial, but we must hail one the paper had about Frank-Walter Steinmeier
• Wilson & Sterling, Attorneys at Law: in re: Clinton/Clinton continuation of marriage agreement 2000, and addenda
  by Rob Long
• Phone purgatory
  by Richard Brookhiser
• War and indecision
  by Bing West
• The Houston Rodeo is the biggest in the world
• The Interior Department decided, mostly on the basis of speculation, that global warming is threatening the polar bear
• The surrender of Nelly Avila Moreno, a top commander in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , is yet another milestone in Colombian president Alvaro Uribe's remarkable campaign against the leftist guerrilla group
• Sen. Edward Kennedy's diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor produced an outpouring of tributes
• 'Ask Michelle,' continued
  by Good Ol'Boy
• Linda Douglass is leaving the media to take up a post in the Obama campaign
• Leo ex machina
  by Ross Douthat
• Rejoice, ladies and gentlemen: there is a new magazine in Britain called Standpoint
• In a refreshingly lopsided 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court has upheld a federal law against child pornography
• Changes are afoot in Saudi Arabia, and they are changes for the good
• Lion in winter: why Teddy ran
  by Michael Knox Beran
• What keeps Barack Obama up at night?
• Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's campaign director and White House chief of staff, was a political animal as sharp as he was indefatigable
• On May 13, Elaine Chao became the longest-serving labor secretary since the Second World War
• You'd better not shout, you'd better not cry, and you'd certainly better not engage in "profiling" or "hate speech": the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intoleranc
• Two of a kind: on the friendship—and political alliance—of Lindsey Graham and John McCain
  by John J. Miller
• "Public service" is a slippery term that might refer to anything from heroic deeds by military personnel to make-work paper shuffling in pointless federal bureaucracies
• Dismaying distractions
• A Texas appeals court ruled that the state's child-protective-services agency failed to show that the children of schismatic Mormon polygamists seized in a massive April raid were in "immediate" or "urgent" danger to "physical hea
• Dull gray euphemism
  by Florence King
• Back at the altar: same-sex marriage returns to politics
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• George Packer, writing in The New Yorker, reports that conservatives are divided and discouraged
• All talk
• When Gen. David Petraeus testified before Congress in April about Iraq, Democrats hammered what then seemed a botched Iraqi-government offensive against Shiite militias in Basra
• Help!!!!
• Some mandate: in the popular vote, the inevitable candidate is hardly that
  by Byron York
• President Bush recently drew attention to a dog not barking: he has not played golf since 2003
• I am not depraved
  by Lenora C. O'Toole
• Marital strife
• Hezbollah may have overplayed its hand by provoking a confrontation with Israel in 2006, but since then it has been running rings around the United States and the United Nations, acting as Iran's proxy army in Lebanon
• Wilmer, Patton: in re: Clinton/Clinton continuation of marriage agreement 2000, and addenda
  by Rob Long
• Bush speaks: the president does Davos
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Happy days
  by Lee Edwards
• What has just happened to Lenny Woodward is a symptom of something gone wrong in the England where he lives
• 2008 Ad
• The Law Offices of Michelle Obama: in re: letter dated 27 MAY 2008
  by Rob Long
• Drawing upon substantial support from congressional Republicans, the House and Senate overrode President Bush's veto of the farm bill, thereby enacting an expansion of farm subsidies at a time when high food prices have sent farm incomes 51 percent higher
• "We won the recount, and they won the movie," says Republican lawyer Ben Ginsberg of the new HBO picture Recount
• Nuclear power? Yes, please
  by Iain Murray