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Articles in August 4, 2008 issue of National Review

• Divisive optimism
  by Richard M. Langworth
• Dismal arithmetic
  by Lois A. Hand
• Sounds of Babel
  by David C. Cowen
• On the other hand, Reverend Jackson
• Help!
• Swimming pool
  by William Baer
• John McCain's economic plan heavily emphasizes growth, competitiveness, investment, and spending restraint
• Jesse Helms, R.I.P
• Kick saves in St. Paul: but can Tim Pawlenty put a puck in the naval observatory?
  by John J. Miller
• Bench marks: sizing up McCain on judges
  by Byron York
• Enforcement at work: the strategy of attrition is bearing fruit
  by Mark Krikorian
• Hell on a tarmac: it's time to address airport congestion
  by Robert Verbruggen
• Right song, wrong place: 'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' makes the news
  by Jay Nordlinger
• One-Nation Conservatism
  by Fred Siegel
• Still the one
  by John Hillen
• The right remedies
  by Richard Nadler
• The enemy speaks
  by Michael Potemra
• In praise of drabness
  by Terry Teachout
• A computer, not a divider
  by Ross Douthat
• VP questionnaire
  by Christopher Buckley
• Phil Gramm, a top adviser to McCain, said that we are in a "mental recession," not a real one, and that "we have sort of become a nation of whiners."
• Teetering on the edge of another "flip-flop," this time on the Iraq War, Barack Obama reaffirmed his support for a 16-month timetable for withdrawal
• Obama has released his first two national television ads
• Obama said that Americans should worry more about whether their own kids learn Spanish than about whether immigrants' kids learn English
• For a brief moment, it appeared that Obama might be moderating on abortion
• "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national-security objectives we've set," Obama proclaimed in a recent speech
• In a TV interview, Barack Obama's children, ages ten and seven, revealed something about their dad: He doesn't like ice cream
• Jesse Jackson confided to a hot mike the kind of thought that every politician harbors about at least some of his peers
• Have you ever said anything critical of Obama? Shame on you
• The U.S. government's implicit guarantee of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac appears to have finally come due
• President Bush signed a surveillance-reform bill that the Democrat-controlled Congress, after a shamefully acrimonious three-year onslaught, passed overwhelmingly
• Ahmad Batebi is one of the most famous of Iranian dissidents, known to the world ever since The Economist published his picture on its cover, in 1999
• Vice trade
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The Bush administration decided to remove North Korea from its list of terror sponsors, and to lift some economic sanctions against it, in return for details about the plutonium it acquired from the now-shut-down Yongbyon reactor
• 2008 Ad
• The U.S.-India nuclear-technology accord is barely news in Washington but dominates the headlines in New Delhi, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh risked the collapse of his government trying to hammer through the accord before George W. Bush hangs up hi
• The United Nations Security Council has rejected a resolution by the U.S. and the U.K. to impose tougher sanctions on Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe these past 20 years, and key members of his government
• Ingrid Betancourt's ordeal is finally over
• Tayside is in Scotland, and its police put out an advertisement for a new telephone number, attracting attention by showing a police cap with a German Shepherd puppy sitting on it
• A black hole is an object—commonly a collapsed star—so dense that even light cannot escape its gravitational field
• When the public-works department of the city of Atlanta needed to dig up a street or erect a utility pole, they put out orange signs with black lettering saying "Men At Work" or "Men Working Ahead."
• The practice of text messaging on cellphones has added some new abbreviations to the language, not all of them welcome to fastidious users of the English language
• The law, business, and economics faculties at the University of Chicago had a bright idea—actually, a rather obvious one
• David H. Koch is a businessman, billionaire, and doer of good deeds
• Sir John Templeton was one of the world's great stock pickers
• Back in April 2006, the White House desperately needed Tony Snow
• A right restored
• When Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige drew up his "Rules for Staying Young," the first item on the list was "Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood."
• We admired President Bush's 2003 initiative to invest $15 billion to prevent and treat AIDS in Africa
• Hamilton warned against "the propensity of the legislative department to intrude upon the rights, and to absorb the powers, of the other departments."
• The Supreme Court, in holding the death penalty for child rape unconstitutional, found a supposed national consensus against it
• Iranian TV has been delivering to its viewers a documentary series on Hollywood—Jewish-Zionist domination of
• On July 8, the Czech Republic agreed to participate in a missile-defense system with the United States
• Patricia Buckley Bozell was the seventh of the Buckley children and, as WFB put it, the one with whom he was "paired from infancy."
• Tyranny by camera: some thoughts on a pestiferous swarm
  by Rob Long
• Lost generation: adoption in America has collapsed; here's what to do about it
  by Kevin D. Williamson
• Game plan: should McCain care to win …
  by Richard Lowry
• Other half-read open-microphone apologies …
  by Rob Long
• Distant voices
  by John Derbyshire