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Articles in August 18, 2008 issue of National Review

• Clarification
• The New York Times published an op-ed on Iraq by Barack Obama
• These past 13 years, everyone has been looking for Radovan Karadzic
• The Rev. Kevin P. Fitzpatrick, S.T.D., who died suddenly on July 20 at the age of 52, was one of the most important people in Bill Buckley's life from the late 1980s until February 27, 2008, the day Bill died
• Books do furnish …
  by Tracy Lee Simmons
• Not so swift
  by Lawrence A. Post
• One state chapter of the ACLU is bucking the national organization on guns: "The ACLU of Nevada will defend this right as it defends other constitutional rights."
• PBS anchor Jim Lehrer told MarketWatch.com that he doesn't think the press leans on the side of Barack Obama
• The founder of our magazine, William F. Buckley Jr., hardly ever wanted America to imitate Europe
• 'Hear Me, Earthlings!': citizen Obama addresses the world
  by Jonah Goldberg
• A grammar of ascent
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• McCain says young people should be allowed to invest some of their Social Security funds, and he wants a bipartisan group to figure out how to make the program solvent
• Zimbabwe's currency has long been literally worth less than the paper it's printed on
• Drill, don't redistribute
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Egyptian officials get very huffy when you describe the Egyptian government as a dictatorship, even a "presidential dictatorship."
• Citizen Obama
• Fiction abandoned
  by M. D. Aeschliman
• McCain knows whom to blame for the subprime-lending crisis, and he has found him just where Frank Capra would have told him to look
• One of Alaska senator Ted Stevens's most memorable moments in the last few years came during the Senate fight over the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere."
• Uncharitable Catholics
  by George Jochnowitz
• Ward Connerly is trying to put an initiative on Arizona's ballot to ban racial preferences in state contracting, employment, and university admissions
• During the upcoming Democratic convention, homeless residents of Denver will be given bus tokens as well as tickets to movies, the zoo, and museums—all located at conveniently great distance from the convention center
• The Secret history of John Edwards: is a scandal a scandal if no one reports it?
  by Byron York
• Walpurgisnacht
  by Richard O'Connell
• Let's see if we've got this straight: Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats want to enact another "economic-stimulus package," yet they remain opposed to long-term tax relief
• San Francisco liberals are amusing themselves: They have proposed to name a sewage plant after George W. Bush
• Obama shot a three-pointer
• The Supreme Court, in the Boumediene case, invented a constitutional right for our alien enemies to challenge their detention in federal court
• Al Sharpton has fastened on one of the nastiest and least-known aspects of the Cuban regime, and good for him
• The toughest fight: Sen. John Sununu's travails in the Granite State
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Too many rules
  by Ross Douthat
• 2008 Ad
• 2008 Ad
  by Rob Long
• A reader of ours spotted a bumper sticker: "Faith … Hope … Obama."
• When the Supreme Court handed down District of Columbia v. Heller in June, it looked like curtains for the capital's draconian gun laws
• There are a few things in this world that truly live up to their reputations for excellence: a .44 Magnum, a convertible Ferrari, Pavarotti hitting a high C, the United States Marine Corps
• Communion no more: as Anglicanism's transcontinental unraveling continues
  by Travis Kavulla
• The age thing
  by Christopher Buckley
• It can be hard to retire, especially for politicians who have tasted power
• A call, and an answer: two recent Dartmouth grads explain why they joined the Marines
• President Bush abandoned his veto threat and signed a housing bill that offers a federal bailout to the lenders and borrowers who helped inflate the housing bubble and now find themselves struggling to stay afloat
• The 1972 federal law popularly known as Title IX forbids sexual discrimination "under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
• One of the leading scientific conundrums of our time is the Great Silence—the utter absence of any sign of intelligent life beyond our own planet
• Uribe to the rescue: Colombia's president is winning the battle for his country's future
  by Otto Reich
• Leaving in peace
• Wrong then, too: let's not repeat Jimmy Carter's energy mistakes
  by Jerry Taylor
• Acts of mercy
  by Richard Brookhiser
• With gas at $4 a gallon, plenty of people are announcing that they have the scheme to save us further pain
• General Motors is not too big to fail: it's just the right size
• A factional battle involving as many as 300 combatants left several injured but resulted in no fatalities
• Facial politics
  by Florence King
• Inside job: how Fannie and Freddie got away with it
  by Stephen Spruiell
• Tilting we will Go? Windmills are not an energy policy
  by William Tucker
• Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke talked tough about inflation during his two-day testimony before Congress
• Some people, Senate majority leader Harry Reid says, "you cannot negotiate with."
• The fashion among certain young males is to wear pants low and baggy, with colorful underwear on display
• Right from the start
  by Nelson Lund
• Merci beaucoup, Barack: on the matter of Americans and foreign languages
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Barack Obama took note of our cover story about his wife , citing it, in an interview with Glamour, as an instance of "the erosion of civility in our political culture."
• 2008 Ad
• Bob Novak, the renowned conservative columnist, has a brain tumor
• The Last Laugh?
  by Zack Munson
• Help!!!!