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Articles in Sept 1, 2008 issue of National Review

• On the shelf
  by John Derbyshire
• Tales of Waugh
  by Ross Douthat
• Giant
  by Christopher Buckley
• Scenes of intimacy
  by Michael Knox Beran
• Staying power
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Night Wind
  by William W. Runyeon
• Schedule changes for the democratic convention
  by Rob Long
• Hero of a dark century
  by Daniel J. Mahoney
• Help!
• Schedule changes for the republican convention
  by Rob Long
• Who is Barack Obama? His autobiography paints a disturbing picture
  by Michael Gledhill
• Soldier for Stroger: the candidate of change helped keep Chicago politics dirty
  by David Freddoso
• Senator stealth: how to advance radical causes when no one's looking
  by Stanley Kurtz
• Not ready for prime time: when you act too cool to be president …
  by Rob Long
• Meandering toward disaster: the perils of making a left-wing ideologue commander-in-chief
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• Life opportunities: why McCain shouldn't run away from the abortion issue
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Quota quest: of Obama's vulnerability on racial preferences
  by John J. Miller
• Dr. Obama's prescription: it isn't one we should want to take
  by James Capretta
• Wicca economics: the theory with a magic leader
  by John Hood
• Peter Rodman, R.I.P
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P
• Caucasus Belli
• In the early 1970s, when John M. Olin wanted to turn his private foundation into the powerful underwriter of ideas that it would become, he summoned Frank O'Connell to his office
• Anne Armstrong, who died on July 30 at age 80, was a long-time Republican leader and adviser to presidents from Richard Nixon to George H. W. Bush
• Some years ago we quipped that if a tornado were ever to pass through Manhattan, the New York Times headline on the story would include: "Blacks and Hispanics Hardest Hit."
• Climate-change hysteria is at least offering endless opportunities for entrepreneurship
• The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union recently negotiated a new five-year contract at the Tyson Foods poultry-processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn
• Social scientists in Britain have conducted a survey of attitudes toward Islam among the nation's university students
• The social benefits of pet ownership are manifold
• The left wing of the Democratic party still holds up Canada's "single payer"—that is, entirely government-financed—health-care system as a model
• The resignation of prime minister Ehud Olmert has gladdened most Israelis
• Pakistan has always been a dictatorship masquerading as a democracy, and right now this equivocal country is very troubling
• 2008 Ad
• How high-minded of Moqtada al-Sadr
• Some observers—most notably, Reason magazine's Radley Balko—have long been documenting U.S. police forces' increasingly militaristic approach to the drug war
• Idle youth vote
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick just can't stay out of trouble
• Determined to end its troubled anthrax investigation, the Justice Department held a press conference to identify Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the Army's infectious-diseases laboratory in Maryland, as the lone culprit
• A military-commission trial finally took place
• At a campaign stop in St. Cloud, Democratic-Farmer-Labor party candidate Al Franken
• Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, top McCain advisers, proposed legislation to counter the worst excesses of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling, which gave enemy combatants a constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court
• Pelosi has clearly been feeling the pressure, and has recently said that she might allow a vote on drilling after all
• In the first week following its publication, Know Your Power, by Speaker Pelosi, sold all of 2,737 copies
• After the House adjourned for summer recess without voting on an energy bill, half a dozen Republicans stayed in the empty chamber, razzing the majority and calling for offshore drilling
• According to the latest official statistics, the economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the last quarter of last year, then grew by 0.9 percent and 1.9 percent in the first two quarters of this one
• Question: what's the difference between MoveOn.org and a mob protection racket?
• Since Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign began to sputter, way back when, the Democratic political class has been fixated on the infighting and internal rivalries that plagued the effort
• John Edwards's confession that he had an affair with former campaign videographer Rielle Hunter was front-page news, and possible holes in his story—he denied fathering Hunter's out-of-wedlock child, saying he would take "any test necessary"
• McCain showed off his "populist" side in a recent ad
• Don't try this at home, guys
• What began as a trivial and unedifying sally in the presidential campaign became something more
• So you're selling my baby
  by Herbert W. Stupp
• Correction