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Articles in May 19, 2008, issue of National Review
- In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi became prime minister for the third time
- If in recent weeks the entire male population of Congo have looked like soccer players defending a free kick, the reason lies in widespread rumors of penis snatchers: sorcerers who, with a single touch, can shrink said appendage or make it non-functional
- The wrong stuff
by Midge Decter
- Well, he's no longer clinging
- Auto-immune diversity syndrome: that from which the democrats suffer
by Noemie Emery
- States of recession
by Kevin A. Hassett
- Since taking over Cuba from his infirm brother Fidel, Raul Castro has swept away many of the old regime's restrictions
- Stuck in the big ditch
by Gerard Alexander
- An anonymous report of sexual abuse set off a raid of a polygamous sect in Texas
- After Gitmo: we urgently need a new system for war on terror detainees
by Andrew C. McCarthy
- For Che Guevara, the lovin' never stops
- Pope Benedict XVI concluded his trip to these shores by meeting with five victims of priestly sexual abuse and addressing the United Nations
- In Atlanta, a superior-court judge, Marvin Arrington, wanted to give black defendants a dressing-downwithout the presence of white people
- Inside story: the truth about consciousness continues to elude us
by John Derbyshire
- The case of Robert Mugabe, 84 years old and still monstrously eager to wreck Zimbabwe, illuminates the dilemma of many a dictator
- It's now a vast two-winged conspiracy: an expose of Hillary Rodham Clinton's extremist roots has appeared not in National Review but in The Nation
- Not weak enough
- Lesley Stahl interviewed Justice Antonin Scalia for 60 Minutes
- Has Robert Downey Jr. joined playwright David Mamet in embracing the love that dare not speak its namethe love of liberty, order, and personal responsibilityyou know, conservatism?
- The big leagues
by Richard Brookhiser
- When it agreed last September to take up Baze v. Rees, a challenge to the constitutionality of lethal injection, the Supreme Court effectively imposed a national moratorium on the death penalty
- The trial of three detectives responsible for the death of Sean Bell, a young black man killed during a confusing run-in outside a Queens strip club after his bachelor party, ended with the acquittal of all three
- On the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, the author and screenwriter Nora Ephron wrote in the Huffington Post: "This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women
- Hungry for ethanol
- Miley Cyrus is a 15-year-old girl whose alter ego, Hannah Montana, "is" a rock star
- Staff Sgt. Ronald C. Blystone, of the 4th Infantry Division, died patrolling Baghdad on his third tour in Iraq
- Plan for a century
by Victor Davis Hanson
- John McCain visited New Orleans on what was billed as a tour of "forgotten places"places forgotten by America, and by the GOP
- Senator empirical: Bob Corker takes on climate change
by Ramesh Ponnuru
- If Barack Obama wants to understand the rural working class, he should get a pair of Truck Nutz
- Sub-prime history
by John McClaughry
- President Bush's North Korea policy is in disarray
- Toast
by Stephane Mallarme
- North Carolina Republicans ran an ad zinging Obama for his association with Jeremiah Wright
- Bitter is better: for Hillary, that is
by Byron York
- The incomparable Kate O'Beirne is changing jobsbut, fortunately, she will still be within shouting distance
- Telescope of a conservative, continued
by John Kelley
- Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri does the propaganda nowadays for al-Qaeda, and he has found the modern way to keep alive his movement's fantasy of global supremacy
- Population bombing
by Phillip Longman
- John McCain has proposed suspending the federal gas tax for the summer
- A curious kind of friendship: Barack Obama's dubious record on Israel
by Mark Hemingway
- The examined gesture
by Florence King
- Hillary Clinton is joining in for a chorus of "Bomb, Bomb Iran."
- So Jimmy Carter had his meeting with Hamas in Syria
- If personnel is policy, President Bush couldn't have done better than the new jobs he has given Gens
- Official transcript Larry King Live, July 29, 2008
by Rob Long
- Birth dearth
by Ross Douthat
- O to be superior! The ObamaHeads project their bitterness
by Rob Long
- The hopeless pastor
- Clare Short, of Britain's Labour party, is a longtime member of Parliament
- Gun-rights supporters are eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in D.C. v. Heller
- Help!!!!
- Unsafe at legal weight
by David W. Almasi
- 'Context,' you say? A guide to the radical theology of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
by Stanley Kurtz