Recently added articles from National Review:
Smile.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 02, 2009; Sterling, Robert ... The Straggler (the always entertaining John Derbyshire) makes a strong argument for the celebration of the 18th century ("The Glorious Eighteenth," October 19). But P. J. O'Rourke had a wise and ready rejoinder for anyone who looks back upon the olden days with too much ...
Fight.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 02, 2009; Draksler, Chuck ... My compliments to Mark Steyn on his article about the September 12 march in Washington ("Right Turn on Main Street," October 5). The people who showed up represent millions of us who view the president's policies as a threat to our liberty and are tired of the way some in the Republican ...
Approximating the Essence of Romney.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 02, 2009; Saylor, Andy ... Ramesh Ponnuru's cogent analysis of how Mitt Romney could position himself for 2012 ("Romney Reboots," October 19) was lulling me into taking a Romney candidacy seriously until it hit me: That's the problem. It's all about positioning himself, reinventing himself. And there's the rub ....
Our advice to Obama.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Our advice to Obama: Take that ...
The news of President Obama's Nobel wiped out the news of his failure to persuade the International Olympic Committee to pick Chicago as the site of the 2016 summer games.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... The news of President Obama's Nobel wiped out the news of his failure to persuade the International Olympic Committee to pick Chicago as the site of the 2016 summer games. Lucky man: His Olympic push was unseemly, for three reasons. It is hackish for a president to plug his hometown (Obama ...
Far be it from us to complain about a little Deaverism: the use of stagecraft in politics, even in governance.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Far be it from us to complain about a little Deaverism: the use of stagecraft in politics, even in governance. The best do it. But President Obama and his team were awfully brazen when they staged an event on the White House lawn to promote the president's health-care ideas. They invited a ...
Once or twice a year there erupts a story that the oil sheiks or the ChiComs are plotting to dump the dollar as the go-to currency for oil trading or foreign reserves.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Once or twice a year there erupts a story that the oil sheiks or the ChiComs are plotting to dump the dollar as the go-to currency for oil trading or foreign reserves. October's installment came in the form of a breathless dispatch from the Independent's unreliable Robert Fisk, who does ...
"I will end 'don't ask, don't tell,'" President Obama told the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights lobbying group, though he did not tell them when.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... "I will end 'don't ask, don't tell,'" President Obama told the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights lobbying group, though he did not tell them when. His hesitation is merely prudent, but why does the policy exist? Congress has declared that gays should not serve in the military; "don't ...
Jon Corzine, the Democratic governor of New Jersey, is deeply unpopular, and rich. His money has funded ad after ad savaging his opponent, Republican Chris Christie.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Jon Corzine, the Democratic governor of New Jersey, is deeply unpopular, and rich. His money has funded ad after ad savaging his opponent, Republican Chris Christie. (The latest goes after Christie for being fat.) Corzine's numbers have inched up, but Christie's have dropped--and a ...
Marco Rubio, the Florida conservative who is running for Senate, is not going to raise as much money as his primary rival, Gov. Charlie Crist.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Marco Rubio, the Florida conservative who is running for Senate, is not going to raise as much money as his primary rival, Gov. Charlie Crist. But Rubio does not need to match Crist with money. He merely needs to raise enough money to inform Florida Republicans that he ...
Congress apparently has given up on the idea of securing the U.S.-Mexico border with a fence, having excised money for the project from a recent appropriations bill.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Congress apparently has given up on the idea of securing the U.S.-Mexico border with a fence, having excised money for the project from a recent appropriations bill. Washington was never very serious about fencing off the ...
Citigroup has unloaded its proprietary trading division, Phibro, for a song: $250 million for a business with an average annual net income of $372 million.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Citigroup has unloaded its proprietary trading division, Phibro, for a song: $250 million for a business with an average annual net income of $372 million. Have these bankers lost the ability to do basic math? No, but they probably have lost count of the number of members of Congress and ...
The Federal Trade Commission has embarked upon a daft assault on free speech, specifically social-media users' endorsement of products or businesses.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... The Federal Trade Commission has embarked upon a daft assault on free speech, specifically social-media users' endorsement of products or businesses. The FTC has propounded rules that will impose fines of up to $11,000 on bloggers, Facebook users, or Twitter tweeters (for whom surely we ...
Wait for patients to die before taking their organs, and the organs won't be as fresh.(The Week)(Interview)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Wait for patients to die before taking their organs, and the organs won't be as fresh. Let doctors take the organs from living patients--even if it means causing them to die a little faster than they otherwise would--and the supply of usable organs will go up. Some other patient will get a ...
"What does good health mean to you?" the magazine Prevention asked Michelle Obama.(The Week)(Interview)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... "What does good health mean to you?" the magazine Prevention asked Michelle Obama. "Throughout my life," she replied, "I've learned to make choices that make me happy and make sense for me. Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. ... So I have freed myself to put me on the priority list ...
In a C-SPAN interview, Justice Antonin Scalia expressed his disappointment that "so many of the best minds in the country" are devoted to lawyering.(The Week)(Interview)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... In a C-SPAN interview, Justice Antonin Scalia expressed his disappointment that "so many of the best minds in the country" are devoted to lawyering. He will see an attorney "from Podunk," a woman who is "really brilliant." And he'll wonder, "Why isn't she out inventing the automobile or, ...
This could take a while.(The Week)(nuclear facilities negotiations)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... This could take a while. The Obama administration opened talks with Iran that predictably issued in an agreement to talk more. It obviously serves Iran's interests to stretch out the negotiations and forestall new sanctions. The news from the first meeting was that Iran agreed in principle ...
Remember the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran?(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... Remember the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran? It was a cruise missile fired by an intellectually dishonest State Department bureaucracy into the heart of George W. Bush's Iran policy. In a footnote, the authors very cleverly defined the term "nuclear-weapons program" to refer ...
Youth tax.(Viewpoint essay)
Nov 02, 2009; Goldberg, Jonah ... ANYONE who has had the misfortune of reading my work over the years knows that I think youth politics is lamer than ... than something the kids today think is really lame. What would that be? I have no idea. Grunge? Foreplay? Carbon emissions? Well, as those of my age cohort ...
As we noted in our last issue, the nonpartisan Law Library of Congress (LLC) has published a report affirming that Manuel Zelaya's removal from the Honduran presidency was lawful and constitutional, even if his subsequent deportation to Costa Rica was not.(The Week)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... As we noted in our last issue, the nonpartisan Law Library of Congress (LLC) has published a report affirming that Manuel Zelaya's removal from the Honduran presidency was lawful and constitutional, even if his subsequent deportation to Costa Rica was not. Notwithstanding the LLC's ...
