Recently added articles from National Review:
Specifically intended.(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Although I often agree with Andrew C. McCarthy on the issue of terrorist detainees, I believe he is mistaken in his accusation of hypocrisy against the Obama administration on the issue of torture and "specific intent" ("Torture Is a State of Mind," May 25). McCarthy first ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Jun 22, 2009 ... We apologize for an editing error in Tom Shippey's essay "Of Beauty and Loss" (June 8). Apassage in the printed version asserts that Tolkien "was mesmerized by Norse, which was well-preserved in Finland: The complete lack of literary tradition in that country meant ...
But it worked.(The Week)
Jun 22, 2009 ... But it worked ...
Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita abortionist, was shot and killed at his church on a Sunday, in the presence of his wife.(The Week)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita abortionist, was shot and killed at his church on a Sunday, in the presence of his wife. The prolife movement almost unanimously condemned the deed. The abatement of anti-abortion lawlessness--murders, bombings, mob scenes at abortion mills--has contributed to ...
Government Motors?(The Week)(General Motors Corp.)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Government Motors? The name has the proper initials, but the connotation is imprecise. It implies that GM became a government-run company only when the feds acquired a 60 percent stake in it as a result of its bankruptcy filing. In fact, Detroit has been a ...
Ted Olson, President Bush's solicitor general and a Federalist Society mainstay, has found a new legal cause: same-sex marriage, which he believes the Constitution requires all states to recognize.(The Week)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Ted Olson, President Bush's solicitor general and a Federalist Society mainstay, has found a new legal cause: same-sex marriage, which he believes the Constitution requires all states to recognize. He has filed a lawsuit to that effect in federal court with David Boies, his nemesis from ...
The Obama administration's fiscal incontinence has awakened the "bond vigilantes," investors around the world who are driving up the yields on ten-year Treasuries.(The Week)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... The Obama administration's fiscal incontinence has awakened the "bond vigilantes," investors around the world who are driving up the yields on ten-year Treasuries. They are doing this because they calculate, not without reason, that the current spending spree will aggravate inflation, ...
In his speech at the National Archives, President Obama indulged his penchant for rebuking his predecessor even while adopting his counterterrorism policies.(The Week)(Barack Obama and George W. Bush)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... In his speech at the National Archives, President Obama indulged his penchant for rebuking his predecessor even while adopting his counterterrorism policies. The president decried Bush's policies as an "ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor ...
The timing was regrettable (or fortunate, depending on your perspective).(The Week)(Muslim men charged of terrorist conspiracy )(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... The timing was regrettable (or fortunate, depending on your perspective), but just as President Obama, in his National Archives speech, broached the possibility of transferring terrorist detainees to U.S. prisons in order to achieve his goal of closing Gitmo by year's end, the FBI in New ...
Recession blues.(economic conditions affect presidential elections )
Jun 22, 2009; ... YALE economist Ray Fair has studied the impact of the economy on presidential elections and found that bad economies tend to hurt incumbent parties. Republicans, still smarting from the wounds of last November, know exactly how that process works. Democrats successfully convinced voters ...
Jon Corzine's governorship of New Jersey has veered from one crash to another (sometimes literally, as when his state-trooper-driven SUV hit a guardrail going 90 miles an hour).(The Week)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jon Corzine's governorship of New Jersey has veered from one crash to another (sometimes literally, as when his state-trooper-driven SUV hit a guardrail going 90 miles an hour). As he runs for reelection, he seems eager to change the subject from his ...
California has historically been a good place to start a tax revolt.(The Week)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... California has historically been a good place to start a tax revolt. The 1978 passage of Proposition 13, which capped property taxes and contained language requiring a two-thirds majority for any tax increase, prompted similar measures in other states and heralded the ascendancy of Ronald ...
Sen. Roland Burris (D., Ill.) wants you to know that he did not pay for his seat, and he didn't, but is that enough?(political corruption investigated)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Sen. Roland Burris (D., Ill.) wants you to know that he did not pay for his seat, and he didn't, but is that enough? Burris was taped by feds investigating former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (who has since been indicted) on corruption charges. The aspiring solon had a seven-minute ...
Maryland has discovered that you can try to soak the rich, but the rich know how to swim across the Potomac.(Maryland's tax policy)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Maryland has discovered that you can try to soak the rich, but the rich know how to swim across the Potomac. Faced with a budget shortfall, Maryland's state legislators enacted a higher tax bracket for millionaires--6.25 percent on top of federal and local taxes. One-third of ...
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that America's out-of-wedlock birthrate hit a record high in 2007, when nearly 40 percent of all births were to unmarried women.(The Week)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that America's out-of-wedlock birthrate hit a record high in 2007, when nearly 40 percent of all births were to unmarried women. In 2002, the rate was about 33 percent. The recent increase has been particularly sharp among Hispanics, ...
The Obama Justice Department filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to let stand a ruling that denies 17 Uighurs--Muslims from Chinese Turkestan--a right to be released into the United States.(President Barack Obama's social policy )(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... The Obama Justice Department filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to let stand a ruling that denies 17 Uighurs--Muslims from Chinese Turkestan--a right to be released into the United States. Human-rights activists howled that Obama was betraying his commitment to close Gitmo by year's ...
Career prosecutors at the Justice Department went after some Obama supporters in the New Black Panther Party following shocking allegations that those supporters had intimidated voters with threats, racial epithets, and a nightstick.(The Week)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Career prosecutors at the Justice Department went after some Obama supporters in the New Black Panther Party following shocking allegations that those supporters had intimidated voters with threats, racial epithets, and a nightstick. The Washington Times reported that Justice even secured ...
"We expected broken promises," writes Ted Rall, left-wing cartoonist.(President Barack Obama evaluated)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... "We expected broken promises," writes Ted Rall, left-wing cartoonist. "But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama's inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory." Rall cites a number of examples, from not ...
"From behind a burning bus barricade Saturday night comes the gunfire of soldiers advancing toward Tiananmen Square.".(1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre)
Jun 22, 2009 ... "From behind a burning bus barricade Saturday night comes the gunfire of soldiers advancing toward Tiananmen Square." So 20 years ago Claudia Rosett of the Wall Street Journal began her account of what is now remembered in China as "June 4." "People snatch up bricks and bottles, their only ...
North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon and test-fired long-range missiles, shattering more than two years of U.S.-led diplomacy.(The Week)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009 ... North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon and test-fired long-range missiles, shattering more than two years of U.S.-led diplomacy. This was Pyongyang's second nuclear test; the first occurred in October 2006. The Bush administration responded to that first blast by softening its approach to ...