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Articles in June 30, 2008, issue of National Review

• The most entertaining showbiz spat of the past few weeks has concerned Clint Eastwood's recent movie Flags of Our Fathers
• Getting our Phil: smearing Phil Gramm
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• This is a great country
• The city of Minneapolis made an odd move recently, restricting vehicle-idling time to three minutes in the name of the environment
• Bethesda Mental Health Clinic: therapist's notes
  by Rob Long
• A predictable feature of any election season is the left-wing celebrity who vows to quit the U.S.A. if a Republican should become president
• Lakoff the Baptist: how a liberal strategist predicted Obama's rise
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Looks like you can disown your family
• Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda operatives were arraigned at Guantanamo Bay on charges of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks
• Sorry, no
  by David Pryce-Jones
• After years in decline, the Maoist "Shining Path" movement has made a startling comeback in Peru
• What is it about former vice presidents that makes them so irresistible to opera composers?
• True believer: Obama was for black-liberation theology before he was against it
  by Stanley Kurtz
• John McCain has outlined some of the tough measures he would take against Iran: negotiating global sanctions against Iranian banks, freezing the assets of regime leaders and imposing a visa ban on them, launching a worldwide divestment campaign, and restr
• Reports in The New Yorker and The New Republic detailed a growing ideological fissure within al-Qaeda
• Way to take charge
  by Sarah Bramwell
• AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history
• A few years back, the promoters of "Bodies … The Exhibition" had a problem
• Schooling the capital: the uphill struggle for school choice in D.C
  by John J. Miller
• Scott McClellan met George W. Bush in Texas, followed him to Washington, then became one of the worst press secretaries in the history of the presidency
• Speaking of hearts and minds, take heart from the recent example of Mosul, Iraq
• She Wrestled with Abraham's Angel
  by Olivia Ellis Simpson
• Sometimes, abortions go wrong, and the baby survives
• The New York Times's critics often find plenty of ammo in the paper's corrections; when they're lucky, they even get corrections of corrections
• Chilling effect: the great white north's brave new world
  by Mark Hemingway
• So Vanity Fair, the Debrett's of celebrity, pop history, and uber-babedom, has turned on Bill Clinton
• Al-Qaeda has attracted feminists' ire: because the terror group says that jihad is for men, not women
• The next wars
  by John Fonte
• When was the last time you heard the word "karma" used in earnest, as in: "Bad karma, man"?
• Encounter Books has now been publishing intelligent center-right books for ten years
• A day of golf: the USGA museum reopens
  by Jay Nordlinger
• A triple whammy of bad economic news came out on the first Friday of June
• The Wall Street Journal is keeping an eye on the U.N
• How to kill poverty
  by Jay Nordlinger
• The "panties for peace" campaign inspires mixed feelings
• The Scripps National Spelling Bee came to its annual conclusion, 13-year-old Sameer Mishra of Lafayette, Ind., walking off with the top prize
• The organizer: what did Barack Obama really do in Chicago?
  by Byron York
• McCain has gotten panned for his speech in New Orleans
• The U.N. and its agencies offer regular showcases for Third World monsters
• The end of the affair
  by Ross Douthat
• If you think it's tough to get a plumber on the weekend, try getting one when you are 200 miles up in the air and traveling at 17,000 miles per hour
• Obama in plain view
• McCain's challenge: how to preempt Barack's communitarian dream
  by Michael Knox Beran
• It will be years before we see the last of those "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper stickers
• The country recently marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
• The road to wisdom
  by John Derbyshire
• Mark Steyn is being persecuted by the Canadian thought police
• Exit Clinton
• The sad Philadelphia story: the City of Brotherly Love shows America how not to deal with a crime wave
  by Kevin Williamson
• They think they get it …
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Yves Saint Laurent had the greatest impact in his day on how clothes were cut, shaped, and sold
• A Hill too far
  by Kathleen Parker
• Wasn't Brigitte Bardot unforgettable, archetypal, Eve herself on the loose in France?
• The energy shortage
• The science of limited government
  by George Berrun
• Thanks to Gov. David Paterson, New York has become the third state to recognize same-sex marriages
• Help!!!!