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Articles in July 14, 2008, issue of National Review

• Wave of the future
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• NASA scientist James Hansen's literary output reads like the bumf one might find in the bulletin of an enduring Big Sur commune
• George Carlin was a successful and ultimately cosseted rebel
• For five generations, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch has been not only an American success story but a family-run business
• Kapell returns
  by Jay Nordlinger
• He enlisted in the Army in 1917, lying about his age
• Bill Cosby continues to do a world of good
• Citizens of Washington State are petitioning for a vote on an initiative to copy Oregon's assisted-suicide law
• Bubbling out: we need to plan for a world with less oil
  by William Tucker
• Methodist wisdom
  by Mildred E. Katzell
• Allied menace: Islamists, Marxists, and the radical Left make common cause
  by Daniel Pipes
• Windy
  by Ross Douthat
• Commonwealth Catholic Charities, in Richmond, Va., helped a minor procure an abortion
• New York's judges earn the second-lowest salaries in the 50 states
• Energy incoherence
• An eye for detail
  by Elliott Ingersoll
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• In a bitterly divided 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that alien enemy prisoners, captured by our military in a war authorized by Congress and held abroad, have a constitutional right to petition our courts for their release
• Before the revolution: Europe's governors refuse to listen to the governed
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Props to the pram
  by Richard Brookhiser
• The 9/10 candidate
• It appears Dartmouth has managed to dilute its alumni's influence on its board of trustees—with their consent
• In recent days, more than a hundred Israeli fighter jets conducted an exercise over the eastern Mediterranean Sea, covering a distance of some 900 miles
• Thoughtful stepping
  by Hugh Bartlett
• The Buckley mystique
  by Linda Bridges
• Cheers to the Irish
• "Let's get together and do something our parents will disapprove of!"
• If only Israel were being as clear-eyed about Hamas
• Led, inevitably, by Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court has abolished the use of the death penalty as a punishment for raping children
• Why can't we have friends like Angelo?
• Gay abandon: must we give up our First Amendment liberties?
  by Mark Hemingway
• Chesterton's marvelous year
  by M.D. Aeschliman
• Readers with long memories may recall little Pavel Morozov, who, according to Soviet lore, denounced his father to the secret police in 1932, for anti-Party activities
• Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, known as "Antunez," is one of the bravest and noblest Cuban dissidents
• In a sign that he is worried about facing criminal charges for failing to pay taxes, Al Sharpton has hired former U.S. attorney Zachary Carter to represent him
• Barack Obama decided to opt out of public financing for the general election because he can raise three or four times more cash on his own
• Feminism gets physical: but fails to say anything of value about physics
  by Fred Schwarz
• The Funeral Home
  by Robert Mezey
• It is eight years since six-year-old Elian Gonzalez was flown back to the custody of his father in Cuba
• Nobody home
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Donatella Versace dedicated her most recent line of mens-wear to Barack Obama, saying the clothes were designed for "a relaxed man who doesn't need to flex muscles to show he has power," and the Associated Press described the look this way: &quo
• Barack Obama briefly campaigned with his very own seal—an eagle with spread wings, just like the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has, surmounted by the words "Obama for America," the whole enclosed in a circle
• McCain's untouchables: four men who should not be on the ticket
  by John J. Miller
• Battle for the 'Burbs: how Republicans can compete for the upper middle class
  by Ross Douthat
• In recent years, Russian journalists critical of the government have had the habit of being murdered
• 2008 Ad
• Obama's Social Security plan is a work in progress, but it clearly involves a large tax increase
• A bill to overhaul foreign-intelligence gathering passed the House with an overwhelming bipartisan majority—and now enjoys the freshly minted backing of the consistently inconsistent Barack Obama, who once threatened to filibuster the legislation
• In love and hauteur: Obama and the press, sneering together
  by Noemie Emery
• Greenspan revisionism revised: assessing the former Fed chief
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Planet?
• Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe has slaughtered and terrorized his way into an approximation of a victory at the polls: His rival, Morgan Tsvangirai of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, has opted not to ask his supporters to risk death and to
• In a meeting with Hispanic leaders, McCain said he would try as president to get an immigration overhaul through Congress
• The principal author of the Dodd-Shelby housing bill is Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Senate Banking Committee
• Help!!!!
• The death of Meet the Press host Tim Russert shocked with its suddenness
• Two years ago, Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, accused Marines of "murder" following the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha
• Lawsuits can be righteous, low, symbolic, pestiferous—many things
• Send me a postcard
  by Christopher Buckley
• Shock, shock, over
  by Florence King