NRO Digest: What can we learn from the last time Romney chose a running mate?

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NRO Digest

July 19, 2012

Today on National Review Online . . .

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Ideology and affluence make it possible to ignore history -- and destroy its monuments. Imams of Islam and the Environment.

ROBERT COSTA: At OMB, the Ohio senator fought to curb spending, and made progress. Portman Agonistes.

JOHN FUND: What can we learn from the last time Romney chose a running mate? Romney's Former No. 2.

ROBERT VERBRUGGEN: An activist files a frivolous ethics complaint against social scientist Mark Regnerus. The Gay-Parenting Witch Hunt.

MICHAEL BARONE: Why doesn't the president believe high earners deserve the money they make? Obama Believes Success Is a Gift from Government.

NICK SCHULZ: The Net began as a national-security project, not government philanthropy. The President's Internet Blunder.

CLIFFORD D. MAY: We can't survive with appeasement, accommodation, and sophistry. Resisting Barbarians.

NATHANIEL BOTWINICK: The politicization of The Dark Night Rises. Batman and Romney.

JAY HALLEN: How to defuse the student-loan crisis in three easy steps. The Student-Loan Bubble.

RABBI BENNY ELON AND YOSSI BEILIN: Left and right can agree that we must move on to find a solution. After 20 Years, Moving Beyond Oslo.

THOMAS SOWELL: The very concept of achievement is a threat to the Left. Elizabeth Warren's Underlying Social Contract.

IMPROMPTUS: Jay Nordlinger on his pleasant peninsulas (lower and upper). Great Lakes Journal, Part II.

BENJAMIN WEINTHAL: Will an anti-Israel bombing in Europe wake up our president and the European community? Iranian Terror and Obama's Misguided Terror Forum.

PATRICK BRENNAN: A new study reveals the economic effects of the president's planned tax hikes, but the White House denies it. How Much Will Obama's Tax Policies Hurt?

MICHAEL J. NEW: Once again, public opinion is now on the side of life. Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Enjoys Broad Support.

ROBERT BRYCE: Responding to the wind industry's vaporous defense of itself. Windy Disinformation.

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: President Bush discusses the Bush Institute's ideas on free enterprise and free markets. President George W. Bush: Chapter 4.