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Bush and Kennedy are adversaries this week, but each will be ready to wrap his arms around the other when doing so suits his purpose. That makes each man's camp more than a little nervous. Kennedy often thrives during a Republican Administration. He despised Jimmy Carter and suffered in silence as Bill Clinton tilted to the center. During a G.O.P. Administration, he is freer to bend Democrats to his agenda without competition from a President of his party. And Bush realized before he arrived in Washington that he would have to go through Kennedy to pass his domestic agenda...
...FERC relenting? The argument against price caps is that they do infinitely more harm than good, as Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon discovered when they allowed government bureaucrats to clog the gears of a free market. Price caps, says Energy Secretary Spence Abraham, are merely a formula for "an increase in the scope, duration and frequency of blackouts...
...Together David and Joe travel through garish landscapes that, as imagined by artist Chris Baker (who was on the project in the early years) and production designer Rick Carter, handsomely evoke every sci-fi dystopia from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to Blade Runner and this year's Monkeybone. Come to the Flesh Fair--a sort of Thunderdome demolition derby where vengeful humans, led by the demagogic Lord Johnson-Johnson (Ireland's Brendan Gleeson), set hapless automatons aflame--and try to get out fast. Spend the night in Rouge City, a city of sensual schlock that is filled with Kubrick...
...politicos looking for background reading, try Jimmy Carter's childhood memoir "An Hour Before Daylight." And the love-it-or-hate-it attack on the Clinton administration's approach to China, "The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America" by Bill Gertz" was sent in by a reader who also recommends "Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department" by David Limbaugh...
...Kyllo case, Anthony Kennedy's stance may have been as surprising as Scalia's (and of course that of John Paul Stevens, who bought the government's line). In a 1998 case, Minnesota v. Carter, he wrote that "Security of the home must be guarded by the law in a world where privacy is diminished by enhanced surveillance and sophisticated communications systems." But guess how he ruled this week? With Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist - and for law enforcement's newfangled evidence-gathering gizmos...