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...only getting worse. Hysteria over the inner cities--not to mention the rest of the country--is at an all-time high. Fear of violent crime has prompted a sharp turn to the right in terms of popular feelings on criminal rights. An effective Democrat should be able to tap into that fear and make it work for him. Frustration over the general lack of safety in Bush's "kindler, gentler America" should naturally take itself out on the people running the government, namely Bush...
...band's exploits bring to mind Rob Reiner's priceless 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, a pseudo-rock documentary chronicling the disastrous final American tour of the world's stupidest rock band. Surveying the Gunners' career, one gets the impression that the band may have seen the film, entirely missed the satirical thrust, and elected to pattern themselves after Reiner's brain-dead metalheads...
...federal-appeals-court judge who was an also-ran on George Bush's list of potential Supreme Court nominees, EDITH JONES, could be in line for another high post. Bush may tap the ultraconservative Texas jurist to succeed Dick Thornburgh as Attorney General. The main stumbling block is that Jones has no trial and administrative experience. One solution would be to persuade Thornburgh's highly regarded deputy, William Barr, to stay on under Jones. But that may be a hard sell because many at Justice consider Barr more than qualified...
...country brought against B.C.C.I., the bank systematically helped Noriega loot the national treasury. B.C.C.I. allowed the leader to open secret offshore accounts under the names of the Panamanian National Guard, the Panamanian Defense Forces and the Panamanian Treasury, to transfer national funds into those accounts and then to tap the funds himself...
...making the book more a collection of pieces than a unified whole. At times he grows as shrill as those he skewers. Nonetheless, O'Rourke manages to ask all the explosive questions -- Why are taxes so high? Why doesn't government work? How did things get so bad? -- that tap into the deep vein of discontent running through America today. Parliament of Whores may not spark a revolution, but it is one of the few books on civic affairs worth reading from cover to cover...