voodoo economics.

* "[Judge] Brinkema told the prospective jurors the case hinges on whether Moussaoui lied when interrogated before Sept. 11, 2001, and whether people died that day as a direct result. Advocating execution, prosecutors contend Moussaoui could have prevented the attacks by telling authorities about al-Qaida's designs. Defense attorneys say the government knew more about the plot than Moussaoui before 9/11 and still couldn't stop the attacks." (link)

* "George C. Deutsch, the young Bush campaign flack who was telling NASA personnel that they shouldn't discuss the Big Bang without considering the topic from its religious perspective, has been forced to resign. As reported first earlier today by the Scientific Activist blog, Deutsch claimed on his resume on file at NASA that he was a graduate of Texas A&M.
Only he never graduated.
So he lied on his resume, and presumably his job application too. Always a bad move if you're planning to become embroiled in a major media firestorm." (link)

* "An American citizen held in Iraq since 2004 allegedly worked with terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and helped plan insurgent attacks on foreigners in Iraq" (link)
yada yada

* nyt ed: "President Bush's $2.77 trillion budget is fiction masquerading as fact, a governmental version of the made-up memoirs that have been denounced up and down the continent lately... The point of all these imaginary financial projections is to give the president leeway to cement in place hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts the nation can ill afford and does not need. " (link)
voodoo economics.

* somebody (i think glenn) recently noted that the egadministration has been very careful when discussing snoopgate that they are only refering to a specific program - ie when the rest of us are discussing the fact that they are spying on us in some generic sense, they appear to have found a lawyerly way of saying stuff that is literally true - becuase they are only referring to some small subset of snoopgate, unbeknownst to the rest of us. abu gonzales seemed to be doing the same thing yesterday, for example "he expressed "concern" that amending FISA will "jeopardize this program"" (link) - my best guess is that this is how they are able to make claims like 'al qaeda-linked' and 'the call must orginate or end outside the US'