Sometime a good project deserves some praise & PR from the like-minded. I just got very inspired after reading Katrina vanden Heuvel's blog in the Nation:

Before we can win the great battle of ideas, we must debunk the right's political discourse, a veritable code of encrypted language that twists common usage to deceive the public for the Republicans' purposes. The key to their linguistic strategy is to use words that sound moderate to us but mean something completely different to them.

We decided we needed to break the code by building a Republican dictionary. For six months, thenation.com accepted suggestions from everyone who wanted to participate.  Here are some of my favorites. I hope they inspire you to action, to take back this great nation from those who are doing it such harm.

It is difficult to see this as not a political assasination.

Thought you'd seen it all? have a look at this one, they call themselves "the Hearts and Minds Agency" :

Strategic Communication Laboratories is the leading supplier of Information Operations, Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy services to governments and military clients worldwide. And this is where they got their slogan from:

"The military conflicts of the 21st Century will not be fought on the ground, in the sea or in the air. They will be fought in the minds of your enemies and allies. You may have the weapons to win the territory, but do you have the weapons to win the 'hearts and minds?' "
(US Defense Review, 2001)

A new development we seem to have missed at SpinWatch - but noticed by Doug Ireland in his blog Direland, politics and media-analyses and commentary from veteran political journalist Doug Ireland last June:

Spurred on by a biblical injunction evangelicals call “The Great  Commission,” and emboldened by George W. Bush’s re-election, which is perceived as a “mandate from God,” the Christian right has launched a series of boycotts and pressure campaigns aimed at corporate America — and at its sponsorship of entertainment, programs and activities the Christers don’t like.

And it’s working. Just three weeks ago, the Rev. Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association (AFA) announced it was ending its  boycott of corporate giant Procter & Gamble — maker of household staples like Tide and Crest — for being pro-gay. Why? Because the AFA’s boycott (which the organization says enlisted 400,000 families) had succeeded in getting P&G to pull its millions of dollars in advertising from TV shows like Will & Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. P&G also ended its advertising in gay  magazines and on gay Web sites. And a P&G executive who had been given a leave of absence to work on a successful Cincinnati, Ohio, referendum that repealed a ban on any measures protecting gays from discrimination was shown the door.

I've updated the SpinWatch Dossier  The Threat Response Spy Files.

CAAT made a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner about one of their employees forwarding confidential information to an intelligence gathering network, paid by BAe. The Information Commissioner has now reporterd.