Today's updates for the New American Newspeak Dictionary are:
Strategic redeployment: troop withdrawal
Sound science: junk science*
Junk science: sound science**
People of faith: churchgoers who vote our way***
*See "Beware 'Sound Science'. It's Double Speak for Trouble" by Chris Mooney
**See the previous entry "Manufacturing Uncertainty"
***Quoted from Talking Right by Geoffrey Nunberg
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