You'd think they would have looked this up, first --
The government's case on potential terrorist Jose Padilla hinges on his plan to make a dirty bomb with uranium. But scientists testify that you can't make a dirty bomb with uranium. At some point, this all begins to get comical. Except that people are being held indefinitely without legal representation by clowns like these. In any case, it looks as though Bush Co is going to lose big on this one, unless they can come up with a new criminal case against Padilla.

Revising this week's revisionist history --
Canada's Globe and Mail reminds us that Gorbachev had a bit to do with the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union.

This during a "good week" for Bush --
Kerry leads!

Basking in Reagan's glow --
Maureen Dowd: "Finally, there's a flag-draped coffin and military funeral that President Bush wants to be associated with..."