In the most recent example, then-EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman claimed last year that 94 percent of the nation's drinking water met or exceeded federal standards between 1999 and 2002. Despite her rosy pronouncement, a report by the EPA's inspector general last week found that Whitman was dead wrong, and the agency knew as much beforehand.

Tennessee County wants to outlaw homosexuality
County Commissioner says "We need to keep them out of here"

Though Fulton said "this isn't a case of City Weekly being brought to its knees" by Wal-Mart, he acknowledged the incident increased his vigilance on the language in the paper. "It took Wal-Mart and a Christian person to get my attention that I wasn't watching it thoroughly."
Other words also will be "out of bounds," Fulton said, including "bitch," when not applied to canines.

Gay and lesbians in the entire federal workforce have had their job protections officially removed by the Office of Special Counsel. The new Special Counsel, Scott Bloch, says his interpretation of a 1978 law intended to protect employees and job applicants from adverse personnel actions is that gay and lesbian workers are not covered.
Bloch said that the while a gay employee would have no recourse for being fired or demoted for being gay, that same worker could not be fired for attending a gay Pride event.
?The legal position that he is taking, that there is some distinction between discrimination based on sexual orientation and discrimination based on conduct, is absurd,? Kaplan told Federal Times.

The law, 5 USC 2302(b)(10), prohibits discrimination against federal employees or job applicants on the basis of off-duty conduct that does not affect job performance. Although there is no explicit reference to sexual orientation in the statute, it has long been interpreted to include sexual orientation. Executive Order 13087 -- issued May 28, 1998 -- reaffirmed that position.