Nonetheless, the biography of Bush on the US State Department's website credits him with almost six years in the F-102's cockpit -- two years on active duty flying the plane and nearly four more years of part-time service as an F-102 pilot. The websites of at least five American embassies -- those in Germany, Italy, Pakistan, Vietnam, and South Korea -- use the identical language, even though Bush spent barely two years flying the airplane.
Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, asked yesterday about that language, said: "It does not reflect the facts of his service. It will be corrected."

At some point, George W. Bush took a good long look at who he was and what he wanted for the country and decided that the American people would never buy it if he gave it to them straight. So Bush and his political machine made their decision: the American people would have to be lied to.

the president actually loves activist jurists, as long as they embrace his views on marriage, gay sex, civil liberty, reproductive rights and religion.
Bush's defining legacy, if he is re-elected, may well be viewed in the judicial arena, where the president has been packing a conservative bench with hopes of leaving his indelible imprint on the U.S. Supreme Court.

O'Reilly had conducted a scrotum-licking interview with Gibson, who, O'Reilly acknowledges, has optioned O'Reilly's "novel."

The military doesn?t use the term ?rape.? They prefer ?unprofessional gender-related behavior.?

After all, Terrence Jeffrey makes the argument on Townhall.com that ?If the University of Colorado is serious about protecting women from violence, it will never again put a young lady on its football team.? And it goes downhill from there.

Last year, when reports surfaced that female cadets had been sexually assaulted at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, the brigadier general in charge of cadets compared one alleged victim's behavior to that of a man who gets robbed after walking down an alley with $100 bills hanging out of his pockets.

The "independent, impartial" panel charged with investigating the University of Colorado scandal is co-chaired by a former state legislator--and yes, a woman--who told a television reporter this after her appointment: "The question I have for the ladies in this is, why are they going to parties like this and drinking or taking drugs or putting themselves in a very threatening or serious position?"

The International Criminal Court in the Hague is being asked to probe allegations of war crimes by Tony Blair, Jack Straw and Geoff Hoon.

Mr. Roddenberry's proposed amendment, in December 1912, stated, "Intermarriage between Negroes or persons of color and Caucasians . . . is forever prohibited." He took this action, he said, because some states were permitting marriages that were "abhorrent and repugnant," and he aimed to "exterminate now this debasing, ultrademoralizing, un-American and inhuman leprosy."
In the last half-century, there has been a stunning change in racial attitudes. All but nine states banned interracial marriages at one time, and in 1958, a poll found that 96 percent of whites disapproved of marriages between blacks and whites. Yet in 1997, 77 percent approved.

Yet the Defense of Marriage Act is itself a reminder of the difficulties of achieving morality through legislation. It was, as Slate noted, written by the thrice-married Representative Bob Barr and signed by the philandering Bill Clinton. It's less a monument to fidelity than to hypocrisy.

Mexico's antitrust regulators have rejected a proposal from News Corporation to take over the local satellite television holdings of DirecTV, a move that could delay regional consolidation of the capital-intensive market.
News Corp and Venezuelan tycoon Gustavo Cisneros, the key shareholders in the region's two satellite television broadcasters, have denied there are even negotiations to combine the 3.2 million clients that Sky and DirecTV have in Latin America.

The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is refusing to accept strict conditions from the White House for interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and is renewing its request that Mr. Bush's national security adviser testify in public.