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"I am concerned about obscenity," Ashcroft told the House Judiciary committee in June 2001, adding that prosecutions of Web pornographers "would be an objective of ours in this respect."

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Here's a fact I couldn't find anywhere in George W. Bush's $1.5-billion plan to prop up American marriage.

The pro-Bush red states, especially those in the rural South, have a far higher divorce rate than Al Gore's blue states.

This is the Bible Belt?

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The church flatly rejects allegations that it is buying the names of dead souls, and insists the effort in Russia is aimed only at providing an archive of genealogical data for the good of all mankind.

Last week, the U.S. Congress approved an expansion of FBI powers that will allow Attorney General John Ashcroft's federal police to arbitrarily seize records from a range of private businesses without bothering a judge or grand jury with any silly-billy nonsense about evidence or even suspicion of criminal intent. All Ashcroft's boys have to do is say, "Boo! Terrorism!" and they can take whatever they want.

The 4-3 ruling on November 18 said government attorneys "failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason" to deny gay and lesbian couples the right to marry and gave the Massachusetts Legislature six months to rewrite state marriage laws.

Bishop Teodoro Bacani had ceased to become the archbishop of Manila's Novaliches suburb but will remain in the Catholic Church, said Father Walter Erbi, first secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in Manila.