Another in our "The president is not a fact-checker" series:

Earlier today, the Libyan government released Fathi Jahmi. She's a local government official who was imprisoned in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy," the president said in a speech at the White House on Friday.

The only problem was that, by all other accounts, "she" is in fact "he".

"Definitely male," said Alistair Hodgett, spokesman for the human rights advocacy group Amnesty International, whose representatives tried to see Jahmi in prison during a recent visit to Libya....[snip]

All told, the president made references to more than a dozen other women ranging from his wife, first lady Laura Bush, to last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi of Iran. He also mentioned four men including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who were both present....[snip]

Wolfowitz a champion for women's rights? Who knew?

I'm alerting the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. With Bush handling the levers of the nuclear arsenal, we're far closer to midnight than current world events suggests -- not that we've a lack of people acting badly in the world.

I feel safe. I feel safe. I feel sa.......