US Budget Surplus? Really?

Gay Patriot found an article saying the US enjoyed a budget surplus in December:

U.S. Dec budget posted surplus - Congress analysts
Fri Jan 7, 2005 12:01 PM ET

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. government ran a $1 billion budget surplus in December, helped by a rise in corporate tax payments, the Congressional Budget Office said in its latest budget report released on Friday.

The surplus, which compared with an $18 billion deficit in the previous December, helped create a smaller fiscal deficit for the first three months of the 2005 fiscal year, than in the same quarter of the prior year.

He issued a challenge: Do a Google search and see if anyone else picked it up. I did him one better. I did a Nexis search of every major English language newspaper in the world and ... nothing.

But it's not bias; it's just myopic zeal.