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Silver Star Mountain seen from the Washington Pass meadow, north Cascades, Washington.

The re-edit of this page was finished in January 2007.

Although political, social, and economic concerns are all intimately bound together, on these pages they've been separated for convenience.

Some links which you might expect to find here could be on Partisan politics, which has its own page.

1. ulib.iupui.edu/.../docs_abbrev.html: An absurdly long list of U.S. Government abbreviations and acronyms that are clickable links from the Government Information Resources page at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
2. find-it.wa.gov/compass: the Washington State Library's state information locator service
3. loc.gov, the Library of Congess
4. gpo.gov: US Government Printing Office
5. hhs.gov: Department of Human and Health Services
6. ssa.gov: Social Security Administration
7. usdoj.gov: Department of Justice and fbi.gov the FBI

1. thomas.loc.gov: "legislative information from the Library of Congress"
2. govtrack.us: "Tracking the U.S. congress," provides the same info as Thomas, plus more
3. loc.gov/crsinfo/whatscrs.html: the Congressional Research Service "works exclusively and directly for Members of Congress," but we can get their work at opencrs.com, "congressional research reports for the people"
4. cbo.gov: Congressional Budget Office
5. sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congresspedia: Congresspedia from SourceWatch
6. projects.washingtonpost.com/congress: the Congress Votes Database project of the Washington Post "lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991"
7. rollcall.com: Roll Call Newspaper Online
8. crooksandliars.com: Crooks and Liars blog

1. theadvocates.org/quiz.html: libertarian, but the World's Smallest Political Quiz is probably valid
2. politics1.com: Ron Gunzburger's "Ultimate Guide to U.S. Politics & Elections"
3. vote-smart.org: "covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories..." and more
4. crp.org: Open Secrets.org from the Center for Responsive Politics is "Your Guide to the Money in US Elections"
5. cagw.org: Citizens Against Government Waste says "To advocate an efficient, sound, honest government is neither left-wing nor right-wing, it is just plain right."
6. citizenjoe.org, "A multi-partisan organization," "an antidote to partisanship and spin."
7. taxpolicycenter.org, the Tax Policy Center is "A joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution"
8. sunsite.unc.edu/lunarbin/worldpop: world population counter
9. brillig.com/debt_clock: National debt clock

1. law.cornell.edu is the first-rate Legal Information Institute (LII), a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School. "Popular collections include: the U.S. Code, Supreme Court opinions, and Law about..."
2. dictionary.law.com is pretty good law dictionary
3. lawyerscommittee.org is the The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
4. findlaw.com: law index, search, cases & codes, and more, including FindLaw's Writ
5. lectlaw.com, the very opiniated, somewhat weird, but still useful 'Lectric Law Library
6. bitlaw.com: mostly tech and intellectual property law, but also some general law, with beautifully annotated links
7. benedict.com: web copyright page
8. gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html: The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
9. fija.org: the Fully Informed Jury Association
10. supremecourtus.gov, the Supreme Court of the United States
11. brennancenter.org, the Brennan Center for Justice, at the NYU School of Law, "is litigating cases across the nation ... about issues of profound national importance," among other activities
12. writ.news.findlaw.com/dean: John Dean at FindLaw's Writ
13. aclu.org, the ACLU
14. nlpc.org: the National Legal and Policy Center seems to go after about everybody equally