United States of America

• Constitution
• The White House and other offical government pages
• Election information
• Political parties and movements

• 100 Facts and 1 Opinion The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
• CNN / TIME All Politics site
• Almanac of Policy Issues
• Atlantic Unbound Articles from The Atlantic Monthly's archive and related links
• Bill Hammons' American Politics Guide, lists members of Congress by state, by committee, and by House District
• Campaign Advertising e-Archives, 1952-2002
• CIVIX A complete compilation of the budget funding requests from every federal agency
• Good news sites are CNN, and the Washington Post
• Capitol Watch: votes and news reported daily
• Capitolimpact offers access to information on Congress, state agencies, courts, etc.
• Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
• Center for Governmental Studies
• The Challenge of Democracy, Ken Janda, Jerry Goldman, and Jeff Berry
• Citizens for Legitimate Government
• Citizens United For Democracy, dedicated to protecting the values of the United States of America from both domestic and foreign threats
• Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
• Clinton Foundation
• The Congessional Email Directory includes websites and email addresses
• Congress.org guide to Congress
• Congressional Observer Publications offers a subscription service for congressional voting details, but also offers some free information, including lists of votes by title.
• Congressional newsgroups publish a great deal of detail about work in Congress
• Constitution Society
• The Economist Country Briefing
• Misleader, a daily chronicle of Bush Administration distortion
• Data Mining Senate Votes
• The December 1995 Budget impasse
• The House Democratic Caucus, including history, membership, and minutes of meetings
• Democratic Leadership in the House
• Democracy for New Hampshire
• Did President Bush Receive a Mandate?, by Mark Safranski
• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
• Drudge Report
• East Bay Democrats
• Ecanned.com, economic information in an easy, ready-to-use format
• Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
• Interesting article on election fraud, and a collection of fraud allegations
• FactCheck.org, holding politicians accountable
• List of Federal Agencies on the Internet
• Federal Judicial Center
• Federal Judiciary home page. A clearinghouse for information about the judicial branch, it has a newsletter
• The Federal Web Locator attempts to provide linksto all federal government information on the Internet
• Federal court opinions
• Fedworld Information Network: comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information
• FirstGov provides gateways to government information
• GPO Access: Federal Government information online
• General Accounting Office
• George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
• George Bush Presidential Library Foundation
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
• Lists of Government servers
• Guides on how to find Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations are offered by University of Florida and Albany Law School
• Issues relating to Hawaiian independence
• The Pew Hispanic Center has reports on hispanic trends in the US
• History of the US political parties from 1730 to 1892, wallchart (commercial site)
• Historical Document Repoduction Inc., offers repoductions of the war documents of the United States of America, but also has useful historical information (commercial site)
• Historical Speeches, links to online audio archives
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
• There are links to further information from the House of Representatives home page.
• The Independent Counsel's Report to the United States House of Representatives (the Starr report) is available from CNN, or at theWashington Post. The preliminary rebuttal by the White House may be seen at the GPO site.
  There are also local copies of The Starr Report, the preliminary rebuttal by the White House (issued before the Starr Report), and the White House's initial response
• INFOMINE allows searching of government resources
• Impeach Bush
• Impeachment Documents Relating to Johnson and Nixon
• Impeachment of Clinton
• Inaugural Addresses of all US Presidents
• Index of Presidents of the US has links to documents and other relevant information
• Infamous Rascals in American Political Campaigns
• Offices of the Inspector General
• Japanese American Citizens League
• Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
• Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
• LBJ Whitehouse tapes
• Judicial Branch links
• John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
• Congress: Legislative Information on the Internet Includes full text versions of House and Senate bills, searchable by keyword, for the 103rd and 104th Congresses
• Legistorm provides a variety of important information about the US Congress, including salary information and privately financed trips
• Lexrex computer game site
• Local and regional government
• LocalCensus.com, has statistical information for a wide variety of categories pertaining to the USA
• Lakota Dakota Information Home Page
• Martial Law 9-11, the rise of the police state
• Members of the 105th Congress
• National Association of Secretaries of State
• The National Budget Simulation. Includes links to other sites carying budget analyses
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• National Public Broadcasting Archive
• National Security Archive
• Native American websites
• Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation
• Nixon Presidential Materials
• Nixon Watergate Tapes
• Occupy Wall Street is a 'horizontally organized resistance movement employing the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to restore democracy in America'
• OMB Watch monitors the White House Office of Management and Budget
• Office of Hawaiian Affairs
• The People's Summit
• Political Advertising Law
• Political Information dot com
• The Political Insider has up-to-date briefings on current issues
• Political Resources has candidates with websites, links to State Party Offices, and a range of general links
• Politics1 elections, candidates & campaigns
• Political State Report
• PollingReport.com reports the latest U.S. national polls on politics and public policy
• The President's Agenda, what's said or promised vs. what's done
• Information on President's War Powers
  • text of the War Powers Resolution
  • Information on presidential compliance with the resolution and here
  • An examination of the President's power to fight terrorism
  • Comment on Doe v. Bush
• Links to Presidential Libraries
• Presidents listed by place of birth, height and religion, and bynicknames
• Prison Planet.com
• Project Censored, No Paper Trail Left Behind: The Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election
• Project Vote Smart has a large number of political links
• Public Record Finder
• Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
• Rhetorica. The Rhetorica Network offers analysis and commentary about the rhetoric, propaganda, and spin of journalism and politics, including analysis of presidential speeches and election campaigns
• Roll Call Online News and information about Congress
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library And Museum
• Senate Republican Policy Committee
• List of State Courts websites from the NCSC
• State Net, monitors all pending bills and regulations in the 50 states and Congress
• The Structure of Democracy, has links to all aspects of the system
• students.gov, student gateway to the US Government
• Students for War
• The Legal Information Institute's Supreme Court Collection has opinions since May 1990, a page on the Justices of the SC
• Supreme Court decisions
• JURIST's Supreme Court Guide
• Supreme Court Oral Argument Archive
• Supreme Court opinions
• Tax Day Tea Party
• The Financial Statements of the United States Government are available online on the Treasury FMS website
• Theocracy Watch, the Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
• Troops Home Now 2006
• Truman Presidential Library and Museum
• USA Homeland
• US Commission on Civil Rights
• The US General Services Administration - contains information provided by GSA, region 3 (federal policy guidance, procurement, information technology, telecommunications, real property management
• US Government Corruption Websites
• US Government Hypertexts: various policy documents in hypertext form
• US Government Manual
• US Intelligence Community
• USNSI data archive
• US Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
• US history and government
• The BigProject has links to US newspapers
• US Parliament, a coalition of Americans united for the purpose of establishing truly representative government
• Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
• Vermont Legislative Research Shop
• Votenet is an online community serving politicians, candidates, and citizens alike, of any political party
• Voter Information Services Offers ratings and voting records
• Voting technology - Diebold posters with a difference
• War and Law League
• War Power
• George Washington Papers
• Watchdog Group: Top National Issues for 2006
• WhoseFlorida.com
• You Can Fool Some People Sometimes, the authors measured promises by the number of future tense sentence occurrences in 10-K reports and found that this number is significantly negatively correlated with both the return and the excess return on the company stock price. They then applied similar methodology to forecast the outcome of the popular votes of the US presidential elections

Campaign Finance

• Campaign Finance links
• Campaign Finance Information Center
• Campaign Finance Institute
• Brookings Institution Campaign Finance page
• Stanford Law School Campaign Finance Materials
• FECInfo A non-partisan place to discover who gave what to which Federal candidates when ...
• Campaign Finance Law Guide: More Soft Money Hard Law
• Opensecrets.org an online source for data on money in politics
• Yahoo links to the finance of State campaigns

News

• Latest political news and resources from all 50 states from C-SPAN

BBC News has country profiles, as has the UK Foreign Office
The Yahoo server gives access to country information
The World Factbook and other CIA publications provide useful background information.
The PCL Map Collection has over 230,000 maps covering every area of the world, including many maps of the USA

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