Five days ’til Super Tuesday. There are plenty of guides to the U.S. presidential primaries out there on the interweb. One of the best such guides is provided by CQ (still called Congressional Quarterly by those who remember what life was like b4 evrythng got abbrev’d). Among the highlights of CQ‘s guide are: *Comprehensive results of the 2008 …
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A new Congressional Research Service report discusses “How Crime in the United States is Measured“. Crime data collected through the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) are used by Congress to inform policy decisions and allocate federal criminal justice funding to states. As such, it is important …
Baseball star Roger Clemens has filed a defamation suit against his former trainer Brian McNamee. The complaint can be found here. According to last month’s “Mitchell Report” on illegal steroid use in baseball, McNamee told investigators that he had injected Clemens with illegal steroids. Both men, along with some other individuals connected to the report, are scheduled to …
“Vital government information appears ‘invisible’” to Americans using popular search engines to try to find it, says a report released Tuesday, December 11 by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and OMB Watch. The report, Hiding in Plain Sight: Why Important Government Information Cannot Be Found through Commercial Search Engines, examines the reasons for the poor retrieval …
The Federal Trade Commission has digitized its decisions from 1969-2005, covering “virtually all administrative documents issued by the Commission, including Opinions, Final Orders, Complaints, and Consent Orders that result from negotiated consent agreements, as well as all Initial Decisions issued by Administrative Law Judges in administrative trial proceedings.” The decisions are browsable by volume number and by party …
The Library of Congress and UNESCO recently announced their agreement to move forward with the creation of a World Digital Library. The World Digital Library, modeled after the Library of Congress’s American Memory project, “will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, …
At the risk of losing any upcoming popularity contests, I’ll admit to enjoying both children’s drawings and legal research. And when the two are combined, I can’t help but get excited. So, here’s an enthusiastic “thumbs up” for the Texas Register — the official weekly journal of agency rulemaking for the Lone Star State — which publishes drawings …
CQ’s Moneyline has launched a new 2008 Presidential Candidates website offering quick access to information on every “major” presidential candidate (yes, that includes Ron Paul). Information includes links to the candidates’ official campaign websites, their most recent FEC filings, and their CQ Moneyline profiles. Hat Tip: BeSpacific.com
The State Department launched it’s new blog “Dipnote” yesterday. According to the welcoming entry, the title is an abbreviation of “diplomatic note,” which is a formal communication between an ambassador and a minister of a foreign government. (I have to admit that the title initially made me wince, but hopefully I’ll get over that.) The venture’s stated aims …
Over 1100 pages of newly released documents pertaining to the FBI’s misuse of National Security Letters (NSLs) have been made available by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The documents were released July 5, pursuant to court order, after the EFF sued the federal government for failure to respond to its FOIA request seeking the documents. Other responsive documents …
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