Government
Governments of the 50 States Links to the official state web site, governor’s office, legislature, and court system of each state.
State Resource Center Links to each state’s home pages, statewide offices, executive, legislature, judiciary, courts, boards & commissions, regions, counties, libraries, and more. From Lexis.
State and Local Government on the Net A frequently updated and comprehensive directory of links.
THOMAS U.S. Congress on the Internet.
White House
House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
U.S. Government Documents Ready Reference Collection Government reports and statistics. From Columbia University Libraries.
USA.gov An easy way to navigate through U.S. federal government resources.
GovEngine A search engine for federal, state, and local government.
GPO Access Another good way to find U.S. government material.
Open Congressional Research Reports A collection of Congressional Research (CRS) reports accessible via the web.
Documents Center A central reference point for local, state, federal, and international government information.
Political Resources on the Net Listings of political sites on the Internet sorted by country, with links to parties, organizations, governments, media and more from all around the world.
European Governments Online
Politics and Government Around the World A collection of links to government, political parties, elections, and political information from around the world.
Rulers Leaders of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases.
United Nations Use its Web Site Locator to find its various agencies.
Governments on the WWW A comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web.
Foreign Governments Links to the official web sites of national governments.
Official Government Web Pages An alphabetical listing by country.
See also Law and Political Science.
Issues
NewsHour Index Transcripts of PBS’s NewsHour indexed by subject and searchable.
Social Issues Links from the Multnomah Public Library.
Political Information A search engine for politics and policies.
SpeakOut.com Issues organized into topics, sub-topics, and links to even more information.
Documents in the News The Document Center at University of Michigan archives current events documents by subject.
Science in the Headlines Summary of science issues in the news with links to related reports written by the nation’s top experts. From the National Academy of Science.
Commentary Today Links to columnists on the left and right.
News, Views, and Tools for Progressives Links to liberal and progressive viewpoints on issues.
Townhall.com Conservative news and information.
Directory of Political Debates & Issues Links to leading groups on all sides of the hot political issues facing our nation today. From Politics 1.
Hot Topics Series Overview and links to current issues, especially those science-related.
Political Advocacy Groups A listing of national political advocacy organizations arranged by the issue they are interested in.
New York Times: Politics Navigator A guide to political sites on the Internet.
[more] A complete listing of issue links.
Opinion Polls
PollingReport.com Latest public opinion polls on politics, issues, and the economy.
Public Agenda Online In-depth analyses of public opinion and public policies.
Harris Poll Current and past polls back to 1998.
Gallup Organization Current and past opinion polls.
Pew Research Center An independent opinion research group that studies public attitudes toward the press, politics, and public policy issues.
Los Angeles Times Poll
Zogby International Polls from all over the world.
CBS News Polls
Field Poll A California poll.
Program on International Policy Attitudes Research on public opinion on foreign policy and international issues.
World Public Opinion Information and analysis on public opinion from around the world.
Public Opinion Poll Database Questions and data from polls archived from the 1970s to present.
Roper Center Archive of data from polls conducted by many survey research organizations.
Survey Research Links Links to opinion polls and to other useful web sites for survey research.
Law
FindLaw Links to cases, laws, law schools, legal news, legal subject index, law reviews, legal organizations, law firms, and international legal resources.
Legal Information Institute U.S. Supreme Court decisions, U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, and other important legal materials. From Cornell Law School.
Jurist: The Law Professors’ Network Legal news, topics, documents, videos, & commentary.
Oyez Supreme Court cases, audio of hearings, and other resources.
American Law Sources On-Line A huge collection of links to freely accessible online legal sources for the United States and Canada.
Guide to Law Online An annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online from the Library of Congress.
Hieros Gamos Legal directories of U.S. and other nation’s legal systems.
Internet Legal Research Group A categorized index of thousands of legal web sites.
Nolo Clear information on many areas of U.S. law.
Court Web Sites Links to state, federal, and international courts. From National Center for State Courts.
Law.com Law news with free searchable archives.
Blawg Listing of legal blogs, podcasts, news feeds.
AcademicBlogs: Law A listing of blogs by law professors.
Law Reviews Online A listing of law reviews that make their content available online.
Directory of Open Access Journals: Law A directory of law journals that have content available online for free.
Argument Transcripts Transcripts of oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. Supreme Court
Criminal Justice in America Links Links to all aspects of the criminal justice system.
Famous Trials Detailed information on trials throughout history.
Famous Trials in World History Links
Be Spacific Weblog on law archived by topic.
U.S. Constitution Complete text.
Justice Learning: The Meaning of the U.S. Constitution An article by article analysis. Navigate by clicking on the Articles listed across the top.
Constitution Finder Database of constitutions, charters, amendments, and related documents.
Constitutions, Treaties, and Declarations Links organized in alphabetical order by country.
Intute: Law Links.
Voice of the Shuttle: Legal Studies Links.
Yahoo Directory: Law Links.
Open Directory Project: Law Links.
TERRORISM
1. Rand Corp. and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, Rand-MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Database, www.tkb.org/AnalyticalTools.jsp.
2. Brookings Institution, "Iraq Index," Oct. 29, 2007, www.brookings.edu/iraqindex.
3. Department of Justice, "Counterterrorism White Paper," June 22, 2006, http://trac.syr.edu /tracreports/terrorism/169/include/terrorism. whitepaper.pdf. This is the Justice Department's most comprehensive public account of its "terrorism and terrorism-related" convictions and pleas to date.
4. Id. The "Counterterrorism White Paper" identifies only two people convicted of an attempted terrorist act (with an international connection) since 2001: Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and Gale Nettles, who pleaded guilty to attempting to bomb a federal building in Chicago. Only Reid is linked to Islamic terrorism.
Most of the government-claimed "terrorism or terrorism-related" convictions or pleas involved no terrorism charges, only such crimes as making false statements, immigration violations or credit card fraud. Most convictions or pleas that did involve terrorism charges are for providing "material support" to a group labeled terrorist, not for engaging in or even conspiring to engage in terrorist activity.
5. Dan Eggen and Susan Schmidt, "Count of Released Detainees Is Hard to Pin Down," Washington Post, Nov. 6, 2001. Reports a government statement that 1,182 "potential terror suspects" had been detained as of early November 2001.
Prepared statement of Michael T. Dougherty, director of operations, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, before the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims, Federal News Service, May 8, 2003. States that immigration officials detained 1,139 people in the Absconder Apprehension Initiative, directed at foreign nationals from Arab and Muslim countries who had outstanding deportation orders.
Department of Homeland Security fact sheet, "Changes to National Security Entry/Exit Registration System (NSEERS)," Dec. 1, 2003, www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases /press_release_0305.shtm. Cites 2,870 people detained as part of the registration program.
6. Department of Justice, "Counterterrorism White Paper," June 22, 2006. Our analysis of the cases reported in the white paper found no convictions of foreign nationals who were preventively detained in the first two years after 9/11. Most of those convicted were citizens or foreign nationals detained only after they were arrested and charged.
7. Department of Homeland Security fact sheet, "Changes to National Security Entry/Exit Registration System (NSEERS)," Dec. 1, 2003.
8. Prepared statement of Carlina Tapia Ruano, first vice president, American Immigration Lawyers Assn., before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, June 10, 2005. www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=16686. States that no one who registered was charged with a "terrorist-related" offense.
Department of Justice "Counterterrorism White Paper," June 22, 2006. Our review of all terrorism convictions identified in the white paper found that none of the defendants were subject to registration, according to government criteria.
9. Department of Justice, www.lifeandliberty.gov/subs/a_terr.htm.
10. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, "The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks," April 2003, released June 2, 2003. www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0306/full.pdf. States that the government's post-9/11 policy, called "hold until cleared," barred deportation of foreign nationals until the FBI cleared them of any connection to terrorism.
11. ABC News, "Secret FBI Report Questions Al Qaeda Capabilities," March 9, 2005. Reports on a secret February 2005 FBI document that admitted the agency had found no Al Qaeda cells in the U.S. Department of Justice, "Counterterrorism White Paper," June 22, 2006. Includes no mention of Al Qaeda cells found in the U.S.
Our research shows no record of the discovery of an Al Qaeda cell in the U.S. since June 2006.
12, 13. Department of Defense news release, Nov. 9, 2007. www.defenselink.mil/releases /release.aspx?releaseid=11477.
14. Although the government has established military tribunals to try detainees, because of continuing legal questions concerning the proceedings, no one has been successfully tried for any crime. One detainee, David Hicks, an Australian citizen, pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist group, in return for being released to Australia.
15. Dana Priest, "CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons," Washington Post, Nov. 2, 2005. Reported "contours" of the CIA "black site" detention program based on "current and former U.S. intelligence officials and foreign sources."
16. In a speech on Sept. 6, 2006, 
President Bush announced that 14 of the "black site" detainees had been transferred to Guantanamo to face justice via military tribunals; so far none has been charged with any crime.
17. Peter G. Gosselin and Robin Wright, "Showdown with Iraq," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 26, 2003. Reports that White House economic advisor Lawrence B. Lindsey's estimate that Iraq war's cost could run between $100 billion and $200 billion was dismissed by the administration and that Lindsey was subsequently fired at least in part, many speculate, because of his estimate.
18. Prepared statement of Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, before the House Committee on the Budget, Oct. 24, 2007. www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/86xx/doc8690/ 10-24-CostOfWar_Testimony.pdf.
19. Congressional Budget Office (Mike Waters), "Federal Funding for Homeland Security: An Update," July 20, 2005. www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/65xx/doc6566/ 7-20-HomelandSecurity.pdf. Summarizes funding in 2003 and 2004, estimates funding in 2005, cites requested funding for 2006.
Pam Fessler, "Homeland Security Spending on the Rise" (An Inside Look: 
President Bush's 2007 Budget), NPR.org., Feb. 6, 2006. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=5192631. Reports on requested increase for 2007.
20. icasualties.org/oif/
21. www.iraqbodycount.org/