Roll Call Since 1950. Another first rate online newspaper covering the people and events on Capitol Hill published Monday through Thursday while Congress is in session (Mondays only during recess).
Want to know whether the political TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases you see and read every day are factually correct? You should. FactCheck.org by Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania does the research necessary to sort out the fact from fiction in today's political advertising.
News Max has become one of the biggest, if not the biggest conservative news agencies in the business. It's got a fun section called Jokes where you can read the best of the late night shows' jokes and one liners
Captain's Quarters Well done, prominent conservative news blog. Lots of good conservative links and articles. You can even skin it!
Town Hall One of the first sites on the net, Town hall was launched in 1995 as the first conservative web community. It split from The Heritage Foundation in 2005 in order to pursue a more grass roots style of journalism/activism aimed at informing, empowering and mobilizing citizens for political change. Their mission statement is to amplify conservative voices in America's political debates as the 2008 election cycle begins.
The English language is important to me. I hope it is to you too. It's important to speak good English. Good English improves the impression you make on people. It improves your thinking process. A large vocabulary is personally empowering and increases enjoyment of life.
Project Gutenberg Named after the man who invented the printing press. As its name suggests it's all about books. Lots and lots of them. If it's out of print, fear not. It's probably available online at Project Gutenberg, free of charge.
The Weekly Standard Popular well-written conservative weekly founded by William Kristol focussing on Arts, Books & Literature and current events mostly political both national (U.S.) and International). Kristol is also co-founder and chairman of the Project for the New American Century - the architects of the policy behind the invasion of Iraq and Bush's "Axis of Evil" declaration against Iraq, Iran And N. Korea.
Libertarian non-interventionist website frequented by pacifists, leftists and Pat Buchanan style republicans.
Government Secrecy Government Transparency & Accountability
If you live in Canada or the U.S. you live in an age in which your government is turning more and more to secrecy as a means of governance and domestic policy. I believe this trend is dangerous. It is a betrayal of our democratic freedoms for which so many throughout history, have died. These groups all make it their business to expose secret domestic ops by government and to make secret government documents public and to prevent government from making other documents secret without cause or due process. I don't believe we have to be paranoid but we do have to be vigilant. As the great German historian Detlev Peukert wrote:
The struggle for freedom must always be resumed afresh, both in inquiry and in action.
I hope you value and enjoy these organizations and their websites as much as I do.
I love artwork. It's a welcome, almost physical relief (for me at least) from the grind. Artwork, Images, Visions whatever you want to call it nourishes, refreshes and brightens my mind. The images, otherworldly and natural, you will find on these sites are a reflection of my taste, perhaps of my spirit. I think you'll find something you like in these galleries. Set aside a half hour or so sometime, push your work aside and treat yourself to new perspectives on shape and perception.
Really neat gallery of photos taken all over the world and available as wallpapers and desktops including a couple of galleries that I particularly like called Mountain Adventure and Civilizations . Believe me you will want to save at least on of Tuan's photos to your disk.
Vision Afar Beautiful, surreal other world imagery by Gary Tonge. Once you go, you will be loathe to leave!
Cnet Speakeasy has become a largely pro Bush, pro Iraq war forum
where centrists and leftists are the minority. It's a good place to go for intense and lively debate.
In fact, he debate has become so intense/uncivil, they had to impose a "no religious or political discussions" rule! Just recently the ban on religious comments was lifted.
Technorati One of the major destinations on the web today. If you want to search blogs this is your site.
Technorati is maybe the biggest Internet search engine for searching blogs. It competes with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. Technorati indexes more than 75 million web logs (blogs) and that number is constantly growing. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, (a word formed by combining two or more words) referring to the technological version of "literati" or intellectuals, hence "Technorati". Technorati won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.
Drudge Retort
Left leaning, progressive response to the Drudge Report that present news in the same format as Drudge but with a left slant to the stories and links.
One of the biggest online reference resources I've ever seen.
The Onion Award winning, popular, "news" site that takes a satirical approach to reporting the headlines published weekly in print and daily online.
Biography.com. Great place to learn a little more about your favorite heroes and villains!
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If you like newspapers, here's your site!
Today's Papers A daily roundup of the main stories carried by the major U.S. newspapers, by Slate Magazine
Cursor Progressive news magazine that seeks to educate the public on the relationship between media and society focusing on world news and alternative media perspectives. Includes many links to opinion pieces by columnists and writers, periodicals, book reviews, television, and other media resources.
UTNE Reader Founded in 1984 by Eric Utne, UTNE Reader reprints what they feel are the best articles from over 2,000 alternative media outlets.
History News Network History News Network (HNN) takes an historical approach to news believing that all news has its roots in history, its ironies and lessons, and that the news should only be, or is best presented in, its proper historical context. HNN believes that modern journalism, obsessed with sensationalism and ratings ploys, fails in its duty to report the link between history and news and that worse still, it misrepresents the link between history and news.
As HNN states on its website:
Among the many duties we assume are these: To expose politicians who misrepresent history. To point out bogus analogies. To deflate beguiling myths. To remind Americans of the irony of history. To put events in context. To remind us all of the complexity of history.
Do you have some extra time on your hands? Are you interested in the stars, in astronomy? Join the
GalaxyZoo project and help classify galaxies. It's a great chance to contribute to scientific research, and you'll get to see parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of the glorious diversity of galaxies that pepper the sky.
