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Bushology Interactive:
2000 - 2004
General sources

1. Campaign Financing
     Campaign Finance Information Center
     Center for Responsive Politics
     Common Cause
     FEC Info
     FollowTheMoney
     The Money Map

2. Corporate searches
     Corporate Watch
     Corporate Information
     Florida corporate search
     Hoovers Online
     Search Systems (public records, nationwide)
     Texas corporate search

2a. Big oil
     American Petroleum Institute
     Independent Petroleum Association of America
     Federal agencies
          Department of Energy (Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy)
          Department of Interior (Gale Norton, Secretary of Interior)
          * Minerals Management Service
          * Helen Rumbelow & Neely Tucker, Washington Post, "Interior's Norton Cited For Contempt In Trust Suit," September 18, 2002. (Re: Trust fund for Native Americans)

--Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, "Contempt Ruling Against Norton Reversed," July 19, 2003.

2b. Big tobacco
Tobacco industry
Corporate profiles
Special/public interest groups
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Tobacco BBS (Gene Borio)
Tobacco Control Resource Center (latest news)
Tobacco Documents Online
Federal regulators
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Food & Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Justice
--Dan Eggen & Marc Kaufman, Washington Post, "Tobacco Suit Lawyers May Be Reassigned," April 26, 2001.
--Editorial, Washington Post, "A Retreat on Tobacco?", April 27, 2001.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, "Calling for Philip Morris: George W. Bush [and Karl Rove]," November 8, 1999

U.S. House Committee on Commerce (Chairman: W. J. "Billy" Tauzin, R-Louisiana)
State issues
State Tobacco Information Center
--STIC Libraries (state-by-state)
National Association of Attorneys General
--Master List of Attorneys General
--Summary of the agreement

Attorneys' fees
--Overlawyered.com

3. Freedom of Information Act
     Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act
     FOIA: Sample letters
     Freedom of information: State statutes

4. Legal resources
     American Bar Association
     FindLaw Library
     Lawyers.com
     Legal Research Sources
     Martindale-Hubbell

5. Mainstream media (For others, see: News Archives & Newslink)
     ABC News
          --ABC This Week
          --ABC Nightline
     Advertising Age
          --100 top media companies
          --100 top advertisers
     Associated Press (National)
     CBS News
--48 Hours

--Face the Nation
--Sixty Minutes
--Sixty Minutes II
     Chicago Tribune
     CNN
          --CNN Capital Gang
          --CNN Crossfire
          --CNN Larry King Live
          --CNN Late Edition
          --CNNReliable Sources
          --CNN TalkBack Live
     C-SPAN
     Los Angeles Times
     National Public Radio
     NBC News
          --NBC Meet the Press
     Newhouse News Service
     Newsday
     Newsweek
     New York Times
     PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
     Reuters
     Time
     USA Today
          --Freedom Forum
     U.S. News & World Report
     Wall Street Journal (news, not opinion; subscription necessary)
     Washington Post

6. Online publications
    AlterNet
     American Politics Journal
     American Prospect
     Blueprint
     Campaigns and Elections
     Common Dreams
     Consortium News
     Daily Howler
     Extra! (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
     Media News
     Media Transparency
     Mother Jones
     The Nation
     New York Observer
     Online Journal
     Salon
     Slate
     Tom Paine

7. Political Parties
    The Democrats
     Democrats Abroad
     Democratic National Committee
          * Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
          * Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
     The GOP
     Republicans Abroad
     Republican National Committee
          * National Republican Congressional Committee
          * National Republican Senatorial Committee
          * Republican National Lawyers Association

8. Polling organizations
     Craciun Research Group, Inc.
     Doyle Research Associates
     Gallup Organization
     Harris Interactive
     National Council on Public Polls
     Polling Report
     Public Agenda
     Zogby International

9. Right-wing media (Also see: Right-Wing Interactive, conservative columnists)
     Accuracy in Media
     American Spectator
--Byron York, The Atlantic, "The Life and Death of The American Spectator," November 2001.
     Capitol Hill Blue
     Christian Broadcasting Network
     Conservative News Service
     Drudge Report
     Free Republic
          --Downside Legacy at Two Degrees of President Clinton
          --Media: The Players
     Rush Limbaugh
     Media Research Center
     National Review
     News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch)
          --Fox News
          --New York Post
          --Weekly Standard
     NewsMax
     Scaife Foundations (Richard Scaife)
          --Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
     Unification Church (Rev. Sun Myung Moon)
          --Washington Times
          --Insight
          --United Press International
          --Washington Times Foundation (no known link)
          --World and I
     Wall Street Journal (editorial page only)
     WorldNetDaily

10. Search engines (general)
     All the Web
     Alta Vista
     Google

11. Special/public-interest groups
     American Association of Political Consultants
     American Association for Retired Persons
     American Civil Liberties Union
     Anti-Defamation League
     Campaign for America's Future
     Center for Public Integrity
     Consumer Union
     Corporate Watch
     Environmental Defense Fund
     Greenpeace USA
     Handgun Control Inc.
     Infact
     League of Women Voters
     NAACP
     National Coalition Against Censorship
     National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling
     National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
     National Organization for Women
     National Security Archive
     Natural Resources Defense Council
     OMB Watch
     Partnership for a Drug-Free America
     People for the American Way
          --Buying a Movement: Right-Wing Foundations and American Politics
          --Right Wing Watch Online
     Planned Parenthood Federation of America
     Project Censored
     Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
     Project Vote Smart
     Public Citizen
     Sierra Club

12. Think tanks (Also see: Robert Kuttner, American Prospect, "Philanthropy and Movements," July 15, 2002.)
     American Enterprise Institute
     Brookings Institute
     Cato Institute
     Center for Strategic & International Studies
     Heritage Foundation
     Hoover Institute
     Institute for Policy Studies
     New American Foundation
     Rand

1. U. S. Congress
     Congressional Quarterly
     Congress Watch (independent public-interest group)
     General Accounting Office
     Government Printing Office
     The Hill (independent publication)
     Library of Congress
          --Copyright Office
          --Law Library of Congress
     Roll Call (independent publication)
     THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
     U. S. Federal Government Agencies Directory
     U. S. House of Representatives
     U. S. Senate

2. U. S. Judiciary
     Federal Judicial Center
     Federal Judiciary
     Pacer
     U.S. Supreme Court
     U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
     U.S. Tax Court

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