Research Tools--finding interesting statistics

Factfinder--census information:
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Consumer price index--Labor information from the govt:
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm

the CIA's factbooks
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html

Legal Resources
http://www.lpig.org/

U.S. Senate's History archives
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/minority_senators.htm

Fact Check--keeping the media honest
http://www.factcheck.org/

Stats at George Mason U...checking facts
http://stats.org/index.jsp

Find out who pays what for current legislation
http://www.ballotfunding.org/

The Resource Shelf--put together by librarians
http://www.resourceshelf.com/

The Resource Shelf's Docuticker
http://www.docuticker.com/

Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/

Earthquakes
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmajr.html

education issues
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/14_04/dan144.shtml

brookings institute
http://www.brookings.edu/index/research.htm

Peace agendas

figure out your political leanings
http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Seyla Benhabib--essay to start assessing our current war
http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/benhabib.htm

Code Pink--women for peace
http://www.codepink4peace.org/search.php

Wage Peace Campaign
http://www.afsc.org/iraq/

Campaign for innocent victims in conflict
http://press.civicworldwide.org/article.php?list=type&type=3

Raed in the middle--a blog
http://www.raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/

Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/

interesting place that searches two search engines
http://www.doubletrust.net/

Equity Agendas

Guerrilla girls...
http://www.guerrillagirls.com/

War on Women
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0310,goldstein,42322,1.html

outlawing sex traders
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0912F735590C778EDDAB0894DB404482

gender journal
http://www.genders.org/index.html

Nawal Al Saadawi
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0331230