SMC English 2 Dixon

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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FINDING STATISTICS

***Bureau of Justice Statistics***

Statistical Resources on the Web

Daycare

Daycare Debate
(a good starting point,
discusses issues and some links)

Sourcewatch
Ever wonder who experts really represent,
or which news stories are phony PR?

Urban Legends Reference Pages
PR firms have figured out how urban legends spread
and use the same mechanism, so there's a lot of overlap

The Center for Public Integrity
primarily on government corruption,
but a lot of stuff on media (you have
to buy the politicians to consolidate)

Black Box Voting.org
(the starting point. Bev Harris is
the investigator who first broke this
and has done the best research)

In Georgia, Republican Saxby Chambliss repeatedly questioned the patriotism of Democratic incumbent and triple amputee war hero Max Cleland during his campaign. Chambliss made the absurd claim that he was more patriotic than Cleland even though he had avoided service in the Vietnam war with a "medical deferment". A Poll taken by the Atlanta Journal Constitution published on November 1st, just five days before the election, showed support for Georgia Democratic Senator Max Cleland at 49%, clearly 5% ahead of Republican Saxby Chambliss at 44%. Many People in Georgia, particularly veterans, had been angered by the crude remarks made by Chambliss and they turned out in record numbers to vote for Cleland. When the 'Diebold' Electronic Voting tally was made public it stunned and confused the Georgia voters. Saxby Chambliss had won with 53% of the vote compared to Max Cleland's 46%. It represented a 13% pro-Republican swing that seemed to materialize out of cyberspace. The victories of Chambliss and Hagel, along with the tragic October 25, 2002 plane crash that killed Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone, virtually guaranteed Republican control of the Senate.

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion ... and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us,' but he will say to you, 'Be silent: I see it if you don't.'"

Congressman Abraham Lincoln, 1848

Diplomats & Military Commanders for Change
non-partisan career diplomats and Pentagon
officials critical of Bush foreign policy and
intelligence abuses in an unprecedented public letter

The Man Who Knew
(An FBI agent who hunted alQaeda,
was blocked by superiors, quit in
frustration, and went to work at the
WTC, where he was killed on 9/11)

War Is a Racket
by
Major General Smedley Butler
two time Medal of Honor winner
He tells the real cause of every
military campaign he fought in

President Eisenhower's
Farewell Address:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.