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In Series of Videos, Supreme Court Justices Make Their Case – Justices’ candid observations and pet peeves spill forth in legal writing guru Bryan Garner’s video interviews. Legal Times, Tony Mauro March 11, 2008. “…the collection of videos on LawProse.org were shot at the Supreme Court and they star eight of the nine justices speaking …
News release: “While the world-leading pace of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific has contributed to the regions growth it has also driven up urban poverty, according to the latest edition of the Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific…The Yearbook, produced by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
NARA’s Federal Records Centers Offer Agencies Storage, Easy Use for 80 Billion Pages of Documents. By Tara E. C. McLoughlin “Through its nationwide network of 17 facilities with more than 1,100 federal employees, the centers serve 400 federal agencies. FRCs [Federal Records Centers] store and service every kind of federal recordtax returns, claims files for …
“The Prime Minister has set out the Government’s approach to dealing with threats to national security, ranging from war and terrorism to climate change, disease and poverty. Speaking to MP’s in the House of Commons earlier today, Mr Brown said that the nature of the threats faced by the British people has changed “beyond all …
Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2006 – Statistical Tables [see also PDF version]: “This web page describes background checks for firearm transfers conducted in 2006. The statistical tables below provide the number of applications checked by state points of contact and local agencies; the number of applications denied and the reasons for denial; and estimates …
Iraq – “There have been 4,297 coalition deaths — 3,990 Americans, two Australians, 175 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, one Korean, three Latvian, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians — in the …
Congressional Research Service, Disability Retirement for Federal Employees, March 18, 2008. Patrick Purcell, Specialist in Income Security, Domestic Social Policy Division: “Federal civilian employees earn 13 days of paid sick leave per year. Sick leave can be used because of the worker’s own illness or injury or to care for an ill or injured family …
An Analysis of the President’s Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2009 (74 pages, PDF) The Long-Term Budgetary Effects of Three Specified Policy Scenarios, March 14, 2008 CBO Testimony: Statement of Eric J. Labs, Senior Analyst, Current and Projected Navy Shipbuilding Programs before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today released new data on high-speed connections to the Internet in the United States. Twice a year, all facilities-based broadband providers are required to report to the Commission basic information about their service offerings and types of customers pursuant to the FCCs local telephone competition and broadband data …
The Future of Iraq: “Five years after the U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, the debate on how the United States should proceed in the divided nation is as heated as ever. Although violence has declined, the U.S. military remains in a fight for peace and stability, while a divided Iraqi government has failed to …
National Archives and Records Administration: “The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and the National Archives opened 11,046 pages of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s White House schedules. These Presidential records are…now available [via this page at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum site]…These schedules are from the First Lady’s Staff files of Patti …
Pew Research Center, Public Attitudes Toward the War in Iraq: 2003-2008 – March 19, 2008: “Five years after the start of the conflict in Iraq, many public evaluations of the situation in Iraq have turned more positive. But there has been no turnaround in the public’s opinion about the original decision to take military action …
