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David Sifry’s annual State of the Blogosphere report: “Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we’re seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That’s about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.” Archive of reports dating back to October 2004 are linked here.
Review of the Pre-Iraqi War Activities of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, February 9, 2007 (Public Release Version) – Report Number 07-INTEL-04. Due to the large size of this report file (121 pages), it has been divided into four parts to make it easier to download. Review of the Pre-Iraqi …
Legal Permanent Residents: 2006 (PDF, 6 pages) – “This report presents information on the number and characteristics of persons who became legal permanent residents in the United States during fiscal year 2006.” Data on Legal Permanent Residents – Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2006 – “Access data on immigrants who became legal permanent residents in fiscal …
2007-P-00016 Environmental Justice Concerns and Communication Problems Complicated Cleaning Up Ringwood Mines/Landfill Site [Report PDF – 32 pages] [At a Glance PDF] April 2, 2007
Follow up to March 29, 2007 posting, Conyers Announces Justice Department Deal to Begin Staff Interviews, these two related letters: “Today, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sánchez (D-CA) sent a letter to the Attorney General’s Special Counsel and White House Liaison Monica Goodling, through her attorney John M. Dowd, …
Follow up to this March 12, 2007 posting, OMB Releases Database on Earmarks in Appropriations Bills for FY 2005, today the OMB “updated its earmarks database with details on 13,496 earmarks totaling more than $19 billion for Fiscal Year 2005 appropriations.”
TRAC press release: “Among the observations that can be made from the new December 2006 data – measured in per-capita terms, Wyoming led all districts in federal drug and weapons convictions. For that month, Wyoming ranked first among judicial districts with more than six times the conviction rate for the U.S. as a whole in …
“The Copyright Renewal Database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. Note that the database includes ONLY US Class A (book) renewals. The period from 1923-1963 is of special interest for US copyrights, as works published …
Politicizing National Security, by Aziz Huq, April 4, 2007: “Aziz Huq directs the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in Times of Terror, and recipient of a 2006 Carnegie Scholars Fellowship.” Mr. Huq focuses on three recent issues to highlight his …
Press release: “Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Memorandum Opinion and Order (Order) that terminates its proceeding on the use of cellular phones on airplanes. In December 2004, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to examine the existing rule that requires cellular phones to be turned off once an aircraft …
Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, Updated March 27, 2007 Pakistan and Terrorism: A Summary, March 27, 2007 Post-War Iraq: Foreign Contributions to Training, Peacekeeping, and Reconstruction, Updated March 21, 2007 U.S. Foreign Aid to Lebanon: Issues for Congress, March 21, 2007 Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, Updated March 13, 2007
Antitrust Modernization Commission Report and Recommendations, April 2007. Full Report (540 pages) Press Release