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A few research links, and a last note on the Bush/Obama flap

UN Data : search or browse all the statistics, including latest news. DMV.org , unofficial guide to DMVs in all 50 states. VINcheck from Natl Insurance Crime Bureau, find if a vehicle is reported stolen. Canadian Police Information Centre Has a similar search for Canada. Using del.icio.us to create dynamic Web links pages : great presentation showing steps to making del.iciou.us links and feeding them to populate subject guides. Newsroom intranet editors, take note. This could be really useful and is well explained. This headline caught my eye on Memeorandum today: from the L.A. Times, Negotiating isn't Appeasement , by J. Peter Scoblic. ...if there is anything that has been discredited by history, it is the argument that every enemy is Hitler, that negotiations constitute appeasement, and that talking will automatically lead to a slaughter of Holocaust-like proportions. (updated:) And one more, from Patrick Buchanan: Bush Plays the Hitler Card . ...Eisenhower, Nixon, Gerald Ford ...

Presidential criticism

You'd think, in the last year of an administration, the president would keep a steady hand and try not to rile the waters. But that's not happening here. Two comments by George W. Bush have angered a lot of people. Will Bunch and Keith Olbermann have a lot to say about this: Olbermann on Bush's interview with Politico.com, including the comment that he's had to give up golfing out of respect for the mothers of dead soldiers, Mr. President, the war isn’t about you — or golf . President Bush has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration and public life dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations. And he has now applied these poisons to the 2008 presidential election, on behalf of the party at whose center he and John McCain lurk. ...You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed. Sir, to show your solidarity with them you gave up golf? Sir, to show your solidarity with them you didn't give up your pursuit...