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I have many and extremely varied interests, ranging from Judaism to Ultimate to Genealogy, and, as I live in the DC area, politics, particularly US politics (both current events and history). And more!


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  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&action=edit§ion=1 Report here] {{vandal|username_or_ip}} optional brief reason for listing (keep it short) -- ~~~~
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  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace List of vandalism warnings]
  • Dealing with Vandalism - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dealing_with_vandalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dealing_with_vandalism]
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= Congressional Templates =

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  • {{CongBio|R000243|(default=name of page)}} gives you "{{CongBio|R000243|name of page}}"

= External Links: 2006 Election =

These are some of the links that I frequently use in following the 2006 election. If you're reading this, and you find other useful ones, please add them!

  • For all results in one place, http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006//pages/results/states/VA/index.html, simply replace "VA" with whatever state you need
  • [http://www.cqpolitics.com/ The king - CQPolitics.com]
  • [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/ The Green Papers -- excellent reference resource]
  • [http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/ TPMCafe Election Central - polls and stories]
  • [http://tpmmuckraker.com/ TPMMuckraker - scandals]
  • [http://electoral-vote.com/ Electoral Vote.com]
  • [http://nationaljournal.com/racerankings/house/ Nat Journal's ranked list of most likely seats to flip]
  • [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/writeup/election_2006-21.html Real Clear Politics, ranked list of seats most likly to flip]
  • [http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/ Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball]
  • [http://www.cookpolitical.com/races/house/chart.php Cook Political Report]
  • [http://unfutz2.blogspot.com/2006/10/election-projections-survey-master.html meta-survey of projections]
  • [http://pollster.com Pollster.com]

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Two columns for references? 

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See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles Sources of Articles].

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  • {{birth date and age |1953|12|22}} yields {{birth date and age |1953|12|22}}
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To Do List

  • Bradley Schlozman -- good summary [http://tpmcafe.com/blog/specialguests/2007/may/08/tpmtv_guide_tuesday_may_8 here]
  • Johnnie Burton -- part of Abramoff? See [http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/05/another_key_res.html here]
  • Abramoff update, see [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/grandolddocket.php here]
  • 2005 Georgia Voter ID Law -- or something entitled something like that
  • Veco scandal -- see [http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003173.php here]
  • Joey Fay, corrupt union official, involved with a number of pols in the 1940's and 1950's
  • 495/Beltway: resources to update: lots of links from [http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Capital_Beltway.html here]
  • update Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act to include information about Administration's withholding of accurate cost estimates, see, e.g., [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0312-01.htm here] and [http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0704/070704cdam2.htm here]
  • Thomas M. Davis - article way too negative
  • Ohio Investment Scandal -- apparently Coingate is only one part
  • a "Coingate" box?
  • Terrence W. Gasper, former chief financial officer for the workers' comp bureau of Ohio, indicted on charges, among other things, for receiving $25K in laundered money from Tom Noe. See [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/BREAKINGNEWS/60601032 here].
  • two more indicted for alleged BWC bribes [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060620/NEWS02/606200416]
  • more Toledo Blade articles [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/temaoversikt?Dato=20060620&Kategori=NEWS02&Lopenr=606200416&Ref=AR here]
  • reorg Jeanine Pirro
  • J. Joseph Curran, Jr. with info from [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050701182.html here].
  • Mayors of Newark, start with Leo P. Carlin and work backwards. [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/newark.html]
  • District of Columbia voting rights
  • Frank Rudolph Wolf - stub
  • Jim Moran -
  • Congressional Districts, might United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts District 1 be a template? (If anybody knows of a better generic one, please let me know!)
  • converting generic succession boxes to {{USRepSuccession}} for US Reps?
  • Sprauges, Sprague family; Lodge family (look in political graveyard); Freulinhuysen family page...
  • Sprague, see [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsprague.htm here], [http://www.bergen.org/jfk/vips.html here], and [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,712341,00.html here].
  • It'd be a big project: MZM
  • Is it true that JFK had no tax cuts passed?

:: He proposed tax cuts in 1962; they were passed in 1964. [http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0301jfk.htm] On a larger subject: the "Domestic Policies" section of the JFK article seems pretty dismissive. Certainly it's wrong to imply, as strongly as it does, that the tax cuts passed in 1964 owed little to his efforts. John Broughton 15:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

:::A quick scan of my old Ency. Britannica noted as accomplishments: Cuban missle crisis, which may have helped lead Kruschev to sign, 10 mos later, the nuclear test ban treaty. It notes that Congress was indeed wary of his domestic plans (one that passed was the Peace Corps) in part because of the closeness of the election -- but that Kennedy was convinced he would win a 1964 landslide against Goldwater, and get the mandate for the massive tax cut, and civil rights leglislation that he wanted. -- Sholom 21:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

  • RFK campaign missing some good details
  • Great Society is kinda short . . .
  • Interesting article at [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500025.html], which, if its information were incorporated here, would effect articles on Everglades and Fla Gov John W. Martin (where all this is missing), and adding to the following articles where it is mentioned to some degree: Lake Okeechobee, 1926 Miami Hurricane, and Herbert Hoover Dike.
  • check out Template:COTWs
  • Ed Buckham, Jack Abramoff, U.S. Family Network (and perhaps Tom DeLay), need some major updating b/c of the info in this article [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032501166_pf.html], does the Abramoff template need to include U.S. Family Network?
  • The Chandler Family and the LA Times? [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-power26mar26,0,536946.story?coll=la-home-headlines]
  • Frank Doyle Scholarships

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