Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

Will the next incumbent be able to put on such a great Halloween party?  Whitehouse.gov has the ghost’s a bustin’.

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Campaign cash– the business of the Federal Election Commission, FEC. You can get a graphic sense of how the national candidates are rasing funds to ensconce themselves for the upcoming term using this interactive website.

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The friendly upbeat folks at the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, will keep you from sleeping tonight if you read a few of the reports on the economy that have been released in the last few weeks…
“…recent developments in financial markets represent a severe credit crunch, which could have devastating effects on the U.S. and [...]

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From the White House Press Gaggle:
Q Well how would you — sorry, how would you characterize the relationship these days between Secretary Powell and President Bush?
MS. PERINO: It’s very good. Yes. Last thing I knew — I think that the President was just over at his house for dinner [...]

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No I am not making this up — headline in a USA Today article, “Pentagon envisions spaceship troopers.” Of course the DOD has been ramping up for space warfare (dominance is their term of choice) for years. However, given the current financial situation perhaps the money would be better spent tilting at windmills.

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Of course with the general election only a few weeks away it would be silly to step back in time, right? In an effort to avoid the 24/7 news cycle it is time for a trip down memory (LOC style) lane. Seems that at the end of the 18th Century the Federalist and Anti-Federalists were [...]

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We in docs-land are often ask how many homeless are there? The Census Bureau does not directly count these folks; they use  a category of “group quarters” to nail down a number. There are numerous studies and estimates in Census land and they did attempt to make a count in 1990 but that proved ineffective.
But [...]

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Why is this not funny? Take a gander at the National Security and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century report issued last month by DOE and DOD then read the reaction at the FAS website. 

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This Press release on housing from the Bureau of the Census seems quite timely.  It is reassuring (!?) that…
“Slightly less than 3 million homes had broken windows; slightly more than 3 million had bars on the windows.”
The full report– 2007 American Housing Survey (AHS) is online.

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Normally we at the docs blog ignore current politics, but a couple of stories drew our attention this week. First a long article in The Nation and a similar article in the Washington Post on the POW history of Senator John McCain (Senator Barrack Obama also faced similar excoriations).
Considering the furor wrought during the 2004 [...]

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