News & Politics

• CapitolStrategy.com This Washington Politics Portal and Political Site of the Day award winner has been described on CNN as "probably the best single page directory of Internet sites that deal with politics and public affairs that I've ever seen ..."

• PurePolitics.com A political portal that's informative and entertaining. It provides news, educational resources, humor, games, and a wide selection of links.

• PoliticalInformation.com A political and policy search engine and directory linking to more than 5000 politics-related sites.

• Technorati Technorati tells you everything you need to know about the blogworld "cosmos" and more.

• Newsback News discussion community. The forum and news website made especially so that users can comment about current events and talk about the news with other people.

• TruthLaidBear The TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem, the New Blog Showcase, The Blogosphere Daily News & more, courtesy of The Truth Laid Bear.

• Liberal Links Ever since I started writing Dubya's Dayly Diary, I've discovered many excellent left-leaning political sites. So many, in fact, that I decided to devote an entire page to them. Many of the sites listed on that page are outstanding sources of news.

• Global Politician An informative journal of politics, history, economics and international affairs. Global Politician is full of information about popularly-known, as well as little-known events in the U.S. and around the world.

• MyStolenNation With biting humor, twisted cartoons, and revealing commentary, MyStolenNation strives to put a smile on your face and a thought in your head. And it succeeds very well. If you're a free thinking aficionado, this site's for you.

• Distressed American Entertaining and insightful protest art by Brad Russell. His site's theme is: "Bush is a joke. Laugh him out of office." Sounds like a plan!

• Political Crossfire Forums - Discussions A forum to discuss and debate political issues and help you find current political and government news.

• ThomasMc A daily news and opinion magazine that questions the status quo. And the status quo sure as hell needs questioning.

• ModerateIndependent.com This new political site promises to be a winner. And it boasts a great slogan: "not left, not right, just right."

• Mad Kane's Political Humor Mad Kane's political humor columns and song parodies from a liberal point of view, including the award winning Dubya's Dayly Diary.

• Government Guide This handy site allows you to search for local political info by zip code or city and state.

• DraftGore Launched by "grassroots Democrats from across the country who believe Al Gore is the only true voice of the Democratic Party and the only viable and deserving candidate for the nomination in 2004." Perhaps Gore will comment on this site and movement in his weblog.

• Notables Weblog Links My Notables Blog is packed with links to excellent political weblogs and sites.

• Lord Bonkers' Diary This entertaining British site takes a satirical look at the Liberal Democrats and British politics in general. The author explains that" Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South-West 1906-10." Lord B is the - fictional - diarist for Liberator, the radical Liberal periodical.

• OpinioNet.com Recently named Political Site of the Day, OpinioNet provides conservative commentaries, polls, news, information and views on politics, culture, the environment, health and other issues.

• Political Resources Provides resources to candidates, issues and corporate campaigns. Includes political products and services directory, a Job Board, Campaigns Online links, political publications samples and direct mail lists. Be sure to subscribe to its free Political Web Notes.

• Govspot.com This well-organized portal has a huge amount of information about U.S, Federal, state, and local government and it covers worldwide government information as well. No thumbnail description can do its breadth of coverage justice. And if you're running for political office, visit this terrific site to cram for your next debate.

Newsletters

• Witworld/Witnews Witworld is home to the entertaining Witnews Humor Weekly (WHW) ezine. WHW zeroes in on the ludicrous, the silly, or the just plain inane aspects of top news stories.

• Mad Kane's Humor Newsletter Features highlights from Madkane.com's humor about politics and other topics.

• Wilson's Almanac & Planet Directory Free email-zine featuring Daily Celebrations: folklore of each day; global festivals; ancient Christian & pagan calendar customs; New Age; spiritual; alternatives; On This Day; inspiration; and humor.

• LinkyDinky.com This twice weekly newsletter emails you useful, bizarre and fun web sites. The publishers of this entertaining newsletter hunt for cool sites so you don't have to.

• LangaList Newsletter Fred Langa's free email newsletter will help you get more from your hardware, software, and online time. I, for one, can use his help and I'm betting you can too.

People

• Steve The Whistler The official website of Steve "The Whistler" Herbst, a grand champion whistler who's "made whistling into an art form," according to Dino Anagnost, Musical Director of NYC's Little Orchestra Society. The site features sound clips from Herbst's CD.

• Biography.com This Biography Magazine website has a searchable database of public figure bios.

Radio & Television

• Radio Connection An entertainment industry school with 5,000 students worldwide who train on-site at major film studios, video production companies, radio and TV stations, recording studios and record labels.

• Moonrock Radio The slogan of this London-based Net radio show is "invested with attitude." Who knew finance and market information could be so much fun?

• Meria Heller's Radio Show Searching for progressive radio? You've found it here. Meria Heller's topics include politics, humanity, human rights, social injustices, planetary destructions, ecological disasters, and life itself.

• Mad Kane's Media & Publishing Humor Page. To make it easier to find my media and publishing humor, I've created this media humor page. It includes humor columns and song parodies about tv, radio, newspapers, embedded journalists, Oprah, book clubs, and other media topics.

• RadioDailyNews.com Radio and broadcasting news, links, commentary, and information. This is a "must-link" for any radio fan and will definitely feed my talk radio addiction.

• Radio-Locator Links to more than 9,000 radio stations throughout the world, broadcasting online and on the regular radio waves. A great find for radio addicts like me.

• PBS The informative online arm of Public Television.

Search Engines, Portals & Internet Guides

• Harley Hahn A fun and informative site by the best selling author of Harley Hahn's Internet Yellow Pages, which is now online.

• U.S. News Archives on the Web This fine resource provides links to United States news archives. Papers are arranged by state, with links to the newspaper home page or the news archives search page and info re charges, if any, and archive dates.

• Wall Street Executive Library An excellent portal to the Web's best business sites including "content rich information sources for news, finance, industry research, and market research.

• WorldSwitch.com WorldSwitch's stated mission is "to provide a hand-checked, quality global road map of all available sources of information... We want to have a site that is as simple and easy to use as the bookmarks on your computer..." This super-fast directory does all that and more and is well worth repeated visits.

• Info Service A well organized directory with over 71,400 links under a wide variety of categories.

• 1st SPOT Your First Stop on the Net A well organized portal with a wide variety of links.

• Big Eye This well-organized, easy-to-use, and selective portal presents links under more than thirty categories including some common ones (shopping, finance, travel, literature, music and humor) and some less common ones (alt-news, visual arts, liberty, and genealogy.)

• RefDesk.com The stated goal of this site is: "(1) fast access, (2) intuitive and easy navigation and (3) comprehensive content, rationally indexed." It succeeds admirably and is a terrific resource created by a fellow named Drudge ... but not the Drudge you've all come to love ... or hate. Drudge is an unusual name, you say? Indeed it is: RefDesk is the creation of Matt Drudge's father.

Travel

• Travel Links 'n Guides A wealth of worldwide travel information including links to interesting travel websites and a database filled with info and facts about (almost) any travel destination.

• Mexico Cruises and Information Guide This easy to navigate travel site says: "Let our agency be your guide to Mexico." Contains information about Mexico Cruises, Ports of Call and Cruise Destinations.

• Mad Kane's Travel Humor My travel humor, including columns about tubing in upstate New York, mountain climbing in Utah, weekend trips, houseguests, and other vacation related humor.

• Barrhead Travel Scotland's Barrhead Travel is packed with UK info about holiday travel, flights, cruises, and other travel related information.

• Rolandomio.com Rolandomio.com is a "Global online travel and flight-booking site for smart Travelers."

• #1 Links Lots of discount travel information including hotels, car rentals, and airlines plus travel related links.

Women

• Sunshine A fine collection of articles and links related to women and feminism.

• Ladyfire This women's site and magazine has lots of entertaining and informative articles and links that will appeal to both sexes.

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