National Debt Clock in 2002 (AP/Louis Lanzano)

See who created them.

Scout out the possibilities by reading the 2008 edition of the GPO publication “United States Government Policy and Support Positions,” also known as the “Plum Book,” the contents of which are available online.

Self-described as follows:

Published by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs…

What can voters do to help keep the lines moving on Election Day?

They can study a sample ballot before heading to the polls, mapping out their voting strategy ahead of time.

The St. Louis city election board took an extraordinary step,…

Here’s a chart that appears in the Times showing percentage returns on $10,000 investments in the S&P index by president since 1929 (crunched with and without Herbert Hoover).

Fair? Unfair?

Robert Fruend, Louise Probst & Richard Patton

The staff of the editorial page met this morning with its community advisory board and other distinguished guests for a conversation organized by Editorial Writer John Carlton, the member of the editorial board who has…

Check out this graphic put together by the Boston Globe:

Juxtaposed word clouds from McCain and Obama campaign blogs.

If we are what we eat, a presidential campaign can be measured if not judged on some level by the words it blogs most frequently.

Sometimes…

The first video footage of an interrogation of a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay military prison was made public by the Canadian lawyers for Omar Khadr.

Khadr was captured in Afghanistan 2002 at the age of 15.

The interrogation was conducted by the…

Update: Check out this fact sheet from the Concord Coalition’s Fiscal Wake Up Tour.

Further update: