American Recipes, on USA.gov

American Recipes, on USA.gov – I ran across this site of what looks to be tasty recipes while taking a stab at compiling other government cooking sites. They’ve got links to heart healthy dishes, armed forces recipes cards and wild game recipes. If you try any of the recipes, let me know how they [...]

U.S. oil production : the effect of low oil prices.

A problem we don’t worry about today with oil at nearly $90/barrel:
U.S. oil production : the effect of low oil prices.
Subject: Petroleum industry and trade United States.
The above link will take you to the record for this 1987 Office of Technology Assessment report in my library. For a list of other libraries that hold this [...]

Investigation of the Ukrainian famine, 1932-1933 : first interim report of meetings and hearings of and before the Commission on the Ukraine Famine :

One of the many interesting items in my library’s federal documents collection:

Investigation of the Ukrainian famine, 1932-1933 : first interim report of meetings and hearings of and before the Commission on the Ukraine Famine : held in 1986 : organizational meeting, Washington, D.C., April 23, 1986 : meeting and hearing, Washington
Subject: Famines Ukraine History Sources.
The [...]

New FGI Discussions: October 22, 2007

Govdoc’rs:
In part because of reasons I explained in a separate govdoc-l posting, Isee I’ve let close to a month go by without a “New FGI Discussions”post. Hopefully you had a RSS reader and were subscribed to our feed at
http://freegovinfo.info/blog/feed. But if not …
While I may have been quieter during this time, my colleagues andOctober Blogger [...]

Bear soup & salmon mousse : a cookbook of the Alaska Department of Fish & Game.

Need a good recipe for what you brought home from the hunt? Try this now out-of-print cookbook from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game:
Bear soup & salmon mousse : a cookbook of the Alaska Department of Fish & Game.
Subject: Cookery Alaska.Library Holdings available at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41875990

Publication info:
[Juneau, Alaska] : Alaska Dept. [...]

Burma Sanctions: Background and Options

Thanks to the hardworking folks at the Open CRS project, we have this Congressional Research Report detailing what our government has been trying to do in Burma:

Burma Sanctions: Background and Options
RS22737 October 10, 2007
On September 25, 2007, President George W. Bush announced that sanctions against Burma, which have been in place since 1997, would [...]

Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges

Here is a link to a new publication from the Army Sponsored Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College.

Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges. Authored by Dr. Sherifa D. Zuhur.
Contemporary Egypt evidences severe failures of governance and political and economic development. Along with the continued strength of moderate Islamists and [...]

Once More into the Breach

The title of this blog post is from the following Cato Institute posting:
Once More into the Breach

via Cato Daily Commentary on 10/2/07
The post examines the current push for war with Iran and compares the charges we’re hearing now to the charges in 2002 against Iraq:
The curious thing about the case against Iran, however, is [...]

Conservation could light 3 million homes

If you haven’t subscribed to usa.gov’s GovGab blog, you should. The six-person team in Colorado has fun and educational blog postings each and every day. Like this one that shows that energy conservation could yield large paybacks:

You Light Up My Life
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, if every household in the United States replaced [...]

Information R/evolution

Thanks to Samantha for pointing out this video on Twitter. It’s a fun and creative viewing. It’s a little too either/or for me. Especially now that I have some experience with wiki-spam. Still, I think many of the videos points are well taken. Especially the point about how the digital realm allows us to put [...]