Friday, May 27, 2011

Progressive Pervert John Edwards Sinks into Deeper Legal Abyss

John Edwards official Senate photo portrait.Image via Wikipedia
The United States Department of Justice has green-lighted the prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards for alleged violations of campaign laws while he tried to cover up an extra-marital affair, ABC News has learned.

A source close to the case said Edwards is aware that the government intends to seek an indictment and that the former senator from North Carolina is now considering his limited options. He could accept a plea bargain with prosecutors or face a potentially costly trial.
ABC News

New York: Randy Altschuler Will Try to Rid Long Island of Tim Bishop Again

From The Campaign Spot.

Monday, May 23, 2011

US Government Acronyms: XYZ

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YRBSS Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
ZIP (Code) Zone Improvement Plan

US Government Acronyms: W

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WAOB World Agricultural Outlook Board
WAPA Western Area Power Administration
WB Women's Bureau
WBC Women's Business Centers 
WES Waterways Experiment Station (see ERDC)
WFP United Nations/Food and Agricultural Organization World Food Program
WH White House
WHD Wage and Hour Division
WHMO White House Military Office
WHO World Health Organization
WIC Women, Infants and Children, Special supplemental food program for
WIN Weight-control Information Network
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
WISQARS Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
WNC World News Connection
WNET Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training
WS Wildlife Services
WSMR White Sands Missile Range
WSP Witness Security Program | Work Stoppages Program
WTB Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
WTO World Trade Organization

US Government Acronyms: V

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VA Department of Veterans Affairs
VABCA Department of Veterans Affairs' Board of Contract Appeals (absorbed into CBCA)
VAERS Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
VAWO Office on Violence Against Women
VBA Veterans Benefits Administration
VCI Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
VEF Vietnam Education Foundation
VETS Veterans' Employment and Training Service
VGLI Veterans' Group Life Insurance
VHA Veterans Health Administration
VICAP Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
VIS Vaccine Information Statements
VISTA Volunteers in Service to America
VOA Voice of America
VPOTUS Vice President of the United States
VWP Visa Waiver Program

US Government Acronyms: U

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) logoImage via Wikipedia
UBPR Uniform Bank Performance Report
UI Unemployment Insurance
UMESC Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
U.N. United Nations
UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
UNICOR Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
UPU Universal Postal Union
USA United States Army
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USAF United States Air Force
USAFA United States Air Force Academy
USAFC USA Freedom Corps (changed to Serve.gov)
USAID United States Agency for International Development
USAP United States Antarctic Program
USBG United States Botanic Garden
USBR Bureau of Reclamation
U.S.C. United States Code
USCAVC United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
USCC United States-China Security Review Commission
USCCR United States Commission on Civil Rights
US-CERT United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
USCG United States Coast Guard
USCIRF United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
USCIS U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
USCS United States Customs Service
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USES United States Employment Service (defunct; see Wayback Machine)
USFA U.S. Fire Administration
USGRCP United States Global Change Research Program
USGS United States Geological Survey
USIA United States Information Agency (changed to IIP)
USIP United States Institute of Peace
USITC United States International Trade Commission
USMC United States Marine Corps
USMS United States Marshals Service
USN United States Navy
USNCB United States National Central Bureau of INTERPOL
USPC United States Parole Commission
USPIS United States Postal Inspection Service
USPS United States Postal Service  [state and street abbreviations]
USPSTF U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office
USSC United States Sentencing Commission
USSS United States Secret Service
USTDA United States Trade and Development Agency
USTP U.S. Trustee Program
USTR United States Trade Representative
US-VISIT U.S. Vistor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology

US Government Acronyms: T

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TA Technology Administration (defunct; see Wayback Machine)
TAA Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms
TAATC Division of Trade Agreement Administration and Technical Cooperation
TANF Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
TBAC Tribal Budget Advisory Council
TCAC Tribal Consultation Advisory Committee
TCC Trade Compliance Center
TDA Trade and Development Agency (see USTDA)
TEAS Trademark Electronic Application System
TEFAP The Emergency Food Assistance Program
TEOAF Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture
TFF Treasury Forfeiture Fund
TIC Trade Information Center (merged with Export.gov)
TIGER Team Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery
TIGTA Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
TIPS Terrorism Information and Prevention System (defunct; see Senate hearing)
TMA TRICARE Managment Activity
TOP Technology Opportunities Program
TPS Technical Preservation Services
TRI Toxics Release Inventory
TSA Transportation Security Administration
TSC Terrorist Screening Center
TSI Transportation Safety Institute
TSO TRICARE Support Office
TSP Thrift Savings Plan
TTB Alcohol and Tobacoo Tax and Trade Bureau
TTN Technology Transfer Network
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

US Government Acronyms: S

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development CorporationImage via Wikipedia
S&T Directorate for Science and Technology
SABER Statistical Analysis Battery for Epidemiological Research
SACGHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society
SACGT Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing (absorbed by SACGHS)
SACX Secretary's Advisory Committee on Xenotransplantation (defunct; see Wayback Machine)
SAIF Saving Associate Insurance Fund (merged into DIF)
SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAOP Senior Agency Officials for Privacy
SAVE Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement
SBA Small Business Administration
SBIR Small Business Innovation Research
SBRP Superfund Basic Research Program (access forbidden 07/10; see About SBRP)
SCF Strengthening Communities Fund
SCHIP State Children's Health Insurance Program
SciDAC Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
SCNGO Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil
SCOTUS Supreme Court of the United States
SDP Sustainable Development Partnerships
SDWIS Safe Drinking Water Information System
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission | Space Environment Center (changed to SWPC)
SEDAC Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
SEDS State Energy Data System
SEER Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results
SERC Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
SES Senior Executive Service
SETS Statistical Export and Tabulation System
SEVIS Student and Exchange Visitor Information System
SEVP Student and Exchange Visitor Program
SFMNP Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
SFS Scholarship for Service
SFSP Summer Food Service Program
SGLI Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance
S/GWI Office of Global Women's Issues
SHARE Initiative Safety, Health and Return-to-Employment
SI Smithsonian Institution
SIC Standard Industrial Classification
SIES Strategic Industries & Economic Security
SIGTARP Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program
SITES Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
SJI State Justice Institute
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
SLAITS State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey
SLHIE State-level Health Information Exchange
SLSDC Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
SMART Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking
SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
SNL Sandia National Laboratories
SOL Office of the Solicitor
SPC Storm Prediction Center
SPR Strategic Petroleum Reserve
SRP Superfund Research Program
SRS Savannah River Site
SS Secret Service
SSA Social Security Administration
SSAB Social Security Advisory Board
SSBG Social Services Block Grant Program
SSI Supplemental Security Income Program
SSS Selective Service System
STAG State and Tribal Assistance Grant Programs
STAR Center for Satellite Applications and Research
Stat. United States Statutes at Large
STB Surface Transportation Board
STEWARDS Sustaining the Earth's Watersheds, Agricultural Research Data System
STI Scientific and Technical Information
STRI Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
SuDoc Superintendent of Documents
S/WCI Office of War Crimes Issues
SWPC Space Weather Prediction Center

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

US Government Acronyms: R

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RA Reserve Affairs
RAT Board Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
RBS Rural Business-Cooperative Service
RD Rural Development
REAC Real Estate Assessment Center
REAC/TS Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site
RECD Rural Economic & Community Development (replaced by RD)
REE Research, Education and Economics
REIC Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives
REIS Regional Economic Information System
REL Regional Educational Laboratory Program
RePORT Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool
RFR Reportable Food Registry
RHS Rural Housing Service
RIC Rural Information Center
RICHS Rural Information Center Health Service (defunct; see Wayback Machine)
RISC Regulatory Information Service Center
RITA Research and Innovative Technology Administration
RMA Risk Management Agency
ROBO Releases of Beneficial Organisms in the United States and Territories
ROJ Office of Field Operations, Labor Dept.
ROTC Reserve Officer Training Corps
RRB Railroad Retirement Board
RSA Rehabilitation Services Administration
RSVP Retired and Senior Volunteers Program
RUS Rural Utilities Service

US Government Acronyms: P

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PACER Public Access to Court Electronic Records
PAM Office of Acquisition and Property Management
PARIS Public Assistance Reporting Information System
PBGC Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
PBS Public Buildings Service
PC Peace Corps
PCAST President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
PCBE President's Council on Bioethics
PCC Panama Canal Commission
PCIE President's Council on Integrity and Effiency (changed to CIGIE)
PCII Protected Critical Infrastructure Information
PCLO Privacy and Civil Liberties Office (changed to OPCL)
PCLOB Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (unable to verify 8/09)
PCPID President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
PECAD Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division
PECE Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts
PedNSS Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System
PEPFAR President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
PFIAB President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
PFPA Pentagon Force Protection Agency
PHA Public Housing Agency (see PIH)
PharmPAC Pharmacist Professional Advisory Committee
PHIL Public Health Image Library
PHIN Public Health Information Network
PHMSA Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Adminsitration
PHPPO Public Health Practice Program Office (defunct; see Wayback Machine)
PHPS Public Health Prevention Service
PHS Public Health Service (see OPHS)
PHTN Public Health Training Network
PIA Privacy Impact Assessments
PIADC Plum Island Animal Disease Center
PIDB Public Interest Declassification Board
PIH Office of Public and Indian Housing
PIN Public Integrity Section
PLLI National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning (archive)
PM Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
PMB Office of Policy, Management and Budget
PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
PMI President’s Malaria Initiative
PNGV Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNSS Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System
POTUS President of the United States
POW/MP Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel
PPD Pentagon Police Department
PPQ Plant Protection and Quarantine
PRAO Professional Responsibility Advisory Office
PRC Postal Regulatory Commission
PRM Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
PSC Program Support Center
PSN Project Safe Neighborhoods
PTFP Public Telecommunications Facilities Program
PTO Patent and Trademark Office
PUMS Public Use Microdata Samples
PWBA Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (changed to EBSA)
PWSD Public Workforce System Dataset

US Government Acronyms: O

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OA Office of Administration
OAAG Office of the Associate Attorney General
OAC Office of Antiboycott Compliance
OACU Office of Animal Care and Use
OAG Office of the Attorney General
OAHP Office of Affordable Housing Preservation
OAIT Office of American Indian Trust (Archive)
OALJ Office of Administrative Law Judges
OAQPS Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
OAR Office of AIDS Research | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
OARM Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management
OAS Office of Applied Studies | Organization of American States
OASAM Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management
OASDI Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance
OAT Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
OBA Office of Biotechnology Activities
OBEMLA Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (changed to OELA)
OBI Office of Business Innovations
OBL Office of Business Liaison
OBO Bureau of Overseas Building Operations
OBPA Office of Budget and Program Analysis
OBSSR Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
OCC Comptroller of the Currency
OCDETF Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
OCE Office of the Chief Economist | Office of Congressional Ethics
OCFT Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking
OCIA Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
OCIO Office of the Chief Information Officer
OCR Office for Civil Rights (Dept. of Education)
OCRM Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
OCRS Organized Crime and Racketeering Section
OCRWM Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
OCS Office of Coast Survey | Office of Community Services
OCSC Office of Citizen Services and Communications (changed to OCSIT)
OCSE Office of Child Support Enforcement
OCSIT Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies
OCSPP Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
OCSQ Office of Clinical Standards and Quality
OD Office on Disability
ODAG Office of the Deputy Attorney General
ODEP Office of Disability Employment Policy
ODGMO Office of Departmental Grants Management and Oversight
ODLS Online Detainee Locator System
ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence
ODP Office for Domestic Preparedness (merged into FEMA) | Office of Disease Prevention
ODPHP Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
ODR Office of Dispute Resolution
OE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
OEA Office of Economic Adjustment
OECA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OEGT Office of Electronic Government and Technology (changed to egov)
OEI Office of Environmental Information
OELA Office of English Language Acquisition
OEMM Offshore Energy and Minerals Management
OEO Office of Enforcement Operations
OERI Office of Educational Research and Improvement (archive; see IES)
OERR Office of Emergency Response and Recovery
OES Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
OESE Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
OET Office of Educational Technology
OFA Office of Family Assistance
OFAC Office of Foreign Assets Control
OFAM Office of Financial and Administrative Management
OFCCP Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
OFCM Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
OFDT Office of the Federal Detention Trustee
OFHEO Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (merged into FHFA)
OFM Office of Financial Management
OFR Office of the Federal Register
OGAC Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
OGC White House Office of Global Communications
OGE Office of Government Ethics
OGHA Office of Global Health Affairs
OGIS Office of Government Information Services (.pdf)
OGP Office of Governmentwide Policy
OGWDW Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water
OHAP Office of HIV/AIDS Policy
OHASIS Office of Health and Safety Information System
OHCHR Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHHLHC Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
OHPI Office of Highway Policy Information
OHRP Office for Human Research Protections
OHS Office of Head Start
OHTA Office of Historical Trust Accounting
OIA Office of Insular Affairs | Office of International Affairs
OIE World Organization for Animal Health
OIEP Office of Indian Education Programs (changed to BIE)
OII Office of Innovation and Improvement
OIIA Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs (archive)
OIG Office of the Inspector General (DOJ) | (USDA)
OIP Office of Information and Privacy
OIPL Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison
OIPR Office of Intelligence Policy and Review
OIR Office of International Relations
OIRA Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
OIT Office of International Trade
OITA Office of International and Tribal Affairs
OJC Office of Job Corps
OJJDP Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
OJP Office of Justice Programs
OLA Office of Legislative Affairs
OLAW Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
OLC Office of Legal Counsel
OLMS Office of Labor Management Standards
OLP Office of Legal Policy
OLR Office of Labor Relations
OMAO Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
OMAR Office of Medical Applications of Research
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OME Office of Migrant Education
OMEI Office of Minority Economic Impact
OMH Office of Minority Health
OMHAR Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring (replaced by OAHP)
OMHD Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
OMHR Office of Minority Health and Research
OMM Offshore Minerals Management Program
ONAP Office of National AIDS Policy | Office of Native American Programs
ONC Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
ONCIX Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive
ONDCP Office of National Drug Control Policy
ONHIR Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation
ONPE Office of Non-Public Education
ONR Office of Naval Research
ONS Office of Nursing Services
OOHLHC Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
OPA Office of Population Affairs
OPAD Office of Policy and Development
OPC Office of the Police Corps (defunct; see Wayback Machine)
OPCL Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
OPDAT Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training
OPDR Office of Policy Development and Research
OPE Office of Postsecondary Education | Office of Public Engagement
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEPD Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development
OPHS Office of Public Health and Science
OPIC Overseas Private Investment Corporation
OPL Office of Policy and Legislation
OPL-IGA Office of Public Liaison & Intergovernmental Affairs (changed to OPE)
OPM Office of Personnel Management
OPPTS Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (changed to OCSPP)
OPR Office of Professional Responsibility
OPS Office of Pipeline Safety
OPSEC Operations Security
OPTF Obscenity Prosecution Task Force
ORA Office of Regulatory Affairs | Office of Research and Applications (changed to STAR)
ORACBA Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis
ORD Office of Rare Diseases
ORHP Office of Rural Health Policy
ORI Office of Research Integrity
ORISE Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
ORMH Office of Research on Minority Health (changed to OMHR)
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORR Office of Refugee Resettlement | Office of Response and Restoration
ORWH Office of Research on Women's Health
OSAC Overseas Security Advisory Council
OSBP Office of Small Business Programs (see OSDBU)
OSC Office of Special Counsel | Open Source Center
OSCE Office of Child Support Enforcement
OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSDBU Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
OSDFS Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
OSEC Office of the Secretary (Dept. of Labor)
OSEP Office of Special Education Programs
OSERS Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
OSF Office of Space Flight (changed to Office of Space Operations)
OSFAP Office of Student Financial Assistance Programs (changed to FSA)
OSG Office of the Solicitor General | Office of the Surgeon General
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHRC Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
OSI Office of Special Investigations
OSM Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcment | Office of Spectrum Management
OSO Office of Space Operations
OSS Office of Strategic Services
OST Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians
OSTI Office of Scientific and Technical Information
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
OSWER Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
OTA Office of Technology Assessment
OTIA Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications
OTJ Office of Tribal Justice
OTLA Office of Trade and Labor Affairs
OTP Office of Technology Policy (unable to verify 4/09; see Wayback Machine)
OTS Office of Thrift Supervision
OTT Office of Transportation Technologies (changed to FreedomCAR)
OVAE Office of Vocational and Adult Education
OVBD Office of Veterans Business Development
OVC Office for Victims of Crime
OVP Office of the Vice President
OVW Office on Violence Against Women
OWBO Office of Women's Business Ownership
OWCP Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
OWH Office on Women's Health
OWOW Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds

US Government Acronyms: N

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NAALC North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NACIC National Counterintelligence Center (merged into ONCIX)
NAEP National Assessment of Educational Progress
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NAICS North American Industry Classification System
NAIS National Animal Identification System
NAL National Agricultural Library
NAO National Applications Office
NARA National Archives and Records Administration
NAS The National Academies
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASM National Air and Space Museum
NASS National Agricultural Statistics Service
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NAWQA National Water-Quality Assessment Program
NBAC National Bioethics Advisory Commission (replaced by PCBE; archived at GU)
NBC National Business Center
NBI National Bridge Inventory
NBII National Biological Information Infrastructure
NBIS National Bridge Inspection Standards
NBL New Brunswick Laboratory
NBS National Beneficiary Survey
NCA National Cemetery Administration
NCACA National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs
NCADI National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
NCAP New Car Assessment Program
NCAVC National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime
NCBDDD National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCC National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications
NCCAM National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
NCCC National Civilian Community Corps
NCCDPHP National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
NCCIC National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center
NCCOS National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
NCCS National Center for Computational Sciences
NCCT National Center for Computational Toxicology
NCD National Council on Disability
NCDC National Climatic Data Center
NCEE National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance
NCEH National Center for Environmental Health
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NCES National Center for Education Statistics
NCETR National Center for Explosives Training and Research
NCGMP National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
NCHHSTP National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
NCHM National Center for Health Marketing
NCHS National Center for Health Statistics
NCHSTP National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (changed to NCHHSTP)
NCI National Cancer Institute
NCID National Center for Infectious Diseases (absorbed by NCHHSTP, NCIRD, NCPDCID, and NCZVED)
NCIPC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
NCIRD National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
NCIS Naval Criminal Investigative Service
NCIX Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive
NCJRS National Criminal Justice Reference Service
NCLB No Child Left Behind
NCLIS National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (defunct as of 3/08; see Wayback Machine)
NCMHD National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
NCNR NIST Center for Neutron Research
NCP National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
NCPC National Capital Planning Commission
NCPDCID National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases
NCPHI National Center for Public Health Informatics
NCPTSD National Center for PTSD
NCR National Capital Region
NCRR National Center for Research Resources
NCS National Clandestine Service | National Communications System
NCSD National Cyber Security Division
NCTC National Conservation Training Center | National Counterterrorism Center
NCTR National Center for Toxicological Research
NCUA National Credit Union Administration
NCVHS National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
NCZVED National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases
NDB NIH Data Book
NDC National Declassification Center | National Drug Code Dictionary
NDDIC National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
NDDS Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section
NDIC National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse | National Drug Intelligence Center
NDIIPP National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
NDMS National Disaster Medical System
NDPC National Domestic Preparedness Consortium
NDU National Defense University
NE Office of Nuclear Energy
NEA National Endowment for the Arts | Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
NEC National Economic Council
NED NIH Enterprise Directory
NEDM National Education Data Model
NEGP National Education Goals Panel (defunct; UNT has archived some material)
NEH National Endowment for the Humanities
NEI National Eye Institute
NEIC National Earthquake Information Center | National Enforcement Investigations Center
NEISS National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
NEJAC National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NEPIS National Environmental Publications Information System (merged into NSCEP)
NERSC National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NETL National Energy Technology Laboratory
NFA National Fire Academy
NFC National Finance Center
NFIP National Flood Insurance Program
NFIRS National Fire Incident Reporting System
NFLIS National Forensic Laboratory Information System
NGA National Gallery of Art | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NGC National Guideline Clearinghouse
NGDC National Geophysical Data Center
NHAS National HIV/AIDS Strategy
NHC National Hurricane Center
NHCBP National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program
NHGRI National Human Genome Research Institute
NHI National Highway Institute
NHIC National Health Information Center
NHIN Nationwide Health Information Network
NHL National Historic Landmarks Program
NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
NHPRC National Historical Publications and Records Commission
NHSC National Health Service Corps
NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NIA National Institute on Aging
NIAAA National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
NIAC National Infrastructure Advisory Council
NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NIAMS National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
NIBIB National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
NIC National Ice Center | National Institute of Corrections
NICHD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICS National Instant Criminal Background Check System
NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIDCD National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
NIDCR National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
NIDRR National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIFA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
NIFC National Interagency Fire Center
NIFL National Institute for Literacy
NIGC National Indian Gaming Commission
NIGMS National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIJ National Institute of Justice
NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency (replaced by NGA)
NIMH National Institute of Mental Health
NIMS National Incident Management System
NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
NINR National Institute of Nursing Research
NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NIP National Immunization Program
NIPA National Income and Product Accounts
NIPC National Infrastructure Protection Center (merged with IAIP)
NIPP National Infrastructure Protection Plan
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NISTIR National Institute of Standards and Technology Interagency Report
NITRD Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
NIWQP National Irrigation Water Quality Program
NJTTF National Joint Terrorism Task Force
NKUDIC National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse
NLE National Library of Education
NLM National Library of Medicine
NLS National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
NLRB National Labor Relations Board
NMAI National Museum of the American Indian
NMAM NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
NMAO NOA Marine and Aviation Operations
NMB National Mediation Board
NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service
NMMSS Nuclear Materials Management & Safeguards System
NMREC National Maritime Resource and Education Center
NNI National Nanotechnology Initiative
NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NODC National Oceanographic Data Center
NOS National Ocean Service
NPCR National Program of Cancer Registries
NPDB National Practitioner Data Bank
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPR National Partnership for Reinventing Government (archived at UNT)
NPS National Park Service
NPTO National Petroleum Technology Office (unable to verify 1/08; likely absorbed into SCNGO)
NR National Register of Historic Places
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission | National Response Center
NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service
NRDP National Rural Development Partnership
NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory
NREN National Research and Education Network
NREVSS National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NRO National Reconnaissance Office
NRPC National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
NRRSS National River Restoration Science Synthesis
NSA/CSS National Security Agency/Central Security Service
NSABB National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
NSC National Security Council
NSCEP National Service Center for Environmental Publications
NSD National Security Division
NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSF National Science Foundation
NSGO National Sea Grants Office
NSIP Nutrition Services Incentive Program
NSLP National School Lunch Program
NSMP National Strong-Motion Project
NSOPR National Sex Offender Public Registry (changed to NSOPW)
NSOPW Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website
NSSE National Special Security Events
NSSL National Severe Storms Laboratory
NSTC National Science and Technology Center
NSTL National Space Technology Laboratories
NTC National Training Center
NTI National Transit Institute
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
NTID National Technical Institute for the Deaf
NTIS National Technical Information Service
NTL National Transportation Library
NTP National Toxicology Program
NTRC National Transportation Research Center
NTSB National Transportation Safety Board
NURP NOAA's Undersea Research Program
NVD National Vulnerability Database
NVSS National Vital Statistics System
NWBC National Women's Business Council
NWC National War College
NWCG National Wildfire Coordinating Group
NWFSC Northwest Fisheries Science Center
NWHC National Wildlife Health Center
NWHIC National Women's Health Information Center
NWI National Wetlands Inventory
NWRC National Wetlands Research Center
NWS National Weather Service
NWTRB Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

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The Gettysburg Address

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

-- Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

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45 Goals of the Communist Party (1963)

  • 01. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
  • 02. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
  • 03. Develop the illustion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
  • 04. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
  • 05. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
  • 06. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
  • 07. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
  • 08. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under the supervision of the U.N.
  • 09. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
  • 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
  • 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
  • 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
  • 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
  • 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
  • 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
  • 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
  • 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
  • 18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
  • 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
  • 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
  • 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
  • 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
  • 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
  • 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
  • 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
  • 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
  • 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
  • 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
  • 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
  • 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
  • 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
  • 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
  • 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
  • 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
  • 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
  • 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
  • 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
  • 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
  • 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
  • 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
  • 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
  • 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
  • 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
  • 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
  • 45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.