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Understanding Government Policy

Federal Policy

Presidential Records Act of 1978

Executive Order 13489 - Presidential Records January 21, 2009 (Barack Obama)

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Explainers News Links 2021-2022

May 29, 2026, The 180 Million-Acre Lock: Why U.S. Agriculture Remains Anchored to Corn and Soybeans, Farm Journal AG Web

[From canola to hemp, recent history shows new crops only stick when margins and infrstructure line up for years - not seasons]

May 9, 2026, I Helped Craft the 25th Amendment. It Was Never Meant to Help Oust a President, Politico

May 8, 2026, Ranked: The World's 20 Busiest Ports, Visual Capitalist

May 4, 2026, Which Presidents Signed the Most Executive Orders, USA Facts

Apr 30, 2026, Lawmakers Agree Jack Smith's Arctic Frost Should Never Occur Again, Daily Caller

Apr 29, 2026, Here's What We know About the Climate Cost of White Trails Aircraft Leave in the Sky, The Conversation

Apr 6, 2026, Income Taxes Are Highest in These States, USA Facts

Mar 10, 2026, Google and Tesla Think We're Managing the Electrical Grid All Wrong, TechCrunch

Feb 14, 2026, Caught in a Dragnet: GAO Found Wray's FBI Ran 1,200 Lawless Probes of Pols, Media, Religious Leaders, Others from 2018 to 2024, Off the Press

[January 2026 GAO Report - FBI Investigative Activities: Oversight Efforts of Opening and Conductding Assessments Should Be Strengthened. 57 pages]

[In 2008, the FBI introducee new guideline that allowed the FBI to employ 'intrusive investigation techniques' including the use of informants and physical surveillance on targets not accusee of criminal activitie or who are not national security threats.]

[From 2021-2024, 24 of the 56 FBI field offices - or 43% - 'had at least one instance of using unauthorized investigative methods for an information only incident.']

Dec 2025, Concerning Drug Boat Strikes: Law not Hyperbole, USNI Proceedings

Oct 9, 2025, Canada's Tri-THeater Strategy to Deny, Deter, and Defend in the North, The Hill

Oct 7, 2025, Without Data Centers, GDP Growth Was 0.1% For the First Half of 2025, Harvard Economist Jason Furman Says, Fortune

Oct 3, 2025, UCSF Doctors Knew Gender Science was 'Shoddy', but Pushed Chemical Sex Changes on Kids Anyway, Daily Caller

[Emails obtained under FOIA document science concerns]

Sept 12, 2025, The Rising Share of U.S. Data Center Power Demand, Visual Capitalist

Sept 10, 2025, Blaming Data Centers for PJM Supply Challenges Misses the Bigger Point, Utility Dive

Aug 26, 2025, A New Stanford Analysis Reveals Who's Losing Jobs to AI, Time

[AI is stealing jobs from young people, early-workers]

Aug 22, 2025, What Global Warming? Arctic Ice Hasn't Decreased in 20 Years, Off the Press

Aug 5, 2025, Mexico Government Announces Seizure of Nearly 4,300 Tons of Illegal Fishing Gear, Products in First Half of 2025, Seafood Source

Aug 4, 2025, Map Showing Countries With Highest Rates of Visa Overstays, Newsweek

July 12, 2025, The Biggest Misconception About the Phillipines' Case Against China, The Diplomat

[The Permanent Court of Arbitration did not decide the case, an artitral tribunal established under Article VII of UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) did. China did not nominate a judge to the tribunal. The arbitral tributnal is ad hoc and has no permanent members and no permanent facility.]

July 11, 2025, Partners in Deterrence: China and Russia's Deepening Military-Technical TIes, The Diplomat

[THeir efforts to preserve strategic stability could have the opposite effect]

July 10, 2025, The Five Most Remote Military Bases in the World and Their Strategic Roles, Simply Flying

July 7, 2025, UK Arms Ukraine Against Chemical Weapons as Russia Revives World War I Tactics on Eastern Front, Euromaidan Press

July 3, 2025, Drone-Dropped Grenades Signal New Era of Small-Combat Unit Power, Global Defense News Army Recognition Group

June 20, 2025, Social Security Report Delivers Bad News for Young and Old Alike, Daily Signal

June 2, 2025, Transgender Policies Pose Such a Horrific Threat to Womean, Even the UN Is Calling Them Out, Daily Signal

May 31, 2025, A Former OnlyFans Recruiter Reveals the Dark World of Amateur Pornography, Daily Wire

["We keep feeding violent, sexualized fantasies. And, then, we are surprised when those fantasies spill into the real world."]

May 30, 2025, SCOTUS Allows Trump to Revoke Status of 500K Illegal Aliens, Daily Signal

May 29, 2025, Trump Tariffs Reinstated by Appeals Court, Patriot Uncensored

May 29, 2025, China Finds Way to Quietly Keep Its ForcedLabor System Alive, Daily Caller

May 25, 2025, Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported, American Greatness

[Despite media claims, illegal immigrants commit crimes at disproportionately high rates—yet nearly 42% of voters now believe the opposite.]

May 21, 2025, Visa Overstays Make Up 40 Percent of Illegal US Entries, Statista

May 20, 2025, Clouding the Forecast: Why So Many Climate Models Are Wrong About the Rate of Arctic Warming, Phys Org

[An insightful piece on assessing climate modeling whichever position you take on global warming and climate chnage]

May 14, 2025, Defensive Gun Uses Demonstrate Life and Death Benefits of Bruen Decision, Daily Signal

May 6, 2025, Antarctic Ice Shows Signs of Record Breaking Growth,Scientists Say, Off the Press

Apr 28, 2025, The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals that One in Ten Women Experiences a Serious Adverse Effect, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Jan 28, 2025, What Red Sea Battles Have Taught Us About A Future China Fight, The War Zone

Jan 5, 2025 A Lawless NRC Obstructs Safe Nuclear Power, Wall Street Journal

[NRC lacks authority to regulate small nuclear power and there is no need to do so]

Nov 29, 2024, North Korea Has Given Russia More Than 100 Ballistic Missiles and 5 Million Rounds of Artillery Shells According to Ukraine, Kyiv Independent

Nov 26, 2024, Elizabeth Economy - China's Five Pillars for Global Transformation, PolicyEd (Hoover Institution)

Nov 22, 2024, Wire Cutters: How the World's Vital Undersea Data Cables Are Being Targetted, The Guardian

Nov 19, 2024, Millenials Choosing to Be DINKs Instead of Parents Could Reduce GDP by as Much as 4%, Forbes

Nov 19, 2024, Gallup: Public Support for Gun Bans Crater, Jonathan Turley

Nov 18, 2024, Top Law Firms Backing Child Sex Changes Funneled Money Into Org That Trains Judges on Gender Ideology, Daily Caller

[The Judicial Education Program at UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute partners with courts and judicial associations across the country to provide trainings that persuade judges to bring gender ideology into the courtroom]

Nov 18, 2024, Russian Hypersonic Weapon Usage Provides Insight for Future Wars, Forbes

Nov 1, 2024, China is Fast Becoming a Military Risk in Space, Business Insider

[Space Force Chief says China is Sending Military Hardware Into Space at a Mind Boggling Rate}

Oct 15, 2024, How Chinese Spies and Influencers Threaten US Policy and Government, The Sun

Oct 2024, The Strategic Relevance of Kaliningrad, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings

Oct 14, 2024, North Korea Threatens to Turn South Korea in 'Piles of Ashes' After Drones Fly Over Pyongyang, The Independent (UK)

[North Korea blames South Korea for Drones]

Oct 13, 2024, North Korea's Key Role in Supplying Artillery Shells to Russia Revealed Amid Ukraine War, The Jerusalem Post

Oct 13, 2024, Undersea Cables Emerge As Source of Friction in South China Sea, VOA News

Oct 11, 2024, Why the Baltic States Fear Russia's Kaliningrad Exclave, The Kyiv Independent

Sept 2024, The Dangers of Price Controls, Imprimus

June 25, 2024, Why Six Countries Account for Most Migrants at US Border, Council on Foreign Relations

[Six Latin American Countries in descending order - Mexico, Guatemala, Venzuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Colombia]

Mar 28, 2024, More Anti-Gun Groups Fabricate Mass Shooting Data, Second Amendment Foundation

Feb 28, 2024, Cable Warfare: New Undersea Threat Is Starting to Reshape Naval Wars, Naval News

Dec 20, 2023, The Full Map: All Ships Attacked by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea, Haaretz

Dec 7, 2023, As US Navy Bats Down Red Sea 'Threats', Analysts See Years-Old Security Problem, Breaking Defense

Nov 16, 2023, Women 'Deserve Better' than Misinformation on Chemical Abortion, Physician Says, Daily Signal

Nov 14, 2023, The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Should Guide Our Approach to Russia, National Interest

Nov 9, 2023, A Chinese Dispute With the Philippines In a Test for America, The Economist

[China wishes to expose the U.S. as an unreliable ally]

Nov 9, 2023, Surge and Swarm: How China's Ships Control the South China Sea, Wall Street Journal

Oct 22, 2023, Venezuelans Become the Largest Nationality of US Border Crossings, NPR

Sept 27, 2023, What We Do and Don't Know About Gender Transition Treatments on Minors, Daily Signal

Sept 7, 2023, China's New Naval Base in Cambodia Part of Global Plan to Challenge US, American Liberty News

Sept 5, 2023, FBI Greatly Undercounts Active Shooting Incidents Stopped by Armed Citizens, Daily Signal

Aug 30, 2023, Pentagon's Global Train and Equip Program Plagues by Delays and Unreliable Equipment: GAO, Breaking Defense

Aug 9, 2023, Why Don't Young People Want to Join the Military?, USA Facts

June 28, 2023, Abortion Rates Skyrocketed in Post-Dobbs America, The Republican Standard

Jun 21, 2023, Which States Have the Highest Property Tax Burdens, USA Facts

June 14, 2023, An Rx for Persistent Problem of Prescription Drug Shortages, Daily Signal

May 2, 2023, Five Ways the Debit Limit Crisis Could Play Out, Washington Examiner

Apr 27, 2023, DOJ Inspector General Has No Answer for How Many In Government Can Spy on Americans Through Backdoor Searches, Daily Caller

Apr 14, 2023, That Kaiser Family Foundation Gun Study the Media Love is Garbage, The Federalist

Mar 10, 2023, More Retiree Health Plans Move Away from Traditional Medicare, New York Times

Feb 28, 2023, Which States Have the Lowest Tax Burdens?, USA FACTS

Feb 21, 2023, Two Migrants Stoned to Death by Smugglers on Southern Border, Daily Signal

Feb 21, 2023, Food Additives Banned in Europe Are Certainly Making Americans Sick: Experts, New York Post

Feb 19, 2023, Patients Are Dying in Emergency Rooms, Med Page Today

[Opinion: Call for HHS and CMS to address the issue of emergency department boarding. Board is what happens when they are no inpatient rooms and a patient waits in the halls until a room becomes available.]

Feb 19, 2023, 'Lucrative Business': The Child Sex-Change Industry is Exploding in the US, Daily Caller

[Cross-sex changes bring massive cash influx to hospital, pharmaceutic and medical companies. The financial rewards are driving support for gender affirming care.]

Feb 16, 2023, Despite What You Might Have Heard, Wildlife Populations Are Thriving, Daily Signal

Feb 16, 2023, Dye Found in 90 Percent of Foods Has Harmful Effect on Gut: Study, New York Post

Feb 14, 2023, 2023 State of the Union in Numbers, USA Facts

Feb 10, 2023, Dozens of Hospitals Have Closed in States that Have Expanded Medicaid, Research Shows, Daily Caller

Feb 7, 2023, Most Women Who Had Abortions Say They Felt Pressure To Do So, Study Says, Daily Caller

[61% of women who admitted to having an abortion said they had external pressure to have the procedure, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute]

Feb 6, 2023, Nine out of Ten People Hospitalized for the Flu Have at Least One Underlying Medical Condition, Medical Life Sciences News

Feb 6, 2023, Here's How Much Farmland Has Been Bought Up By China, Daily Caller

Feb 3, 2023, U.S. Health Care Reaches Record Lows After Decade of Obamacare, The Republican Standard

Feb 2, 2023, Prolific Autism Researcher Johnny Matson Has Two Dozen Research Papers Retracted by Elsevier, Spectrum News

[duplicated methodology, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and compromised peer review process]

Jan 4, 2023, Famous College Ranker Overhauls System After Law Schools Pull Out Due to Equity Concerns, The Star News Network