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Political resources for your Palm device
By Steve Niles

A wealth of political resources for your Palm device can be found throughout the Internet. I've taken a brief survey of what's available, so whether you're interested in political news, documents, party information, or software, you're bound to find something of interest here.

News
Both ePolitics.org and WashingtonPost.com's OnPolitics page are great online sources for political news. However, you might not have known that they also have handy AvantGo channels.

OnPolitics
The OnPolitics page of WashingtonPost.com can be found at http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/. On the corresponding AvantGo channel, you'll find political news, columns, the site's Races to Watch and Today in Congress features, a directory of elected officials, and a database of online political sites. The channel is pictured in Figure A.

FIGURE A

OnPolitics provides more than just news.

ePolitics.org
If you're a fan of the ePolitics.org Web site at http://www.epolitics.org, then you might also want to try ePolitics.org's AvantGo channel, pictured in Figure B. It has news and ePolls, and you can search its Database of American Politics for academic, campaign, government, media, and policy Web sites.

FIGURE B

With ePolitics.org, you get news, polls, and a database of political Web sites.

Documents
There are a number of locations where you can find various politics-related documents. I tried out just a handful.

The Political Palm
Mark Gribben is Director of Newspaper Affairs at the Michigan Press Association. He is also the creator of The Political Palm. The Political Palm can be found at http://www.markgribben.com/politicalpalm.html, and it's devoted exclusively to providing political resources for Palm devices. As Gribben describes it on the site, "The Political Palm is a non-partisan site devoted to converting political texts and laws into a format readable by Palm devices."

There you can find a great number of historical documents, laws, speeches, documents, political writings, and commentary you can download to your Palm device in the form of .PRC files, as you can see in Figure C.

FIGURE C


Mark Gribben's The Political Palm offers numerous document downloads. Roll over picture for a larger image.

As a test, I downloaded Ronald Reagan's famous "The Evil Empire" speech. You need a document reader application to view the files you download from The Political Palm, so in Figure D, I happen to be using CSpotRun to read Reagan's condemnation of totalitarianism.

FIGURE D

Reagan's attack on the Evil Empire is just one of the many valuable documents available.

MemoWare
If documents are what you're looking for, there's another well-known place you can find them. MemoWare offers an extensive library of Palm device-compatible documents in a variety of file formats. The company's Law and Government reference section can be found at http://www.memoware.com/Category=Law_ResultSet=0.htm.


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