1) VerifiedVoting.org - Will your vote count? Punchcard voting machines are being replaced by electronic voting machines, ending some problems but creating new ones.

Because the programmers of the machines may purposely or accidentally write code which miscounts votes, we need to be able to do a meaningful recount.

VerifiedVoting.org says electronic machines should print paper ballots each voter can check. There are already machines of this type which print the ballots behind glass, such as the Vote-Trakker from Avante International Technology.

To promote accurate elections, VerifiedVoting.org wants citizens to ask Congress to support the Voter Confidence Act (HR 2339, S 1980).

2) The Daily Howler - Bob Somerby is brilliant in examining misleading statements by pundits and exposing the deceit.

3) Human Rights Watch - An organization which investigates and exposes human rights violations throughout the world.

4) Liberal Oasis - Celebrates the "liberal beliefs of freedom and justice for all" with a daily column, "Leading with the Left," and links organized by subject.

5) Americans United for Separation of Church and State - With popular commentator Bill O'Reilly ranting against "The Secularists," we need this organization now more than ever. Website includes writings of Constitutional Framers James Madison and Thomas Jefferson to demonstrate the Framers' support for government-neutrality in religious matters.

6) Amnesty International - Encourages volunteers to take action in support of human rights.

7) VegSource - Vegetarianism is one of the best ways to help the environment. It takes a fraction of the oil and water for people to raise soybeans and eat them than for people to feed those soybeans to pigs and eat the pigs. Ask for recipes and discuss issues on the VegSource message-boards.