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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 09:24 AM
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I just discovered WashingtonWatch.com - freaking awesome! Did you guys know about it?
And not tell me?

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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 09:30 AM
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1. Shit! The cat is out of the bag.
:(
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 09:36 AM
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2. Yes BUT - who is behind it?
Just keep that in mind. I think it is still a good site, but I am wary for manipulation.

Notice the focus on cost, not benefit.

(psst - the guy who runs it is from the CATO Institute.)
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 09:38 AM
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3. I'm not interseted in analysis - I'm interesting in convenient bill tracking and bill announcements
hard to spin that. :)
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 10:00 AM
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4. whois.net is your friend.
Scroll down for the meat of the data.


WHOIS information for: washingtonwatch.com:

domain: washingtonwatch.com
owner: Jim Harper
organization: PolicyCounsel.Com, Inc.
email: [email protected]
address: P.O. Box 77576
city: Washington
state: DC
postal-code: 20013
country: US
phone: +202.4860824
admin-c: CCOM-999600 [email protected]
tech-c: CCOM-999591 [email protected]
billing-c: CCOM-999602 [email protected]
nserver: ns1.mydyndns.org
nserver: ns2.mydyndns.org
nserver: ns3.mydyndns.org
nserver: ns4.mydyndns.org
nserver: ns5.mydyndns.org
status: lock
created: 2000-03-11 07:22:47 UTC
modified: 2008-03-14 18:46:09 UTC
expires: 2012-03-11 06:22:47 UTC

contact-hdl: CCOM-999600
person: - -
organization: USMALL, INC
email: [email protected]
address: 809 National Press Building
city: Washington
state: --
postal-code: DC 20045
country: US
phone: +202.3930000

contact-hdl: CCOM-999591
person: - -
organization: USMALL, INC
email: [email protected]
address: 809 National Press Building
city: Washington
state: --
postal-code: DC 20045
country: US
phone: +202.3930000

contact-hdl: CCOM-999602
person: Jim Harper (before congress he testified against data mining US citizens
http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=2438&wit_id=5949 )

organization: PolicyCounsel.Com, Inc. appears to lean right
email: [email protected]
address: P.O. Box 77576
city: Washington
state: DC
postal-code: 20013
country: US
phone: +202.4860824

source: joker.com live whois service
query-time: 0.015801
db-updated: 2008-04-20 14:49:41
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 10:21 AM
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5. Yes, I've been aware of it's existance for a while now....
I've heard it mentioned on the news at times too.
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