C-SPAN (find every media source link here!)
The Fordham Foundation (education issues)
World Atlas.com (maps)
CIA World Fact Book (look up profiles/details on any country)
CFR - Council on Foreign Relations (Election Campaign 08)
*WOPULAR (searches top headlines from several news sources at once)
*MEMIDEX (Free online dictionary & thesaurus, along with audio, etymology, etc.)
*LARGE source of research links @ CDE Journal, pgs 6-10
*Random Facts, Trivia & History
*Nation Master (massive central data source and way to graphically compare nations)
*IZZIT current events
*INFO PLEASE (encyclopedia, atlas, dictionaries, governments, biographies, etc.)
*SolveYourProblem.com (great site for Oratory solutions)