Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
An Internet Hotlist on Critical Thinking

created by John Koetzner
Mendocino College Library

Introduction
The sites below are some helpful sites for Critical Thinking. They link to rhetoric resources, statistical resources, library resources such as our databases, citation information, and more.

The Internet Resources

Project Vote Smart -
Teaching Zack to Think (Updated page) - This article has links to the wayback machine that shows old web pages that existed when it was first written.
The Colbert report -

Rhetoric Sites

Government & Statistical Sites

Counting California - California Statistics
Fedstats - Over 100 U.S. agencies have their statistics in this database.
Fedstats - Search by state, county, & city - Fedstats has access to state and city data here.
Lake County Government -
Library of Congress -
Mendocino County Government -
Political Science Hotlist - Find access to all branches of government for information and data.
Recovery.gov - This site tracks how our federal stimulus dollars are being spent.
Sate of California -
Supreme Court of the United States -
Thomas - The Library of Congress Government Resources - Find voting records, etc. for members of the U.S. Congress.
U.S. National Archives -
White House Briefing Room -

Library Support Sites

Citing Databases & Web Pages in MLA format -
NetLibrary - Mendocino College eBook Collection - You must have a user name and password created on the Ukiah campus or in one of the centers to use the eBooks remotely.
Remote Access to Mendocino College Library Databases Page -

Visual Arguments

9/11 Pentagon Strike - Flash Video -
Adbusters Spoof Ads -
Ben Cohen's Oreo Cookie Budget Argument -
Critical Thinking Standards - Dr. Richard Paul -
Dogbert & Critical Thinking -
Doonesbury -
Indecision 2008 - Comedy Central's Election Coverage -
John MCCain on SNL - prior to the election -
Jon Stewart's The Daily Show - Stewart is credited with one the best shows to make people think critically... It raises questions that most news services won't or don't ask.
Mark Fiore's animation at S.F. Gate (The S.F. Chrionicle_ -
Non Sequitur - Sequential panel of visual arguments -
Obama & McCain dance-off contest -
Palin & Biden Debate on SNL -
Parapsychology and other phenomena -
Political Cartoons (Editorial Cartoons) -
Politically Correct - Conservative cartoons -
Post 9/11 - Pentagon Visual Argument -
Prickly City -
Rolling Stone Covers -
Saturday Night Live visual arguments - satire -
The Onion's take on 9/11 Conspiracy Theories -
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow Archive -
Time Magazine Archive - Find Time magazine covers here.
Top Ten Space Conspiracy Theories - From How Stuff Works -
Where is the Plane, Flight 77? -
Wired Magazine's Best Conspiracy Theories -

Miscellaneous Sites

Content by John Koetzner, jkoetzne@mendocino.edu
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listcriticaljo.html
Last revised Tue Dec 15 10:39:55 US/Pacific 2009