Worthy Mentions from the Liberal Blogosphere

Here are what some of the other liberal blogs are posting today:

Crooks & Liars: 'Bush's Dobson meeting is not a Good Sign'

In early 2003, literally just a few weeks before the president would launch a war with Iraq, Bush met with TV preacher Pat Robertsonto discuss the conflict. The president reportedly told thetelevangelist that he believed there’d be minimal casualties, and soonafter, began the invasion.

With this background in mind, I was not at all encouraged to see that Bush is now discussing Iran with James Dobson. Read on...

Think Progress: 'Study: Feds Prosecuted Only 38 Cases of Voter Fraud Between 2002-05, 14 Were Thrown Out' In today’s Washington Post, columnist Harold Meyerson highlights a little-noted studyon the politics of voting fraud published in March by Lorraine Minnite,a political science professor at Columbia University, for a groupcalled Project Vote. Thestudy “makes unmistakably clear” that “the government’s failure toprosecute or convict more than a handful of people for voter fraud isn’t for lack of trying.” Read on...

The Huffington Post: 'McCain, Clinton, Romney, Edwards, Giuliani Refuse To Release Tax Returns'

Five of the six presidential front-runners -- Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and John McCain , R-Ariz., former Republican Gov. Mitt Romneyof Massachusetts, former Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolinaand former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani -- are as yet refusing torelease their tax returns.

"It's very unusual," said Mary Boyle of the good government groupCommon Cause. "For the past almost 35 years, it has been tradition mostcertainly in the White House as well as almost every presidentialcandidate to disclose their tax returns -- and for some reason we'renot seeing it this year." Read on...

TPM Muckraker: 'Comey Details Gonzales' Hospital Visit' It took little more than 12 hours after Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty announced that he will resign for Alberto "I accept responsibility" Gonzales to lay the U.S. attorney firings at his feet. As many have pointed out, Gonzales barely gave McNulty any time to turn around before he stabbed him in the back. Read on...

Treasure of Baghdad: 'Silencing the Truth' In a war zone, the truth factor plays a big role. Journalists areusually the tools for this truth. To let the world hear and see howreal life looks like in

Iraq

,journalists-Iraqi and western- sacrifice themselves to let the newstakes its way to the viewer, reader and listener. This is a fact thatno one can argue about. But when there is a ban on the freedom of thepress, the world should be completely alert because the suffering ofthe innocent people will not be heard anymore. Read on...