Saturday Links

• After calling for more oversight on the failure of the Bush administration with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Senator Joe Lieberman (Might as well be a Republican - Connecticut) has now backed away from his demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents. Surprise, surprise, surprise. The article also notes Lieberman's strong defense of Bush's escalation of the war in Iraq, although the authors erroneously identify him as a Democrat.

• Recognizing the importance of blogs, the U.S. District Court in Washington is allowing bloggers to cover the criminal trial of former White House staffer Scooter Libby alongside reporters from traditional media outlets.

• Sometimes Republican hypocrisy is so ridiculous, it's easy to miss how harmful the GOP's ignorance is. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), the same guy who complained that actually having to work a five-day week would be harmful to families, argued against an increase in the minimum wage on Thursday by saying that if people just got married and worked longer hours they'd be out of poverty. My favorite part of his quote though: "It’s not something I have the knowledge of or the information of, but it’s an economic fact." Classic.

• Interestingly, of the 744,000 homeless people in the United States in 2005, 41% of them were in families. Guess Rep. Kingston might want to check his economic "facts."

• The nation's minorities, poor and uninsured are missing out on the preventive screening and counseling they need.