JOEL BLIEFUSS
Bush's Selective Mourning inthesetimes.com — The Fourth of July is the time for patriotic hoohah by national poobahs. So, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush will no doubt invoke, as he did on Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery, the "sacrifice" of that "awesome bunch of people." Bush then dressed up his war with tales of the fallen. But some victims of his war didn't merit the president's notice.

PAUL WALDMAN
McCain: Noun, Verb, Terrorism prospect.org — For all John McCain's supposed experience, he has the same absurdly simplistic and factually ignorant understanding of the problem as President Bush.

AMITABH PAL
Bush?s Legacy and the Damage Done progressive.org — With President Bush attending his last G8 summit in Japan, it is a good time to assess the foreign policy legacy of his Administration — and what a legacy!

TERENCE M. O'SULLIVAN
Invisible Tragedies - Four Construction Workers Killed Every Day Building America huffingtonpost.com — Every day an average of four construction workers are killed as they go about building America, because OSHA under President Bush is failing construction workers.