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NY Times reports on Towey's attack on "Your Life, Your Choices" without noting he is selling competing booklet
The New York Times reported that former Bush administration official H. James Towey criticized the booklet, "Your Life, Your Choices" -- which is one of several end-of-life educational materials used by the Veterans Health Administration -- for supposedly "seem[ing] to encourage people to 'hurry up and die,' " and being "so fundamentally flawed that the V.A. ought to throw it out." But the Times did not note that the organization Towey founded is selling its own competing end-of-life booklet, which Towey has reportedly pushed the Veterans Health Administration to buy. Read More
"Death book" distortions abound on Fox News Sunday
On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace hosted former Bush administration aide Jim Towey to discuss his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, "The Death Book for Veterans," and in doing so promoted numerous distortions about an end-of-life educational booklet used by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In addition to forwarding the smear that the booklet is a "death book," Wallace promoted Towey's distortion that the booklet encourages veterans to "pull the plug" -- it doesn't; Wallace and Towey both claimed that the Bush administration suspended use of the booklet -- it didn't; and Wallace claimed that a VHA document requires doctors to direct veterans to the booklet -- it doesn't. Read More
Schieffer allows Grassley to criticize reconciliation without noting his past support of process
CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer allowed Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) to criticize Democrats for reportedly considering using the budget reconciliation process to pass health-care reform with a simple majority of 51 votes in the Senate by claiming that "reconciliation was put in place to get deficits down." Schieffer did not note that Grassley has previously voted to use reconciliation for the Bush administration tax cuts, which the Congressional Budget Office indicated at the time would not "get deficits down." Read More
Fox's Carlson claims Obama yet to name Army secretary -- Fox's live reporting disagrees
During the August 24 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson claimed that "a lot of the top" White House positions are "anonymous because they haven't been named yet to certain posts," citing the Army secretary as an example. However, President Obama named Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) to the post on June 2, and The New York Times noted that "Republican senators are holding up nominees like John McHugh for Army secretary to influence what happens to the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba." Read More
Fox News, NRO, Limbaugh run with "death book" smears
Following false accusations that Democrats' health care reform legislation would institute "death panels" for the elderly, H. James Towey claimed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the Obama administration revived a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) booklet on advanced planning directives that would "steer vulnerable individuals to conclude for themselves that life is not worth living," calling the booklet a "death book." As with the death panel smear, conservative media -- particularly Fox News -- have promoted Towey's false "death book" claim, ignoring facts that undermine Towey's rhetoric. Read More
Fox News freak-out: Guests make extreme claims and accusations about health care
In recent weeks, Fox News has hosted numerous individuals who advanced extreme, outrageous claims about health care reform at prior congressional town hall meetings, during their interviews, or both. For example, on Fox, one guest claimed that under health reform, he might have to "let" his wife "suffer until she passes on," while another claimed of Democratic leaders, "[Y]our thugs already know where we live. We've had a visit from them in the middle of the night." Read More
Fox News uses "death book" lie to revive "death panels" lie
Following several days in which Fox News promoted the smear that an educational booklet on end-of-life decisions used by the Veterans Health Administration is a "death book," Fox News host Megyn Kelly and Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg used a discussion about the booklet to revive the falsehood that Democratic health care reform legislation would institute "death panels." Kelly also falsely claimed that the booklet encourages veterans to "hurry up and die" and that VHA officials are "required" to refer patients to it. Read More
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Obama opposed healthcare reform before he was for it
Republican Senator Jim DeMint says President Obama has consistently opposed Republican proposals that would make healthcare insurance less expensive and more accessible to the American public.

Pastors consider costs of staying, leaving denomination
Conservative members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are considering options after the denomination decided to allow non-celibate homosexuals and lesbians to be pastors.

Blue Dog Dem claims 'stimulus' is working
A Democratic congressman from Mississippi says his state would have been in "a terrible condition" without the enactment of President Obama's "stimulus" package more than six months ago.

Libya shows true colors as terrorist returns
Recent celebrations in Libya following the release of the only terrorist convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing illustrate that country still embraces rogue states and terrorists across the globe. That's according to Pentagon advisor Bob Maginnis.

Perspective: The waste of Woodstock
While some choose to set aside childish things, others choose to define their existence by them. That's the true legacy of Woodstock.

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Canadian wanted in U.S. murder found dead
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Millions face shrinking Social Security payments
WASHINGTON Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social

School districts cutting bus service
HOUSTON As a mother of two, Feleccia Moore Davis is accustomed to the usual back to school swirl of new supplies, new clothes and new routines. But this year,

Scotland lawmakers to meet on Lockerbie release
EDINBURGH, Scotland Scottish legislators gathered Monday for an emergency meeting on the government's decision to release the Lockerbie bomber as critics claimed the act could severely damage

The key to affordable health insurance: de-regulation
by Bryan Fischer According to the National Center for Policy Analysis, there’s one simple thing we can do to bring down the cost of health insurance allow competition between health insurance companies across state lines. In other words, the key

The ACLU’s strange understanding of treason
by Bryan Fischer Remember the hysterical bloviation from groups like the ACLU when Robert Novak revealed the name of Valerie Plame? They went nuts even though Plame had not been in a covert ops position in more than five years

The Big Picture
by Jim Fletcher I often talk with people who are intensely interested in how various famous Bible prophecy passages will play out. Of course, I’m talking about folks who actually believe in the validity of Bible prophecy.Ezekiel 38,39

Yale proves Islam is not a religion of peace
by Bryan Fischer If you needed proof that Islam is a religion of violence rather than a religion of peace, look no further than Yale University Press. As Christopher Hitchens points out, Yale is publishing a book tracing the controversy

Inventing racism
by Bryan Fischer Contessa Brewer of MSNBC is beside herself that people are exercising their Second Amendment rights and carrying guns to town hall meetings. Worse, she not only frets about people exercising their constitutional rights, she’s convinced they want

Good luck with the Saudi rehab program
by Bryan Fischer Pres. Obama has still not figured out what to do with more than half of the Gitmo detainees, and time is beginning to run short on his self imposed deadline to close the base by January, 2010.

Obama Discovers God is On His Side
by Bryan Fischer Remember when candidate Obama said important religious matters were “above my pay grade?†Well, apparently those days are all over. The president has discovered miraculously that God is on his side (and coincidentally, not on ours) in

Will Federal Funding Pay for Abortion?
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What Would James Madison Do?
Bryan Fischer discusses James Madison

Islam Is Not a Religion of Peace
Bryan Fischer talks about Islam

Healthcare Not Above the Paygrade of Obama
Bryan Fischer discusses the healthcare plan of Obama

The Place Where Empires Go to Die
Crane discusses the war in Afghanistan

Does the President Understand Basic Economic Policies?
Crane discusses Obama's economic policies?

Former Serial Bank Robber Tells His Story, Part 2
TI talks with former bank robber

Gull Lake Q&A, Part 1
On Thursday I wrapped up a week of teaching at Gull Lake Ministries in Michigan. http://www.keepbelieving.com/blog/2009-7-4-gull-lake-qa-part-1/

The Contradictions of our President
While my first passion (and formal training) is in theology and philosophy, I do love following politics. http://www.conversantlife.com/politics/the-contradictions-of-our-president

Bible Busâ€"June Update
During our Caribbean cruise last week I finished reading through the Bible.http://www.keepbelieving.com/blog/2009-6-16-bible-busn-june-update/

I am weak, but He is strong
by Mary FriedemanIn the next few weeks, if they haven’t already, homeschool moms everywhere will inaugurate a new school year. Sometimes the first weeks can be exhausting. Maybe you’ve added a

Reaping Rewards
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