Tsk.
Citing the Iraq war as the "real wallop" and detecting "a perfect storm in the political season," Joseph Cella, president of Fidelis, a Michigan-based Catholic traditional-values group, told The Washington Times that the 2006 election was "a real shot across the bow for social conservatives and the Republican Party." Mrs. Wetzstein catalogued the cascading events that contributed to the electoral rout: the Katrina relief debacle; the perception of overreaching in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case; scandals involving prominent Christian leaders Ralph Reed and the Rev. Ted Haggard and numerous Republican representatives (including Mark Foley's sex scandal with former congressional pages); and a book by the former deputy director of the White House's faith-based initiative office charging that President Bush's policies were more sop than strategy.
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Current events also can affect how employees use their plans. "After Sept. 11 we saw more people interested in creating wills," said Jen Porter, a spokeswoman for Des Moines-based ARAG North America Inc., one of the largest national providers of prepaid legal services. In the wake of news coverage of Terri Schiavo, the woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die battle in Florida, Porter said, ARAG fielded more requests for living wills.
No joke: Lawyers at bargain rates
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It has become a mantra. They recite it over and over without thought and without questioning the premises. I hate to have to say this, but if anybody is going to shoot down the mantra, it is we who know the facts. The reporters aren't going to change their ways. They are lazy. They love their ignorance; it saves them from having to work. We have to get the facts out -- at least unless the money dispute between Felos and Michael Schiavo widens into public warfare.
We need a new book on Terri that treats her "collapse" as a probable crime. Where are you, Dominick Dunne?
“calling it right-to-die even in the Washington Times...”
It won’t be the first time the Washington Times had it wrong, and FoxNews is worse.