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White House Loan Modification Plan Falls Flat

By | 12.10.09 | 1:54 pm

It was last December when Julio Angulo ignored the bitter cold and sat on a rusted patio chair in the front yard of his foreclosed home in suburban Manassas, Va. He sighed, resting his hand on his knee. He stared despondently at the sky. His lender had foreclosed on his More…

Michael Steele: The VA is ‘Encouraging [Vets] to Commit Suicide’

By | 08.25.09 | 10:32 am

Media Matters catches Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele repeating (and botching) the false charge that the Department of Veterans Affairs, by making available a guide to writing a living will, is telling veterans to kill themselves.

[Y]ou have a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like

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VA Pushes Back on the ‘Death Book’ Rumor

By | 08.24.09 | 7:25 pm

Following up on my item earlier today, a source inside the VA tells me that the “pulled” copy of a guide to living wills that’s been made available to veterans was actually only pulled by one hospital in Puget Sound. And it had nothing to do with the “death More…