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Bernie's Stance on Gun Control Could Cost Him Support of Blacks, Latinos For many in the African-American and Latino communities, gun control is literally a matter of survival, as the vast majority of them live in urban areas long plagued by gun violence. Although a ...	SkeeterVT	07/12/2015	82	13	1	-
The Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms is NOT Absolute! The NRA's Absolutist Position on the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms Ignores History: Fully Automatic Machine Guns Have Been Banned Since 1934 -- And the Supreme Court UPHELD the Ban in 1939. It'...	SkeeterVT	12/27/2012	8	7	1	-
Foes of Health-Care Law's 'Individual Mandate' Ignore Decades-Old Mandate for Auto Insurance Lost in all the hullaballoo about the so-called "individual mandate" in the health-care reform law is the fact that there has been an "individual mandate" for another type of insurance in place for ...	SkeeterVT	01/03/2012	38	2	-	103
After 5 Years, 'Skeeter Bites Report' Blog Abruptly Folds Site's Editor and Publisher Decides to Shut Down Amid Health Concerns After Months of Overwork, Fatigue and Insufficient Sleep Almost Lead to Potentially Fatal Car ...	SkeeterVT	02/15/2011	4	6	-	67
AOL's Purchase of HuffPost Could Be a Stroke of Genius -- or Another Horrible Blunder By Acquiring the Wildly Successful Online News Portal for $315 Million, Can the Internet Company Once Known as America Online Overcome Its Reputation for Making Bad Business Decisions -- From ...	SkeeterVT	02/08/2011	19	11	-	101
Mubarak Vows He Won't Seek Re-Election, But Obama Calls For 'Peaceful Transition Now' 82-Year-Old Egyptian President, in TV Speech to Nation, Declares He Won't Run for a Sixth Term After 30 Years in Power, But Protesters Vow They Won't Give Up Until He Resigns -- and Obama ...	SkeeterVT	02/02/2011	10	4	-	173
Amid Continued Anti-Mubarak Protests, Obama Bracing for Egyptian Strongman's Downfall While it Won't Publicly Call for Mubarak to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years in Power -- Yet -- White House Already is Making Preparations to Deal With a New Post-Mubarak Era in ...	SkeeterVT	02/01/2011	2	5	1	237
While Super-Rich Get Tax-Cut Extension, Middle Class Get Rude Surprise: A Tax Increase Republicans Not Only Forced Obama and the Democrats to Extend Bush-Era Tax Cuts for the Super-Rich, They Also Blocked an Extension of Obama's Little-Known 2009 'Making Work Pay' Tax Credit for ...	SkeeterVT	01/25/2011	14	12	-	128
Remarks on Arizona Shootings Confirm Palin Is a Demagogue Unfit for the Presidency Palin Used Highly Inflammatory Rhetoric -- in Defiance of McCain's Directive to Tone it Down -- That Stirred Blatantly Racist Passions Against Obama During '08 Campaign and Has Continued to ...	SkeeterVT	01/18/2011	11	5	-	114
UPDATE: Arizona Blocks Sicko Westboro Cult From Picketing 9-Year-Old Girl's Funeral In Video Posted on GodHatesFags.com, Cult Leader Fred Phelps Denounces Giffords as 'Avid Supporter of Sin and Baby-Killing' and Blasts Palin as 'Cowardly Brute' for Taking Down Controversial ...	SkeeterVT	01/11/2011	13	3	-	123
Was Gunman in Deadly Arizona Shootings Influenced By White-Supremacist Extremist Group? As Congresswoman Giffords Lies in Medically-Induced Coma, Homeland Security Memo Says Alleged Gunman Who Killed Six and Wounded 14 Outside Tucson Supermarket May Have Been Influenced By ...	SkeeterVT	01/10/2011	3	4	-	130
Bush's 'Obsession' With Saddam Got NATO Stuck With Taking Charge of Afghan War In Media Interview, an American Military Officer Claims Washington Didn't Want to Be Distracted From Its Plans to Topple Saddam Hussein's Regime in Iraq, So the North Atlantic Alliance Was ...	SkeeterVT	01/04/2011	4	4	-	77
Presenting the Fourth Annual 'Skeeter Bites Awards for the Most Outrageous People of 2010 In the Tradition of the Razzie Awards for the Worst Films of the Year, The 'Skeeter Bites Report Presents its 'Dishonors' for the People Who Have Had the Most Outrageous Impact on Politics, ...	SkeeterVT	12/28/2010	5	4	-	354
Christians' Worries About So-Called 'War on Christmas' Ignore Holiday's Pagan Roots New Survey Shows That While More Than 90 Percent of Americans Observe Christmas, Only 51 Percent Emphasize its Christian Religious Aspects -- Not Surprising, Given That the Holiday the World ...	SkeeterVT	12/21/2010	199	142	12	497
It's Time to Put Bush Tax Cuts for Super-Rich on Trial -- In Court America's Shrinking Middle Class Cannot Afford to Bear the Full Burden of Taxation Any Longer and Our Children Cannot Afford to Bear the Cost of Dealing With the Nation's Debt Any Longer, ...	SkeeterVT	12/18/2010	34	2	-	40
WikiLeaks Founder's Arrest Stirs Intense Debate on Freedom of Online Media While Radical 'Hactivists' Launch Cyberattacks Against Companies That Have Cut Ties to the Whistleblowing Web Site Over its Publication of Secret U.S. Diplomatic Documents, Others Call Into ...	SkeeterVT	12/14/2010	4	7	-	35
WikiLeaks Founder Turns Rogue, Resorts to 'Internet Blackmail' to Stave Off Arrest A Week After WikiLeaks Alerts the World to North Koreans' Sale of Missiles to Iran, the Whistleblowing Web Site's Founder -- Now an International Fugitive -- Vows to Make Public Entire Cache ...	SkeeterVT	12/07/2010	28	3	-	198
Exposed: Iran and N. Korea Pose Greater Threat to World Peace Than Previously Thought Diplomatic Cables Based on U.S. Intelligence Reports -- Published by Whistleblower Web Site WikiLeaks -- Reveal North Koreans Sold 19 Nuclear-Capable IRBM Missiles to Iran Capable of Striking ...	SkeeterVT	11/30/2010	70	5	-	86
Three Weeks After Election Victory, GOP Already Fighting Each Other Over Debt Ceiling Republican Leadership Faces a Crisis as It Prepares to Take Control of House in January: Congress Must Vote on Raising the Nation's 'Credit-Card Limit' by Spring, But Newly-Elected Tea Party ...	SkeeterVT	11/23/2010	16	9	-	101
Ouster of Iowa High Court Judges a Clear Expression of Anti-Gay Prejudice -- Period Iowa Voters Tossed Out Three Justices of the State Supreme Court Solely Because They Declared Unconstitutional a State Law That Barred Gay and Lesbian Couples From Marrying; Vote Sends a Clear ...	SkeeterVT	11/16/2010	49	13	1	98
Moderation Is Dead: America Buys Two Years of Total Ideological War in Washington Congratulations, Voters: You Swept Out the Last Remaining Republican Moderates in the GOP Primaries and Democratic Moderates in Last Week's Elections -- Leaving Both Parties in Congress ...	SkeeterVT	11/09/2010	24	3	-	33
Are You Really Going to Vote to Put GOP Back In Charge of Congress? Are You Crazy??? An Open Letter to Conservative Americans: This Is the Same Bunch of Republicans Who Caused Our Economic Meltdown in the First Place and Have Embarked on a Disgusting Campaign of Stoking ...	SkeeterVT	11/02/2010	4	5	1	108
No Matter What Happens in November, GOP Is in Danger of Permanent Minority Status With Latest Polls Showing a Tightening of Scores of Midterm Contests, Republicans Have Failed to Take Into Account the Growing Numbers of Non-White, Heavily Democratic-Leaning Voters While the ...	SkeeterVT	10/26/2010	74	30	-	313
Support for Paladino Collapses After Thuggish Clash With Reporter, Anti-Gay Diatribes New Poll Shows Cuomo Skyrocketing to an Commanding 35-Point Lead and Cruising Toward Biggest Landslide Victory in N.Y. Gubernatorial Race Since His Father's 1986 Re-Election; Only 11 Percent ...	SkeeterVT	10/19/2010	29	20	-	117
Outrage Mounts Over Surge in Bullying, Violence Against Gays Amid Rash of Suicides of Youths Who Suffered Anti-Gay Bullying, N.Y. Gang of 'Ultra-Macho' Thugs Go on Homophobic Rampage in Bronx Borough, Brutally Beating and Sodomizing Gay Teenager With ...	SkeeterVT	10/12/2010	15	19	-	233
Suddenly, It's 2006 All Over Again With GOP Candidates Embroiled in Scandals In New York, Carl Paladino Acts Like a Mob Boss by Threatening to 'Take Out' Reporter; In California, Meg Whitman Is Exposed as Hypocrite on Volatile Issue of Employing Illegal Immigrants; In ...	SkeeterVT	10/05/2010	8	8	1	74
Big Trouble on Horizon for Republicans: Their Primaries Fail to Draw Nonwhite Voters Results Reveal African-Americans Continued Their Decades-Long Boycott of GOP Primaries and Latino Participation Nosedived Amid Red-Hot Furor Over Immigration; Advocacy Group Charges Plot by ...	SkeeterVT	09/28/2010	5	18	2	160
Shock Tea-Party Wins Put GOP at Serious Risk of Losing the Northeast for Generations Republicans in Delaware and New York Face November Rout After Far-Right Candidates Backed by Tea Party Movement Score Stunning Upsets in Respective Primaries for Senate and Governor; Rightward ...	SkeeterVT	09/21/2010	9	7	-	25
Nine Years After 9/11, Religious Extremism Is No Longer Limited to Islamic Radicals Pastor Terry Jones Might Not Have Carried Out His Planned Burning of Korans, But a Gay-Hating Kansas Cult Went Ahead and Did Just That -- and So Did Other Christian Extremists, a Sure Sign ...	SkeeterVT	09/14/2010	37	6	-	31
Gay-Hating Cult Vows to Burn Korans if Jones' Church Doesn't Kansas-Based Westboro Baptist Church, Which Has Drawn Much Controversy (and Lawsuits) Over Its Rabidly Homophobic Protests at Funerals of American Soldiers Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, Says ...	SkeeterVT	09/11/2010	51	10	-	50
Furor Over N.Y. Islamic Center Renews Debate Over Federal Government Spying on Muslims Civil-Liberties Watchdogs Say Proposed Cordoba House Islamic Cultural Center Near New York's Ground Zero Is Likely to Come Under Intense U.S. Government Surveillance Once It's Completed; ACLU ...	SkeeterVT	09/07/2010	9	3	-	30
Wave of Islamophobia Sweeping U.S. Is Repeat of Anti-Japanese Hysteria After Pearl Harbor 9/11/01 Has Been Called 'The New Pearl Harbor' for Today's Generations of Americans, But Nearly Forgotten is the Wave of Anti-Japanese Bigotry That Swept the U.S. After 12/7/41, Leading to the ...	SkeeterVT	08/31/2010	39	17	1	62
Obama Plays Down Plan for Iraq Troop Presence Beyond His Self-Imposed 2011 Deadline President Striking a Delicate Political Balancing Act, Reassuring Military Commanders That His 2011 Deadline for U.S. Troop Pullout From Iraq 'Isn't Set in Stone' While Seeking to Assuage the ...	SkeeterVT	08/24/2010	37	3	1	21
Foes of Planned Mosque Near N.Y.'s Ground Zero Have No Constitutional Right to Stop It It's on Private Property Owned by Muslims; They Have Every Right Under the First Amendment's Guarantee of Freedom of Religion to Build a House of Worship on Their Property -- Lawsuit to Stop ...	SkeeterVT	08/17/2010	24	5	-	69
Their Backs Against Legal Wall, Foes of Same-Gender Marriage Plunge Into Paranoid Hysteria With Two Federal Courts on Opposite Coasts Declaring That the Federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 Both Violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ...	SkeeterVT	08/11/2010	10	14	-	52
Tea Party's Mark Williams Is a [Bleeping] Hypocrite!!! Tea Party Express Founder and Chairman Accuses NAACP of Being Bigots for Denouncing Racist Elements Within the Broader Tea Party Movement, Ignoring His Own Well-Documented Record of Bigoted ...	SkeeterVT	07/20/2010	5	5	-	100
Fight Over Same-Gender Marriage Heading Inexorably Toward Supreme Court As One Federal Court Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional and Another Prepares to Rule on California's Proposition 8, a Final Decision by the Nation's Highest Court on Whether Gay ...	SkeeterVT	07/13/2010	6	9	-	50
Steele May Have Doomed His Leadership of GOP With Remarks on War in Afghanistan Several Top Conservatives Demand GOP Chairman Resign Over Remarks Made at Party Fundraiser That 'The One Thing You Don’t Do Is Engage in a Land War in Afghanistan' Even As He Criticizes ...	SkeeterVT	07/06/2010	20	17	-	57
High Court Ruling on Hastings Law School Upholds Separation of Church and State In a Sharply Divided 5-4 Ruling, Justices Say 'No' to Christian Student Group's Demand That It Be Recognized and Funded by Public, Taxpayer-Funded Law School Despite Group's Refusal to Admit ...	SkeeterVT	06/29/2010	27	13	-	81
All Eyes on California as Federal Judge Prepares to Rule on Anti-Gay Proposition 8 A Ruling Is Expected by the Fall on Lawsuit Challenging Federal Constitutionality of Voter-Approved Measure Barring Gay and Lesbian Couples From Marrying, But No Matter Which Way Judge Vaughn ...	SkeeterVT	06/22/2010	36	23	-	96
CIA's Drone Attacks in Pakistan Drawing New Round of Opposition -- From Inside CIA Dissenting Officials Inside Spy Agency Say That Remote Air Strikes With Predator Drones Against Suspected Al-Qaida Operatives in Pakistan are 'Doing More Harm Than Good' by Boosting ...	SkeeterVT	06/08/2010	18	9	-	20
Like Father, Like Son: Ron Paul Also Opposes Civil Rights Act, Says It Violates Property Rights The Libertarian GOP Congressman From Texas Cast the Sole 'No' Vote on a 2004 Resolution Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Landmark 1964 Anti-Discrimination Law; Meanwhile, in Interview ...	SkeeterVT	06/01/2010	12	10	-	28
Despite Rand Paul's Win, Tea Party Still Can't Shake Image as a Radical-Fringe Movement Tea Party-Backed Candidate Steps Into a Political Quagmire Over Remarks on Civil Rights Act Just 24 Hours After Winning Kentucky GOP Senate Primary, While Tea Party Express Leader Mark ...	SkeeterVT	05/25/2010	18	17	-	28
A Tale of Two D.C. Newspapers Worthy of a Charles Dickens Novel It's the Best of Times for One Paper and the the Worst of Times for the Other as The Washington Blade Makes a Triumphant Return Five Months After Former Parent Company's Bankruptcy Shut it Down,	SkeeterVT	05/11/2010	11	6	-	17
Whistleblower: Gulf Disaster Is Latest in Long History of BP 'Putting Profits Before Safety' Internal BP E-Mails and Other Company Documents Reveal Claims By Former Contractor That the British Oil Giant Violated Federal Workplace Safety Laws and Its Own Internal Policies by Failing to ...	SkeeterVT	05/04/2010	12	23	-	169
GOP Wrote Off Blacks With 'Southern Strategy' -- And Now They're Writing Off Latinos, Too Republican Chairman Michael Steele's Admission That the Party of Lincoln Betrayed African-Americans by 'Focusing on the White Male Vote in the South' for 40-Plus Years Predictably Draws Fire ...	SkeeterVT	04/27/2010	16	31	2	36
Poll Confirms: Tea Party Movement a Greater Threat to Republicans Than to Democrats New Demographic Survey Finds Tea Party Movement Is Essentially the GOP's Voter Base: Affluent, Overwhelmingly White, Predominantly Male, Mostly Middle-Aged and Older, Fiercely Conservative -- ...	SkeeterVT	04/20/2010	196	296	8	192
U.S. Expanding Military Role in Africa Under Obama Little-Noticed Items in FY2011 Budget Call For, Among Other Things, Millions to be Spent on New Arms Sales, Programs to Beef Up Anti-Terror Efforts in Africa and to Professionalize Continent's ...	SkeeterVT	04/13/2010	27	4	-	22
Why Is Obama Continuing Unconstitutional Bush Policy of Warrantless Surveillance? Federal Judge Appointed By Bush's Father Declares NSA Program of Wiretapping Without Court Warrants Violates 1978 FISA Statute -- But Ducks Broader Issue of Its Blatant Unconstitutionality ...	SkeeterVT	04/06/2010	107	21	-	52
Chinese Hackers Force U.S.-Based Blogger to Suspend Publication Security Breach at Google's Gmail Service by Hackers in China Forces Temporary Shutdown of The 'Skeeter Bites Report -- Hosted by Google -- to Protect its Sources, ...	SkeeterVT	03/21/2010	10	7	1	10
Signs Mount of U.S. Losing Patience With Israel Over Settlements In Unusually Blunt Language -- The Strongest U.S. Rebuke of Israel in More Than 20 Years -- Biden Blasts Israel's Decision to Build New Housing for Jews in Arab Neighborhood of East ...	SkeeterVT	03/15/2010	28	11	-	21
GOP Caught Plotting Joe McCarthy-Style Fear Campaign Against Obama, Democrats Leaked Plans by Republican National Committee Show Intent to Aggressively Capitalize on Fears of 'Socialism' Under Obama to Raise Money for GOP in 2010 Election Cycle; Meanwhile, Group Led by ...	SkeeterVT	03/08/2010	241	386	7	383
Solid Evidence Emerges of Senate Republicans' Unconstitutional Abuse of Power Nearly 300 Bills Have Passed in House Since Current 111th Congress Took Office Nearly 14 Months Ago -- Many With Broad Bipartisan Support -- Only to be Tied Up by Unprecedented Brick Wall of ...	SkeeterVT	03/01/2010	12	18	3	42
The Knives Come Out: Far Right Attacks Brown as 'Too Liberal' a Month After Win Scott Brown Became the Darling of the Republican Party After His Stunning Upset Victory in Massachusetts' Special Election to Fill Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat, But Now Hard-Line Social ...	SkeeterVT	02/22/2010	32	18	-	30
Enough! Stop 'Minority Tyranny' in the Senate and Nuke the Filibuster With Senate Republicans Determined to Block President Obama's Entire Agenda, an Intransigence Never Before Seen Against Any Previous President -- Democrat or Republican -- the GOP is Engaging ...	SkeeterVT	02/15/2010	9	6	-	9
Who Dat! Even Without Saints' Win, It's a Super Time for New Orleans After Katrina On the Eve of Their Beloved Saints' Come-From-Behind Victory Over the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV -- and Their Annual 10-Day Mardi Gras Blowout -- the Crescent City's Most Famous Family Enjoys a ...	SkeeterVT	02/08/2010	8	9	-	12
U.S. Resumes Medevac Flights From Haiti After Outrage By Doctors Over Suspension White House Denies Reports That Halt in the Flights Was Due to Cost Concerns and Insists Logistical Problems Were to Blame for Their Suspension; Doctors in Haiti Had Warned ‘Hundreds&...	SkeeterVT	02/01/2010	14	8	-	18
Lack of Universal Health Care Puts U.S. in Non-Compliance With International Law Article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Says All Have the Right to 'Adequate Medical Care and Necessary Social Services,' But America Is the Only Developed ...	SkeeterVT	01/25/2010	73	73	2	22
Warning to GOP: Recession Will Last a Lot Longer Without Health-Care Reform Senate Democrats Have Lost Their Filibuster-Proof Majority With Brown's Upset Win Over Coakley in Massachusetts Special Election, But if Republicans Think Health-Care Reform is Dead, They'd ...	SkeeterVT	01/21/2010	29	2	-	12
COMMENTARY -- Senate Dems Must 'Go Nuclear' on Health Bill if Brown Wins With Polls Showing Battle for Ted Kennedy's Seat Surprisingly 'Too Close to Call,' a Victory for Republican Scott Brown, a Fierce Opponent of Health Reform Bill, Would Leave Senate Democrats ...	SkeeterVT	01/18/2010	11	4	1	24
GOP Attack on Reid Over Race Is Rank Hypocrisy At Its Worst Can You Believe Their Chutzpah? The Republicans Have the Gall to Accuse Democrats and Media of 'Double Standard' on Race Even As They Repeatedly Challenge the Authority of Their Own Party's ...	SkeeterVT	01/11/2010	50	20	-	24
Steele's Future as GOP Chairman Is Looking Increasingly Cloudy One Year After Being Elected the Republican Party's First African-American National Chairman, Michael Steele's Authority Is Still Under Fire From Hard-Line Conservatives -- Now Steele's Foes ...	SkeeterVT	01/04/2010	25	6	-	21
YEAR-END SPECIAL: The 'Skeeter Bites Awards for the Worst People of 2009 In the Tradition of the Razzie Awards for the Worst Films of the Year, The 'Skeeter Bites Report Presents its Third Annual 'Dishonors' for the People Who Have Had the Worst Impact on Politics, ...	SkeeterVT	12/28/2009	4	11	1	34
A Holiday Special: The Pagan Roots of Christmas The Holiday the World Celebrates Each Year on the 25th of December Is Actually Tens of Thousands of Years Older Than Christianity Itself, So It's Foolish For Christian Conservatives to Say ...	SkeeterVT	12/21/2009	19	6	1	116
Plan to Move 'Gitmo' Detainees to Illinois Prison Under Fire From Both Right and Left Plan By Federal Government to Purchase Underutilized Maximum-Security State Prison in President's Home State Is Attacked By Republicans as 'a Threat to U.S. Security' and By Rights Advocates ...	SkeeterVT	12/17/2009	6	1	-	9
Obama's Nobel Speech an Echo of Bush 41 -- and a Damning Indictment of Bush 43 President's Address Defending the Use of Force When Necessary Was Reflective of the Elder Bush, Who Went to War to Stop Saddam Hussein's Aggression Against Kuwait With the Broad Support of the ...	SkeeterVT	12/14/2009	33	9	-	34
Commentary: Palin Backs Hate Campaign of Anti-Obama 'Birther' Bigots In Interview With Right-Wing Talk Radio Host, Ex-Governor of Alaska and '08 GOP Veep Nominee Says She 'Doesn't Have a Problem' With President's Birthplace Becoming Issue in 2012; Owner of Car ...	SkeeterVT	12/07/2009	24	15	-	70
On Both Left and Right, Obama's Afghan Plan Has Something for Everyone to Hate As Expected, President's Plan to Send Up to 30,000 Additional Troops Draws Flak From Both Anti-War Activists as 'Too High a Price to Pay' in American Blood and From Conservatives as 'Sending ...	SkeeterVT	12/03/2009	7	1	-	9
Obama Faces 'Moment of Truth' With TV Address to Nation on War in Afghainstan (UPDATED) President Said Repeatedly During '08 Campaign That Bush's War in Iraq Was a Distraction From the 'Real War on Terror' in Afghanistan and Is Shifting U.S. Resources Accordingly -- But He Risks ...	SkeeterVT	11/30/2009	4	3	-	113
EDITORIAL -- Memo to Senate Dems: Public Option Is Not Negotiable Holdout Democrats Still Opposed to the 'Public Option' Should Heed This Warning: Any Health-Reform Bill Without It Won't Be Worth the Paper It's Printed On for Those Who Can't Afford Health ...	SkeeterVT	11/23/2009	16	11	-	8
Right-Wing Local Talk-Radio Host in N.H. Loses Show Over Blatantly Anti-Gay Slur Laconia Radio Station Fires Host Doug Lambert for Hurling the Six-Letter F-Bomb at Chairman of Granite State's Democratic Party -- Who is Gay -- and Denouncing Him as a 'Reprobate;' ...	SkeeterVT	11/19/2009	15	18	-	28
Congress' Move to Pull $$ Plug on ACORN Is Challenged in Court as Unconstitutional ACORN Charges Congress Violated Constitution's Ban on 'Bills of Attainder' That Single Out Individuals or Groups for Punishment Without Trial or Judicial Review When Lawmakers Passed GOP-...	SkeeterVT	11/16/2009	26	23	-	52
GOP's Worsening Civil War Could Wreck Its Chances for 2010 Comeback Right-Wing Hard-Liners Both Inside and Outside the Party -- Including the Poobahs of Fox News and Talk Radio, as Well as the 'Teabaggers' -- Have Rendered the GOP Leadership Impotent and ...	SkeeterVT	11/12/2009	38	10	-	17
EDITORIAL -- GOP Will Make a Huge Mistake If It 'Punishes' Rep. Cao If the GOP's Right Wing Goes After the Party's Lone Asian-American Congressman -- a Vietnamese Immigrant Who Represents a Predominantly African-American (and Democratic) District -- Over His ...	SkeeterVT	11/09/2009	73	26	1	118
N.Y. Voters to Out-of-State Activists: 'Mind Your Own Business and Stay the Hell Out!' 'Teabaggers' Aggressively Pushing Hoffman's Candidacy Prompt Poll Workers in Two Towns in 23rd Congressional District to Call the Cops to Stop Them From Violating State Law Against Campaigning ...	SkeeterVT	11/05/2009	15	11	-	64
Right-Wing Takeover of GOP Solidified By Scozzafava's Withdrawal From N.Y. House Race Republican Candidate Pulls Out a Day After Right-Wing Group Pulls Dirty Trick With TV Ad Disguised as Liberal Group Praising Her Support for Abortion Rights and Same-Gender Marriage; With Less ...	SkeeterVT	11/02/2009	12	14	-	66
With Lieberman's Defection, Senate Dems Must 'Go Nuclear' to Pass Public Option With Lieberman Vowing to Join GOP Filibuster to Block the Public Option in Open Defiance of Public Opinion -- and House Democrats Vowing They Won't Pass Health-Care Reform Bill Without It -- ...	SkeeterVT	10/29/2009	28	7	-	11
New Polls Show Solid Support for 'Public Option,' Solid Opposition to GOP Washington Post/ABC News Poll Finds 57 Percent Favor Government-Run Health-Care Plan to Compete With Private Insurers; Separate Poll Finds Even Stronger Support, at 77 Percent; Republicans in ...	SkeeterVT	10/22/2009	9	8	1	7
Public Worry Over Swine Flu Vaccine Rooted in 1976 Fiasco (UPDATED) Production Delays and Public-Relations Problems Plagued the Ford Administration's 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program -- and a Media Frenzy Over the Deaths of Three Elderly People Just Hours ...	SkeeterVT	10/19/2009	43	14	-	91
20 Years After Loma Prieta Quake, Is San Fran Ready For 'The Big One?' On October 17, 1989, the Greater Bay Area Was Slammed By Its Strongest Tremor Since 1906 -- a 6.9-Magnitude Shaker That Killed 63 People, Injured Over 3,700 Others and Wreaked Over $6 Billion ...	SkeeterVT	10/15/2009	10	8	-	13
EDITORIAL -- Nobel Prize to Obama Is Really a Slap in Bush's Face Even the President -- Caught Completely By Surprise -- Admits That He Doesn't Feel That He Deserves to Receive the Peace Prize After Less Than Ten Months in Office, But Nobel Committee's ...	SkeeterVT	10/12/2009	28	6	-	8
Obama Taking It On the Chin From Both the Right and the Left As the President Fights Off Conservatives on Health-Care Reform and the Economy, Liberals Complaining More and More Loudly About His Lack of Action on Ending the War in Afghanistan, Closing ...	SkeeterVT	10/08/2009	35	4	-	7
Obama Faces 'Hobson's Choice' on Afghanistan: Build Up or Pull Back? President Faces His Toughest Dilemma Yet That Has Echoes of What LBJ Faced Over the Vietnam War; No Matter What Decision He Reaches, Obama Is Likely Stuck in a 'Damned-If-You-Do, Damned-If-You-...	SkeeterVT	10/05/2009	21	1	-	17
Right-Wing Paranoia: Death Polls and Threats of Military Coup Against Obama Secret Service Wants to Know Who Posted Poll on Facebook Asking 'Should Obama Be Killed?' Amid Continuing High Spike in Death Threats Against the President; Meanwhile, Columnist at Right-Wing ...	SkeeterVT	10/01/2009	17	14	1	19
EDITORIAL -- Beck and Limbaugh Must Be Held Accountable For Race-Baiting The Two Most Visible Right-Wing Figures in the Media Have Crossed the Line With Beck Calling the President a 'Racist' Without a Shred of Proof and Limbaugh Falsely Claiming Obama Is an Arab ...	SkeeterVT	09/28/2009	32	20	1	64
ACORN's Problems Are Very Real -- But Conservatives' Expose Is Clearly Biased Let's Not Kid Ourselves: What ACORN Staffers Did When Two Conservative Activists Showed Up At Their Offices Posing As a Prostitute and a Pimp Was Incredibly Stupid -- and the Agency is Long ...	SkeeterVT	09/24/2009	14	7	-	8
EDITORIAL -- Limbaugh Full of B.S. With Claim That 'Segregated Buses' Remark Is 'Parody' When Right-Wing Radio Talkmeister Said 'We Need Segregated Buses' After Incident on an Illinois School Bus, He Not Only Told His 'Dittohead' Listeners a Bald-Faced Lie About What Happened, He ...	SkeeterVT	09/21/2009	24	19	1	104
Polls Find Wilson's Outburst Against Obama Backfires CBS and Bloomberg Polls Show Obama's Health-Care Speech Halted Weeks-Long Slide in His Job-Approval Ratings, With Most Americans Praising President's Handling of Issue, But Remaining Sharply ...	SkeeterVT	09/17/2009	14	24	-	26
GOP Congressman Who Heckled Obama Has Shady Past Representative Joe Wilson Is Reportedly a Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a 'Southern Heritage' Group Taken Over in the Last Decade By Radical White Supremacists Who Defend Slavery ...	SkeeterVT	09/14/2009	12	18	-	36
EDITORIAL: GOP's Behavior During Obama Speech a Boorish Disgrace Republicans' Unprecedented Show of Contempt During President's Address on Heath-Care Reform is Captured by TV Cameras; GOP Congressman is Booed Loudly After Calling Obama a Liar While Another ...	SkeeterVT	09/10/2009	15	31	-	30
'Birther Queen' Taitz Driven By Rabid Islamophobia to Oust Obama It's Time to 'Take Off the Gloves' and Reveal Orly Taitz's True Motivation For Her Stubborn Effort to Force Obama Out of Office: She's a Rabid Islamophobe With Backing From a Radical Jewish ...	SkeeterVT	09/07/2009	172	145	4	319
Gonzales' Sudden Flip-Flop on CIA 'Torturegate' Probe Stuns Washington Former Attorney General Breaks From Cheney, Says Holder is Doing the Right Thing By Asserting His Independence From White House in Getting to the Bottom of CIA 'Torturegate' Scandal 'Based on ...	SkeeterVT	09/03/2009	17	17	-	96
Anti-Gay Westboro Cult: Hatemongers, Homophobes -- and Moral Hypocrites Westboro Baptist Church -- In Vermont This Week to Protest Its New Same-Gender Marriage Law -- Has Long Condemned Homosexuality as an 'Abomination,' But Its Members Have Long Criminal Records ...	SkeeterVT	08/31/2009	28	26	-	227
The 'Lion of the Senate' Is Gone: Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009 While a Scandal Stemming From a 1969 Car Accident at Chappaquiddick Forever Barred Him From the Presidency, Ted Kennedy Ended Up Garnering a Far Greater Degree of Accomplishment in His Nearly ...	SkeeterVT	08/27/2009	6	4	1	1
New Warning of Domestic Terrorist Campaign By Right-Wing Extremists New Report by Southern Poverty Law Center Backs Up Homeland Security's Warning That Anti-Government Militias Driven by Racism and Xenophobia Are Joining Forces With White-Supremacist and ...	SkeeterVT	08/24/2009	400	462	15	496
Obama, Dems Feeling Heat on Health-Care Reform -- But GOP's Plans Stink The Republicans And Their Right-Wing Allies Have Been Screaming Bloody Murder for Months That Democrats' Health-Care Reform Proposals Amount to 'Socialism,' But the Market-Based Plans ...	SkeeterVT	08/17/2009	7	5	-	1
Back to the Garden: Remembering Woodstock, 40 Years Later For the 400,000 Blissed-Out 'Flower Children' Who Braved Three Days of Rain and Mud on Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, N.Y. (and the Millions Who Wished They Were There), What Was ...	SkeeterVT	08/13/2009	10	6	-	15
Now Kenya Weighs In, Calls Birthers' Claims 'Madness' Kenyan Embassy in D.C. Dismisses As 'Madness' Claims That Obama Was Born in the African Country; Even Pro-'Birther' Web Site Now Admits Alleged Kenyan Birth Certificate of President Is '...	SkeeterVT	08/10/2009	38	34	-	29
Exposed: White Supremacists Heavily Involved in 'Birther' Movement Why Is CNN's Lou Dobbs Giving a Platform for Conspiracy Theorists Linked to White Supremacists Who Falsely Insist -- Despite Overwhelming Documentary Evidence to the Contrary -- That the ...	SkeeterVT	08/03/2009	270	387	10	248
One Small Step for Man: Apollo 11 Forty Years Later It's Been 40 Years Since a Half-Billion People Worldwide Watched the Ghostly Black-and-White TV Images of Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Walk on the Moon -- But Would This ...	SkeeterVT	07/16/2009	18	6	-	17

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