Posting History for SkeeterVT
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| Obama's Approval Ratings Still Strong But Slipping After Six Months in Office President's Rating Falls to 58 Percent, According to Latest Gallup Poll; Decline Is Almost Exclusively Among Independents Increasingly Worried About the Economy, While Democrats Remain ... |
SkeeterVT | 07/13/2009 | 35 | 4 | - | 94 |
| (UPDATED) Why She Suddenly Quit: Palin's Dealings With Building Firm Under Scrutiny Despite FBI's Denial That It's investigating Her, Questions Remain Over Whether Alaska Governor and Her Husband Steered Lucrative Contracts to Construction Company That Built the Palins' ... |
SkeeterVT | 07/06/2009 | 60 | 33 | 1 | 159 |
| EDITORIAL -- 'Michael Jackson, You Are NOT the Father!' Now We Know Why the Late 'King of Pop' Consistently Refused to Allow Prince Michael, Paris and Prince Michael II to be Photographed: Neither of the Children Have Any Biracial Physical ... |
SkeeterVT | 07/02/2009 | 130 | 2 | - | 106 |
| Michael Jackson Could Have Avoided Scandals That Killed Him The Time Is Long Overdue to Acknowledge Publicly That the Last 25 Years of Michael Jackson's Life Would Have Been Much Different -- Indeed, Much Healthier For Him Both Physically and ... |
SkeeterVT | 06/29/2009 | 74 | 3 | - | 119 |
| Stonewall: The Uprising That Sparked a Gay Social Revolution In the Hot and Sultry Small Hours of June 28, 1969, Gay Patrons at New York's Stonewall Inn Fought Back Against a Raid by Cops Who Peppered Them With Homophobic Insults and Threats; ... |
SkeeterVT | 06/25/2009 | 40 | 40 | - | 261 |
| EDITORIAL: Ensign Sex Scandal a New Blow to Social Conservatives Nevada Senator -- a Darling of Social Conservatives -- Resigns GOP Leadership Post After Admitting He Had an Extramarital Affair; Latest Sex Scandal to Rock Republicans Is Making ... |
SkeeterVT | 06/18/2009 | 59 | 21 | 1 | 160 |
| Did North Koreans Kidnap U.S. Journalists on Chinese Territory? Details Remain Murky About Whether TV Reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee Were On North Korean or Chinese Side of Cross-Border Bridge When They Were Seized in March; North Korea Has Long ... |
SkeeterVT | 06/11/2009 | 31 | 9 | - | 9 |
| EDITORIAL: Constitution Bars a 'Single-Payer' Health Care System Establishing a 'Single-Payer' System Would Require Completely Doing Away With All Private Health Care -- and That Would Violate the Constitution; Direct Competition Between Public and ... |
SkeeterVT | 06/08/2009 | 75 | 12 | 1 | 129 |
| EDITORIAL: Federal Lawsuits Against Gay-Marriage Ban Were Long Overdue When the Supreme Court Struck Down Laws That Banned Interracial Marriages in 1967, Public Opposition to Such Unions Was Far Stronger -- and More Vicious -- Than Opposition to Same-Gender ... |
SkeeterVT | 06/01/2009 | 21 | 20 | - | 542 |
| EDITORIAL: Right Wing a 'Malignant Cancer' on the GOP After Suffering Back-to-Back Major Defeats at the Ballot Box, the GOP Is Rapidly Imploding as Hard-Line Conservatives Openly Attack Anyone and Everyone Who Do Not Conform to Their Right-... |
SkeeterVT | 05/21/2009 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 21 |
| Obama's Decision on Gitmo Tribunals PO's Left -- But Shuts Up Right President's Decision Has, Not Surprisingly, Infuriated Many of His Liberal Supporters, But it Has Also Undermined Claims by His Conservative Critics That Obama is a 'Radical Socialist' ... |
SkeeterVT | 05/18/2009 | 27 | 8 | - | 9 |
| EDITORIAL: Bush Lawyers MUST Be Held Accountable for Illegal Torture Policy Bybee, Yoo and Bradbury Ignored More Than a Century of Court Precedents in Formulating Legal Opinions That Warterboarding Is Not Torture -- When, in Fact, It's a Crime Under Both U.S. ... |
SkeeterVT | 05/07/2009 | 6 | 13 | - | 1 |
| Conservatives Go Bonkers as Obama Marks 100 Days in Office Republicans' Strident Protests Against Obama's Reversals of Bush Policies are Falling on Deaf Ears, While Right-Wing Fox News and Talk-Radio Commentators Resort to Increasingly Bitter ... |
SkeeterVT | 04/27/2009 | 197 | 255 | 2 | 37 |
| Right-Wingers Going Nutzo Over Guns, Gays and Kids With the GOP Cast Out Into the Political Wilderness, the Right-Wing 'Culture Warriors' Launch New Scare Campaigns Over Gun Control, Same-Gender Marriage and the Rights of Children -- But ... |
SkeeterVT | 04/13/2009 | 4 | 6 | - | 2 |
| EDITORIAL: Why Opponents of Same-Gender Marriage Will Ultimately Lose Arguments to Keep Laws in Place That Restrict Marriage to Opposite-Gender Couples Are Failing to Pass Constitutional Muster, Thanks to Three Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decisions ... |
SkeeterVT | 04/06/2009 | 44 | 19 | 1 | 16 |
| UPDATE: Vermont House Vote Sets Up Showdown With Governor Over Same-Gender Marriage Vermont House, By 95-52 Vote, Passes Bill to Accord Full Marriage Rights to Gay and Lesbian Couples, But Falls Short of Two-Thirds Majority; Supporters Vow All-Out Push to Get 100 Votes ... |
SkeeterVT | 04/02/2009 | 18 | 15 | - | 40 |
| Can Obama Avoid Repeating Soviets' Disastrous Experience in Afghanistan? As President Shifts America's Emphasis in the 'War on Terror' to Afghanistan, His Greatest Challenge Will Be Crushing al-Qaida and the Taliban Without Igniting Afghans' Longstanding ... |
SkeeterVT | 03/30/2009 | 33 | 3 | - | - |
| Memo to GOP: Come Up With New Ideas or Shut Up! Jindal Defends Limbaugh, Republicans Who Say They Want Obama's 'Dangerous' Policies to Fail -- But the GOP Has Yet to Come Up With Any Workable Alternatives and Their Insistence on ... |
SkeeterVT | 03/26/2009 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| After Decade of Civil Unions, Are Vermonters Ready for Same-Gender Marriage? Bill That Would Replace the State's Nine-Year-Old, First-in-the-Nation Civil Union Law With Full Marriage Rights for Gay and Lesbian Couples Unanimously Passes State Senate Panel; ... |
SkeeterVT | 03/23/2009 | 8 | 6 | - | 3 |
| EDITORIAL: Vatican, Like Ostrich, Has Head Buried in Sand Over Condoms Pope Benedict's Declaration That Use of Condoms to Halt the Spread of AIDS Virus and Other Sexually-Transmitted Diseases 'Increases the Problem' Is Backward Thinking That's Dangerously ... |
SkeeterVT | 03/19/2009 | 37 | 10 | - | 8 |
| Why Did Parents Curse Their Son By Naming Him After Hitler? Firestorm of Controversy Erupts for Parents of 3-Year-Old New Jersey Boy They Named After History's Most Evil Barbarian; His Two Younger Siblings Also Bear Nazi-Inspired Names; Parents Swear ... |
SkeeterVT | 03/16/2009 | 105 | 6 | - | 18 |
| Poll: Obama Lays Smackdown on Limbaugh -- Big Time Midway Through His First 100 Days in Office, the President's Approval Rating, While Down Slightly, Remains High -- and Buries Limbaugh's, 65 Percent to 33 Percent, McClatchy-Ipsos Poll ... |
SkeeterVT | 03/12/2009 | 51 | 23 | 1 | 12 |
| 'Godfather' Limbaugh Turning GOP Into Political 'Sopranos' The Right-Wing Radio Talk-Show Host's Seeming Takeover as Boss of the Republican Party -- and the GOP's Apparent Fear of His 'Dittohead Mafia' -- Could Pose a Danger to its Viability in ... |
SkeeterVT | 03/09/2009 | 14 | 3 | - | - |
| Obama Sending Mixed Signals on Bush Abuses The New Administration Is Right to Expose the Full Extent of its Predecessor's Blatantly Unconstitutional Actions in the 'War on Terror' -- But Is Dead Wrong to Continue Seeking to Halt ... |
SkeeterVT | 03/05/2009 | 6 | 4 | - | 1 |
| Where's the Beef? Jindal's Rebuttal to Obama Falls Flat Louisiana Governor's National TV Debut Draws Harsh Reviews, With a Fox News Panelist Branding His Performance 'Childish' and Conservative Blogger Calling It 'Patronizing' -- Polls Show ... |
SkeeterVT | 02/26/2009 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Feud Over Stimulus Exposes South's Dominance of GOP After Taking Two Consecutive Electoral Drubbings in the Rest of the Country, the Republicans Are a More Solidly Conservative Southern Regional Party Than Ever Before -- and Risking ... |
SkeeterVT | 02/23/2009 | 20 | 10 | - | - |
| Obama's Call for Bipartisanship Ignored by Left, Right Hard-Liners The President Must Face the Cold Reality That the Chasm in the World Views of Ideologically-Driven Liberals and Conservatives on Capitol Hill -- and of Their Equally Hard-Line Allies in ... |
SkeeterVT | 02/16/2009 | 33 | 4 | - | 3 |
| GOP 'Jumping Off Electoral Cliff' Over Stimulus A Strong 59 Percent Majority of Americans Support President Obama's Stimulus Bill -- and 64 Percent Approve of His Performance as President So Far -- While GOP's Approval Rating Remains ... |
SkeeterVT | 02/12/2009 | 24 | 14 | - | 17 |
| Does Steele Herald a New Era for GOP? Don't Bet on It GOP Chooses Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor as Its First African-American National Chairman -- But Despite Pledging to Broaden the Party's Electoral Appeal, He's Already Trying to ... |
SkeeterVT | 02/02/2009 | 21 | 11 | - | 24 |
| Bush's Warrantless Spying Program Was Far Bigger Than Even Nixon's Former U.S. Intelligence Official Reveals Bush Administration Indiscriminately Eavesdropped on All Americans' Telephone, Internet and Fax Communications Without Court Warrants -- Far ... |
SkeeterVT | 01/26/2009 | 42 | 32 | - | 19 |
| Obama Will Have Big Shoes to Fill -- Lincoln's, Kennedy's and Dr. King's Obama's Inauguration Will Be So Steeped in History -- on the Day After Martin Luther King Day, with the Bicentennial Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth Next Month and a Half-Century After JFK' |
SkeeterVT | 01/19/2009 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 229 |
| EDITORIAL: Good-Bye, George W. Bush -- and Good Riddance to Your Right-Wing Rubbish! At His Final Press Conference on Monday -- and Likely In His Farewell Address Tonight -- a Bullheaded Bush Stubbornly Refuses to Admit That His Policies Have Severely Damaged America's ... |
SkeeterVT | 01/15/2009 | 7 | 9 | - | - |
| UPDATE: Israel-Hamas War Intensifies With House-to-House Combat Unwavering Support for Israel by Bush Administration in Its Final Two Weeks in Office Is Dismissed by Much of the World, But Obama Lacks Authority to Say or Do Anything Differently Until ... |
SkeeterVT | 01/05/2009 | 70 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| And the 'Skeeter Bites Awards For the Worst People of 2008 Go To . . . In the Tradition of the Razzie Awards for the Worst Films of the Year, The 'Skeeter Bites Report Presents its Second Annual 'Dishonors' for the People Who Have Had the Worst Impact on ... |
SkeeterVT | 12/29/2008 | 3 | 11 | - | - |
| Holiday Special: The Pagan Roots of Christmas, 2008 Edition The Holiday the World Celebrates Each Year on the 25th of December Is Actually Tens of Thousands of Years Older Than Christianity Itself -- So Why Does There Continue To Be So Much ... |
SkeeterVT | 12/22/2008 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| 'You Dog!' -- Bush Learns First Hand Just How Fed Up the World Is With Him On Farewell Visit to Iraq, Bush Is Paid the Supreme Insult When An Angry Iraqi Journalist Tosses His Shoes At Him During Press Conference With PM Al-Maliki -- A Dramatic Show That the ... |
SkeeterVT | 12/15/2008 | 15 | 8 | - | 2 |
| No Matter What Courts Say, Some Vow They'll Never Accept Obama Presidency Despite Repeated Rejections by the Courts, Based on Birth Records Clearly Showing Obama Is a Native-Born U.S. Citizen Constitutionally Eligible to be President, Diehard Anti-Obama ... |
SkeeterVT | 12/08/2008 | 167 | 22 | - | 26 |
| UPDATE: Canada's Conservative Government Wins Reprieve in Unprecedented Political Crisis Canada's Governor-General, Representing the Queen, Invokes Rarely-Used Power to Temporarily Suspend Parliament, Saving PM Stephen Harper's Minority Government From No-Confidence Vote -- ... |
SkeeterVT | 12/04/2008 | 33 | 11 | 1 | 24 |
| Prop. 8: An Unconstitutional Mixing of Church and State Conservative Churches Crossed the Line by Campaigning For Measure Banning Same-Gender Marriages, Effectively Making Their Religious Doctrines Against Homosexuality the Law of the State -- |
SkeeterVT | 11/24/2008 | 10 | 8 | - | - |
| EDITORIAL: Catholic Bishops Overreaching With Demands on Obama Over Abortion When the Doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church Clashes with American Women's Constitutionally-Protected Right to Reproductive Choice, the Constitution Must Take Precedence; It's Why We ... |
SkeeterVT | 11/13/2008 | 95 | 16 | 1 | 28 |
| Secret Service, FBI on High Alert After Spike in Racist Death Threats Against Obama Threats by White Supremacists to Assassinate President-Elect Have Increased Sharply in the Past Month, Law-Enforcement Sources Say; Dramatic Post-Election Increase in Sales of High-... |
SkeeterVT | 11/10/2008 | 42 | 24 | 5 | 21 |
| 'Nightmare' for GOP as Attack Story Is Exposed as a Racially-Motivated Hoax Spokesman for McCain's Pennsylvania Campaign Comes Under Fire for Making a Racially Inflammatory Statement After White Supporter of McCain Admits She Faked Story About Being Attacked by ... |
SkeeterVT | 10/27/2008 | 26 | 57 | 2 | 46 |
| EDITORIAL -- Sarah Palin: A Fearmongering Demagogue Unfit to be Vice President Two Days After McCain Tells His Supporters to be 'More Respectful' of His Opponent, Palin Again Stokes Fear and Loathing Against Obama by Branding Him a 'Terrorist Sympathizer' at Ohio ... |
SkeeterVT | 10/20/2008 | 15 | 25 | 1 | - |
| McCain's Refusal to Raise Rev. Wright Issue Deepens Rift Between Nominee, Right Wing
Palin and Other Conservatives Insist that Obama's Ties to Former Pastor Are 'Fair Game' for Attack, But McCain Vetoes It as Too Racially Inflammatory; Meanwhile, 'Troopergate' Probe ... |
SkeeterVT | 10/16/2008 | 24 | 6 | - | - |
| Hate Campaign Against Obama Triggers Rift Between McCain and Palin GOP Vice Presidential Nominee's Determination to Raise Hot-Button 'Wedge Issues' on Campaign Trail, Rather Than Deal with Economy -- in Defiance of McCain's Wishes -- Is Driving a Wedge ... |
SkeeterVT | 10/13/2008 | 24 | 11 | - | 1 |
| October Surprise! McCain Forced to Confront Open Anti-Obama Bigotry -- and 'Troopergate' Arizona Senator Gets Booed at His Own Town Hall-Style Campaign Meeting After Rejecting a Supporter's False Claim that Obama 'Is an Arab' and Calling for Respect for His Opponent; Running ... |
SkeeterVT | 10/11/2008 | 29 | 19 | 2 | 1 |
| McCain's Own Ties to Right-Wing Radicals Exposed The McCain-Palin campaign has been hammering Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in recent days for his relationship with former far-left 1960s radical William Ayers, with Palin going so ... |
SkeeterVT | 10/09/2008 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Campaign '08's Ugly Side: Racial Bias Against Obama Can't Be Ignored Any Longer From Comments Laced with Racial Overtones, to Obama Campaign Offices Hit by Racist Vandals, to an Anti-Obama Book Author Linked to White Supremacists, to Death Threats and Alleged ... |
SkeeterVT | 09/15/2008 | 28 | 2 | - | - |
| Suspects Arrested in Second Alleged Threat Against Obama in Less Than a Month At Least One Suspect -- Who Tried to Escape Arrest By Jumping Out of a Sixth-Floor Hotel Window -- is Thought to Have Ties to White-Supremacist Groups, Sources Tell Denver TV Station; ... |
SkeeterVT | 08/26/2008 | 19 | 3 | - | - |
| Warren Accused of Lying About McCain's Appearance at Faith Forum Actor-Turned-Activist Tom Laughlin -- Star of the 'Billy Jack' Movies in the Late '60s and Early '70s -- Claims Warren Lied About Isolating McCain in 'Cone of Silence' While Interviewing ... |
SkeeterVT | 08/25/2008 | 21 | 18 | - | 20 |
| Corsi May Face Libel Suit Over False Claims Made in Anti-Obama Book Obama's Presidential Campaign Fights Back Against 'The Obama Nation' with Rebuttal Book and Web Site, But Swift-Boat Author's Principal Claims Are So Patently False That Obama Likely Has ... |
SkeeterVT | 08/18/2008 | 40 | 17 | - | 18 |
| While U.S. Media Goes Ape Over Edwards, McCain's Indiscretions Go Ignored... . . .But McCain's Ex-Wife Carol Breaks a Nearly 30-year Silence, Tells British Newspaper All About GOP Nominee's Numerous Infidelities After She Was Disfigured in 1969 Car Crash, Leading ... |
SkeeterVT | 08/13/2008 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 10 |