Posting History for SkeeterVT
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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: 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 |
| (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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| '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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| '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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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: 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 |
| 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: 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |