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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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
'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
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
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
(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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 -
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 -- 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
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
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
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
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 -- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 -
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
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
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
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
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 - -
 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 - -
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
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
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
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
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
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 - -
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
 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 - -
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 -
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 - -