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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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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 -- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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