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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
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	-	-
'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
'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	-	-
'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
'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
(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
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
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
A Tale of Two D.C. Newspapers Worthy of a Charles Dickens Novel It's the Best of Times for One Paper and the the Worst of Times for the Other as The Washington Blade Makes a Triumphant Return Five Months After Former Parent Company's Bankruptcy Shut it Down,	SkeeterVT	05/11/2010	11	6	-	17
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
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
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
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
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
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	-	-
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
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
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
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
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	-
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
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
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
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	-	-
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	-	-
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 -- 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 -- '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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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	-	-
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
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: 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
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
Enough! Stop 'Minority Tyranny' in the Senate and Nuke the Filibuster With Senate Republicans Determined to Block President Obama's Entire Agenda, an Intransigence Never Before Seen Against Any Previous President -- Democrat or Republican -- the GOP is Engaging ...	SkeeterVT	02/15/2010	9	6	-	9
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
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
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	-	-
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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	-	-
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	-	-
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Obama Taking It On the Chin From Both the Right and the Left As the President Fights Off Conservatives on Health-Care Reform and the Economy, Liberals Complaining More and More Loudly About His Lack of Action on Ending the War in Afghanistan, Closing ...	SkeeterVT	10/08/2009	35	4	-	7
Obama 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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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