https://www.dailykos.com/user/SkeeterVT/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:30:18 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:30:18 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/7/12/1401469/-Bernie-s-Stance-on-Gun-Control-Could-Cost-Him-Support-of-Blacks-Latinos <p><strong><em>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 native of New York City, Senator Sanders has lived in overwhelmingly white and predominantly rural Vermont -- where gun control is anathema -- for most of his life. But for Bernie to win the Democratic nomination, he can't afford to alienate the party's predominantly urban base on this issue.</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) 2ndAmendment Bernie Sanders BernieSanders Civil Rights CivilRights Democrats Elections 2016 Elections2016 Gun Control Gun Violence GunControl GunViolence Human Rights HumanRights RaceandEthnicity _1401469 Sun, 12 Jul 2015 07:00:06 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/27/1174205/-The-Second-Amendment-Right-to-Bear-Arms-is-NOT-Absolute <p><em><strong>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's Time to Extend That Ban to Semi-Automatic Military-Style Weapons</strong></em></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) 2ndAmendment AssaultWeapons Gun Control GunControl NRA PublicSafety Second Amendment _1174205 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:41:12 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/1/3/1051082/-Foes-of-Health-Care-Law-s-Individual-Mandate-Ignore-Decades-Old-Mandate-for-Auto-Insurance <p>Lost in all the hullaballoo about the so-called &nbsp;"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 decades &nbsp;-- and, to date, no one has uttered a peep about whether that mandate is constitutional or not.</p> <p>You don't remember that one? Take a a look at your car. &nbsp;You're required to carry liability insurance on it, or else you'll lose your license to drive it.</p> <p>All 50 states have compulsory auto-insurance laws. Yet no one has ever challenged the constitutionality of <em>that</em> requirement. &nbsp;Indeed, any state that did <em>not</em> mandate compulsory auto insurance would likely lose federal highway funds under the Federal Aid Highway Act -- which has been in force for more than half a century.</p> <p>Ironically, it is precisely because of the auto-insurance individual mandate that we have such fierce competition among auto insurers today. Such competition would not exist if auto insurance wasn't mandatory.</p> <p>The Supreme Court should uphold the individual mandate for health insurance. It would ultimately do for the health-insurance industry what the individual mandate for auto insurance did for the auto insurance industry: Create fierce competition, which would, in turn, force a lowering of premiums.</p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Health Care Health-CareReformLaw HealthCare Insurance _1051082 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:41:44 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/15/945132/-After-5-Years-Skeeter-Bites-Report-Blog-Abruptly-Folds <p><b><i>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 Crash</i></b></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Community SkeeterBitesReport _945132 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:34:27 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/8/942081/-AOL-s-Purchase-of-HuffPost-Could-Be-a-Stroke-of-Genius-or-Another-Horrible-Blunder <p><b><i>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 Its Failure to Adapt to the Rise of Broadband, to Its Disastrous Merger With Time Warner?</i></b></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) AOL Huffington Post HuffingtonPost _942081 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:08:00 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/2/940640/-Mubarak-Vows-He-Won-t-Seek-Re-Election-But-Obama-Calls-For-Peaceful-Transition-Now <p><strong><em>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 Makes Clear That 'Orderly Transition' to New Government 'Must Begin Now'</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) CrisisinEgypt _940640 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:01:42 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/1/940381/-Amid-Continued-Anti-Mubarak-Protests-Obama-Bracing-for-Egyptian-Strongman-s-Downfall <p><strong><em>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 Egypt</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) CrisisinEgypt _940381 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:52:01 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/25/938696/-While-Super-Rich-Get-Tax-Cut-Extension-Middle-Class-Get-Rude-Surprise-A-Tax-Increase <p><strong><em>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 the Middle Class, Resulting in Smaller Paychecks Since the Start of the Year -- and Continuing the &nbsp; Mutation of GOP Into 'Party of, By and For the Rich' Since 2001</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) GOPTaxRipoffonMiddleClass _938696 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:31:30 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/18/937071/-Remarks-on-Arizona-Shootings-Confirm-Palin-Is-a-Demagogue-Unfit-for-the-Presidency <p><strong><em>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 Employ Incendiary Language in the Two Years Since; Now Former Alaska Governor Deeply Offends Jews by Employing Anti-Semitic Phrase in Defiantly Partisan Speech on Tucson Tragedy</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) PalinBloodLibelFuror _937071 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:30:33 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/11/935290/-UPDATE-Arizona-Blocks-Sicko-Westboro-Cult-From-Picketing-9-Year-Old-Girl-s-Funeral <p><strong><em>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 Crosshairs Map From Her Web Site -- Even Nine-Year-Old Girl Slain By Gunman Draws Westboro's Wrath</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) ArizonaKillingsDrawHateCult _935290 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:48:17 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/10/934919/-Was-Gunman-in-Deadly-Arizona-Shootings-Influenced-By-White-Supremacist-Extremist-Group <p><strong><em>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 Newsletter Published By 'White Nationalist' Think Tank; Federal Judge Killed in Rampage Got Death Threats in 2009 Immigration Lawsuit</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) ArizonaKillings _934919 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:59:11 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/4/933284/-Bush-s-Obsession-With-Saddam-Got-NATO-Stuck-With-Taking-Charge-of-Afghan-War <p><strong><em>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 Given the Major Role in the War Against the Taliban -- 'It's More About NATO Than It's About Afghanistan,' He Says</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) WarinAfghanistan _933284 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:30:56 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/28/931962/-Presenting-the-Fourth-Annual-Skeeter-Bites-Awards-for-the-Most-Outrageous-People-of-2010 <p><strong><em>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, Society and Culture in America -- and the World -- in the Year Now (Mercifully) Ending</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) SkeeterBitesAwards2010 _931962 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:51:22 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/21/930621/-Christians-Worries-About-So-Called-War-on-Christmas-Ignore-Holiday-s-Pagan-Roots <p><strong><em>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 Celebrates Each Year on the 25th of December Is Actually Thousands of Years Older Than Christianity Itself -- and Is Celebrated by Billions of Non-Christians Around the World</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Recommended ThePaganRootsofChristmas _930621 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:30:53 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/18/929999/-It-s-Time-to-Put-Bush-Tax-Cuts-for-Super-Rich-on-Trial-In-Court <p><strong><em>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, Either. If Congress and the President Won't Force the Super-Rich to Pay Up, Then the Courts Must</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Taxes _929999 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:19:40 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/14/928832/-WikiLeaks-Founder-s-Arrest-Stirs-Intense-Debate-on-Freedom-of-Online-Media <p><em><strong>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 Question the Legitimacy of Sex-Assault Charges Against Assange and of the &nbsp;Constitutionality of a U.S. Crackdown</strong></em></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Wikileaks _928832 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:42:33 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/7/926366/-WikiLeaks-Founder-Turns-Rogue-Resorts-to-Internet-Blackmail-to-Stave-Off-Arrest <p><strong><em>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 of Top-Secret Files Completely Uncensored if He's Arrested; Human-Rights Groups Fear Exposure By WikiLeaks Endangers Safety of Their Activists in Countries With Repressive Regimes</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Wikileaks _926366 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:39:10 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/30/924173/-Exposed-Iran-and-N-Korea-Pose-Greater-Threat-to-World-Peace-Than-Previously-Thought <p><strong><em>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 Targets Throughout Europe and in Russia; Documents Show Arab States Called for Attack on Iran's Nuke Facilities -- China Admits It's Fed Up With North Korea's Belligerence, Wants Peninsula Reunified Under Seoul's Control</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) North Korea NorthKorea Wikileaks WikiLeaksn _924173 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:30:58 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/23/922711/-Three-Weeks-After-Election-Victory-GOP-Already-Fighting-Each-Other-Over-Debt-Ceiling <p><strong><em>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 Hard-Liners Vow They Won't Support Raising Debt Limit -- Raising the Threat of a Government Default That Could Set Off Another Financial-Market Meltdown, Plunging the U.S. Economy Into a Free Fall</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) GOPFeudOverDebtCeiling _922711 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:36:58 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/16/920933/-Ouster-of-Iowa-High-Court-Judges-a-Clear-Expression-of-Anti-Gay-Prejudice-Period <p><strong><em>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 Message That &nbsp;Anti-Gay Bias Trumps Gays' Constitutional Rights -- and Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Protecting the the Rights of Other Minorities</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) same-gendermarriage _920933 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:09:30 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/9/918960/-Moderation-Is-Dead-America-Buys-Two-Years-of-Total-Ideological-War-in-Washington <p><strong><em>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 Totally Dominated by Hard-Line Ideologues of Both the Right (GOP) and the Left (Dems). Bipartisan Cooperation? Forget About It!</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) GridlockedWashington _918960 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:11:28 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/2/915998/-Are-You-Really-Going-to-Vote-to-Put-GOP-Back-In-Charge-of-Congress-Are-You-Crazy <p><em><strong>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 Irrational Fears of People of Color, Muslims, Gays and Anyone Else Who Isn't a So-Called 'Red-Blooded Patriotic American" -- If You Vote to Put These Paranoiacs Back in Charge of Congress, You Will Send Our Country Plunging Down the Toilet&lt;/span&gt</strong></em></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) ElectionDay2010 _915998 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:50:09 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/26/913634/-No-Matter-What-Happens-in-November-GOP-Is-in-Danger-of-Permanent-Minority-Status <p><strong><em>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 GOP Is Becoming What the Democrats Were as Recently as the 1950s: An Almost Lily-White, Southern-Dominated Party</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) StateofRepublicanParty _913634 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:44:42 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/19/911574/-Support-for-Paladino-Collapses-After-Thuggish-Clash-With-Reporter-Anti-Gay-Diatribes <p><strong><em>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 of Voters Have Favorable View of Paladino and Solid 59 Percent Majority Say Tea Party-Backed Republican is Unfit to Serve as Governor</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) NYGubernatorialRace _911574 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:15:32 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/12/909648/-Outrage-Mounts-Over-Surge-in-Bullying-Violence-Against-Gays <p><strong><em>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 Baseball Bat and Forcing His Partner to Burn Him With Cigarettes; While Officials Condemn Attacks, 'Boss' Paladino Condemns Gays</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) anti-gayviolence GayTeenSuicides _909648 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:02:23 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/5/907804/-Suddenly-It-s-2006-All-Over-Again-With-GOP-Candidates-Embroiled-in-Scandals <p><strong><em>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 Delaware, Christine O'Donnell Is Caught Lying on Her Job Resumes</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Campaign2010 NewGOPScandals _907804 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:14:16 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/28/905889/-Big-Trouble-on-Horizon-for-Republicans-Their-Primaries-Fail-to-Draw-Nonwhite-Voters <p><strong><em>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 Republicans and Tea Party Groups in Wisconsin to Suppress Nonwhite Voter Turnout in November's General Election</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Campaign2010 _905889 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:36:03 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/21/903849/-Shock-Tea-Party-Wins-Put-GOP-at-Serious-Risk-of-Losing-the-Northeast-for-Generations <p><strong><em>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 March Puts Northeast Republicans on Endangered Species List in a Fiercely Moderate-to-Liberal Region of the Nation Already Dominated by Democrats </em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) TeaPartyWinsinNortheast _903849 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:00:13 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/14/901757/-Nine-Years-After-9-11-Religious-Extremism-Is-No-Longer-Limited-to-Islamic-Radicals <p><strong><em>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 That Paranoid Religions Fanaticism Is No Longer Limited to Radical Muslims and Potentially Poses the Greatest Threat to World Peace Since the Cold War</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) ReligiousExtremism _901757 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:43:53 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/11/901007/-Gay-Hating-Cult-Vows-to-Burn-Korans-if-Jones-Church-Doesn-t <p><strong><em>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 it Will Burn Copies of Muslim Holy Book if 'Sissy Brats of Doomed America' Persuade Jones into Calling Off His Planned Burning on 9/11 Anniversary, Which Is on Hold -- For Now</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Koran-BurningAnti-GayCult _901007 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:58:38 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/7/899690/-Furor-Over-N-Y-Islamic-Center-Renews-Debate-Over-Federal-Government-Spying-on-Muslims <p><strong><em>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 Sues FBI for Information on the Bureau's Surveillance of Muslims in California and Elsewhere; FBI Says No Probable Cause -- or Warrant -- Is Required for Such Surveillance</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) SpyingonAmericanMuslims _899690 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:00:31 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/31/897683/-Wave-of-Islamophobia-Sweeping-U-S-Is-Repeat-of-Anti-Japanese-Hysteria-After-Pearl-Harbor <p><em><strong>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 Forced Removal and Internment of Upwards of 120,000 Japanese-Americans -- Will America's 1.3 Million Muslims Face the Same Fate?</strong></em></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Human Rights HumanRights _897683 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:00:35 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/24/895767/-Obama-Plays-Down-Plan-for-Iraq-Troop-Presence-Beyond-His-Self-Imposed-2011-Deadline <p><strong><em>President Striking a Delicate Political Balancing Act, Reassuring Military Commanders That His 2011 Deadline for U.S. &nbsp;Troop Pullout From Iraq 'Isn't Set in Stone' While Seeking to Assuage the Democratic Party's Anti-War Hardliners</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) WarinIraq _895767 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:30:13 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/17/893748/-Foes-of-Planned-Mosque-Near-N-Y-s-Ground-Zero-Have-No-Constitutional-Right-to-Stop-It <p><strong><em>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 Proposed Mosque Filed By Conservative Group Founded By Christian Evangelist Pat Robertson Should Be Thrown Out</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) GroundZeromosque _893748 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:20:12 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/11/892073/-Their-Backs-Against-Legal-Wall-Foes-of-Same-Gender-Marriage-Plunge-Into-Paranoid-Hysteria <p><em><strong>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, Foes of Marriage for Gay and Lesbian Couples Fall Into Siege Mentality as a Final Ruling by the Supreme Court Is Now All But Inevitable</strong></em></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) same-gendermarriage _892073 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:15:21 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/20/885759/-Tea-Party-s-Mark-Williams-Is-a-Bleeping-Hypocrite <p><strong><em>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 Rants and Raves; Meanwhile, New Black Panther Party 'Scandal' -- Hyped for&nbsp;Months by Fox News and Other Right-Wing Media -- Is Exposed As a Politically-Motivated Hoax</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Bigotry MarkWilliams NAACP NewBlackPantherParty OriginalBlackPantherParty Racism teapartymovement _885759 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:11:24 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/13/883898/-Fight-Over-Same-Gender-Marriage-Heading-Inexorably-Toward-Supreme-Court <p><strong><em>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 and Lesbian Couples Have the Same Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Right to Marry as Interracial Couples Is Not Only Inevitable, But Necessary</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) same-gendermarriage _883898 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:41:42 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/6/881950/-Steele-May-Have-Doomed-His-Leadership-of-GOP-With-Remarks-on-War-in-Afghanistan <p><strong><em>Several Top Conservatives Demand GOP Chairman Resign Over Remarks Made at Party Fundraiser That 'The One Thing You Don&rsquo;t Do Is Engage in a Land War in Afghanistan' Even As He Criticizes Obama -- Ignoring the Fact That the President Inherited the War From Bush and That Steele's Own Party Pushed for More Troops to be Sent There in the First Place</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Michael Steele MichaelSteele Republican Party RepublicanParty WarinAfghanistan _881950 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:12:43 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/29/880191/-High-Court-Ruling-on-Hastings-Law-School-Upholds-Separation-of-Church-and-State <p><strong><em>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 Gays and Non-Christian Believers in Defiance of the School's Anti-Discrimination Policy</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Discrimination Gay Rights GayRights Government Supreme Court SupremeCourt _880191 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:13:01 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/22/878240/-All-Eyes-on-California-as-Federal-Judge-Prepares-to-Rule-on-Anti-Gay-Proposition-8 <p><strong><em>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 Walker Decides, a Final Showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court is All But Inevitable</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Gay Rights GayRights Proposition8 _878240 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:00:43 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/8/873924/-CIA-s-Drone-Attacks-in-Pakistan-Drawing-New-Round-of-Opposition-From-Inside-CIA <p><strong><em>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 Recruitment of New Jihadist Militants Into Ranks of Al-Qaida, Taliban</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) U.SDroneAttacks _873924 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:02:41 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/1/871847/-Like-Father-Like-Son-Ron-Paul-Also-Opposes-Civil-Rights-Act-Says-It-Violates-Property-Rights <p><strong><em>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 on Russian TV, Rand Paul Calls For Stripping Illegal Immigrants' American-Born Children of Their Constitutionally-Protected Birthright of U.S. Citizenship</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Civil Rights CivilRights Immigration RandPaul Ron Paul RonPaul _871847 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:00:31 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/25/869651/-Despite-Rand-Paul-s-Win-Tea-Party-Still-Can-t-Shake-Image-as-a-Radical-Fringe-Movement <p><strong><em>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 Williams Ignites a Furor of His Own When He Blasts Proposed Mosque Near New York's Ground Zero and Says Muslims Worship '9/11 Terrorists' Monkey-God'</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) MarkWilliams RandPaul teapartymovement _869651 Tue, 25 May 2010 09:01:48 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/11/865428/-A-Tale-of-Two-D-C-Newspapers-Worthy-of-a-Charles-Dickens-Novel <p><strong><em>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, While The Washington Times Totters on the Brink of Extinction After Church Cuts Off its $35 Million-a-Year Subsidy and is Now on the Selling Block</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Newspapers _865428 Tue, 11 May 2010 09:17:17 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/4/863348/-Whistleblower-Gulf-Disaster-Is-Latest-in-Long-History-of-BP-Putting-Profits-Before-Safety <p><strong><em>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 Keep Critical Safety Data On Its Other Offshore Oil Rigs in the Gulf of Mexico</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) GulfCoastOilDisaster _863348 Tue, 04 May 2010 09:00:32 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/27/861130/-GOP-Wrote-Off-Blacks-With-Southern-Strategy-And-Now-They-re-Writing-Off-Latinos-Too <p><strong><em>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 From White GOP Conservatives, But the Republicans Are Still Using Their 'Southern Strategy' -- This Time Against Hispanic Americans</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Immigration Reform ImmigrationReform _861130 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:18:16 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/20/858948/-Poll-Confirms-Tea-Party-Movement-a-Greater-Threat-to-Republicans-Than-to-Democrats <p><strong><em>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 -- and, At Only 18 Percent of the Electorate, More Likely to Wreak Havoc in the Spring Republican Primaries Than in the November General Election</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) Recommended teapartymovement _858948 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:04:08 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/13/856765/-U-S-Expanding-Military-Role-in-Africa-Under-Obama <p><strong><em>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 Military Officer Corps</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) WarOnTerror _856765 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:08:26 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/6/854557/-Why-Is-Obama-Continuing-Unconstitutional-Bush-Policy-of-Warrantless-Surveillance <p><strong><em>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 Under the Fourth Amendment; Obama's Refusal to End the Practice Is a Gross Dereliction of His Oath of Office to 'Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution'</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) WarrantlessSurveillance _854557 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:01:10 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/21/848807/-Chinese-Hackers-Force-U-S-Based-Blogger-to-Suspend-Publication <p><strong><em>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, Subscribers</em></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (SkeeterVT) China InternetSecurity _848807 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:45:37 +0000