The 'Skeeter Bites report
A twice-weekly news analysis and commentary on world events and on U.S. politics and culture. New articles published regularly every Monday and Thursday. Online since December 11, 2005.
SKEETER SANDERS, Editor and Publisher
Latest Blog Posts
- Letter From the Editor: Memo to Senate Dems -- Public Option Is Not Negotiable on Nov 23, 2009
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 Insurance; The Time Has Come for Majority Leader Reid to End...
- Right-Wing Local Talk-Radio Host in N.H. Loses Show Over Blatantly Anti-Gay Slur on Nov 19, 2009
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;' Conservative Also Loses His Newspaper ColumnPLUS: After 40 Years, Th...
- Congress' Move to Pull $$ Plug on ACORN Is Challenged in Court as Unconstitutional on Nov 16, 2009
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-Sponsored 'Defund ACORN Act' -- Lawsuit is Latest in Community...
- GOP's Worsening Civil War Could Wreck Its Chances for an Electoral Comeback in 2010 on Nov 12, 2009
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 Hijacked the Party, Driving It So Far Rightward That It Cost th...
- GOP's Worsening Civil War Could Wreck Its Chances For an Electoral Comeback in 2010 on Nov 12, 2009
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 Hijacked the Party, Driving It So Far Rightward That It Cost th...
- Letter From the Editor: GOP Will Make a Huge Mistake If It 'Punishes' Rep. Cao on Nov 9, 2009
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 Vote in Favor of Democrats' Health-Care Reform Bill, It Wil...
- N.Y. Voters to Out-of -State Activists: 'Mind Your Own Business and Stay the Hell Out!' on Nov 5, 2009
'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 Within 100 Feet of Voting Stations; Backlash Against $2 M...
