Progressive Political Blogging & E-Mailing: 2009

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DATE	TITLE
18 Dec. 2009	Comment on Strengthening the Estate Tax to Strengthen the Country, by Bill Gates Sr.
17 Dec. 2009	Podesta’s Top Ten Reasons for Progressives to Support the Health Reform Bill
16 Dec. 2009	Comment on Lieberman Betrayal Illustrates Why Senate Filibuster Rules Must Change, by Robert Creamer
4 Dec. 2009	Comment on Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, and the Desperate Need for Better Journalism, by Arianna Huffington
2 Dec. 2009	Use Reconciliation vs.“President Lieberman”
2 Dec. 2009	The Least Bad Option in Afghanistan
26 Nov. 2009	Thankful for a President of Reason
6 Nov. 2009	Election Lesson: It’s right — not Right — to be Democrats.
27 Oct. 2009	The Insurance Companies’ “License to Kill”: ERISA
19 Oct. 2009	Health Care Reform: A Matter of Life and Death [my submission to the OFA “Health Reform Video Challenge”]
9 Oct. 2009	Pres. Obama: An Inspired and Inspiring Choice for Nobel Peace Prize
7 Oct. 2009	Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: The Public Option as the Best Insurance of Health Care Coverage and Cost Control — [downloadable & searchable] research report for progressive activists
20 Sept. 2009	Time for the Yellow Dogs to Bite the Blue Dogs [an article by a former DNC member, who proudly declares, “Obamanos!”]
14 Sept. 2009	When is a Public Option Not a Public Option?
11 Sept. 2009	Media in the States of Centrist Senators — [downloadable & searchable] research report for progressive activists
8 Sept. 2009	Personal Tragedies Show Need for Public Option [video of “Congressional Send-Off Rally” in Los Angeles]
6 Sept. 2009	Comment on “Sicko Reprise, Please”
1 Sept. 2009	Taking Health Care to the Belly of the Beast!
29 Aug. 2009	Sen. Kennedy’s Real Stand on Health Care Reform
27 Aug. 2009	Comment on Ted Kennedy and the Missing National Conversation, by Arianna Huffington
26 Aug. 2009	Kennedy’s Greatness: Not Who He Was But What He Did
22 Aug. 2009	Comment on Boys Bite Beast, by Ellen Snortland
20 Aug. 2009	Comment on The PolicySpeak Disaster for Health Care, by George Lakoff
18 Aug. 2009	Co-ops Lack Leverage Unless Very Big
18 Aug. 2009	Making Heroes of Armed Men at Town Halls
17 Aug. 2009	Opponents Armed at Town Hall Meetings
17 Aug. 2009	Video I Shot at the Recent Town Hall Meeting
17 Aug. 2009	Video Clips of Schiff Town Hall: Democracy Will Not Be Silenced
9 Aug. 2009	Actions to Take to Support Health Care Reform Under Fire
8 Aug. 2009	The Would-Be Town Hall Putsches
5 Aug. 2009	Happy Birthday, Mr. President
2 Aug. 2009	Fact Check in the Health Care Debate
31 July 2009	Comment on Fear, Anger, Hope and Inspiration Will Decide Health Care Battle, by Robert Creamer
29 July 2009	Comment on As Michael Vick Awaits Hail Mary, Vets Tackle a New GI Bill, by Paul Rieckhoff
27 July 2009	Comment on King Coal, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
27 July 2009	The Bottom Lines on Health Care Reform
23 July 2009	Comment on Gender Elephant in Gladwell’s Outlier Living Room, by Ellen Snortland
22 July 2009	A Brief Framing of the Health Care Debate
15 July 2009	Who Pays for Health Care?
7 July 2009	Re: Silent Partners: The Other Victims of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
11 June 2009	Our Golden Opportunity for Real Health Care Reform
2 June 2009	Comment on Rites of Spring, by Ellen Snortland and Gavin de Becker
2 June 2009	Women Defending Themselves
23 May 2009	Re: Krugman: Blue Double Cross
29 April 2009	Extraordinary Photos of President’s First 100 Days
28 April 2009	The Specter of Hope, as the GOP Implodes
31 March 2009	Happy Cesar Chavez Day: Sí, Se Puede
23 March 2009	Speaking of Organic ...
20 March 2009	The Organic Obamas!
16 March 2009	Right-Thinking Among Righteous Anger
12 March 2009	Right-Wing Hangover
11 March 2009	Comment on International Women’s Day, by Swanee Hunt
11 March 2009	International Women’s Day
4 March 2009	My Mistake
1 March 2009	FW: A Threat to the Status Quo
28 Feb. 2009	FW: Right-Wing Tax and Budget Myths
27 Feb. 2009	The Obama Budget: A Return to Equality
19 Jan. 2009	MLK Day Image and True Story
15 Jan. 2009	Born-Again American