Political Blogging & E-Mailing: 2009
For Progressive Causes & Candidates
For introductory remarks about my online political writing, please click here.
For Key to Icons, showing where works were posted or if they were e-mailed, please click here or hover cursor over icon for “tool tip.”
DATE | TITLE | See Key |
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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 |
Key to Icons in Table of Online Articles (above)
ICON | TYPE OF ARTICLE ETC. |
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Select Articles, E-Mails, etc. as Downloadable & Printer-Friendly PDF Documents — some of my most thought-provoking writing. |
BarryTalk & GordonTalk Blog Entries from April 2005 to June 2006. These blogs by Barry Gordon are no longer online; my entries are archived in my Progressive Thinking site. | |
CommentsFromLeftField.com Blog Entries by Doug Drenkow, from June 2005 to March 2006; by “The Scarecrow,” from December 2004 to February 2005; and by “Doug D.” from November to December 2004. | |
DailyKos.com Diary Entries from March 2006 to present. | |
Democratic News Group Postings from November 2002 to September 2003, archived in my Progressive Thinking site. | |
E-Mails Sent to My (Now) International List from 9/11/2001 to present. | |
Huffington Post Comments from March 2009 to present. | |
My.BarackObama.com Blog Entries from Feb. 2008 to present. | |
OpEdNews.com Articles from Sept. 2005 to present. |
Please note that in the table, the date given for any article posted in multiple sites, or e-mailed as well as posted online, is the earliest date the article was posted or e-mailed; subsequent postings or e-mailing may have occurred on days immediately following.
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