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Who is This?
Paul Rogat Loeb (born in 1952) is an American social and political activist, who has strongly fought for issues including social justice, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and civic involvement in American democracy. Loeb is a frequent public speaker and has written five books and numerous newspaper editorials.
Losing the Virginia and New Jersey governorships hurt. Local factors played a part, but these are major states. So it matters why the Democrats lost them. Here are eight reasons, with lessons on how to reclaim the momentum of just a year ago:
Blame bad ...
Like many of us, I've been cursing Max Baucus through most of the summer, for blocking our best chance for real health care reform in forty years. Now Baucus at least says he won't filibuster, but Joe Lieberman threatens to bring the bill down, and ...
As the health care fight approaches its end game, how do we, as ordinary citizens exercise power? How do we create enough of a potential cost to deter Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, or any of the other Democratic obstructionists ...
My friend Robert Gordon is dying of lupus. He's a novelist who spent a decade teaching in the Washington State prisons and written essays for everywhere from Esquire, to The Christian Science Monitor, to the Boston Globe. Two months ago he wrote a wise ...
If you're familiar with The Progressive, it's a wonderful magazine with a hundred-year history of advocating for progressive social change, going back to their founder, Robert La Follette. Doesn't matter what the issue, they were ahead of their time, ...
Author of 'Soul of a Citizen'
If you read the liberal blogosphere, you know about Senator Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions's history of dubious racial statements. If you're following on most of the mainstream media, you don't. You might even buy ...
My friend Robert Ellis Gordon is dying of lupus, with months left to live. He's spent more than a decade teaching writing to prison inmates, written a terrific book called The Fun House Mirror from those experiences and crafted a rave-reviewed novel, ...
that Canada's single-payer approach should be at least debated. Most Canadians like their system, in contrast with a recent U.S. poll where 87 percent said our health system should be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt. Canadians get a full ...
From PAUL ROGAT LOEB SPECIAL TO THE MERCURY NEWS,
The San Jose Mercury News,
14 Jun 2009
Are U.S. taxpayers getting stiffed? Pfizer, Viagra's daddy, is using money from taxpayer-bailed-out banks to help buy major pharmaceutical competitor Wyeth in a $68 billion deal. That won't help taxpayers or consumers. Nor is it designed to. It will ...
$340 a year at current gas prices. If natural gas costs keep increasing at their recent rate, 61 percent in five years, my investment will pay back in roughly nine years — a yield approaching that promised by Bernie Madoff. I'll also prevent the ...
From PAUL ROGAT LOEB SPECIAL TO THE MERCURY NEWS,
The San Jose Mercury News,
21 Jan 2009
