Author: Frederick Clarkson

Incumbent U.S. presidents facing a challenger sometimes don’t do much campaigning, but instead make a bigger show of doing the job of president. This is known to reporters as campaigning from “the rose garden.”...

Pat Robertson’s incendiary call for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez certainly has backfired — and ignited a firestorm of criticism that is engulfing the Republican televangelist from Virginia...

The New York Times has a story today, devastating in its understatement, about reaction to Pat Robertson’s internationally televised call for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, the democratically elected president of...

Censorship is alive and well in America. And the fight against it has many fronts. Led by the Christian Right, public school boards, teachers, public libraries, and public colleges and universities are all too often pressured to...

Maybe you were wondering about the growth of the progressive blogosphere?  Maybe you were wondering how to keep track of all the terrific political blogs in your state? Well, there is a way. LeftyBlogs is an aggregator,...