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brayton_headshot_wre_1443.jpg Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media.(static)

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May 31, 2006

That Worldnutdaily Logic

Category: Gay Rights

I know I spend an inordinate amount of time bashing the Worldnutdaily, but it's just a constant source of amusement for me. It really is mind-boggling to see how transparently irrational their arguments are and how calculated they are to...

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Nelson's Larger Misrepresentation

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Doug Theobald pointed out to me this morning that there is a larger misrepresentation in Paul Nelson's comments of a couple weeks ago. In his comments he said, in response to the list of theistic evolutionists that included Keith Miller,...

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Bring Back Joan Quigley

Category: Politics

As many around the blogosphere have noted, yesterday was the one year anniversary of Dick Cheney's appearance on Larry King Live when he declared of the insurgency in Iraq: "The level of activity that we see today from a military...

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The Russian Religious Right?

Category: Gay Rights

When you're emulating the Russians, perhaps it's time to reevaluate your position: Moscow's influential mayor said on Tuesday the city banned gay activists from holding a parade because it is morally cleaner than the West, which is caught up in...

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Environmental Rhetoric Gone Awry?

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Radley Balko links to this hilarious story: Before President Bush touched down in Pennsylvania Wednesday to promote his nuclear energy policy, the environmental group Greenpeace was mobilizing. "This volatile and dangerous source of energy" is no answer to the country's...

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May 30, 2006

The Full Nelson-Miller Exchange

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Keith Miller has asked me to make available the entire transcript of the exchange between he and Paul Nelson. To do so would require substantial editing on my part to format it here, so I'm just going to make the...

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Paul Nelson's Continued Lie

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Paul Nelson has left a comment on the previous post that detailed his misrepresentation of the views of Keith Miller during an email exchange. He asked Miller for the full exchange and has now pasted in part of that exchange...

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Roy Moore's Historical Ignorance

Category: Religious Right Leaders

The Wall Street Journal has an interview with former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore that contains some predictably absurd statements. Like this one: Roy Moore makes no apologies. "I'm not trying to dodge or get away from my past," he...

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Bush and the Courts

Category: Law

As expected, the Bush administration is asking the courts to ignore possible violations of the constitution stemming from the NSA programs for tracking domestic and international calls without ever looking into the question. The U.S. government has asked a pair...

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Legal Victory for Bloggers

Category: Law

A California appeals court handed a huge victory to bloggers last week, ruling that from the standpoint of the law, bloggers are essentially the same as regular journalists and entitled to the same protections. The three-judge panel in San Jose...

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May 29, 2006

100 Funniest Movies

Category: Pop Culture

Thanks to Fishy Fred for tracking down Bravo's list of the top 100 comedy movies of all time. I caught part of it and wanted to comment on the list. For the most part, I thought the list was abysmal....

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Ralph Reed and the Gospel of Money

Category: Religious Right Leaders

The Washington Post has a report on religious right poster boy Ralph Reed and his misuse of religion in the service of making himself right. This will surprise no one: In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed's firm sent out...

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Paul Gleason Dies

Category: Pop Culture

Who's Paul Gleason, you ask? He's a "That Guy", one of those actors you instantly recognize but whose name you don't know. He frequently played the same kind of character - the authority figure who blusters and poses but doesn't...

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Amar on Congressional Searches

Category: Law

Akhil Amar, one of the very best constitutional scholars in the nation, has an essay at Slate about the controversy over the FBI's search of the office of a congressman in a criminal investigation. He says pretty much exactly what...

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May 28, 2006

Paul Nelson's Outrageous Lie

Category: Intelligent Design

There is a long history of creationist misrepresentation of the views of scientists, going back to the time of Darwin himself. As the creationist movement has grown and gone through its various phases over the last century, such misrepresentations have...

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The VA's Religious Bias

Category: Church and State

Memorial Day weekend is a perfect time to report again on this story. Wiccans have been trying for years to get the Veterans Administration to allow soldiers buried in military cemetaries to have Wiccan symbols on their headstone. The latest...

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