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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator 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 and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
May 31, 2006
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:30 AM • 8 Comments •
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,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:18 AM • 52 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:19 AM • 6 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:52 AM • 4 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:48 AM • 10 Comments •
May 30, 2006
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:06 PM • 9 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:06 AM • 39 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:56 AM • 14 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:27 AM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:45 AM • 2 Comments •
