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)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
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September 30, 2006
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Today should be fun. I'm going to watch my dad drive a race car at 170 miles per hour or so. It's a birthday gift that he's really excited about. So I'll be gone most of the day for that....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:47 AM • 2 Comments
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Raw Story reports that Rep. Mark Foley has been caught sending suggestive emails to a 16 year old congressional page. Foley is one of the many "family values" Republican legislators who is secretly gay (though not so secret anymore, he...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:41 AM • 17 Comments
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Award-winning art teacher takes her class on a trip to Dallas Museum of Art. Principal not only approves the trip but encourages the teacher to do it. Parents all sign permission slips for the kids to go. The kids see...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:37 AM • 23 Comments
September 29, 2006
Category: Religious Right Leaders
This is quite a shock. Dick Armey, a former Congressman who was always on the side of the religious right, is now out of politics and telling the truth: In the interview, Armey responded pointedly when Sager asked why he...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:17 PM • 14 Comments
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I found this on Pam Spaulding's blog and I think it was made by someone who comments here once in a while (M.T. Rational XXXIV). It's....Gaypocalypse Now....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:11 PM • 6 Comments
Category: Law
Jack Balkin says no: First, the MCA puts the President in an interesting position: the U.S. is still bound by Geneva, but there is no way for individuals to enforce violations of Geneva (except that grave breaches of Common Article...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:05 PM • 20 Comments
Category: Liberty
Famed libertarian legal scholar Richard Epstein testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee a few days ago about the detainee bill that was just passed and awaits Bush's inevitable signature. What he said is very important. Far more is...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:10 AM • 15 Comments
Category: History
Jon Rowe has an excellent post once again blasting David Barton for his utterly irrational historical revisionism in regard to religion and the constitution. He points to a document I've never seen before, an affidavit that Barton filed in the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:46 AM • 7 Comments
Category: Liberty
The case against a British minister for handing out leaflets at a gay pride event has been dropped. Unfortunately, the police are clearly engaging in doublespeak to justify the arrest in the first place. South Wales Police force has defended...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:34 AM • 2 Comments
Category: ACLU
It's been a couple weeks since Glib Fortuna said something really stupid (or at least since I'd noticed it), which may be a record for him. But he's back with another utterly clueless post about HR 2679. He's accusing the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 2 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
Think Progress has video of Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, chief sponsor of the Marriage Protection Act, speaking at last weekend's Values Voters Summit. It includes gems like this: Musgrave declared that gay marriage "is the most important issue that we face...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:14 AM • 3 Comments
September 28, 2006
Category: Poker
So ESPN finally aired the final table of the World Series of Poker main event last night and I have to say that Jamie Gold is the most irritating person to win it since Hellmuth. Unlike Gold, however, Hellmuth is...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 7:11 PM • 7 Comments
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Timothy Sandefur gave a speech about his new book and about the state of property rights in America, particularly with regard to eminent domain and regulatory takings, at the Cato Institute recently. You can listen to that speech in mp3...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:58 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
Jay at STACLU is upset that the ACLU filed suit in Kentucky over a state law restricting the right to protest at military funerals, a bill aimed solely at Fred Phelps and his gang of the insane and idiotic. A...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:34 PM • 68 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
The more reports come in about last weekend's Values Voter Summit, the worse it gets (which is not a surprise, of course). Here's Bishop Wellington Boone: But I want to tell you something is, they don't know, we're driven by...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:09 AM • 12 Comments
Category: Creationists
Kent Hovind's attorney has filed motions to dismiss all of the counts against him. Counts 1-12 and 58 (12 counts of failing to pay FICA and withhold income taxes on employees and one count of threatening a Federal agent) are...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:06 AM • 20 Comments
