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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October 31, 2006
Category: ACLU
Nat Hentoff has a column in USA Today about the internal struggle for control of the ACLU's national board going on right now. As I've said in the past, I am firmly on the side of the dissidents who have...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 7:49 PM • 3 Comments
Category: ACLU
Ah, our old pal Glib Fortuna is back with another ridiculous post in which he demonstrates that fanaticism eliminates all recognition of irony (to say nothing of hypocrisy). He casually claims that "The ACLU's totalitarian impulse is deeply rooted and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:37 PM • 27 Comments
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From Charlie Crist, Republican candidate for governor of Florida, during a debate with opponent Jim Davis: Crist, (pictured) who currently is Attorney General and who has dogged suggestions throughout the campaign that he is gay, had one of the more...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:11 PM • 8 Comments
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When Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist had his speech disrupted and overrun by protestors a month ago, I wrote the following: And mark my words, Columbia won't do a thing about it. Not a single student will be disciplined for their...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:54 AM • 14 Comments
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After a delay due to one of Hovind's attorneys being sick, his trial has resumed. An IRS agent testified today that the Hovinds claim to have no money while withdrawing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from their accounts,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:34 AM • 7 Comments
Category: UC Lawsuit
The Sacramento Bee has an article about the upcoming trial over the University of California's rejection of certain courses from a Christian school for credit in their admissions process. I reviewed the biology textbook when the suit was first filed...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:29 AM • 4 Comments
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Sandefur's full time job is as a litigator for the Pacific Legal Foundation, specializing in eminent domain and economic rights cases. One of the cases he is involved with now is one that I brought to his attention with a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:15 AM • 7 Comments
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What kind of problems? Oh, nothing major. Vote for a Democrat, get counted as Republican. No big deal. Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale. Her vote went...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 11 Comments
October 30, 2006
Category: Creationists
I just saw this posted at the Panda's Thumb. Look at this article. A man waving a brick barged into Monroe Middle School and ranted about the teachings of evolution before being arrested by police Tuesday morning... Monroe police reported...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:38 PM • 30 Comments
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This happened about an hour away from me: Police in the western Michigan community of Wyoming entered two classrooms at Lee Middle and High School on Thursday and announced there was a threat to the school, The Grand Rapids Press...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 5:42 PM • 29 Comments
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Sometimes I give away a Robert O'Brien Trophy to some mouth-breathing imbecile only to find, a few days later, an even more ridiculous example of human stupidity. And I'm afraid it's happened again. And frankly, I can't imagine finding anything...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:27 AM • 28 Comments
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The head of the GAO, David Walker, is now saying what I have been saying for years: our government - our nation - is headed toward a major fiscal crisis. We are a nation living vastly beyond our means in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:51 AM • 30 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
From a comment at Volokh about the New Jersey ruling: It's an undisputed assumption that marriage is important to the welfare of children. The NJ Supreme Court decision yesterday virtually ignored the impacts on children, merely because the current executive...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:49 AM • 13 Comments
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Here's more of that good Christian charity. We're told constantly that school prayer will help keep kids from being immoral; apparently that doesn't hold true in Crawford County, Georgia. Two teachers there recently asked the school board to stop opening...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:40 AM • 23 Comments
Category: Sports
Yes, we probably use that term too often, especially in sports. But if it ever applied, it surely does to Red Auerbach. His career accomplishments are so monumental that they almost defy being listed. 8 straight NBA championships as a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 2 Comments
October 29, 2006
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And good for them. New Jersey has turned down Federal funds for abstinence-only sex ed because of the absurd restrictions that come with it: The Corzine administration has rejected federal abstinence education money because new rules won't let teachers discuss...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:10 AM • 24 Comments
