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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November 30, 2006
Category: Church and State
A Federal judge in Dallas unsealed the records concerning a series of cases of sexual abuse by priests in a single diocese in Texas. The Dallas Morning News reports on what was in these records and it's stunning. A couple...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:43 AM • 36 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
I've written before about the case of Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins, aka Lisa and Janet Miller-Jenkins. They were a lesbian couple who lived first in Virginia for several years, then in Vermont, where civil unions are legal. They were...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:33 AM • 9 Comments
Category: Liberty
Newt Gingrich is thinking of running for president in 2008. That means time spent in New Hampshire, where he recently spoke to 400 people at the Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment award dinner. And at a reception honoring those who...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:29 AM • 13 Comments
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If you haven't been following the Kathryn Johnston story, being publicized heavily by Radley Balko, wait till you hear this. On November 21st, the Atlanta PD busts into the house of an 88 year old woman. Since it's a no...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 15 Comments
November 29, 2006
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For the edification of my readers, let me show you the sum total of the text on the Understanding Evolution website that Larry Caldwell claimed in the lawsuit that the court dismissed earlier this year was unconstitutional: Misconception: "Evolution and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:55 PM • 26 Comments
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UCLA law profs Volokh and Bainbridge both come down on Prager for his ridiculous column about requiring Keith Ellison to swear his oath on the Bible rather than the Quran. They're much nicer about it than I was, but both...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 3:30 PM • 8 Comments
Category: Church and State
JewsOnFirst has a follow up on the story of the teacher in New Jersey who regularly used class time to proselytize his students, telling them that if they didn't believe in Jesus they were going to hell, that dinosaurs were...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:19 PM • 16 Comments
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Casey Luskin has finally recognized that he completely misread my post about Rob Pennock's speech at UCSD and retracted his post, but in the process he's still making a mountain out of a molehill and inventing a controversy where there...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:44 AM • 14 Comments
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For those who haven't noticed, the DI blog has a new contributor and it is none other than Larry Caldwell. Caldwell, if you are not familiar with him, is about equal parts ridiculous and litigious. He's sued Genie Scott. He's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:37 AM • 61 Comments
Category: Law
The novelist Scott Turow has an article in the New York Times magazine making the argument that Justice Scalia has moved toward a more civil libertarian position in recent years because of his originalism. I find his analysis rather shallow...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:34 AM • 2 Comments
Category: History
I have written at some length about the religious beliefs of the leading founding fathers (primarily Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson and Madison). We've already established that none were orthodox Christians, that all of them shared a common perspective that Gregg...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:04 AM • 13 Comments
November 28, 2006
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For sheer imbecility, it's gonna be awfully hard to top this column by Dennis Prager objecting to Muslim congressman Keith Ellison swearing his oath of office on the Quran. He manages to bring both the stupid and the crazy right...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:20 PM • 48 Comments
Category: Church and State
The Supreme Court has denied cert in a case appealed from the Maine Supreme Court involving the question of whether a state school voucher program could deny the use of those vouchers for religious schools. Maine has a great many...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:07 PM • 36 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
A group of leading constitutional scholars, including Akhil Amar, have filed a brief in Federal court in a case challenging the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy. "If the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy does not require careful and searching...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:51 PM • 3 Comments
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Yes, I know there's been a lot of discussion of Dawkins here lately, some good and some bad. And though I've been critical of him in some areas, I'll gladly defend him against the charge of supporting Hitler-style eugenics. Actually,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:57 AM • 4 Comments
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Just a note: Casey Luskin has neither amended nor retracted his false post at the DI blog about Rob Pennock allegedly confirming something he did not confirm. Shall we start an office pool on how long it takes?...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:46 AM • 6 Comments
