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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
October 31, 2007
Wait, wasn't this an evil, anti-American, pro-terrorist thing to do? Or is that only when Nancy Pelosi did it in Syria? Where's that right wing attack press to tell us how Laura Bush has been having a three way...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 21 Comments •
I know, I've watched political rhetoric long enough not to be shocked by anything but the utter intellectual dishonesty required to make an argument like this is still astonishing to me. The Worldnutdaily has an article on the Berkley nativity...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 12 Comments •
The right wing blogs and alternative media are all abuzz about the passage of H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This site, which rants about the "New World Order", calls the bill "one of the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 9 Comments •
Chris Rodda has a new post at Talk2Action debunking another major Christian Nation myth, this one about Thomas Jefferson. The claim is that Jefferson tried to bring a bunch of Calvinist theologians from Switzerland to the US to establish a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 55 Comments •
At Davis High School in California, they've just elected a gay couple at the school to be homecoming king and king. Very cool. Of course, the world will now come to an end, dogs and cats will be living together...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 9 Comments •
October 30, 2007
Antonio Agnone was raised to believe that every American has a duty to serve his country in some capacity. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, a soldier in WW II, Antonio was commissioned as a Marine officer upon finishing...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 19 Comments •
I know that pointing out hypocrisy and inconsistency on the part of DaveScot is a bit like reminding everyone that water is wet, but this is still too good not to post. All credit goes to Steve H at the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 17 Comments •
A Canadian woman has been fined and ordered to stop posting on a US-based website saying ugly things about minority groups: A Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a Calgary woman to stop posting hate messages against minority groups on...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 68 Comments •
You have to see the video of Olbermann going after Bill O'Reilly and his idiotic and hypocritical blather about Dumbledore being gay. It's especially funny when O'Reilly complains about how Rowling's statement was just intended to "indoctrinate" people into tolerating...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 4 Comments •
So says a McClatchy news report: George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he's arguably an even bigger spender...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 14 Comments •
