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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)
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December 31, 2007
Lauren Smith has a post at the Americans United blog about a case in South Carolina they're involved with. AU sent a letter to two school districts there who were allowing a Christian group called Laces 4 Love come in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 46 Comments •
Remember Gary Shumway, the clueless dolt from redpills.org? Well he's back with yet another idiotic attack on me based primarily on his own ability to think and observe. He's all upset about my post on Ron Paul and evolution, particularly...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 9 Comments •
With our current obsession over Muslim terrorists abroad, let's not forget that there are domestic terrorists operating right here within our borders. Here's a story of two men in New Mexico who firebombed an abortion clinic just a few weeks...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:08 AM • 19 Comments •
The Worldnutdaily reports that the US Mint will take as long as a year to get "In God We Trust" moved from the edge to the front of the one dollar presidential commemorative coins. Personally, I'm terrified. That gives God...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 13 Comments •
December 30, 2007
After 3 days of being inundated with ignorant creationists and others spouting incredibly popular but absolutely wrongheaded claims about the meaning of "fact" and "theory" in science, I think it's a good idea to post what I think is the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:25 AM • 46 Comments •
Jon Rowe is linking to some of his old posts and this one is one of my all time favorites. It's about Robert Reed, who played the father on the Brady Bunch. Reed was a classically trained actor and, it...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 14 Comments •
The brilliant and legendary Barry Crimmins, one of the great political satirists in the country, has an end of year retrospective in the Boston Phoenix. As always, it's full of little gems. Like this one: The Dems took their seats...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:10 AM • 6 Comments •
December 29, 2007
The links to the Ron Paul evolution post not only brought the ignorant out of the woodwork in the comments section, they also prompted an amusing email exchange with someone named David Gondek. Here's his first email to me: Mr....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:21 AM • 66 Comments •
Glenn Greenwald has a list of them and some of them are pretty funny. He includes one from 2006 from the terminally invertebrate Arlen Specter: "What the bill seeks to do is set back basic rights by some 900 years"...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 4 Comments •
Remember that little tempest over the $1 presidential coins having "In God We Trust" on the edge rather than on the front or back? Some in the religious right threw a hissy fit about it and now Congress has stepped...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:10 AM • 14 Comments •
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