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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February 29, 2008
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I just laugh at breathless articles like this one from OneNewsNow, the AFA's news outlet. The religious right is shocked - shocked! - to find out that those they oppose politically are seeking political influence just like they are themselves....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 87 Comments
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Remember the situation in Indian River, Delaware, where a Jewish family were the victims of multiple instances of intimidation in the schools? That case has now been settled. The facts were truly stunning. When the family went to the school...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 13 Comments
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Nat Hentoff has a column urging all of the candidates for president to pledge to reveal all of the things the Bush administration has illegitimately hid from us over the last 7 years. He quotes Steven Aftergood of the Federation...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 18 Comments
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More evidence that the anti-gay crowd is absolutely obsessed with gay sex. Look at this brilliant statement from Texas Gov. Rick Perry that homosexuals are all about sex because the very word contains the word "sex." Excerpt from this interview...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 29 Comments
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The Chicago Tribune has a remarkable article on war profiteering over the last few years, especially on the part of KBR and Haliburton. Prostitutes, bribes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, the story has it all. Anyone shocked? Me...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 6 Comments
February 28, 2008
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By now you all know about John McCain disavowing the crude gutter politics of a radio talk show host in Ohio, who introduced him at a rally by repeatedly referring to Barack HUSSEIN Obama in a shoddy and pathetic attempt...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 27 Comments
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William F. Buckley, founder of the National Review, died at the age of 82 on Wednesday. Mixed feelings would seem to be the order of the day. His verbal tics and odd manner of speaking made him an often-lampooned character...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 28 Comments
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If you think some of the writers for the Worldnutdaily are scary, wait till you see the readers. Pam Spaulding copies part of a comment thread in the WND reader's forum that is absolutely frightening. It goes from rants against...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 31 Comments
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Jon Rowe found this item on Ebay, a picture of James Madison selling for nearly $500 by the Christian Heritage Museum. It includes the now-infamous fake quote from James Madison: "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 11 Comments
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Americans United has sent a letter to the Attorney General and several cabinet officers detailing a series of earmarks passed by Congress and signed into law by the president as part of larger appropriations bills that may violate the establishment...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 4 Comments
February 27, 2008
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. HL Mencken Watching the Bush administration posture...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 16 Comments
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I'm just baffled by this story from AP that repeats an absolute non-story that should have died long ago. When the first round of "Clarence Thomas doesn't ask questions during oral argument" stories came out a year or two ago,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 19 Comments
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Susan Jacoby of the Center for Inquiry has a new book, The Age of American Unreason, which argues that America is damaged not only by rampant ignorance but by a perverse pride taken in that ignorance that results from a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 82 Comments
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Guilty as charged: A federal court jury on Friday found the owner of a company that sells "male enhancement" tablets and other herbal supplements guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, bank fraud and money laundering... Warshak, 40, could face...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 12 Comments
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According to this article, it sure sounds like it. Long excerpt below the fold:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 12 Comments
February 26, 2008
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Our old friend Nathan Bradfield has written another ridiculous anti-gay screed that is rather amusing to read. He's got his panties in a bunch over a booklet about sexual orientation sent to every public school in the country by a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 149 Comments
