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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This is absolutely hilarious. The American Family Association has a policy at its new outlet, OneNewsNow, never to use the word "gay" but to replace it with "homosexual." And that works absolutely perfectly until they write an article about an...
From a 2005 debate between John Yoo and Doug Cassell: Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him? Yoo: No...
Sandefur has an excellent essay on the subject of 14th amendment incorporation and the nature of both privileges and immunities and due process as they apply to both federal and state action. It's really quite elegantly argued and I agree...
How ridiculous do you have to be to put Stephen Baldwin on the air as a political pundit? About as stupid as Baldwin himself, I imagine. Fox News did it and the results are below the fold....
The New York Times reports on growing controversies over religious indoctrination and possible establishment clause violations at the nation's service academies. And the complaints are coming from cadets at those academies: Three years after a scandal at the Air Force...
I'm sure everyone has heard by now about McCain adviser Charlie Black saying that another terrorist attack before the election would be a "big advantage" to McCain's election campaign. But what I find amusing is his non-apology apology for it:...
John McCain has managed to flounder around and stumble on a good idea: The presumed Republican nominee is proposing a $300 million government prize to whoever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology... McCain said such a...
Radley Balko points out the same thing I've been pointing out to people: the Supreme Court's ruling in Heller is not a huge victory for those who are really hardcore advocates of gun rights. The NRA is trying to spin...
More of those average American voters. Like this former Clinton supporter: The poll responses also show Obama has more work to do to quell fears among voters like Kirstie Hartle of Rome, N.Y., a registered Democrat who has never supported...
I am headed to the Detroit area for a get together with a bunch of old buddies from the debate world, guys I coached against in the late 80s. We're gonna have a cookout and play some poker and I'll...