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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)
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June 30, 2008
Category: Politics
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 76 Comments
Category: Politics
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 15 Comments
Category: Politics
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 9 Comments
Category: Politics
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....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 24 Comments
Category: Politics
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 13 Comments
June 29, 2008
Category: Politics
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:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 27 Comments
Category: Politics
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 40 Comments
Category: Politics
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 46 Comments
Category: Politics
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 55 Comments
June 28, 2008
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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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 6 Comments
Category: Politics
A group of some 200 leaders, including many prominent Republicans and retired generals, are issuing a statement condemning torture, abuse and indefinite detention of military detainees. A bipartisan group of 200 former government officials, retired generals and religious leaders plans...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 8 Comments
Category: Politics
And it will surprise no one that it was vandalized by painting a swastika and a cross on it. Weinstein is the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and he's been very aggressive in fighting against the many ways...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 15 Comments
Category: Politics
Jason Kuznicki has a provocative essay at Positive Liberty discussing possible future advances that could allow parents to screen a fetus for potential homosexuality and even "fix" it before a baby is born. The whole idea makes me squeamish, but...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 43 Comments
Category: Politics
I came across this article about John Freshwater being fired that has an amusing statement from his attorney: Freshwater's actions became public in April after he refused to remove a Bible from his desk. Today, his attorney, R.Kelly Hamilton, focused...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 11 Comments
June 27, 2008
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I am trying to consolidate most of my various email addresses down to a single primary email address. Those of you who email me and are using either of the crystalauto.com addresses that I've used for years, please begin using...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:44 AM • 8 Comments
Category: Politics
Richard Lardner reports that the Bush administration is rejecting a proposal to reform military contracting, which has been plagued for decades by waste, political expediency and outright corruption. The Office of Management and Budget, President Bush's administrative arm, has shot...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:41 AM • 14 Comments
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