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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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July 31, 2008
Category: Politics
The Worldnutdaily has an amusing article about a Christian group trying to get a rather odd monument removed in Georgia. A Christian organization is pressuring the community of Elberton, Ga., to tear down a massive, granite monument that lists an...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 49 Comments
Category: Politics
Of the Virgin Mary. At least 50 people have lost their sight after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary, according to reports... Forty-eight cases of sight-loss, allegedly caused by photochemical burns on the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 26 Comments
Category: Politics
So says John Ferguson, a constitutional law scholar and Baptist minister who offered to help the school board put together guidelines for the Bible courses that would help local school districts avoid violating the constitution and being dragged into court,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 19 Comments
Category: Politics
I don't know who wrote it, but it was an email sent to Andrew Sullivan or one of his guest bloggers. I think it's pretty much dead on. I've been a critic of PZ for his anti-religious fervor in some...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 76 Comments
Category: Politics
You simply must read this fawning, sycophantic column by Pat Boone about Rush Limbaugh. It begins: Rush Limbaugh is a patriot. Pure and simple, a patriot. I see him in the select company of other patriots like Paul Revere, Thomas...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 50 Comments
July 30, 2008
Category: Politics
Which is okay, the feeling is mutual. Actually, he doesn't like someone named "Ed Drayton." It seems our friend mroberts has been tattling on me. He ran over to Vox Day's website to post a link and says, "Vox, looks...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 50 Comments
Category: Politics
You may remember a few months ago I posted about a lawsuit against Ponce de Leon High School in Florida, where the principal had suspended several students and declared that no one could have any message on anything in the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 38 Comments
Category: Politics
If the anti-gay crowd is really serious about going after any company that supports the "gay agenda" by supporting the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, they're gonna have to boycott pretty much every major business in the country....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 43 Comments
Category: Politics
Regina Griggs of PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays) continues to tell whoppers. In this article at OneNewsNow she tells a huge lie: "Why are we allowing people to tell them, 'Try it -- you might like it?' Over 70...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 19 Comments
Category: Politics
I laughed out loud at the television while watching John McCain interviewed by Wolf Blitzer and asked about his vow to catch Osama Bin Laden. The question: BLITZER: Let's talk a little bit about some national security issues. You're president...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 27 Comments
July 29, 2008
Category: Politics
Bruce Fein, interviewed by Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, answers the question of what the next president should do. I agree with pretty much everything he says....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 8 Comments
Category: Politics
As this Worldnutdaily article notes, the folks behind the organized Boycott of McDonald's over a $20,000 donation to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce are now using Youtube videos to make their case - and dishonestly using Martin...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 55 Comments
Category: Politics
In my initial judgment about the nut who shot up the UU church in Tennessee. AP reports that a letter was found in the shooter's car saying he did it because he was mad at liberals and gays: An out-of-work...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 104 Comments
Category: Politics
CNN has a powerful article about the plight of gay Iraqis, often targeted by Islamic radicals. And what do those gay-hating Muslims do when they get their hands on a gay man? They rape them: "They told me to take...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 37 Comments
Category: Politics
An interesting new lawsuit has been filed against Wayne State University, a public university in Detroit. The suit was filed by Students for Life, a recognized student group at Wayne State, over the refusal to allow the group to receive...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 6 Comments
July 28, 2008
Category: Politics
DevilsTower, with whom I had the pleasure of being on a science blogger's panel at Netroots Nation, has a post at DailyKos that plays off the speech I gave there. My speech compared the rhetoric of the ID movement to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 21 Comments
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