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brayton_headshot_wre_1443.jpg 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

The "Satanic Ten Commandments"

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...

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Blinded by the Light

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...

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Texas School Board Ignores Expert Advice

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,...

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The Best PZ Defense I've Seen

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...

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Rush Limbaugh: Super Patriot

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...

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July 30, 2008

Vox Day Doesn't Like Me

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...

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Ruling in Anti-Gay Principal Lawsuit

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...

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Expand the Boycott!

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....

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PFOX Lies About Teens with HIV

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...

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McCain's Secret Plan to Capture Bin Laden

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...

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July 29, 2008

Bruce Fein on the Next President

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....

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McDonald's Boycotters Misuse Martin Luther King

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...

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Looks Like I was Right

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...

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Gays in Iraq

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...

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Wayne State Sued Over Student Fees

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...

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July 28, 2008

The Wingnut Index

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...

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