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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)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
August 31, 2008
You know, I watched this show live and cringed when he said it. Michael Moore on with Keith Olbermann said on Friday night that if Hurricane Gustav hits New Orleans during the RNC, that would prove there is a god....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 157 Comments •
Jason Kuznicki discusses an article in the New York Times about "underground restaurants" cropping up in NYC. Long excerpt below the fold:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 11 Comments •
Seattle City Councilman Richard McIver used city money to pay a $1,000 fine levied by the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission last month after finding that he had given the appearance of favoritism in awarding city contracts to a longtime...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 16 Comments •
I got an email from the guy behind the Email Pushback Project and I like the idea. They're publishing detailed debunkings of all those breathless right wing emails you probably get forwarded all the time (I know I do). One...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 8 Comments •
August 30, 2008
Someone pointed me to YEC Headquarters, a site I'd never seen before. I had to laugh at this claim right there on the front page: Verse of the month: eccles 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 57 Comments •
Well that didn't take long. The first brazen lie of Sarah Palin's campaign as John McCain's VP nominee came just moments into her speech accepting his invitation to join the ticket. From the Washington Post's transcript of her speech: And...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 56 Comments •
Melissa Rogers, founder and director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at Wake Forest, has a post on her blog looking in great detail at Joe Biden's views on a whole range of church/state issues. There's not a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 11 Comments •
Seed magazine and ScienceBlogs is encouraging people to help raise $10,000 for various science projects funded by DonorsChoose. All you have to do to help is go to this website and vote for video profiles of scientists. We're at almost...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 0 Comments •
August 29, 2008
A great line from one of my colleagues at the Colorado Independent, a sister site to the Michigan Messenger: Sarah Palin, serving her second year as governor of Alaska might not have a deep government resume, but she brings to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 3:34 PM • 40 Comments •
McCain made a surprise choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP. The first thing that jumps into my mind: she's an ID supporter, thinks it should be taught along with evolution in public school science classrooms. She's also...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:38 PM • 137 Comments •
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