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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
October 31, 2008
Joe Nickell, senior researcher for the Center for Scientific Inquiry, will appear on CNN this afternoon to discuss exorcism and religious con man Bob Larson. He is to appear at 2:45 EST. I got to meet Joe a couple months...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:50 PM • 15 Comments •
The latest major conservative to endorse Obama: Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, third generation Straussian, student of Allan Bloom and colleague of Harvey Mansfield, William Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz. He writes in the American Conservative:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 25 Comments •
On Monday, I interviewed Maurice Thompson of the Buckeye Institute, the group who filed a RICO suit against ACORN in Ohio. I asked him if he could provide any examples of someone actually getting to vote illegitimately as a result...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 17 Comments •
Dan Perrin is a Republican strategist. In this post at RedState, he demonstrates why no Republican candidate who wants to win an election should even consider hiring him to do anything other than empty the trash cans at the office....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 88 Comments •
Facing the prospect of losing the election next week, Elizabeth Dole is trying even harder to provoke some old-fashioned anti-atheist bigotry. Video of her latest ad below the fold....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 25 Comments •
Remember Robin Hayes, the North Carolina congressman who said while introducing John McCain recently that "liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God"? Here's another recent statement by him that you'll love: First there's the usual...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 18 Comments •
October 30, 2008
With much controversy over allegations that some touch screen voting machines in West Virginia and elsewhere are switching votes from one candidate to another, a county clerk tries to demonstrate how well the system works and ends up showing that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:37 AM • 41 Comments •
Joe the Plumber is rapidly becoming the Kevin Federline of politics, the guy you watch embarrass himself and then can't wait for his 15 minutes of fame to be over so he can slide into a well deserved obscurity. Even...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 41 Comments •
The McCain campaign and many prominent conservatives are working overtime on painting Barack Obama as a socialist. They cite Obama's now-infamous comments to the even more infamous Joe the Plumber about "spreading the wealth" and now they're crowing over an...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 36 Comments •
The editors of Seed Magazine have officially endorsed Barack Obama for president. I'm happy to report this, but I want to make clear that it is not my endorsement. I think it's pretty obvious to all my readers that I...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 30 Comments •
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