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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
December 31, 2008
The Florida Supreme Court is set to hear an appeal of the recent ruling that struck down the state's ban on gay adoption. Let's hope they uphold that ruling....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:37 AM • 11 Comments •
Remember during the campaign when John McCain kept declaring that he knew how to get Bin Laden and pledged to do that? Since he apparently refused to share that knowledge with the Bush administration, do you suppose he'll share...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 24 Comments •
Unfortunately, not for the victims of torture by the United States but by North Korea: A federal judge on Tuesday awarded more than $65 million to several men who were captured and tortured by North Korea after the communist country...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 3 Comments •
Sen. James Webb of Virginia plans to do something that few politicians have had the courage to do: introduce legislation to reform the prison system and put the focus on rehabilitation of non-violent offenders and incarceration of violent offenders. This...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 28 Comments •
We may have lost DaveScot at UD, but we're gaining the routinely muddleheaded Steve Fuller, who will be guest blogging at Dembski's Home for Wayward Sycophants. Fuller, you may recall, was the baffling expert witness offered up by the defense...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 108 Comments •
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent article at Slate about Dick Cheney's farewell tour of interviews and the conveniently self-serving logic he is using to defend the actions of the Bush administration on a number of fronts. I think she strikes...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 11 Comments •
December 30, 2008
Here's another one of those famous Worldnutdaily headlines expressing outrage at a perfectly reasonable court ruling: Here's the article they link to, which involves a gay couple who adopted - at the request of the birth mother - a baby...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 55 Comments •
Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske have an important article in the latest issue of Free Inquiry, a Humanist journal, about a drive to pass a Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (UIDHR). The article is a condensed version of a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 31 Comments •
Just when you thought Dennis Prager couldn't get any more ridiculous, he writes this column saying that married women should always have sex even if they're not in the mood to do so. It is an axiom of contemporary marital...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 124 Comments •
Allen MacNeill has an interesting post about the IDEA center, the pro-ID group on high school and college campuses that was founded by DI boy wonder Casey Luskin. He quotes a Dembski essay from shortly after the Dover ruling saying,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 9 Comments •
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