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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
March 31, 2009
The Washington Post has an article about the waterboarding and abuse of Abu Zubaida, who was allegedly a high-ranking Al Qaeda leader. The torture of the man produced nothing useful at all: When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 60 Comments •
Richard Hoppe has begun posting updates on the John Freshwater hearings over at the Panda's Thumb now that they have started up again. Things are getting very interesting. On Day 15, the witnesses included Lori Miller, a middle school science...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 30 Comments •
Here's another case where a police officer lied about what happened and was found to be lying because they were videotaped: The latest such case emerged on Monday, when a New York City detective, Debra Eager, 41, was indicted on...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 12 Comments •
Jerry Falwell is dead but Jonathan Falwell has stepped right into his father's jackboots and continued his Worldnutdaily column and his penchant for distorting history. In his latest column, Falwell criticizes Obama's first judicial nominee, David Hamilton to the 7th...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 88 Comments •
The city of Atlanta has decided to fight a lawsuit by the family of Kathryn Johnston, the elderly woman killed during a police raid that was built on intentionally faked evidence. They're going to argue that the city is not...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 13 Comments •
March 30, 2009
AP reports: A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 29 Comments •
The Texas Board of Education passed the new science standards on Friday. The good news is that an amendment to add back in the "strengths and weaknesses" requirement failed. The bad news is that a more specific amendment with the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 28 Comments •
Unbelievable. Incredible. I wrote at the beginning of the season that MSU had the talent to make the Final Four, but I really didn't think before today that they could beat Louisville. I figured we just couldn't handle their big,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 16 Comments •
Here's one of the weirdest statements you're ever likely to hear. Sarah Palin grumbling that she couldn't find a single person in the McCain campaign she wanted to pray with before the VP debate: "So I'm looking around for somebody...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 100 Comments •
Despite repeated promises from the Obama administration that the raids on medical marijuana dispensaries, there was yet another raid the other day. Yesterday, armed federal DEA agents raided Emmalyn's California Cannabis Clinic, a licensed medical marijuana facility in San Francisco....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 8 Comments •
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