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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)
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June 30, 2009
From North Korea's amusingly delusional strongman Kim Jong-Il: "If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," a dispatch from the official Korean...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 38 Comments •
Oklahoma's favorite wingnut legislator, Sally Kern, is now trying to pass a "proclamation for morality" in that state. Predictably, it includes several of those now-infamous fake quotes that David Barton has thrust upon the world. Here's the full proclamation:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 30 Comments •
Marcy Wheeler has a post about statements made by Presidents Bush and Obama commemorating the anniversary of the UN Convention Against Torture, which was Friday. Notice the sheer chutzpah of Bush's declaration from 2003, which was issued a mere few...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 6 Comments •
Politifact does a nice job of debunking Michelle Bachmann's silly claim that ACORN will be in charge of the census. Here's what she said: "Now ACORN has been named one of the national partners, which will be a recipient again...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 21 Comments •
There are reports that the Obama administration is getting ready to put out an executive order allowing indefinite detention of some of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 16 Comments •
June 29, 2009
Several of my fellow ScienceBloggers have already endorsed GrrlScientist and asked their readers to vote for her to become the official blogger on an Arctic expedition. I hereby risk the wrath of my SciBlings, with no malice toward GrrlScientist whatsoever,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 20 Comments •
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause includes the right to cross examine forensic experts when they testify in a trial. It's the makeup of the two sides that is really interesting. The majority opinion was...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 16 Comments •
With Mikey Weinstein's kind permission, I'm going to reprint an example of the kinds of letters and emails the Military Religious Freedom Foundation gets on a daily basis from active duty military personnel and their families. The details have been...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 23 Comments •
Some of you may remember the brouhaha caused by Stuart Pivar around these parts a couple years ago. Pivar wrote a breathtakingly bad book called Lifecode and sent it to PZ for him to review. So he reviewed it -...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 15 Comments •
Balko has two stories about the police serving warrants at the wrong address, something that happens regularly and often with fatal results. Here's the first one, from Indiana (and a link to the original article):...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 56 Comments •
