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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
July 31, 2009
From Rush Limbaugh, speaking of liberals and Obama supporters: "And there are people in this country, who are Americans, and have the same view of totalitarianism that all the worst regimes in the world have had. They just are a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 43 Comments •
An atheist group that was denied the right to purchase ad space on public buses in Bloomington, Indiana has reached a settlement in the lawsuit it filed against the city. The city transportation authority's advertising policy forbid them from accepting...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 19 Comments •
An accident that was their fault, by the way, because they hit her from behind. Four police officers from Hollywood, Florida are caught on camera inventing evidence and plotting to falsify police reports to frame an innocent woman that they...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 33 Comments •
From Sarah Palin's farewell address, speaking of the media: "You represent what could and should be a respected, honest profession that could and should be a cornerstone of our democracy. Democracy depends on you, and that is why -- that's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 39 Comments •
Greg Beato has a terrific post at Reason online about the long tradition of Friar's Club roasts and how they helped push the boundaries of the First Amendment out a bit further. I've made no secret of the fact that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 21 Comments •
July 30, 2009
On tonight's Declaring Independence: My first guest will be Daphne Eviatar, the legal correspondent for the Washington Independent. We'll be talking about the sad farce that is the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. My second guest will be Gerry Hebert, director of...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:41 AM • 2 Comments •
This line from CNN cracked me up: The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Monday that he will not vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. In an op-ed published in Monday's USA Today, Sessions...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:30 AM • 10 Comments •
Stop me if you've heard this one before: Conservative publication/leader says birthers are wrong. Wingnuts go apeshit and denounce that conservative publication/leader as French-speaking, terrorist-loving, cheese-eating surrender monkeys who hate God and probably eat arugula too. In this case, it's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:23 AM • 63 Comments •
I would have bet big money when this whole Gates arrest situation took place that there are cops out there not only siding with the officer, but also making all kinds of racist remarks about Gates and revealing their own...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:16 AM • 29 Comments •
It looks like the wingnuts on the Texas Board of Education got exactly what they wanted when they named Peter Marshall and David Barton to the group of "experts" to advise them on the social studies curriculum: "The foremost problem...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:09 AM • 160 Comments •
