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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
August 31, 2009
From Darth Cheney: "Now you get a new administration and they say, well, we didn't like those opinions, we're going to go investigate those lawyers and perhaps have them disbarred," Cheney said. "I just think it's an outrageous precedent to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 30 Comments •
Hanna Rosin points out at Andrew Sullivan's blog that the rhetoric we're hearing about health care reform now -- this is the end of all freedom! -- was identical to the rhetoric heard nearly 50 years ago when Medicare was...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 35 Comments •
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on the same show together? Doesn't that risk creating some sort of critical mass of bullshit and demagoguery that could swallow up the planet? Beck did his job to bring the crazy: Will President Obama...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 39 Comments •
How desperate and dishonest is the Republican National Committee when it comes to health care reform? How about dishonest enough to ask this question on a survey they sent out: "It has been suggested that the government could use voter...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 20 Comments •
The record of demagoguery and lunacy from the right wing continues. The CDC is considering -- just considering, mind you -- adopting a policy to encourage -- just encouraging, mind you -- people to have their children circumcised on the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 65 Comments •
August 30, 2009
I do have a page on Facebook specifically for this blog, which now gets the full feed from here. And though I have many thousands of readers, I only have 29 fans for the blog. So if you have a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 17 Comments •
And I do not think it means what he thinks it means. In this post, which is incredibly idiotic even from him, he accuses Ken Miller of being anti-semitic because he doesn't believe the same thing Jews do: The "Cafeteria...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 24 Comments •
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter of protest -- often the first step leading to a lawsuit -- to the Petoskey Public Schools here in Michigan over the school board's decision to rename their "winter holiday break"...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 58 Comments •
Dave Neiwert has some appalling quotes from an ultra-rightist pastor named Steven Anderson, from the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. This is Fred Phelps-level insanity, literally praying for the death of Obama and calling for the murder of...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 84 Comments •
August 29, 2009
This is just barely a parody from the Onion: WASHINGTON-In the continuing controversy surrounding the president's U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as "Afterbirthers" demanded Monday the authentication of Barack Obama's placenta from his time inside his mother's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 10 Comments •
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