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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
September 30, 2009
Balko has an article at Reason about a case the Supreme Court will hear this fall over what seems like a perfectly obvious question: Can a prosecutor be held personally liable for his actions if he intentionally falsifies testimony and/or...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 34 Comments •
Lifelong Republican and over-the-hill crooner Andy Williams bashes President Obama as a Marxist in a foreign publication. In a new interview with the Radio Times, a British magazine, Williams goes all Glenn Beck: "Don't like him at all," he said,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 73 Comments •
My friends at Downsize DC are working on a campaign to tell Congress to roll back some of the constitutionally dubious provisions of the Patriot Act. Sen. Russ Feingold has submitted a bill called the Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 8 Comments •
From this dumbass, Rev. Austin Miles: Then, yesterday a session of the United Nations began in New York. Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi, who was supposed to have limited speech time, raged on for a full 90 minutes during which he...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 19 Comments •
The Center for Inquiry has declared Wed, Sept. 30 to be Blasphemy Day and one of the things they're doing in relation to this day is a blasphemy contest. You can submit a poem, statement or phrase that would be...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 62 Comments •
September 29, 2009
What is it about Katie Couric that reduces populist conservatives to babbling idiots? It's not as if she's a particularly tough interviewer. I mean, Mike Wallace she's not. But here she asks a perfectly reasonable question to Beck and he...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 66 Comments •
I haven't written much about the case of the census taker found hanged in Kentucky with "Fed" written on his chest. Yes, it might be an example of overblown right-wing paranoia over census takers being fomented by demagogues like Michele...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 46 Comments •
In 2001, the Patriot Act was passed and it gave the government the authority to do a search without ever talking to a judge or getting a warrant, just by issuing a "National Security Letter." And when they issued it,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 15 Comments •
I am finding this infighting among the birthers endlessly amusing. The Orange County News reports that Lucas Smith, one of the people who has come forward with a fake Kenyan birth certificate for Barack Obama, has now severed ties with...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 170 Comments •
We're all used to outrageous rulings from the Texas state courts, but this one may be appalling even by their standards. The state's Court of Criminal Appeals was presented with irrefutable evidence that the prosecutor and the judge in a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 15 Comments •
