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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
October 31, 2009
The Center for Inquiry has started a campaign to get a "non-discrimination" provision that could very well require insurance companies to cover "alternative" medical treatments like faith healing taken out of the health care reform bills working their way through...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 36 Comments •
From Newsweek: Buoyed by $1.9 billion in government funding since 1997 ($1.5 billion of that federal money), abstinence-only education grew from a niche market to a booming industry, with hundreds of curriculums for teachers to choose from. But if the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 19 Comments •
I'm sure you've heard by now about George W. Bush's $100,000 motivational speech the other day. That's more than $3500 a minute. Am I the only one who sees "George Bush: Motivational Speaker" and thinks "Paul Blartz: Mall Cop"? Heck,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 16 Comments •
The Corunna board of education in Michigan has just stepped into a major First Amendment problem with a rash decision to remove a poster put up by the Diversity Club. The poster in question was nothing more than pictures of...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 16 Comments •
October 30, 2009
I've had several people mention Newt Gingrich as a GOP candidate for president in 2012 and I've scoffed at the idea. Isn't gonna happen. Christopher Orr seems to have been reading my mind: Look, anyone who imagines that New Gingrich...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 21 Comments •
The Human Rights Campaign has its latest Corporate Equality Index out and the progress continues. This year, 305 corporations get a 100% score on equality for gays and lesbians, up from 260 last year and 195 the year before. This...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 60 Comments •
Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. It's also one that the serious wingnuts go crazy about - which may well be why it's my favorite holiday. The CBN website has one of the funniest anti-Halloween screeds I've ever...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 98 Comments •
Julian Sanchez absolutely nails the pattern of the last nine months: We know the rules by now, the strange conventions and stilted Kabuki scripts that govern our cartoon facsimile of a national security debate. The Obama administration makes vague, reassuring...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 6 Comments •
Cop drives drunk, kills two people and leaves the scene of the accident. His fellow officers, beset with compassion for the victims, organize a fundraiser. For the cop who did it. Chicago police officers are planning a benefit this weekend...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 22 Comments •
October 29, 2009
This is likely bad news. My colleague Daphne Eviatar reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear an en banc appeal of their ruling that rejected the Obama administration's invocation of the broadest possible meaning of...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 9 Comments •
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