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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
December 31, 2009
Okay, it's not very often that I'm going to recommend watching Fox News. But this afternoon on the show Real American Stories, an old friend of mine is going to be appearing. His name is Aaron Dworkin and he's the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:37 AM • 5 Comments •
This one may actually be the dumbass quote of the century and it comes, unsurprisingly, from our friend Pat: All of the media outlets; including Fox News are asking, "why?" Hello! It does not take a damned rocket scientist to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 58 Comments •
Bill Kristol is actually a very smart guy. The problem is that his partisanship is far stronger than his intelligence and it causes him to shut off his brain and bore full speed ahead with what he must know is...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 23 Comments •
My colleague Dave Weigel wrote a really prescient post at the Washington Independent last week about Sarah Palin's relationship with the media. He writes: The problem is that Palin has put the political press in a submissive position, one in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 18 Comments •
From Rep. Peter King (R-egressive): "100 percent of the Islamic terrorists are Muslim, and that is our main enemy today. So why we should not be profiling people because of their religion?" Yes, 100% of all Muslim terrorists are Muslim....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 45 Comments •
My favorite gadfly attention whore, Larry Klayman, is at it again. He shows up at 5 am at the White House and wants them to deliver a letter directly to President Obama -- and then cries foul when the Secret...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 5 Comments •
December 30, 2009
From right wing talk show host Mike Gallagher: Gallagher: But guys, let's look at the inevitable, the 800-pound gorilla in the room. How about we scrutinize young Middle Eastern men to stop this. Except that this bomber was from Nigeria,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 70 Comments •
There is an old saying that every person is entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts. Mary Matalin, ever the partisan hack, tried to invent her own facts on Sunday on CNN and gets caught by...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 31 Comments •
Within hours of the attempted bombing of an airliner as it tried to land at Detroit Metro Airport, Rep. Pete Hoekstra reached for his trusty Blackberry and fired off a stern message to the Obama administration on his Twitter page:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 19 Comments •
Yet another fevered defender of "traditional marriage" gets divorced, for the second time in this case. And Karl Rove isn't just your run of the mill religious righter (in fact, he's not religious at all), he's much worse - he's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 44 Comments •
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