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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
February 28, 2010
The Obama administration became the first presidential administration in American history to hold an official meeting and policy briefing with a non-theist organization. The Secular Coalition for America, a meta-organization that includes the Center for Secular Humanism and American Atheists...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 41 Comments •
From Newt Gingrich, engaging in a little vomitous projection: "Of course it's the nature of the modern Congress, which hires lots of nice young staffers who have never had a real job, who spent their entire life being arrogant to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 24 Comments •
A group of (at least previously) respected journalists is taking money from the Church of Scientology to dig up dirt on other journalists who have been critical of Scientology. Howard Kurtz has the details: After decades of digging into the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 19 Comments •
Balko links to this Denver Post article about what looks like a classic case of a prosecutor never admitting they may have the wrong person no matter what the evidence says. Here's the background: Residents were alarmed last summer by...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 23 Comments •
February 27, 2010
Someone went and posted a link to my response to Ellis Washington and my question about endogenous retroviruses in a comment on Vox Day's blog. Vox did manage to stop combing his mohawk and counting his world class IQ long...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 59 Comments •
It seems GOP chairman Michael Steele is in trouble with his own party for his profligate spending of donors' money. Politico reports: Republican National Chairman Michael Steele is spending twice as much as his recent predecessors on private planes and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 8 Comments •
Sandefur tipped me off to this story, which he writes up at his blog. I had no idea that New York has more than 1200 town and village courts, which they inaccurately call "justice courts," that operate as little more...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 30 Comments •
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has filed a complaint with the IRS requesting an investigation into what they called numerous violations of federal law governing political activity by Liberty University. Liberty is a 501(c)(3) organization and therefore...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 7 Comments •
The Supreme Court last year ruled against Summum in its attempts to get a monument to its Seven Aphorisms put up next to a Ten Commandments monument, but the court only ruled on the free speech issue. It left open...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 17 Comments •
February 26, 2010
So I just got back from covering a forum for the Republican candidates for Secretary of State in Michigan, which was one of the most demagogic events imaginable. 3 of the 4 candidates railed against illegal aliens getting driver's licenses...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:02 PM • 60 Comments •
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