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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
March 31, 2010
Today is a huge milestone for this blog. Sometime before noon, it will likely go over one million page views for the month for the first time. This shatters the old record, which was around 750,000. I can't thank you...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:23 PM • 56 Comments •
A man who threatened the life of Rep. Eric Cantor and his family has been arrested. Okay folks, can't we at least agree that no matter how much you disagree with a politician, you don't get to threaten them? If...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:16 PM • 25 Comments •
And somehow does not include the most important one of all -- Dawn Johnsen as head of the Office of Legal Counsel. I am baffled as to why she was left off the list of recess appointments. She's the single...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:09 PM • 6 Comments •
And uses illogical arguments to do it. Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, is mad as hell that people are daring to criticize the pope for moving pedophiles from parish to parish to find new victims instead of turning...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:02 PM • 39 Comments •
Glenn Greenwald writes about the controversy last week over an appearance by Ann Coulter in Canada and a letter sent to her by the provost of the university at which she was speaking. Referring to the "creepy tyranny of Canada's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 180 Comments •
Here's Sen. Orrin Hatch trying to explain why he supported an insurance mandate in 1993 and now he suddenly finds it unconstitutional: HATCH: Well, it really wasn't. We were fighting Hillarycare at that time. And I don't think anyone centered...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 19 Comments •
Digby has a report on an appalling ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of police officers who tased a pregnant woman three times -- because she refused to sign a speeding ticket. Here are the facts...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 42 Comments •
It's been a long time since I wrote about the lawsuit in Philadelphia, where the Boy Scouts are suing after the city decided to end its long-time tradition of giving the organization office space in a building rent-free because the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 10 Comments •
Remember when Michele Bachmann said that Obama had "anti-american views" on Hardball during the 2008 campaign? She then went on a radio show and said she didn't really believe that, that her position had been misstated: BACHMANN: I feel his...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 35 Comments •
March 30, 2010
Here's the video of my appearance on the Rachel Maddow show last night. There was actually one more very important point I wanted to make and I thought she was going to ask me one more question. But there must...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:09 PM • 29 Comments •
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