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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
July 31, 2010
Only a few weeks after forcing him out, the Washington Post has rehired Dave Weigel to do the same job he did before -- only for Slate, the online magazine that they also own. Gee, you mean they could have...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:30 AM • 36 Comments •
Even with as far right as the Republican party has become, it's not enough for Tom Tancredo. He's now joined the American Constitution Party in Colorado, the state affiliate of the openly theocratic Constitution Party. That party was founded and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:03 AM • 37 Comments •
From Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck -- a Republican -- caught on tape saying something sensible: "Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I'm on the camera," Buck said to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:33 AM • 26 Comments •
So says Reuters, quoting Gingrich. "I think that's a decision we'll make in February or March," Gingrich said on "Fox News Sunday" of a presidential run. "This is a very hard family decision because it's such a deep commitment and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:03 AM • 19 Comments •
July 30, 2010
We just broke a major story at the Michigan Messenger on the oil spill in that state. We were told by two public officials that an Enbridge employee was notified and was on the site of the leak on Sunday...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:37 PM • 3 Comments •
It's now 3 days since I informed Ellis Washington that the quote he used from Barack Obama to begin his latest Worldnetdaily column is fake and was never said by him but was said by a conservative columnist. It's clear...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:33 PM • 25 Comments •
That's the subtitle of this article in The Economist about America's out-of-control prison system, which locks up more of our own citizens than any other nation on earth, including Russia and China. Justice is harsher in America than in any...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:03 PM • 45 Comments •
Bilerico reports on a minister holding up a sign at a rally organized by the National Organization for Marriage in Indianapolis calling for gays to be killed, citing Leviticus of course. Larry Adams of Cross Bearer Ministries held up a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:33 AM • 288 Comments •
Here's an appalling story of sheriff's deputies in San Luis Obispo, California conspiring to fake a police report and invent a reason why they violated the 4th amendment. A man was target shooting on his own property in an unincorporated...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:03 AM • 53 Comments •
The latest plan from the wingnuts and demagogues to try and stop the opening of an Islamic center a few blocks from Ground Zero -- use eminent domain to seize the property. New York Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:33 AM • 28 Comments •
