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Ed Brayton is a freelance writer 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.(static)
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You've gotta laugh at this post from Glib Fortuna about the case in PA where the principal told a kid he couldn't dress up as Jesus for halloween. He rightly condemns the stupidity of the principal, and even admits that...
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Posted on February 26, 2007 9:28 AM • 12 Comments
Our old pal Glib Fortuna is back with yet another idiotic post about the ACLU, in which he manages to misunderstand a court ruling while simultaneously engaging in the single dumbest anti-ACLU argument in existence. The headline screams: ACLU's Favorite...
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Posted on February 1, 2007 9:29 AM • 9 Comments
STACLU may still be down for the count, but at least one of their logic-impaired scribes is still shoveling out the nonsense. John Bambenek has a column at the mensnewsdaily claiming that the ACLU is "fighting for the trafficking of...
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Posted on January 3, 2007 9:26 AM • 12 Comments
Like Eugene Volokh, I can only laugh at the absurdity of the "where's the ACLU" argument, which is incredibly popular among anti-ACLU halfwits. The latest incarnation is from a Rabbi and published in Human Events, and it's about the Duke...
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Posted on December 22, 2006 9:26 AM • 8 Comments
Hot on the heels of the last post, take a look at this post from our old pal Glib Fortuna, showing his ignorance once again. As I did, he cites the FIRE report on speech codes on college campus. But...
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Posted on December 12, 2006 9:46 AM • 6 Comments
Oak Leaf has a post complaining that the Clinton administration allegedly had tapped Princess Diana's phone at the time she died. A British report on her death (good lord, do they not have something better to do wih their time?...
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Posted on December 12, 2006 9:31 AM • 14 Comments
A couple days ago, Eugene Volokh had a post about a rather disturbing new policy proposed at Boise State University concerning their student senate, a proposal he was alerted to by Clayton Cramer. The proposal, made in the aftermath of...
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Posted on December 2, 2006 9:22 AM • 0 Comments
Well now that Thanksgiving is over, it's time for the fake "War on Christmas" bleating to begin in earnest. Jay at STACLU jumps in with this post about the ACLU filing suit over a school having children reenact the manger...
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Posted on December 1, 2006 9:48 AM • 10 Comments
I've written before about the city of Berkley, Michigan and the controversy over their nativity display. Here's a city who handled it exactly right, I think. The city council voted to turn the display over to a group of local...
Posted on November 22, 2006 9:45 AM • 2 Comments
I've written before about this stupid argument, which is all too common among the anti-ACLU crowd. They find a case where someone's rights were violated but they're represented by some other group and say, "A ha! Where was the ACLU?...
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Posted on November 22, 2006 9:18 AM • 7 Comments
In the case of Edward Crayton, the man protesting Walmart's pro-gay policies who is being represented by the ACLU, a Federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction allowing him to continue his protests pending the outcome of the case. The...
Posted on November 16, 2006 9:04 AM • 3 Comments
Pay attention now, STACLU. The ACLU of Louisiana is defending a Christian man's right to protest outside a Walmart over their pro-gay policies. The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of a man who...
Posted on November 4, 2006 10:08 AM • 14 Comments
Nat Hentoff has a column in USA Today about the internal struggle for control of the ACLU's national board going on right now. As I've said in the past, I am firmly on the side of the dissidents who have...
Posted on October 31, 2006 7:49 PM • 3 Comments
Ah, our old pal Glib Fortuna is back with another ridiculous post in which he demonstrates that fanaticism eliminates all recognition of irony (to say nothing of hypocrisy). He casually claims that "The ACLU's totalitarian impulse is deeply rooted and...
Posted on October 31, 2006 2:37 PM • 27 Comments
Just when you think STACLU can't get any more ridiculous you come across this post by davef, announcing breathlessly that a - gasp! - Muslim has joined the national board of the ACLU. Laila Al-Qatami of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee...
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Posted on October 23, 2006 9:50 AM • 13 Comments
I know, that's like figuring out which day Mike Tyson was the biggest jerk on. But I think it might be true. This story tries to tie every bad guy in their universe together in one single narrative - Bill...
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Posted on October 20, 2006 9:51 AM • 17 Comments
