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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
Category: Law
President-Elect Barack Obama has sent a pretty clear signal that Bush administration officials are in the clear, saying on ABC's Meet the Press; I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand I also have a...
Posted by James Hanley at 8:30 AM • 72 Comments •
Category: Politics
Jan 12 2009 Petition DENIED. The Supreme Court announced today, in a totally expected move, that they were denying certiorari to Philip Berg's quixotic attempt to prevent Obama's ascendancy to the office of President of the United States of America....
Posted by W. Kevin Vicklund at 7:00 PM • 164 Comments •
Category: Politics
Gotta love this old quote a poster at DailyKos dug up from a speech Bush made to the VFW while campaigning in 2000: "The facts are stark and the facts are real. . . Our men and women in uniform...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Politics
Now that Democrats are in charge of the House and Republicans are facing two years as a legislative minority, the two parties had to meet in the middle of the capitol and exchange their scripts. In 2004, when Democrats were...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:34 AM • 64 Comments •
Category: Politics
Here's an article about the new book by David Kuo, the former #2 official in the office for faith-based initiatives in the White House. The book is called Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction and it alleges that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:20 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Politics
Let the scrambling begin. The AP reports: Rep. Thomas Reynolds (news, bio, voting record), head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday he told Speaker Dennis Hastert months ago about concerns that a fellow GOP lawmaker had sent inappropriate...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Politics
A new documentary called Iraq for Sale has Haliburton under major scrutiny and it's not hard to see why. Unable to get Republican committee chairs to call for committee hearings based upon an enormous amount of evidence for malfeasance on...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:58 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Politics
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released a report on the 13 most corrupt members of Congress. On this page, you can click on each of the thirteen names and read the reasons why they're on the list....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:36 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Politics
Washington Monthly has an interesting set of essays by prominent conservatives on why they want the Republicans to lose in November. Joe Scarborough writes of the virtues of divided government during the 90s: The fact that both parties hated each...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:04 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: Politics
I don't know why I find this woman so fascinating. She's a living train wreck and I just can't stop watching. In her latest crazy move, she's once again claiming the support of prominent politicians that don't support her. Last...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:32 AM • 11 Comments •
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