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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, 2011
In an appalling 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed and even strengthened prosecutorial immunity, extending it from personal immunity to a stronger form of agency immunity as well. The case is Connick v Thompson, where Connick is the former...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:37 PM • 16 Comments •
From budding religious right superstar Jim Garlow: Isn't it interesting that the African Americans that were brought here against their will, coercively, in bondage, in chains, in a horrific experience called slavery. They were forced here and they end up...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:06 PM • 46 Comments •
On CNN, they are interviewing a reporter on the ground, one of the most respected war correspondents around, who says that there are less than 1,000 rebel fighters in Libya fighting against the government. If that's true, it would certainly...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:33 AM • 33 Comments •
Though I'm sure he views it as the wrong time. About two years ago, Newt Gingrich began a rather obvious attempt to resurrect his public image in anticipation of running for president. It began with his conversion to Catholicism and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:05 AM • 15 Comments •
The utterly repulsive Matt Barber of the absurdly misnamed Liberty Counsel "explains" the high rate of gay teen suicides. Barber concluded by claiming that "kids who are engaging in homosexual behavior often look inward and know that what they are...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:33 AM • 19 Comments •
David Barton gave a talk at the Rediscovering God conference -- little more than a political rally for Republicans, actually -- just full of the kind of overly simplistic and flat out false claims he makes about American history. He...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:03 AM • 39 Comments •
Here's a statement written by Michelle Bachmann's son, Lucas, who advises her campaign. It absolutely leaps off the screen as a textbook example of someone trying really, really hard to sound far more intelligent and well educated than they actually...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:34 AM • 81 Comments •
We heard the bigots declare endlessly that if Don't Ask Don't Tell was lifted, chaplains -- not to mention regular soldiers -- would leave the military in droves. Now that they're actually training chaplains for the change in policy, guess...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:01 AM • 26 Comments •
March 30, 2011
A group of anti-abortion types are taking out billboards in Chicago that feature Obama's face and this silly statement: And so is the next possible serial killer, reality TV star or boy band member. And I'm not sure which is...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:08 PM • 188 Comments •
I didn't watch Obama's speech on Libya but I did catch the last bit of Greta Van Susteren's interview with Sarah Palin about the speech after it was done. I was struck by several things. First, Van Susteren actually invoked...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:30 PM • 50 Comments •
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