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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
February 28, 2009
The D.C. Appeals Court has granted the DOJ another week's extension to consider their response to the case involving congressional subpoenas of former Bush advisers Harriet Miers, Josh Bolten and Karl Rove. Those subpoenas came from Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.),...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 6 Comments •
Legal Times reports that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court on Monday and looked her usual peppy self: Looking strong and cheerful, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the bench this morning, just 18 days...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 9 Comments •
Barney Frank is going to reintroduce a bill he authored in the last session to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act: A senior Democratic lawmaker will push legislation this year to repeal a U.S. ban on Internet gambling that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 4 Comments •
There is a very important case going on in South Carolina over the illegality of poker in that state and whether poker is a game of skill and thus exempt from the laws against gambling. On Friday, the defendants won...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 7 Comments •
February 27, 2009
The pace of the crazy emails seems to be picking up. Here's a crazy letter I got from some wingnut named Steve Morris. Enjoy....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 52 Comments •
Sean McDowell, the terminally idiotic offspring of the equally clueless Josh McDowell, says that the chimp who killed a woman in Connecticut last year can be blamed on - guess who? - Charles Darwin....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 39 Comments •
Did anyone else watch Bobby Jindal's response to Obama's speech the other day and think that this guy is not even remotely ready to challenge for the White House in 2012? It was an absolutely awful speech. It sounded like...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 51 Comments •
Here's an interesting church/state court case. A man in Pennsylvania is suing the state for not allowing him to register the name of his business, a film company, as "I Choose Hell Productions." Pennsylvania law says, "An association name may...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 5 Comments •
Another delightfully idiotic Worldnutdaily headline:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 18 Comments •
February 26, 2009
Tonight's Declaring Independence is already recorded because I'll be in Ann Arbor tonight seeing my friend Vinx perform. There's only one guest on the show tonight for the full hour and that is Radley Balko. We talk about a wide...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:37 AM • 3 Comments •
