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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
November 30, 2009
As I've written about before, Uganda is currently considering an incredibly brutal anti-gay law. Apparently it's not good enough to make homosexuality illegal and put people in prison for it for life, now they may go even further and put...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 40 Comments •
Jeremy Scahill, who is the expert on Blackwater, has new revelations in The Nation about the paramilitary company now called Xe and its involvement in military and intelligence operations in Pakistan. At a covert forward operating base run by the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 25 Comments •
The New York Times has a rather strange article claiming that left and right are "joining forces" on criminal justice reform measures. And in some limited cases, there's a kernel of truth in that. When it comes to asset forfeiture,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 3 Comments •
As the Supreme Court considers the case of Pottawattamie v. McGhee and the notion of absolute prosecutorial immunity, here's a perfect example of why their ruling is so crucial to any notion of keeping "criminal justice system" a three-word phrase...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 16 Comments •
Here's a video clip of Glenn Beck citing, of all people, Thomas Jefferson while claiming that there is no separation of church and state and that the First Amendment's religion clause was only meant to protect the churches from the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 68 Comments •
November 29, 2009
Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo got his 341st win last night, passing his mentor Jud Heathcote for most wins all-time at MSU. He's being characteristically modest about it, saying all the things you should say about never being as...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 4 Comments •
Someone emailed me a link to this spectacularly idiotic screed at the terribly misnamed American Thinker website. It's written by someone who calls herself Robin of Berkeley and it fits a common style among the right, the "I used to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 48 Comments •
This is a hilarious bit from Patton Oswalt's new DVD about interrupting orgy. It's very crude, so be warned. It's not for the easily offended. It may not even be for the difficult to offend. So if you're bothered by...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 27 Comments •
Matt Sigl sends a cease and desist letter to George Lucas, demanding that he stop making movies that destroy the legacy of his earlier work by sucking in the worst possible way. It begins: Dear Mr. Lucas: It has come...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 43 Comments •
November 28, 2009
I intend to be fairly busy all day, so in the tradition of PZ's Son of the Cursed Undead Heart of the Bride of the Thread That Will Not Die, I give you an open thread. Talk amongst yourselves about...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 135 Comments •
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