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	<description>Scott Bradford has been building web sites and using them to say what he thinks since 1995, which tended to get him in trouble with power-tripping assistant principals at the time. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University, but has spent most of his career (so far) working on public- and private-sector web sites. He is not a member of any political party, and brands himself an ‘independent constitutional conservative.’ In addition to holding down a day job and blogging about challenging subjects like politics, religion, and technology, Scott is also a devout Catholic, gun-owner, bike rider, and music lover with a wife and two cats.</description>
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		<title>Medicine Is Restorative, Not Inhibitory</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2012/02/02/medicine-is-restorative-not-inhibitory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of medical care is always restorative…or at least it should be. It is meant to treat the sick and restore them to health, at least as much as possible at our current stage of knowledge and development. A severed arm is reattached, if possible. A malfunctioning thyroid is treated with medicine to restore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analyzing the Republican Nomination Battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By this time in 2000, it had become clear that the two-way race for the Republican nomination between then-Gov. George W. Bush (R-TX) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was pretty much settled; Bush was going to be the nominee. Likewise in 2008, the three-way primary race between McCain, former-Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), and former-Gov. Mike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Far, &#8216;Affordable&#8217; Health Care&#8230;Isn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Barack Obama (D) and the then-Democratic Congress gave us the widely-reviled &#8217;Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act&#8217; in March 2010, there was a lot of high-minded talk about all the great things it would do for us. If proponents were to be believed, the health care reform bill would have lowered the cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If SOPA/PIPA Passes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people all across the Internet have been up in arms about the pernicious Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its companion Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills working their ways through Congress—and with good reason. But as a web site operator, even of a dinky little blog like this one, these bills stand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ugliest Cars of the 2012 Model Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s list hasn&#8217;t seen much change from the last, a welcome shift from last year&#8217;s slew of new introductions. What few changes there have been to existing models have usually been inoffensive, and there have not been many new-for-2012 models introduced. The Kia Soul and Toyota Prius, while still ugly, have dropped off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creation and the Null Hypothesis</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/12/31/creation-and-the-null-hypothesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scientific method is an iterative process of testing hypotheses. The default position on a subject is known as the null hypothesis, and new alternative hypotheses are posited and then tested to see if they better fit observations. For example, it was once generally accepted by scientists and laymen alike that the Earth was flat. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some of the Dumbest Music Lawsuits</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/12/18/some-of-the-dumbest-music-lawsuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The music industry is rife with money, egos, and legal ambiguity, and it stands at the nexus between technology, business, and creativity. Every recording you hear on the radio has its ownership split a myriad of different ways. The song itself is typically owned by the songwriters who wrote it, while the recording of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Internet (and Liberty)</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/12/12/breaking-the-internet-and-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 27, 1933, Marinus Van der Lubbe—an unemployed bricklayer from the Netherlands with Communist sympathies—set fire to the Reichstag (Parliament) Building in Berlin. Most likely, Van der Lubbe was working alone…but that didn&#8217;t stop Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party cabinet from using the fire as an excuse to initiate a broad anti-Communist pogrom. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption on the Run?</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/12/09/corruption-on-the-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People aren&#8217;t happy with our government right now. President Barack Obama&#8217;s (D) approval rating, starting at an impressive 63% on the first day of his presidency, has nose-dived into the low-40% range. Our split-party Congress has fared much, much worse with an approval rating hovering around 12%—probably the lowest in history. Almost three-quarters of Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Men Revile You&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/11/24/when-men-revile-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the first to admit that I&#8217;m not always the humble, even-keeled guy I ought to be. I&#8217;m very opinionated and very outspoken about those opinions. I often find myself diving headlong into online debates about politics and, occasionally, religion…admittedly, sometimes when I probably ought to keep my mouth shut. But no matter how passionate [...]]]></description>
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