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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>State of the Union Not-Live Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2012/01/27/state-of-the-union-not-live-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed the State of the Union address this past Tuesday because I had a schedule conflict, which was unfortunate since I really enjoyed live-blogging it last year. Will, I finally got around to watching it (and the Republican response) this evening. So here is what would have been in my live blog if I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union Address Tonight at 9pm</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2012/01/24/state-of-the-union-address-tonight-at-9pm-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama (D) is scheduled to give the annual State of the Union address tonight at 9:00pm EST before a joint session of Congress. The address will be followed by a Republican Response to be delivered by Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN). As I do every year, I encourage all of my readers to watch both the State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court: Warrantless GPS Tracking is Unconstitutional</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a welcome victory for civil liberties, the United States Supreme Court today unanimously ruled that using a GPS tracking device to monitor a suspect&#8217;s vehicle without a warrant is unconstitutional. The ruling in United States v. Jones (10-1259) makes it clear that this kind of warrantless tracking violates 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA/PIPA &#8216;Strike&#8217; Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Off on a Tangent joined with thousands of other web sites across the Internet in going on strike to protest two incredibly dangerous bills working their way through the U.S. Congress. This protest has since concluded, but it is still very important that you contact your elected representatives and demand that they oppose these bills. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gingrich and Perry in Virginia: Epic Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/12/24/gingrich-and-perry-in-virginia-epic-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a general rule, if you&#8217;re running for office, you should take the necessary steps to actually appear on the ballot. Just saying. The Republican Party of Virginia has announced that former-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA 6th) and Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) have both failed to meet the requirements to appear on the ballot for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N. Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Il Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/12/19/n-korean-dictator-kim-jong-il-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il is dead, according to North Korean state television. A tearful reporter announced his death to the North Korean people, stating that he died of &#8216;overwork&#8217; while riding on a train on his way to provide &#8216;field guidance.&#8217; A later report stated that he died of a heart attack. The government-controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Euro Last?</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/12/01/will-the-euro-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Federal Reserve and several of its foreign counterparts announced a plan to increase &#8216;liquidity&#8217; and ease the &#8216;global credit crunch.&#8217; This is in response to European banks&#8217; increasing difficulty in raising money for their day-to-day operations. So what&#8217;s going on is a kind of foreign-relations equivalent of the Fed&#8217;s &#8216;quantitative easing&#8217; domestic money-printing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Have Rights Too</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/11/30/students-have-rights-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 21, eighteen-year-old Emma Sullivan was on a Kansas Youth in Government field trip to the Kansas capitol. While there, she used her phone to post a message to Twitter about Gov. Sam Brownback (R-KS): &#8220;Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot.&#8221; Needless to say, Sullivan&#8217;s &#8216;tweet&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Act of War&#8230;Against Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/11/26/an-act-of-war-against-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in May, United States military forces killed Osama bin Laden at his hideout near Islamabad, Pakistan. Although U.S. officials initially reported that the Pakistani intelligence services were instrumental in finding bin Laden, there are many open questions still remaining about Pakistan&#8217;s complicity in protecting bin Laden during the years he was hiding in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failure is an Option for the &#8216;Super Committee&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/11/21/failure-is-an-option-for-the-super-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the hilariously insufficient debt ceiling deal back in August, Congress established a group called the &#8216;super committee&#8217; that would be charged with deciding how to actually make the cuts mandated by the compromise. This group was Congress&#8217;s way of avoiding doing their job. Instead of actually making choices about how to reduce [...]]]></description>
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