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	<title>Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent &#187; Persuasive</title>
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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>So Far, &#8216;Affordable&#8217; Health Care&#8230;Isn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2012/01/17/so-far-affordable-health-care-isnt/</link>
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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>
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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>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>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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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>On &#8216;Occupy Wall Street&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/10/21/on-occupy-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last month or so, protesters representing the &#8216;Occupy Wall Street&#8216; movement have been descending on city centers to protest against corporations and the political cronyism that often benefits them. Many of their complaints and concerns have some validity. Most of us should be able to agree that large, profitable corporations like General Electric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia General Assembly, 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/28/virginia-general-assembly-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire Virginia General Assembly stands for election this year, including all 40 seats in the Virginia Senate and all 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates. The General Assembly was established by British colonists at Jamestown in 1619 as the House of Burgesses, which moved to Williamsburg in 1699. It became the General Assembly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loudoun County Local Offices, 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/27/loudoun-county-local-offices-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Since the 2007 local government elections, I have moved from the Hunter Mill District of Fairfax County, VA to the Dulles District of Loudoun County, VA. Many, many, many local offices are up for election this year in Loudoun County. We will be voting for the Board of Supervisors (Chairman and District), the School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loudoun County Bond Referendums, 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/26/loudoun-county-bond-referendums-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia county governments are required to put bond issuance to a voter referendum in order to borrow money on behalf of the county. Bond issuance is usually used by governments to raise money for large capital expenditures, and those bonds are repaid to their purchasers at a later date (plus interest). Bond referendums in Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War in Iraq: Ten Myths</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/09/the-war-in-iraq-ten-myths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m being overly optimistic, but I think it&#8217;s about time that we take an honest, dispassionate look back at the War in Iraq. Few political subjects incite the kind of vitriolic rage that the Iraq war did during President George W. Bush&#8217;s (R) presidency, and many of the popular &#8216;facts&#8217; about the war that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Some (Competent) Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/07/12/time-for-some-competent-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama (D), addressing the need for members of Congress to compromise on raising the federal debt limit, says we need to &#8220;pull off the Band-Aid&#8221; and &#8220;eat our peas&#8221;…whatever that means. Tortured metaphors notwithstanding, what I&#8217;d really like from the President is some competent leadership on our economic policy. Even if we can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Waiting for the Bloodbath</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/07/02/still-waiting-for-the-bloodbath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One year ago this month, people with Concealed Handgun Permits (CHP) in Virginia were permitted to carry their firearms in restaurants that serve alcohol, provided the armed citizen did not himself imbibe. This had previously been illegal, although armed citizens had the option to &#8216;open-carry&#8217; (and subject themselves to all the unnecessary &#8216;oh no, man [...]]]></description>
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