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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>The Grand Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have read quite a bit by and about Stephen Hawking. Hawking, a brilliant theoretical physicist and cosmologist, excels at communicating complex scientific concepts to laymen. His most well-known work, A Brief History of Time, was first published in 1988 and has sold well over ten million copies. It is among my favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Read Something Horrifying</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had a long-standing fascination with World War II because, as I see it, the conflict marked an unprecedented turning-point in human civilization. It was the quintessential &#8216;good vs. evil&#8217; story on a scale that had never been seen before and, through the incredible sacrifice and dedication of the soldiers of the Allied Powers, the good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott McClellan Tells All</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2008/05/28/scott-mcclellan-tells-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news in political circles this morning is the new book by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan which paints a not-so-pretty portrait of President Bush, especially related to the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina. This is notable, in my opinion, in that it is the first book (that I&#8217;m aware of) accusing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert A. Heinlein&#8217;s Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite author is Robert A. Heinlein, so it was a real pleasure to see him discussed in the pages of today&#8217;s Wall St. Journal. Heinlein&#8217;s work, for those of you haven&#8217;t read it, is incredible. While his earliest novels were published in the 1940s, they have stood the test of time are are—with rare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heinlein, Robert A.—Job: A Comedy of Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behold, happy is the man who God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty—Job 5:17. I admit to having a pro-Heinlein bias—he is my favorite author—but, frankly, he deserves it. Robert A. Heinlein is possibly the most influential science-fiction/speculative-fiction writer in history, and I believe he is unequivocally the best. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King, Stephen—The Stand (Complete &amp; Uncut Edition)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I made it known that I was interested in reading one of Stephen King&#8217;s fiction books (after reading his nonfiction On Writing), The Stand was the one that almost everybody recommended. It is generally regarded as King&#8217;s best work. So I picked up the &#8220;Complete &#38; Uncut Edition&#8221; of The Stand at my local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fleming, Ian—Dr. No</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Ian Fleming&#8217;s Dr. No was the first to be made into a film, it was actually the sixth novel featuring the suave James Bond 007. While I haven&#8217;t yet read any of the intervening novels between Bond&#8217;s Casino Royale debut and this 1958 book, I can say that Dr. No was a much tighter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shatner, William—Man O&#8217; War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t pick up William Shatner&#8217;s 1996 novel, Man O&#8217; War, expecting much. Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek and has been the star of several Priceline.com commercials, is not known for being a writer. What surprised me was that the book wasn&#8217;t half bad. Benton Hawkes is a diplomat who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orwell, George—1984</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2004/01/11/orwell-george-1984/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my review of Ray Bradbury&#8217;s &#8220;Fahrenheit 451,&#8221; I said that &#8220;Fahrenheit&#8221; was probably more realistic than George Orwell&#8217;s 1949 masterpiece, &#8220;1984.&#8221; But what &#8220;1984&#8243; lacks in believability, it makes up for in depth and in brilliance. The story follows Winston Smith in 1984 London, which is then part of a super-country known as Oceania [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heinlein, Robert A.—I Will Fear No Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best kinds of stories are the kind that broaden your horizons, give you new things to consider, and leave you thinking about them for days, weeks, or months after you finish reading them. Robert A. Heinlein, one of the most prolific and beloved science fiction writers in history, rarely fails to meet that criteria. [...]]]></description>
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