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	<title>Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent &#187; Civil Liberties</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>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>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>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>Breaking the Internet (and Liberty)</title>
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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>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>The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/11/14/the-supreme-court-and-civil-liberties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Supreme Court has been faced with a number of very important cases over the last decade that address our most fundamental civil liberties. Thankfully, in most recent cases it has ruled correctly—though often by a depressingly narrow 5-4 margin. Here is a review of how the Supreme Court has ruled on three [...]]]></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>Is Romney a Christian? Does it Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/10/14/is-romney-a-christian-does-it-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April, I addressed the issue of President Barack Obama&#8217;s (D) eligibility to be President and his religion. For the whole story you should head over there and read it, but the short version is that Obama is a natural born U.S. citizen (and thus eligible to be President), he isn&#8217;t a Muslim (unless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Kill the Killer</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/22/to-kill-the-killer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I have discussed the subject of capital punishment on this site. Indeed, my only piece of writing dealing solely with the subject is an 11th Grade English paper titled &#8220;Thou Shalt Not Kill&#8220;—coincidentally, the oldest piece of content still present on this site. If you go read it, please [...]]]></description>
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