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	<title>Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent &#187; Government</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>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>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>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>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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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>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>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>
		<comments>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/11/21/failure-is-an-option-for-the-super-committee/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<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>&#8216;This is Only a Test&#8230;&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/11/09/this-is-only-a-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because overwhelming us with mostly-spurious weather alerts, fire drills, and terror warnings just wasn&#8217;t enough, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will soon be performing the first-ever nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) test.  At 2pm ET today, every broadcast television and radio station in the United States will (or rather, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Reasoning: The Greek Default</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/10/30/basic-reasoning-the-greek-default/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s review some basic reasoning: &#8220;If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.&#8221; Greece, the cradle of democracy and western civilization, is in national default. It is unable to pay its debtors. Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s (S&#38;P) has rated Greece&#8217;s sovereign debt as junk [...]]]></description>
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