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	<title>Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent &#187; History</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>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>
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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>Breaking the Internet (and Liberty)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Belated Thoughts on the Feast of All Souls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having no luck with timely posts over the last couple weeks. So in the interest of consistency, here are my belated thoughts on Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day. I observed with some incredulity this year as some &#8216;evangelical&#8217; Christian groups tried to replace Halloween with the unfortunately-named &#8220;Jesus Ween.&#8221; Intended to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognize Palestine (and Hold the PNA Accountable)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), the official government of Palestine (which controls the West Bank, but has essentially no power whatsoever in Hamas-dominated Gaza), will be petitioning the United Nations General Assembly for recognition as an independent state. The United States and Israel oppose the PNA&#8217;s move, but I figure it&#8217;s a good idea. Give &#8216;em the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gridlock Is Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I hear somebody decry the political &#8216;gridlock&#8217; in Washington, I am reminded of just how poor a job our public schools do of teaching basic American history. Gridlock is exactly what the founders intended from our government. They crafted a beautiful system that is meant to be ever-embroiled in political struggle, never swinging too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Republic, If You Can Keep It&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa and I woke up this morning to find that every house in our neighborhood had a small American Flag in its yard. The flags are gifts from David Ramadan, Republican candidate for the 87th District seat in the Virginia Senate. I don&#8217;t decide who to vote for on the basis of cute little gestures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPR Drawdown: Unnecessary; Counterproductive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote back in March about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and proposals to release oil from it in an effort to &#8216;stabilize&#8217; fuel prices. I stated then that the SPR serves a very specific, important national security and economic purpose and it has only been used beyond those specific purposes one time (in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretending Nothing&#8217;s Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/05/27/pretending-nothings-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 04:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political discussion over the last few months illustrates exactly why I cannot be a liberal…well, not a modern liberal anyway. My political views aren&#8217;t too far off from what we students of Political Science call &#8216;classical liberalism,&#8217; but there aren&#8217;t many classical liberals left. Most of them call themselves conservatives now. &#8216;Liberal&#8217; today simply doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidents Aren&#8217;t Dictators</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/05/20/presidents-arent-dictators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 03:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[The Congress shall have Power...] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;&#8221; – United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 Once upon a time, the United States Congress had the sole authority to send U.S. troops to war. They would issue a formal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Descendant of William Bradford</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/05/10/descendant-of-william-bradford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 04:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a ton of research, my father has confirmed an old family legend: we are descended from William Bradford, the long-time governor of the Plymouth colony. Bradford was one of the many Puritan Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower to escape religious persecution in England. He is credited as the first civil authority to [...]]]></description>
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