Cheney, Edwards Stretch Findings, Facts

Posted October 6, 2004, 1:52 p.m.

My personal analysis of last night’s vice presidential debate probably won’t be finished up until sometime this evening (what with work being so hectic, and so on). In the mean time, check out this informative AP article.

It talks about some of the things that the candidates said last night and how their comments didn’t always jive with reality.

Cheney, Edwards Stretch Findings, Facts (AP via WTOPNews.com).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Violence, after all, is no mystery. It’s peace that’s the mystery. Violence is the default. It’s easy. It’s peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

Jordan Peterson

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Seneca the Younger

Jesus’s acts of compassion and his call for others to do likewise were never to be done by compulsion, but voluntarily, by free-will choice.

Paul Skousen

When one practices first and preaches afterwards, one is really teaching with power. Doctrine loses credibility, if conscience tethers the tongue.

Gregory the Great

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

Thomas Friedman

Different kinds of economies are essentially different ways of making decisions about the allocation of scarce resources—and those decisions have repercussions on the life of the whole society.

Thomas Sowell

It’s OK to decide not to decide—as long as you have a decide-not-to-decide system.

David Allen

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know that love doesn’t mean unquestioning acceptance, constant affirmation, or bottomless approval. People who expect these things are narcissists; people who indulge them are sycophants.

Scott Bradford

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Nikola Tesla

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.

Robert Anton Wilson

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[To write,] you simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.

Red Smith

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W. Cleon Skousen

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Teresa of Calcutta

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

William Faulkner

If you establish a censorship of the press, the tongue of the public speaker will still make itself heard, and you have only increased the mischief.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Careless words involve risk of heresy.

Jerome (Saint)

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