Terror in London; U.S. Raises Alert Level for Transit

Posted July 7, 2005, 11:51 a.m.

Three near-simultaneous blasts rocked the London Underground (subway) and one additional blast destroyed a double-decker bus in the city this morning, killing at least 37 and injuring more than 700 in a terrorist attack similar to the Madrid bombings of 2004. A previously-unknown group claiming affiliation with al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the bombings.

Only yesterday, London celebrated being awarded the 2012 Summer Olympics. Today the Group of 8 (G8) Summit, a major meeting of economically powerful nations, is getting underway in Scotland.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has raised the terrorism alert level for transit to ‘Orange’ or ‘High.’ This increased alert level only affects subways, light rail, regional rail, and intra-city bus routes. Officials are mainly concerned about systems in Washington, DC; Boston, MA; New York, NY; Miami, FL; and Chicago, Illinois, but stressed that they have not received any specific threats.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight.

Christianity doesn’t begin by telling people what they must do, but what God has done for them. Gift comes before duty.

Normally, thought precedes word; it seeks and formulates the word. But praying the Psalms and liturgical prayer in general is exactly the other way round: The word, the voice, goes ahead of us, and our mind must adapt to it.

Too often Christian couples are married in a church because they want a church ceremony, not because they intend to make a vow before God that has lifetime consequences.

There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one’s convictions and not tell the people the truth.

[Free speech] may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.

The restless busy nature of the world, this I declare is at the root of pain.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

The Democratic Party’s position on abortion today is as indefensible as its position on slavery was in 1859, and those who adhere to it will be judged by our posterity just as harshly. Mark my words.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

A mother and father each bring something unique and irreplaceable to child-rearing that the other cannot.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

It’s all well and good to say that reality exists only in one’s mind, but those who believe it should still look both ways before crossing the street.

Today, cultural relativism in the West discourages cross-cultural judgments, thus impeding the reform of injustices around the world and inhibiting the defense of Western civilization.

Moreover, the concentration of economic power in the hands of government is something every true friend of civil liberties should, by now, have learned to fear.

It is the idea that rejecting God . . . will somehow lead to freedom, to complete human fulfillment. As a result [he] is replaced by fleeting human idols which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.

The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

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