Obama to Address Congress Tonight at 9pm

Posted February 24, 2009, 7:20 p.m.

President Barack Obama (D) is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress tonight 9pm EST. This is not an official Presidential State of the Union address, as new Presidents traditionally give their first State of the Union address after having served nearly a year in office. Traditionally, this initial address is referred to as an ‘annual message’ or other similar, generic title. Obama’s address will be followed by a Republican response to be given by Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA).

As always, I recommend watching C-SPAN for unfettered, uninterrupted coverage of both.

The Constitution requires that the president report to Congress annually on the state of the union, but does not specify the method or form of this report. The in-person State of the Union address has been a tradition since 1913 (transcripts 1945-2008 available from C-SPAN).

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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The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.

If you want to become invaluable in a workplace—in any community—just do the useful things no one else is doing.

It has always been the favorite maxim of princes, to divide the people, in order to govern them. It is now time that the people should avail themselves of the same maxim, and divide powers among their rulers, in order to prevent their abusing it.

When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

One thing I find helpful is growing old. It’s a slow process, but totally worth it compared to dying.

Ideas are cheap. It’s only what you do with them that counts.

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.

I think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

At every point, religion and politics interlace, and must do so more acutely as the conflict between the two great camps of men—those who reject and those who worship God—becomes irrepressible.

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

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

If all values are only subjective, so is the value of tolerance.

Humans see the comprehensibility of the world as evidence of a comprehending creator.

No Reformer believed in private interpretation of Scripture, but they had no clear way to discern whose interpretation was the correct one. [They] quickly discovered that casting off Rome’s authority solved one problem but created another.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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