January 2012 - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

State of the Union Not-Live Blog

Posted January 27, 2012, 10:35 p.m.

State of the Union Address Tonight at 9pm

Posted January 24, 2012, 7:30 a.m.

Supreme Court: Warrantless GPS Tracking is Unconstitutional

Posted January 23, 2012, 11:16 a.m.

Analyzing the Republican Nomination Battle

Posted January 23, 2012, 8:00 a.m.

So Far, ‘Affordable’ Health Care . . . Isn’t

Posted January 17, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

The Ugliest Cars of the 2012 Model Year

Posted January 4, 2012, 7:30 a.m.

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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Limited government is a key tenet of classic liberalism—the liberalism of people like Madison and Tocqueville—although today it is regarded as a conservative ideal.

I’ve lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth: That God governs in the Affairs of Men.

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable, and God has willed them to be knowable, even in the absence of strong emotion or apparent miracles.

There is no intrinsic conflict between science and religion.

Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only in this case they are answerable.

If the opposition is silent, the totalitarian system becomes a monster that devours its own children. For this reason, it is an illusion to think that silence is the safest option, from whomever concerned.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

But not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it.

Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want.

None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada. None of us could prove them by pure logic as you prove a thing in mathematics. . . . A man who jibbed at authority in other things as some people do in religion would have to be content to know nothing all his life.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

The Church does not derive from human will, from reflection, from man’s ability and organizational capacity . . . if that were so it would have become extinct a long time ago, like all human things.

It seems to be a fact of life that human beings cannot continue to do wrong without eventually reaching out for some thin rationalization to clothe the obvious wrong in the beautiful garments of righteousness.

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

God is said to rejoice more over the penitent than over the innocent, because often penitents rise from sin more cautious, humble, and fervent.

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Month: January 2012

State of the Union Not-Live Blog

State of the Union Address Tonight at 9pm

Supreme Court: Warrantless GPS Tracking is Unconstitutional

Analyzing the Republican Nomination Battle

SOPA/PIPA ‘Strike’ Statement

So Far, ‘Affordable’ Health Care . . . Isn’t

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