‘Off on a Tangent’ Endorsements Coming Next Week

Posted October 16, 2013, 12:51 p.m.

I’m happy to report that I’m planning to publish the Off on a Tangent political endorsements for the 2013 election next week. Endorsements in local elections and issues—four Loudoun County bond issues and the 87th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates—will be posted on Monday, October 21. Endorsements in statewide elections—Attorney General of Virginia, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and Governor of Virginia—will be posted on Tuesday, October 22.

I’m sorry that these are being posted so late this year. I try to have my endorsements published a month or more before election day, but a number of things conspired against me this year. I’m just working on making my decisions and writing my endorsements now. So it goes.

As always, in addition to the coveted Off on a Tangent endorsements, I will be providing live election coverage at http://election.scottbradford.us/ beginning around 6:00 p.m. on November 5 and continuing until all races are called, or 1:00 a.m. If races remain un-called after 1:00 a.m., I will resume coverage as time permits in the following days.

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.

Quotes

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

Miracles are not necessarily a cure for unbelief. If the will is perverse, all the evidence in the world would not convince, not even a resurrection from the dead

Fulton Sheen

Let’s stop blaming each other for things that happened more than twenty years ago. Humans change a lot in two decades.

Scott Adams

Careless words involve risk of heresy.

Jerome (Saint)

When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.

Jordan Peterson

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

God endowed every human being with freedom, and we are always free to choose unbelief. Such a choice is a sad use of freedom. It’s like a railroad train jumping the tracks in order to be free of them, and then being unable ever to move again.

Scott Hahn

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

Isaac Asimov

If I am asked, as a purely intellectual question, why I believe in Christianity, I can only answer, ‘For the same reason that an intelligent agnostic disbelieves in Christianity.’ I believe in it quite rationally upon the evidence.

G. K. Chesterton

You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.

Unknown

There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Ayn Rand

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Holy Bible

I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.

Dan Quayle

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.

Jesus Christ

There was far more courage to the square mile in the Middle Ages, when no king had a standing army, but every man had a bow or sword.

G. K. Chesterton

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

Mary Wollstonecraft

For to answer objections made to a power given to a government, by saying it will never be exercised, is really admitting that the power ought not to be exercised, and therefore ought not to be granted.

Unknown

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: ‘Is it true in and for itself?’

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

Siddhartha Gautama

Never explain: your friends don’t require it, and your enemies won’t believe you, anyway.

Elbert Hubbard