Support Victims of Hurricane Florence

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Posted September 21, 2018, 9:57 p.m.

Many areas of North Carolina and South Carolina have been devastated by Hurricane Florence, which dropped record-setting precipitation and caused widespread flooding throughout both states.

If you would like to help support victims of this disaster, please consider making a donation to a reputable disaster relief charity like Catholic Charities USA or the American Red Cross. Your donations will be used to help provide for the safety and well-being of the victims of this disaster.

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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It is vitally important for the Church today to go forth and preach the Gospel to all: to all places, on all occasions, without hesitation, reluctance, or fear. The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded.

From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted.

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.

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

The Church can, when necessary, change the laws it has itself made, but it cannot change the laws that Christ has made.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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

Men who don’t like girls with brains don’t like girls.

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

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

It cannot be too often repeated that in this country, in the long run, we all of us tend to go up or go down together.

In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Real power begins where secrecy begins.

We tend to think that humans distinguish themselves from animals by greater knowledge and awareness, but the most typical difference is that, unlike animals, we are almost constantly tormented by a lack of knowledge.

Being right and being wrong feel exactly the same to all of us. We can’t tell the difference. If we could, everyone would agree on everything important.

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.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.

It will generally be expedient for a man who has served four years in congress to return home, mix with the people, and reside some time with them.

A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy . . . , but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

In most projects, the first system built is barely usable. It may be too slow, too big, awkward to use, or all three. There is no alternative but to start again, smarting but smarter, and build a redesigned version in which these problems are solved.

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