Virginia House of Delegates, Special, 2022

Posted January 7, 2022, 9:00 a.m.

A special election will be held on January 11 to fill a vacancy in the 89th district of the Virginia House of Delegates. I make the following recommendation in that race:

89th District: Former Delegate Jay Jones (D-VA 89th) resigned in December. Giovanni Dolmo (R) and Jackie Glass (D) stand as candidates to replace him. I recommend voting for Giovanni Dolmo.

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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that’s sin.

The tragedy in all of this is the simple fact that the average tax-paying American was not given an honest and genuine choice. The voter finds himself enduring one party long enough to witness a whole series of travesties and then switches to the other party thinking he will get a substantial reversal of policy. But he doesn’t.

If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best.

It cannot be absolutely or generally affirmed that the greatest danger of the present age is license or tyranny, anarchy or despotism. Both are equally to be feared. . . .

It was Communism that was evil, and the more truly a man acted in its spirit and interest, the more certainly he perpetuated evil.

True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

But [the power of the government to borrow money] certainly ought never to be exercised, but on the most urgent occasions, and then we should not borrow of foreigners if we could possibly avoid it.

There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That’s perfectly alright; it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange. If they do not desire it, they are not forced to deal with each other.

In short, the scientific discourse, like any dominant discourse, has become the privileged instrument of opportunism, lies, deception, manipulation, and power.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

As evil men feel their guilt more in the presence of an innocent babe than in the companionship of those who are wicked like themselves, so he who loves God is the most deeply burdened with the sense of his own unworthiness.

It is my belief that there are ‘absolutes’ in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be ‘absolutes.’

The escape from tyranny is often followed not by Paradise, but by a sojourn in the desert, aimless, confused and deprived.

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