Virginia Senate, Special, 2023

Posted March 16, 2023, 1:35 p.m.

A special election will be held on March 28 to fill a vacancy in the Virginia Senate. I make the following recommendation in that race:

9th District: Former Virginia Senator Jennifer McClellan (D-VA 9th) resigned following her election to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election in February. Delegate Lamont Bagby (D-VA 74th) and Steve Imholt (R) stand as candidates to replace her. I make no recommendation.

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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Throughout the history of anti-trust prosecutions, there has been an unresolved confusion between what is detrimental to competition and what is detrimental to competitors.

Today, cultural relativism in the West discourages cross-cultural judgments, thus impeding the reform of injustices around the world and inhibiting the defense of Western civilization.

It cannot be said often enough: Well-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups, which come from smart, creative, inspired risk takers.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

It is false and absurd to say that we should remain in error after we have discovered it.

Careless words involve risk of heresy.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the beloved.

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

I believe more in the goodness of bad people than I do in the badness of good people.

If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusion.

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate.

When they hear the words of God on our lips, unbelievers are amazed at their beauty and power, but when they see that those words have no effect in our lives, their admiration turns to scorn, and they dismiss such words as myths and fairy tales.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him—thirsting, hungering, seeking!

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

In recent years a false compassion has developed among some who hold that suffering is incompatible with human dignity. Clearly this is at odds with the Christian faith, which sees in suffering a redemptive and transformative dimension.

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

There has never been a society or a nation without God. But history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God, and died.

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