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Endorsement Statistics, 2004-2021

Posted February 14, 2022, 8:00 a.m.

Making a Tailgate Handle Mount

Posted March 1, 2019, 9:00 a.m.

My 23andMe DNA Ancestry Results

Posted June 17, 2017, 8:19 p.m.

Tales from the 1977 Jeep Manual

Posted April 4, 2017, 10:58 p.m.

Cruise to New England and Canada 2016

Posted October 16, 2016, 9:52 a.m.

Wanted: My Old ‘Honcho’ Pickup

Posted November 19, 2015, 11:50 p.m.

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.

Quotes

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I always go into the deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.

But it is also true that in the midst of darkness something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit. On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly.

When hereditary wealth, the privileges of rank, and the prerogatives of birth have ceased to be, and when every man derives his strength from himself alone, it becomes evident that the chief cause of disparity between the fortunes of men is the mind.

The transient passions and the interests of an hour, or the chance of circumstances, may have created the external forms of independence; but the despotic tendency which has been repelled will, sooner or later, inevitably reappear on the surface.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Don’t judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

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

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

It very frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortune of the State until he has discovered his incompetence to conduct his own affairs.

Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.

If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

I hate it when reality steals my plots.

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.

Be united to Christ in order to purify yourself, and together with him experience the insults, the spit, the blows and the thorns. . . .

[The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

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