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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.

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

Natural selection does not positively produce anything. It only eliminates, or tends to eliminate, whatever is not competitive.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

We may have, for the first president, and perhaps, one in a century or two afterwards . . . a great and good man, governed by superior motives; but these are not events to be calculated upon in the present state of human nature.

Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.

Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.

Reason alone is sufficient to recognize the inviolable value of each single human life. . . .

[Human beings] know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel—only a means to an end.

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation.

Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

And it is a fact that books which fall short of greatness sometimes have a power to move us greatly, especially in childhood when we are least critical and most forgiving, for their very failures confess their humanity.

I despise the public. That’s my only vindication.

If a bigot says in public often enough that racism is evil, the bigot is self-influencing himself to be less racist. We are better off encouraging insincere but positive opinions, because they are self-fulfilling to a degree. Reward what works.

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

The body hates the soul . . . because of the restriction the soul places on its pleasures. Similarly, the world hates the Christians, not because they have done it any wrong, but because they are opposed to its enjoyments.

It is important to distinguish between ‘schooling’ and ‘education.’ Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

I pledge you that we will neither commit nor provoke aggression, that we shall neither flee nor invoke the threat of force, that we shall never negotiate out of fear, we shall never fear to negotiate.

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.

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