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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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Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations—not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated.

I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don’t like it.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Normal is the average of deviance.

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

We have to view technology as what it always has been—a tool for the betterment of the human condition. We should neither worship at the altar of technology nor be frightened by it.

The basic requirement for the understanding of the politics of change is to recognize the world as it is. We must work with it on its terms if we are to change it to the kind of world we would like it to be.

All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.

One reason inflation is so destructive is because some people benefit greatly while other people suffer; society is divided into winners and losers.

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

When the people rules, it must be rendered happy, or it will overturn the State, and misery is apt to stimulate it to those excesses to which ambition rouses kings.

Imagination is a good servant, but a bad master.

We may amuse ourselves with names; but the fact is, men will be governed by the motives and temptations that surround their situation. Political evils to be guarded against are in the human character, and not in the name of patrician or plebeian.

I’d have no desire to penalize a man because he’s worth only fifteen dollars a week. But I’ll be damned if I can see why a man worth forty must be penalized—and penalized in favor of the one who’s less competent.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. . . .

God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless ‘saint.’ Love can be trained; pride cannot.

It is loserthink to attack an opponent by acting as dumb as they act. It might feel good, but it isn’t a winning strategy.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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