Special Statements

Updated March 1, 2025

These special statements express my standing public position on a topic, especially in relation to organizations, associations, or products with which I have had some affiliation or relationship that has changed or needs clarification.

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The following special statements are currently in effect.

Special Statement on the National Rifle Association
- Adopted July 8, 2019
- Updated February 22, 2025

Special Statement on WordPress
- Adopted February 22, 2025

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.

Quotes

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is nothing progressive about being pig headed and refusing to admit a mistake.

C.S. Lewis

Matters of fact are stubborn things. . . .

Anonymous

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Mahatma Gandhi

The one certain way to invite disaster is to be opulent, offensive, and unarmed.

Teddy Roosevelt

We believe that every person is precious [and] that people are more important than things. . . .

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Modernists have undermined faith far more effectively than atheists. The wolves in sheep’s clothing have carried away many more sheep than the honest wolves.

Peter Kreeft

We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else. . . .

Margaret Thatcher

No one man, therefore, or any class of men, have a right, by the law of nature, or of God, to assume or exercise authority over their fellows.

Anonymous

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity[,] or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on out traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Once you’ve dissected a joke, you’re about where you are when you’ve dissected a frog. It’s dead.

Isaac Asimov

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

Rose of Lima

There are three important things to know about human beings. . . . Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don’t know it.

Scott Adams

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Campaign pledges . . . ought to carry something of the guarantee principle and money-back policy that an honorable business institution carries with the sale of its goods.

Edward Bernays

The western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, [and] in each political party. . . .

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

Anaïs Nin

There is more than one way to burn a book, and the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury

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