Ashcroft, Evans Resign

Posted November 9, 2004, 12:59 p.m.

The White House today announced that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans will not be serving during President George W. Bush’s (R) second term.

Both Ashcroft and Evans have served in their respective positions since the beginning of Bush’s first term.

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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Property rights create self-monitoring, which tends to be both more effective and less costly than third-party monitoring.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

Platonists, Gnostics[,] and Hindus all believe that the soul is better without the body than with it. They are wrong. A human soul without a body is not a complete self . . .

Literalism is simply not an effective way to extract meaning from the Bible.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

I hate it when reality steals my plots.

The corruption of the best is the worst of all.

The logic and rational explanation of a natural phenomenon—however comprehensive it may be—always makes an abstraction of that phenomenon.

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

Communism, in particular, was attractive not so much to oppressed workers, its hypothetical beneficiaries, but to intellectuals—to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

It’s OK to decide not to decide—as long as you have a decide-not-to-decide system.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

Philosophy [is] a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

The United States has lasted well more than two-hundred years, but it is still young in the grand scheme of things. The apathy of the people can still be its downfall.

Countries don’t compete directly with one another in economic terms. When Singapore or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

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