State of the Union Address Tonight

Posted February 19, 2005, 12:36 p.m.

President Bush is scheduled to give the annual State of the Union address at 9:00 tonight (EST) before a joint session of Congress. The speech will be aired on most television stations, as will the Democratic response, though I recommend C-SPAN for unfettered coverage of both.

The Constitution requires that the president report to Congress annually on the state of the union, but does not specify the method or form of this report. The in-person State of the Union address, a tradition since 1913, has become a platform for presidents to report on the current state of our nation and set policy goals for the coming year.

Bush is expected to dedicate the first half of the address to domestic issues like social security, and the second to international issues like Iraq and the war on terror.

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

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. . . .

So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

Simplicity is the sign of truth.

[The vote is] the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Genesis and science are both correct. When one asks if six days or fifteen billion years passed before the appearance of humankind, the correct answer is ‘yes.’

The excesses and atrocities of organized religion have no bearing whatsoever on the existence of God, just as the threat of nuclear proliferation has no bearing on the question of whether E = mc^2.

My discovery of the divine has been a pilgrimage of reason and not of faith.

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you’re dealing with writers and artists. Sometimes the only real difference between crazy people and artists is that artists write down what they imagine seeing.

We are all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy.

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves that he has no brains of his own!

There can be only one true religion, because a thing cannot be false and true at the same time, and, therefore, all religions that contradict the teaching of the true Church must teach falsehood.

But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies . . . that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before.

The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

If the burden of proof is always on the one who believes any idea, then that principle should also apply to the belief in the idea of skepticism.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

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