In Reagan’s Footsteps

Posted February 25, 2005, 12:31 p.m.

A really good editorial in the Wall St. Journal this morning about a trend I’ve been noticing—anti-war folks coming (slowly) to the grudging conclusion that Bush may just be right about this whole war in Iraq.

The WSJ is talking about the Europeans, but I am starting to see the same trend here (there’s a good example from a few weeks ago by Mark Brown: What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along? [Chicago Sun-Times]).

Chances are that you know a reformed anti-war person yourself, though they may not be admitting it yet ;-).

In Reagan’s Footsteps (Wall St. Journal OpinionJournal.com).

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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You will admit that it is impossible to please God and the world. That can never be.

Totalitarian regimes tend to emphasize state education, because they know that indoctrinating the children protects their positions of power.

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Whoever hates reproof walks in the steps of the sinner, but he that fears the Lord will repent in his heart.

Conversion is a matter of a moment. Sanctification is the work of a lifetime.

There’s no point in having sharp images if you’ve got fuzzy ideas.

There are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that, if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.

Behold, this child [Jesus] is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.

In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.

We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

The church, a community that authoritatively teaches and disciples its members, cannot withstand a revolution in which each member becomes, in effect, his own pope.

I am the Queen of Heaven, who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same.

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. . . .

By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith. . . .

The two greatest institutions ever devised for lifting people out of poverty and enabling them to live in dignity are the market economy and the institution of marriage. These institutions will stand together, or they will fall together.

A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

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