Attacked For Their Looks

Posted July 29, 2005, 11:42 a.m.

An excellent column by Cheri Pierson Yecke in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune today. Yecke is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives who—like me—is tired of politicos resorting to name-calling in lieu of debate.

And, like Yecke, I have noticed a pattern:

“Where are the feminists? Their silence speaks volumes about their convictions and partisan leanings. After all, it is mainly conservative women who have been the victims of this sort of media slashing. Sad to say, with few exceptions, the circling vultures are left-leaning women.”

As I have said many times, there are plenty of valid points for the left to debate. It’s time to stop being petty.

Attacked for their looks (StarTribune.com [no longer available]).

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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Better to be disliked than pitied.

Our government is still clothed in the garb of a republic, but more and more our representatives behave as if they are the American sovereigns and are un-bound by any limits on their authority.

Because we are so scientific now—and so determinedly materialistic—it is very difficult for us even to understand that other ways of seeing can and do exist.

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

It seems to be a fact of life that human beings cannot continue to do wrong without eventually reaching out for some thin rationalization to clothe the obvious wrong in the beautiful garments of righteousness.

If every man had faith, we would need no more laws. . . .

You must practice simplicity and humility, for those are the virtues which achieve everything. You must say: ‘Fiat voluntas tua.’

Judging God by human political categories is like judging a great symphony on which stanza of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ it most resembles.

What happened with slavery is now happening with embryo killing: the people who used to defend it as a ‘necessary evil’ to be resisted or lessened by means other than legal prohibition now promote it as a social good—something that law and government should not only tolerate but embrace and even promote.

An authentic faith—which is never comfortable or completely personal—always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

It is vitally important for the Church today to go forth and preach the Gospel to all: to all places, on all occasions, without hesitation, reluctance, or fear. The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Little men are seldom fond of quarreling among giants.

Arithmetic is not an opinion.

Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Belief in immortality dies easily in those who live in such a way that they cannot face the prospect of a judgment.

Elected magistrates do not make the American democracy flourish; it flourishes because the magistrates are elective.

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

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.

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