Site Programming Note

Posted April 10, 2011, 9:59 p.m.

I will be on vacation this week and expect to have only limited access to the Internet. As such, there probably won’t be any new content going up on Off on a Tangent. Sorry :-).

In the mean time, you’re always welcome to peruse my archives or check out my links page.

Stay tuned; I have a number of items in the hopper including a review of my new cell phone (Motorola Droid 2 Global), plus I’m sure I’ll have a lot of photos from the vacation. See you on the other side!

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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If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.

Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

For my own part, I doubt whether man can ever support at the same time complete religious independence and entire public freedom. And I am inclined to think, that if faith be wanting in him, he must serve; and if he be free, he must believe.

America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. . . . The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

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.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

[The] confederated national government . . . should be one which would have a control over national and external matters only, and not interfere with the internal regulations and police of the different states in the union.

We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation—to make a point—than to further the cause of truth. The latter end is only pursued when it seems coincident with the former.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

You cannot consistently believe in the Constitution unless you also believe in the kind of society that produced it. And the kind of society that produced it was a Christian one.

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.

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

Do not foolishly confuse ‘nice’ with ‘good.’

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult: to begin a war, and to end it.

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