‘Off on a Tangent’ Endorsements Coming Next Week

Posted October 16, 2013, 12:51 p.m.

I’m happy to report that I’m planning to publish the Off on a Tangent political endorsements for the 2013 election next week. Endorsements in local elections and issues—four Loudoun County bond issues and the 87th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates—will be posted on Monday, October 21. Endorsements in statewide elections—Attorney General of Virginia, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and Governor of Virginia—will be posted on Tuesday, October 22.

I’m sorry that these are being posted so late this year. I try to have my endorsements published a month or more before election day, but a number of things conspired against me this year. I’m just working on making my decisions and writing my endorsements now. So it goes.

As always, in addition to the coveted Off on a Tangent endorsements, I will be providing live election coverage at http://election.scottbradford.us/ beginning around 6:00 p.m. on November 5 and continuing until all races are called, or 1:00 a.m. If races remain un-called after 1:00 a.m., I will resume coverage as time permits in the following days.

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

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

Donald Trump

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion . . . began with the fact of sin—a fact as practical as potatoes.

G.K. Chesterton

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

John Gardner

I am unacquainted with [the Creator’s] designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his justice.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The best way to put the shortcomings of society, and, indeed, the whole of mankind, in their proper place is to joke about them.

Nicolas Chamfort

Freedom spoils, and lack of freedom teaches.

Unknown

[The early Christians] willingly died for their ‘conspiracy.’ Nothing proves sincerity like martyrdom.

Peter Kreeft

With us the governing class is always saying to itself, ‘What laws shall we make?’ In a purely democratic state it would be always saying, ‘What laws can we obey?’

G.K. Chesterton

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

John Adams

Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . . .

U.S. Constitution

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

Aristotle

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again.

Fulton Sheen

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou

Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Paul the Apostle

Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. . . . And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

Jesus Christ

Christian morality and God’s law are not arbitrary, but are specifically given to us for our happiness.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

The hard times brace you, and the soft times drive you to drink.

Unknown

The up-to-date science of one century soon becomes the primitivism of the next.

Peter Kreeft