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Month: August 2010

More CA Teens Stay in the Passenger’s Seat

  • California
August 23, 2010July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Well, for one thing, kids have other ways of getting out of the house nowadays – into Cyberspace and Facebook, most notably. Related: “More Calif. Teens Stay in the Passenger’s Seat” by Tracey Correa at Fresno Bee.

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When I Was Young in the 1950s and Early 60s…

  • Culture
August 16, 2010December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

When I was young in the 1950s and early 60s it was just assumed that ‘progress’ was leading us toward a life of more and more leisure and that work was going to get easier and easier.  Actually, it didn’t […]

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The Unusually Cool Summer in California Reminds Me…

  • California
August 10, 2010July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The unusually cool summer in California reminds me of one of my pet theories:  that cold winters drive white Anglos to vote economically “progressive,” whereas cold or cool summers push them to liberalism on social issues. This applies to overall […]

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One Reason to be a Red Sox Fan…

  • Politics
August 9, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One reason to be a Red Sox fan is that they were the one team to rehab their stadium without using any government money – and this in blue big-government Massachusetts! Mark Yost describes this in the Wall Street Journal […]

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The Galilee Option or the Gaza Option

  • Politics
August 6, 2010June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this piece from World Magazine, Mindy Belz explains something that a lot of us don’t realize, “Many Americans are surprised to learn that private property is a near unknown in modern Israel.  According to the Israel Land Authority, 93 […]

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Living Like a Liberal

  • Religion
August 3, 2010December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this article Matt Labash explains how being liberal, or progressive, is becoming more than a political belief but a way of life – I would almost say a spirituality of sorts. The text, he says, is Justin Krebs” work […]

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