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Month: September 2010

Why The Religious Right Is Soft On Immigration: Plus, I Propose To Revive A New Deal-Era Institution

  • Politics
September 23, 2010June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I read a recent New York Times article on the Mormon editor who is being lambasted by the conservatives for his views on immigration points up a little known fact – the strictly religious right is fairly soft on immigration. […]

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The Language of “Mad Men”

  • Culture
September 20, 2010June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I found this on the New York Times website.  Comparative linguistics, or philology, has been one of my favorite subjects since my high school days, though I could hardly converse about it with my friends; it was the era of […]

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Byzantium on the Pacific, A Visit to Alaska

  • Miscellaneous
September 13, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This summer, for the first time, my wife and I made a visit to America’s largest state, Alaska. In her case it was especially poignant, because she had passed up a chance to go there with her parents at age […]

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Elizabeth Warren, Co-author of a Book We Like…

  • Culture
September 11, 2010April 9, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Elizabeth Warren, co-author of a book we like to quote on this site, may be about to be appointed the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I am very pleased. I figured she herself was probably not a […]

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American Christianity – Soon a Phenomenon of the Educated?

  • Economics,
  • Religion
September 11, 2010July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

For years and years we have been fed with the story that orthodox Christianity and other conservative and demanding religions were primarily, though not exclusively, the domain of the less educated, and that the highly educated were inclined toward more […]

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The argument is that certain kinds of political ideas that are “hateful” are like pornography in that they are inherently tempting to fallen humanity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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Of course, I’d call Critical Race Theory “hate speech,” too. What to do with that? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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It being Montreal, are they just as honest in French? https://notthebee.com/article/extremely-honest-menu-of-montreal-chinese-restaurant-draws-laughs-and-crowds

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