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Month: January 2011

Chinese Parenting, Part II: Why Chinese Mothers are Superior

  • Culture
January 29, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here is David Brooks defending the upper middle class American approach to parenting.  He declares that Amy Chua sheltered her daughters from the kind of social interactions that teach us how to deal with people in the real world.  In […]

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Chinese Parenting, Part I: Why Chinese Mothers are Superior

  • Culture
January 28, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This article is not only interesting for its own sake, but because it illustrates a cultural division that has been raging in mixed Asian-Anglo communities such as Irvine, California.  There are not separate school systems, but there are “Asian” churches […]

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Inflation

  • Economics,
  • Politics
January 24, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Brendan Dougherty says that the Fed has, under Bernanke, pursued an expansionist philosophy of letting asset prices rise and never trying to limit or deflate “bubbles.” This is a different one than it followed in the Paul Volcker era, […]

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In a Rather Interesting Magazine Called “The American Conservative”

  • Culture
January 22, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In a rather interesting magazine called The American Conservative, which is not conservative necessarily as we understand it in Orange County, but actually represents pacifist conservatives of all kinds (and yes there is such a thing as pacifist conservatives) Stephen […]

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The Social Justice Opportunity of the Century

  • California
January 20, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Much to the surprise of all of us, the new governor of California, Jerry Brown, has proposed shutting down all redevelopment agencies in the state.  The reason for this is that a city (or probably a county, where a county […]

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You Know You’ve Spent Too Much Time in Europe if…

  • Miscellaneous
January 14, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

1. You find it just as easy to think in terms of Celsius and kilometers as you do in Fahrenheit and miles.  You hear it’s in the 20s outside and momentarily think, “Oh, good, I can go outside in T-shirt […]

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Christians Creating Culture: Charles Schulz Did It

  • Religion
January 12, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The last couple of nights I happened to watch two famous television specials on DVD:  A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.  I pity any members of younger generations who have not seen them.  Today people […]

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There is apparently a shortage of sodium thiopental…

  • Culture
January 11, 2011June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There is apparently a shortage of sodium thiopental, a drug mainly used to execute people.  In a way, that is just as well.  The death penalty is not a medical procedure, and should not be disguised as one.  Gurneys, needles, […]

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The Place of Sharia Law in a Free Society

  • Religion
January 3, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been some controversy recently, because the Archbishop of Canterbury, no less, suggested that sharia law could in some ways be incorporated into the British law code.  This suggestion created a certain amount of outrage; and in the last […]

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I’m more on the right and I’d like to see the filibuster gone - of the Republicans take back the Senate - party time! https://apple.news/AX6uolPNWQHGj8Cay6H9d-g

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A better way to get affordable housing is filtering - handing down housing that’s already built. We do that with cars. https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-06-20/california-affordable-housing-cost-1-million-apartment

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If we’re talking about wearing shorts to the office, seven inch “walking shorts”, as we used to call them, are fine for that. If I’m going to swim, five or four is better. Can’t really do Speedo’s though. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-tiktok-convinced-men-to-buy-really-short-shorts-11598277834

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