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Month: April 2011

Different Kinds of Freedom

  • Culture
April 9, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here is a quotation from Aldous Huxley’s 1946 foreword to Brave New World: “As political or economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.  And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty […]

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The Triumph of Politics Over Economics

  • Economics,
  • Politics
April 8, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this article, David Stockman, although both a hard-money man and a social liberal, comes out against continuing the G. W. Bush tax cuts!  Read it to find out why. Related: “The Triumph of Politics Over Economics” by Nick Gillespie at Reason.com

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Taxes and the Schadenfreude of the Rich

  • Politics
April 7, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It is unwise for a state to be too dependent on the fluctuating incomes of the rich – or, for that matter, in my view, any organization.  Instead of this being made an argument for “lower taxes on the rich,” […]

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Dear Urban Cyclists: Go Play in Traffic

  • Culture
April 7, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

P. J. O’Rourke has taken off on the absurdity of bicycles.  However, there are some people that really need and use them, and I’m thinking of “Los Midnight Riders” from my earlier post.  There does need to be some safe […]

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Tort Reform and Avoiding Lawyers: Good and Bad Ways To Do It

  • Politics
April 6, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the features of our legal system is that if an organization or business rips you off for $3 million, it’s pretty easy to get justice, but if it rips you off for $30, you’re out of luck unless […]

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The Uses of Classical Music in the Public Square

  • Culture
April 6, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It turns out that classical music in the public square has a function of value.  Adolescents tend to disperse from where it is played, so even such as McDonalds are now discovering the delights of the Western classical music tradition. […]

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California Republicans Are Crazy. Like a Fox.

  • Politics
April 5, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

David Atkins of Calitics on the left suggests that for the Republican Establishment, the magic 34% in one house of the legislature is enough, under the California Constitution, to achieve their purposes.  Warning: Calitics is too far to the left […]

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The Courage Factor

  • Politics
April 1, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The Economist on Obama’s general lack of courage.  He campaigned on ‘audacity’ and ‘we can’ but it looks like we don’t.  Remember you heard it first here on Blue Kennel.  I hadn’t quite thought of ‘allergy to antithesis’ in terms of […]

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