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Month: March 2012

SAUCE FOR THE CHRISTIAN GOOSE, SAUCE FOR THE MUSLIM GANDER?

  • Politics
March 25, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Recently it was revealed in a column by Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish liberal Muslim, that Newt Gingrich is a fan of none other than Mustafa Kemal Atatuerk. Say what? Kemal Atatuerk was one of the most radical secularists of the […]

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Observations on California’s Political Geography

  • California
March 24, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A recent series of political maps from PPIC, Public Policy Institute of California, provides some fascinating information. One of the maps inflates or shrinks the various regions according to population; it makes clear why the Democratic Party dominates the state, […]

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Adding to my Swede jokes

  • Miscellaneous
March 23, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

To add to my collection of Swede jokes, and of Ethnic Jokes that Really Happened, I heard this story: A gentleman of Swedish ancestry was being interviewed for the post of provost at an evangelical college. He was asked, “So […]

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PRIVACY, PROPERTY, AND THE POWER OF IMPOSING CONDITIONS

  • Politics
March 23, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this link we read that organizations are demanding disclosure of Facebook passwords as a condition of employment, or of being allowed to play on a college athletic team. Conservatives, especially of the more libertarian variety, have often displayed a […]

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SLAP ‘EM AND WALK HOME – A way of promoting abstinence in our culture

  • Culture
March 22, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I must start with a word of explanation.  Lysistrata was a comic play by Aristophanes in classical Greece, in which the women, in order to stop a war they thought senseless, agreed to not sleep with their men until the […]

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The Politician who Defeated Santorum

  • Politics
March 21, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have seen it asserted that Rick Santorum is such a loser that the people of Pennsylvania rejected him and his social agenda.  Him, maybe, but before you conclude that they utterly rejected his social agenda, Gentle Readers, take a […]

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