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Month: February 2013

Is Hawai’i the Bellwether for California?

  • California
February 20, 2013July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

California used to consider itself the leading state and the bellwether for the entire country.  Now that the entrepreneurial initiative has mostly switched to Texas and other such places, and Texas’s infrastructure has pulled ahead of California’s in its quality […]

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A New Federal Department of Cities?

  • Politics
February 17, 2013July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Oh good grief.  Don’t we already have a Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Florida?  As C. Northcote Parkinson pointed out more than 50 years ago in Parkinson’s Law, only dictatorships have a cabinet larger than approximately 20.  It […]

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Allergy to Antithesis, Again

  • Politics
February 4, 2013July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal, declares that Obama is trying to destroy the Republican party using a Marcusean strategy of ‘liberating intolerance’.  But in the previous term, Obama was trying a policy of including the Republicans and everyone […]

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Why ‘entitlement’ programs aren’t really entitlements

  • Politics
February 1, 2013July 24, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I fully agree with Jim Huffman of Lewis and Clark Law school that the ‘entitlements’ of Social Security and Medicare are not, in any moral sense, entitlements.  That does not mean that I favor eliminating them. The problem with Social […]

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The best was the Wiltshire Boulevard compromise of the 1930s, where the stores were right up on the street, with windows - even though most people came and went out the back. They should have made the minimalls do this. https://t.co/O1amzqDQj3

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So “workforce” is ONLY public employees? They’re the only privileged class these days that isn’t rich. https://t.co/qkOh8B4Stz

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Who are the “protected classes”? More to the point, who aren’t? https://t.co/5RawuX7Mmw

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