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Month: April 2013

The Virtues And Vices Of Daffodil Season

  • Miscellaneous
April 28, 2013August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Between winter and spring intervenes, in many areas, the Daffodil Season. Here in Michigan, it is St George’s Day, April 23, as I write this, and the ground has turned green and the daffodils are out in force, but the […]

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California Law and Sex Partner Switch

  • California
April 17, 2013July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This is a strange story. A man got a woman to sleep with him by pretending [in the dark, I suppose] to be her boy friend. Now apparently if you impersonate a husband in this way, it is rape under […]

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God = Not Society and Not the Autonomous Individual

  • Culture
April 16, 2013July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Conor Friedersdorf, fortunately declares that children do not belong to the ‘community’ or ‘society’.  Actually, they don’t really belong to their parents anyway; they belong to God, and their parents are temporary stewards of them.  While we cannot say it […]

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An Interesting Twist on “It’s a Wonderful Life”

  • Culture
April 15, 2013July 12, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In view of the recently released book Building Home and the upcoming conference No Place Like Home here’s an interesting twist on the famous film “It’s a Wonderful Life.”  The author seems to like Potterville better.  I don’t think I do, because […]

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Arellano Defends the Fire Pits

  • Politics
April 14, 2013June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Columnist Gustavo Arellano, in his inimitable way, defends the fire pits.  He even threatens to name the director of the AQMD to the ‘Scariest People’ list that he keeps, a list that I made once in previous years due to […]

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Nashville: The Nation’s New ‘It’ City

  • Culture
April 12, 2013July 12, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Well, Nashville has been the nation’s third media city – and that in regard to book publishing, not just music – for at least 40 years!  It is the one red-state place where someone leaving Hollywood would feel reasonably comfortable. […]

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A Strategic Political Realignment for Evangelicals?

  • Politics
April 12, 2013August 24, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Darryl Hart, of Hillsdale College, in these two links (“From Culture to Party Wars?” and “Abandon the GOP, Join the Democratic Party”) proposes that evangelicals, probably soon to be rejected by Republicans, could consider joining the Democratic party to evangelize […]

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California, Sea Otters, and the Russians

  • California
April 10, 2013July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Interestingly enough, the reason that sea otters remain a threatened species even today is because the Russians, when they occupied the Fort Ross enclave from 1812 to 1841, they nearly exterminated them. In response to: “End of ‘no otter’ zone […]

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Why The Dream Declined

  • Economics
April 7, 2013December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The best single post on the decline of affordable housing that I have seen on one of my favorite sites, newgeography.com, is this by Roger Selbert.  He most succinctly explains the reasons why the American dream of subsidized home ownership [discussed […]

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Changing my mind about single family homes

  • California
April 5, 2013August 18, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I used to believe that social justice required that a region be overbuilt [or at least over-entitled at law] in high-density housing and other locally undesirable land uses.  Now, thanks to Joel Kotkin’s influence, I believe that social justice requires […]

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