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Month: December 2015

Christians May be Decreasing in Number in America, But Not Because of any ‘War’

  • Culture
December 30, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Jay Michaelson, in The Daily Beast, proclaimed on Christmas Day that there is a decrease in the numbers and influence of Christians in America, but that the “war” on Christianity is a myth.  I’m not sure the war on Christianity […]

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Obama’s “allergy to antithesis” strikes again?

  • Politics
December 11, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Please read “WaPo columnist slams ‘dry,’ ‘detached’ Obama” in response to my previous BlueKennel post “Obama and the Allergy to Antithesis“.

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Rich Kid at Work – Interview: Howard Ahmanson, Jr.

  • Miscellaneous
December 5, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Interview from July / August 2002 issue of Philanthropy magazine Howard Ahmanson Sr. was a pioneer in California’s postwar savings and loan industry, financing much of the state’s housing boom in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. He left his estate split between the Ahmanson Foundation […]

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More on the Whole ‘Judeo-Christian’ Meme

  • Culture
December 2, 2015July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In my post four years ago, “9/11, Ten Years Later” I talked a little bit about the concept of ‘Judeo-Christian’.  I’d like to expand on it.  As my source says, the meme ‘Judeo-Christian’ originated in the United States after World War […]

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