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Month: March 2016

Trump and Sanders: Where You’ve Seen Them Before

  • Politics
March 27, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is kind of a shock to the American system.  But a European would know exactly, in my opinion, where they fit in.  Trump is not at all a conservative according to the […]

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The Anthropocene is 50,000 Year Old

  • Miscellaneous
March 21, 2016July 2, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here is a story about how there is supposedly a new bio-geological age now replacing the so called Holocene. But if ‘Anthropocene‘ means a period when human activity has drastically altered nature, it began 50,000 years ago, when the first humans […]

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The Working Class Might be Shooting Itself in the Foot by Being Anti-Free Trade

  • Economics
March 21, 2016August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the explanations of the rise of Donald Trump is the concern by his working class followers about free trade, as well as immigration.  After thinking of just how and where their standard of living is declining, I wonder […]

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The Unbreakable Contradiction in Our View of Housing

  • Politics
March 15, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Daniel Kay Hertz, a young urbanist from Chicago, [his website is https://danielkayhertz.com] has written the most succinct expression yet of why the whole issue of housing is a dilemma for Americans.  It got a fair bit of notice, and was reproduced […]

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The Beach Bum’s View of Real Estate Values

  • Culture
March 14, 2016
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As one who lives by the beach in California, I’m prone to think of housing values as being almost exclusively the land underneath the house, and the improvements as almost irrelevant.  Several times a year a widow dies, and her […]

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The Gasoline Tax: Charles Krauthammer Breaks with Republican Orthodoxy

  • Economics
March 14, 2016July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Charles Krauthammer, generally regarded as a conservative writer, declared more than a year ago that he had been for a gasoline tax increase of $1 a gallon for 32 years.  That would be, if I calculate right, since 1983. I’ve […]

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Rest In Peace, Nino Scalia – But!

  • Politics
March 7, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Antonin Scalia [1936-2016] was one of the best loved judges for his wit, and hated for his legal reasoning.  For the most part, he was a hero to those who wish to uphold the text of the United States Constitution […]

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