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Howard Ahmanson

The Political Mistake I Think I Made

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April 24, 2025April 25, 2025
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I don’t have any problem with legislating morality.  Would that all our laws were moral instead of about advantages for privileged and powerful groups!  But rereading C. S. Lewis, I was reminded that the problem isn’t legislating morality.  It’s legislating […]

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The End of the Myth of the ‘Conservative White Gene’

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December 20, 2024April 25, 2025
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Author’s note:  I have not written in a while.  Sorry for those of you who missed me.  But now that the recent election is over, I will be doing some posts about it. The results of the 2024 election should […]

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How to Reform the Electoral College

  • Politics
December 13, 2024December 16, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Many have suggested that it’s time to do away with the Electoral College.  I’m concerned, however, about how that will work.  So, I have some suggestions for making it more ‘democratic’. Since the problems of the year 2000, I have […]

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Why I Am Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’

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February 26, 2024February 29, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I was the old style of Religious Right, and I make no apologies, but I don’t consider myself to be a Christian Nationalist.  This is, however, a distinction that is probably too subtle for the media to understand.  I am […]

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Bringing Back the Great Commission? 

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November 3, 2023November 4, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Just the other day I was behind a car that had painted on its rear, “Smile! Jesus loves you!”  I am not sure that the person who did that was really evangelizing, also known as obeying the Great Commission (Matthew […]

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The Link Between Sports and Democracy

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  • Politics
August 21, 2023August 24, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There is a parallel between sports and democracy.  Both depend on the ability to say, “You whipped me fair and square this round; just wait till next round.”  And both, as we know them today, were English inventions. I have […]

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The Years Everything Tipped

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June 27, 2023June 28, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

From 1405 to 1433, the Ming rulers of China sent ‘treasure fleets’ to Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and as far as Mozambique.  And then in 1434 the Portuguese reached Western Sahara, after which they went farther south every […]

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Was It Early Medieval Catholic Family Law That Made the Western World Unique?

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June 2, 2023June 4, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Joseph Henrich argues that the Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic world got its uniqueness from family codes imposed by the Church in the Early Middle Ages.  The key parts of these codes were not restrictions on same-sex marriage or […]

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What Being against ‘CRT’ and ‘Wokeness’ Should Not Mean

  • Culture
March 21, 2023March 21, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Those who want to fight against ‘CRT’ and ‘wokeness’ are doing a good thing.  But it should not be an excuse for going back and whitewashing our history [pun sort of intended].  I admire the efforts of those on the […]

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Hayward on ‘Extremism and Moderation’ in the GOP

  • Politics
February 28, 2023February 28, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The definition of ‘conservative’ or ‘right’ has changed greatly since the days of Goldwater, as Steven Hayward points out as far back as 2014. Steven Hayward was Larry Arnn’s right-hand man at Claremont Institute in the old days.  Arnn moved […]

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