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Howard Ahmanson

A Response to Philip Hamburger on the “Administrative Threat”

  • Politics
August 25, 2018May 14, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As a paddleboarder, I have supported an organization called FREESUP SoCal; it is, frankly, an advocacy organization.  We advocate for an open, data-driven process at the local, state, and federal level on regulation of life jacket wear for stand up paddleboarding […]

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A Conference Held to Honor my Father, Howard F. Ahmanson Sr.: “WWHD — What Would Howard Do?”

  • California
August 24, 2018October 1, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The “WWHD Conference — What Would Howard Ahmanson, Sr., Do?” — was held August 1, 2018, the year marking the 50th anniversary of my father’s death.  I decided I wanted to sponsor it, mostly to honor him. In the tumultuous year […]

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The Sin of Entitlement

  • Religion
August 22, 2018January 4, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Early in my Christian life I was struck by a fascinating quote in C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letter #21.  On the sin of peevishness, he wrote, Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.  And […]

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What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me

  • Religion
August 14, 2018November 4, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As everyone who investigates me online knows, in my 30s I was a Christian Reconstructionist.  Part of the appeal of that to younger people in that era was the specific blueprints for society and personal action that seemed to fill […]

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More on Manners and Customs

  • Culture
July 26, 2018August 24, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some more issues on the issue of Manners and Customs. The issue of enforcement.  Disobedience to Manners is enforced, let it be said, by discrimination and exclusion.  Sometimes the person is explicitly told why he is excluded; sometimes he is […]

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Welcome to My New Website!

  • Miscellaneous
July 20, 2018August 16, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Those of you who have tried to open Blue Kennel have just been greeted with a surprise. Yes, my newly redesigned website is now here HowardAhmansonJr.com. We chose that domain so that way people who are curious about me (and […]

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The Politics, or a-Politics, of the Evangelical Church in the 1970s

  • Politics
July 19, 2018March 31, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I came to Christ in 1973, at the high tide of the Jesus movement.  No, we weren’t all hippies; the movement swept through secular colleges [even fraternities!] and youth groups as well.  It is worth pointing out that my [deservedly […]

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Manners, Customs, and Languages: The Spontaneous, A-Rational Kingdom

  • Culture
July 17, 2018December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This particular kingdom is also not one of the three that evangelicals regularly talk about, but in the training of missionaries and evangelists, we pay a lot of attention to it!  ‘Missiology’ includes endless classes on culture, and how we […]

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I Became a “Decline to State”

  • Politics
July 4, 2018December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Nine years ago I became a nominal Democrat, a DINO [Democrat in name only] as I called it. I did so because it seemed to me at the time that the Republican party was being taken over by a group […]

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The Real Reason I Liked the Insurance Mandate

  • Politics
May 25, 2018July 24, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have often clashed with my conservative friends as to why I liked the insurance mandate of Obamacare [alas, it went away early this year].  For one thing, how is it different from the Social Security Tax, except it gives […]

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