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“Spoiled Rich Kids” and “Ghetto Gangsters”

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February 6, 2014August 15, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Trustfunders like myself are accused of a lot. We are accused of being ‘spoiled’, whatever that is. Some of us take the route of a Paris Hilton, others of us follow the rather ostentatious simplicity of the so-called ‘trustafarian’. But […]

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God = Not Society and Not the Autonomous Individual

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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”

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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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Nashville: The Nation’s New ‘It’ City

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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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Thoughts on St. Patrick’s Day

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March 14, 2013December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In a few days comes one of the strangest holidays in our American calendar, in which we honor a saint who actually deserves honoring or remembering, and at the same time the first major non-Protestant ethnic group to come to […]

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Respect For Women, Respect for Property, Social Compassion: The Real Proof of the Pudding

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January 30, 2013June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been a lot of international notoriety about some gang rapes in India.  I don’t know how many they have had in the past, but many of the women have had it.  The attached in the Wall Street Journal, […]

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Evangelicals: From ‘Mind their own Business’ to Activism

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January 28, 2013July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I don’t think opposition to abortion rights is ‘hating women’, but it is very true that the Evangelical Right, unlike the Catholics, came to its anti-abortion position rather late.  It was Francis Schaeffer, his son Frank, and the man who […]

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Where Did The Adoptable Children Go?

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January 21, 2013
Author: Howard Ahmanson

USA Today less than two weeks ago wrote about the “critical adoption shortage” now that Russia is cracking down in international adoptions. In addition to that, we are told that “as single parenthood becomes more acceptable,`there are just not as […]

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On Derek Sivers on Smart People

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December 22, 2012July 12, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have discovered a few wise sayings in the website of one Derek Sivers.  This one is, “Smart People Don’t Think Others Are Stupid.”  This is helpful to me.  There are quite a few things I know that most people […]

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Science Under Attack, and Not From the Christians and Muslims Either

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November 8, 2012July 2, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Alex R. Berezow informs us that not the American ‘red states’, but Italy, have become a troubled land for science.  Some scientists were sent to prison for six years for failing to predict an earthquake; and I thought some of […]

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