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How do I Stack Up for the Summer?

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June 9, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Given that it will probably be summer before this month of June is over, Georgea Kovanis from the Detroit Free Press has published a list of things that men ought not to wear if we want dates.  Of course I’ve been […]

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How Employers Impose Their Own ‘Growth Boundaries’

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February 10, 2017June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been a lot of publicity about how the imposition of ‘growth boundaries’ on metropolitan areas often succeeds mainly in driving up the price of land within the boundaries.  But companies and employers often impose their own ‘growth boundaries’ […]

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Is it Time for Northern Country Music?

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December 13, 2016August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A few years ago I did a post on how country music seemed to have a Southern bias.  Well, Donald Federikovich Trump owes his victory to the northern counterpart of rednecks, whatever they are called, that won him the states […]

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The Religious Right Failed to See What Was Coming

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August 29, 2016May 8, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We have repeated Francis Schaeffer’s warning about ‘personal peace and affluence’ often at Blue Kennel, but it’s time to do it again.  He declared, back about 1970, that the ‘Silent Majority’, a term Nixon had begun to use, was composed […]

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Authoritarianism is a Hot Subject Nowadays

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July 22, 2016August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There is a lot of intellectual fuss about ‘authoritarianism’ nowadays, because of the rise of Donald Trump and what appears to be the overthrow of traditional ‘fusion’ conservatism.  A long essay by Amanda Taub in “Vox” is the most thorough […]

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The Adams Map: A Different Spectrum, A Challenge – Part 2

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June 28, 2016January 10, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It occurs to me that Adams anticipates Trump.  However, when I wrote this I thought the people on the lower left corner weren’t going to turn out to vote.  Therefore the culture wars between the upper left and lower right […]

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Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Tyranny: A Response

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June 1, 2016July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Andrew Sullivan, having retired from blogging and writing after first giving us the idea of same sex marriage and then being lambasted by his followers for wanting to be tolerant to their enemies who lost over that particular issue, has […]

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The Beach Bum’s View of Real Estate Values

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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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Face, Respect, the Sin of Gossip, and ‘Freedom From Speech’

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February 8, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The debate about ‘freedom from speech’ has accelerated.  Greg Lukianoff, author of the Freedom from Speech broadside, has cooperated with Jonathan Haidt, an author I have quoted on Blue Kennel to write an article for The Atlantic criticizing the concept of […]

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

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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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