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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

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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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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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Hayward on ‘Extremism and Moderation’ in the GOP

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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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Timothy Snyder on the History Behind the Ukraine War

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January 9, 2023January 9, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In his book, The Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder intends to warn us about the threats to ‘freedom’ in America, Europe, and Russia.  He reminds us that the war really started on February 24, 2014, not on February 24, 2022!  […]

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What Can We Do About Polarization?

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October 3, 2022October 3, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There are many ways of dealing with the current political polarization.  But, Fukuyama says, the best is to hope for yet another realignment, where a section of the electorate changes parties and gives one party a clear majority.  A friend […]

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Give Us Barabbas

  • Politics,
  • Religion
May 23, 2022February 28, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In exchanging Jesus for Barabbas, the people chose a practical terrorist over The One who did not seem likely to fulfill their political dreams any time soon. The big news in Jerusalem the night of that first long-ago Good Friday, […]

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Pornographic Ideas?

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April 20, 2021December 7, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In every society, even those that profess freedom of speech, there are ideas and images that are perceived as too corrupting to be expressed or uttered.  We used to think this way about pornography.  Now we think this about certain […]

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