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Asset Forfeiture

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May 12, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Many organizations, from Institute for Justice to Reason and Cato, have crusaded for the elimination or limiting of the practice of asset forfeiture.  Property can be confiscated for crimes where one has not been found guilty.  The reason is, as […]

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The Parallel Structures of Criminal and Civil Law, and the Hole in the Bill of Rights

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May 11, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

American criminal law, first on the federal level, and later, when the Supreme Court started to apply the Bill of Rights to the states in the 20th century [and at local level as well], has some restrictions on the government in […]

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Dictator’s Ex-Wife Finds a New, Younger Love

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April 10, 2016July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Dictators ain’t what they used to be, if they can’t put a stop to this!

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Trump and Sanders: Where You’ve Seen Them Before

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March 27, 2016August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is kind of a shock to the American system.  But a European would know exactly, in my opinion, where they fit in.  Trump is not at all a conservative according to the […]

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The Unbreakable Contradiction in Our View of Housing

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March 15, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Daniel Kay Hertz, a young urbanist from Chicago, [his website is https://danielkayhertz.com] has written the most succinct expression yet of why the whole issue of housing is a dilemma for Americans.  It got a fair bit of notice, and was reproduced […]

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Rest In Peace, Nino Scalia – But!

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March 7, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Antonin Scalia [1936-2016] was one of the best loved judges for his wit, and hated for his legal reasoning.  For the most part, he was a hero to those who wish to uphold the text of the United States Constitution […]

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Obama’s “allergy to antithesis” strikes again?

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December 11, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Please read “WaPo columnist slams ‘dry,’ ‘detached’ Obama” in response to my previous BlueKennel post “Obama and the Allergy to Antithesis“.

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The Upper Middle Class Versus the 1%?

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February 3, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Matt Miller, Californian commentator, comments in his book The Tyranny of Dead Ideas that it probably will be the upper middle class, or ‘lower upper’ as he calls it, that will lead the opposition to the so called 1%, and […]

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Edward Kleinbard Says, Don’t Soak the Few and the Rich

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December 22, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Edward Kleinbard, a professor at the University of Southern California, has pointed out that despite and in the face of extreme income inequality, not only is America’s tax system fairly ‘progressive’, its spending is fairly progressive in that the less […]

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The Midterm Turnout Problem

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November 20, 2014July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It is well known that important constituencies, especially those for the Democratic Party, have not been turning out in ‘midterm’ elections in the last few years.  In fact, a New York Times writer has endorsed eliminating ‘midterms’ for that very […]

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