Opportunities for Positive Testimony
…Nicene Creed, or something like that [how do you propose to screen Muslims out? Trump himself couldn’t honestly swear on the Nicene Creed any more than any Muslim]. Ross Douthat…
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An Addendum to the Manifesto: My Youth as a Deficit Hawk – Howard Ahmanson
…what Keynes was about, though my understanding was and is that Keynes wanted government surpluses in times of prosperity. The problem with that is political: any volunteers for a program…
A Manifesto: Important Events That Shaped My Political Views – Howard Ahmanson
…Life, provides a counterbalance as to how as a Christian witness we need to be concerned about ‘communities’ as well as individuals, and making ‘communities’ prosper too. The CCDA idea…
The ‘Single Family or Bust’ People Will Probably Leave Southern California, No Matter What Land Use Policy We Now Follow
A lot of people, especially families with children, would prefer a single-family home. Of course they would, and I’m not going to find fault with that lifestyle as long as…
The Religious Right Failed to See What Was Coming
…in his project Whatever Happened to the Human Race, recruiting evangelical Protestants to issues that they had previously tended to regard as Roman Catholic obsessions. The Religious Right had a…
Authoritarianism is a Hot Subject Nowadays
…Edsall has discussed this in a column in the New York Times. Now Professor Haidt has also cooperated with Greg Lukianoff by co-writing an essay provocatively called ‘The Coddling of…
Richard Nixon: A Precedent for Donald Trump?
…justices appointed by Nixon. Catholics led the ‘pro-life’ movement in those days, and it was a bipartisan movement; it took the Schaeffers, with their video series Whatever Happened to the…
Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Tyranny: A Response
…forced to flee. Eventually, he stands alone, promising to cut through the paralysis of democratic incoherence….. And as the people thrill to him as a kind of solution, a democracy…
Mental Health and ‘Punishment’ versus ‘Treatment’
…Criminal penalties, unless one is executed or subject to ‘life imprisonment without possibility of parole’ are finite [‘life imprisonment without possibility of parole’ is considered more Christianly humane nowadays, for…
Asset Forfeiture
…shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The provision against being…