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On Feeling Guilty for Ordering Stuff Online

  • Culture
June 16, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I like ordering things online and not having to hunt for them in stores.  And sometimes the alternative is being eliminated.  Just like paying cash or taking public transit, live stores, especially bookstores, are disappearing.  There is only one major […]

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How Employers Impose Their Own ‘Growth Boundaries’

  • Culture
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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“Addicted to Inflation,” Indeed

  • Economics
July 25, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Paul Krugman has just issued a column charging conservatives with being “addicted to inflation,” not that they are pro-inflation necessarily but that they believe, and always believe, that hyper-inflation is imminent. Well, we had the real thing back in the […]

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On Derek Sivers on Smart People

  • Culture
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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Marc Andreessen: For Most of Us, It Will Get Worse

  • Culture
October 29, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Jesus said, “The master replied,`I say to you that everyone who has will be given more, but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away”.”  [Luke 19:26, Common English Version] Jesus was, given His other […]

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PRIVACY, PROPERTY, AND THE POWER OF IMPOSING CONDITIONS

  • Politics
March 23, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this link we read that organizations are demanding disclosure of Facebook passwords as a condition of employment, or of being allowed to play on a college athletic team. Conservatives, especially of the more libertarian variety, have often displayed a […]

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The Continuing Presumption of Airlines

  • Culture
January 12, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I am prepared to admit that the California Bullet Train may prove to be a failure, even though France, Spain, Germany, and China have them! I voted for the train originally, not so much to eliminate automobiles, but as an […]

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Earned Success

  • Religion
October 21, 2011September 8, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and public conservative spokesman, has been writing and speaking recently about happiness.  He spoke at the recent Christian Community Development Conference, and declared that money does not necessarily bring happiness except that […]

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Are Corporations People? Part II

  • Culture
April 26, 2011June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have another observation to be added to my Corporations post.  And it’s kind of a compliment, incidentally, on the work of corporations and business in general in creating wealth. In John 6:15, Jesus, after feeding the five thousand, “knowing […]

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Will Riverside, Fresno, and Bakersfield Become Civilized?

  • California
April 21, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Joel Kotkin and William Frey, in their article “The Third California,” speculate that as Coastal California prices itself out of the market, Inland California may become a more civilized and upscale region.  In fact, the crash and the wave of foreclosures hit […]

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