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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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Why I Am Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’

  • Politics,
  • Religion
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 Police and the Mental Health People

  • Culture
July 20, 2020July 14, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

What is to be done about the police and the police culture?  Some say ‘spend less money on them’.  Some say what we used to call ‘integrate’.  Some say ‘teach them to use nonviolent coercion, like mental health aides’.  But […]

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I am a ‘Social Conservative’ but Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’

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July 3, 2020February 28, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been a spate of books recently about ‘Christian nationalism’.  I believe that while I am undeniably a ‘social conservative’, and I make no apologies for that, I am not a ‘Christian nationalist’.  There is a difference, and I […]

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Proposition 47 and the $950 Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

  • Politics
September 28, 2018May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Proposition 47, which was adopted by Californians in 2014, has been described as a ballot initiative with ‘unintended results galore‘.  It was based on a laudable desire to reduce the number of people in California’s overcrowded prisons who don’t necessarily, […]

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A Response to Philip Hamburger on the “Administrative Threat”

  • Politics
August 25, 2018May 14, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As a paddleboarder, I have supported an organization called FREESUP SoCal; it is, frankly, an advocacy organization.  We advocate for an open, data-driven process at the local, state, and federal level on regulation of life jacket wear for stand up paddleboarding […]

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What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me

  • Religion
August 14, 2018November 4, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As everyone who investigates me online knows, in my 30s I was a Christian Reconstructionist.  Part of the appeal of that to younger people in that era was the specific blueprints for society and personal action that seemed to fill […]

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I Became a “Decline to State”

  • Politics
July 4, 2018December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Nine years ago I became a nominal Democrat, a DINO [Democrat in name only] as I called it. I did so because it seemed to me at the time that the Republican party was being taken over by a group […]

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Reno vs. Sirico: A Debate on Economic Justice

  • Politics
November 22, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I rarely link to videos, much less watch them myself.  But this one I actually did.  It contains a debate between two scholars on economic justice, both of them, interestingly enough, identified as ‘conservative’.  They are Rusty Reno, editor of First […]

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If It’s Within the Law, Why Should There Be Hearings?

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March 16, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

David Zahnizer, at the Los Angeles Times, has given us an article on the problems with the City of Los Angeles’ community plans, one of the major ones being that they are not finished yet.  This is helping to create […]

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