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The Police and the Mental Health People

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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, 2020December 9, 2021
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

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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”

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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

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August 14, 2018March 31, 2020
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?

  • Politics
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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Asset Forfeiture – Again

  • Politics
May 21, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As a result of a conversation I recently had with an Assemblyman, I’ve decided to clarify my view on Asset Forfeiture.  When a person is arrested on drug charges, or whatever other charges trigger these things, I don’t mind if […]

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And a Third Legal System: the Laws of War

  • Politics
May 19, 2016June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Andrew Rosenthal, in the New York Times here and here writes about the pressure to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, [who I can’t resist calling ‘The Joker’] not as a criminal but as an ‘enemy combatant’, largely because that pesky Bill of Rights would […]

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I was saddened to learn about the death last summer of the Evangelical Christian activist and author Ron Sider (1939–2022). I’ve always found his ideas thought-provoking and have agreed with him in somewhat unexpected ways: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Despite weaknesses and economic errors, Ron Sider was a true believer; he didn't care about being ‘trendy’, ‘cool’, or appealing to any establishment, whether the ‘woke’ establishment of our society or the bourgeois establishment of Evangelical churches: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Ronald J. Sider (1939-2022): On a Most Conscientious Believer: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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