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What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me

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August 14, 2018August 25, 2018
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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Did Jesus Give Us Our Individualism?

  • Religion
July 27, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Patrick Deneen has warned that modern ‘liberalism’, which includes American style conservatism, has stressed the individual and dominion over nature so much as to weaken community.  In trying to liberate the individual, the state, and for conservatives the market, expand to protect […]

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California’s Trump-like Moment, 22 Years Before Trump: The Adventures of Pete Wilson

  • California
March 22, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The United States on the whole has seen a rather sudden pivot, or so it seemed, of ‘conservatism’ from a coalition of religious or moral conservatives, economic conservatives [the latter were split into ever lower taxes fiscal ‘conservatives’, and deficit […]

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Who is the Santa Claus Party?

  • Politics
December 31, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

After the 2004 election, in which the states that went for Bush formed a relatively neat geographical unity and in all the states that went for Kerry maps and T-shirts were circulating labeling the Republican states as ‘Jesusland,’  I thought, […]

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The Motivation of Conservatives and Liberals

  • Culture
July 19, 2011July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In Gareth Cook’s article the psychologist Jonathan Haidt, following Romans 1, suggests that there are five inborn ‘instinctive’ virtues that humans recognize, though they do not always live up to, of course. These are:  i. fairness, ii. not harming others, iii. […]

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Beyond Red vs. Blue

  • Politics
May 18, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Interesting. I scored New Coalition Democrat, not conventional liberal. Related: “Beyond Red vs. Blue” at PewResearchCenter

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Living Like a Liberal

  • Religion
August 3, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this article Matt Labash explains how being liberal, or progressive, is becoming more than a political belief but a way of life – I would almost say a spirituality of sorts. The text, he says, is Justin Krebs” work […]

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Obama and the Allergy to Antithesis

  • Politics
March 8, 2010July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The so-called “progressives” are going to be more and more disillusioned with President Obama in the immediate near future, I predict.  And not because he is a “moderate.”  He is manifestly not.  At least in his ultimate aspirations, he is […]

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