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Tim Draper’s Latest ‘Three Californias’ Plan is not Acceptable

  • California
November 3, 2017January 3, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Tim Draper, the Silicon Valley tycoon who gave us the ‘Six Californias’ plan a couple of years ago, has come up now with a ‘Three Californias’ plan.  It is not acceptable in its current form. The main point of dividing […]

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Richard Nixon: A Precedent for Donald Trump?

  • Politics
June 12, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It occurred to me that a possible precedent for Donald Trump might be none other than Richard Nixon.  Now I think that Nixon was a far more intelligent man than Trump, and, for all his sins, a person of superior […]

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Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Tyranny: A Response

  • Culture,
  • Politics
June 1, 2016July 25, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Andrew Sullivan, having retired from blogging and writing after first giving us the idea of same sex marriage and then being lambasted by his followers for wanting to be tolerant to their enemies who lost over that particular issue, has […]

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Now, Even Apartment Dwellers are Getting Choosy about their Neighbors

  • Culture
November 13, 2014July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It has been known for a long time that homeowners have wanted to control who their neighbors are.  In the past it was race; now it is for income and for how they might use their property, and often for […]

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Why Republicans Are Not Always Reliable Defenders of Economic Liberty

  • Politics
November 10, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As an activist against ‘redevelopment,’ I often wondered why Republicans, who posture themselves as the party of  ‘small government’ or ‘limited government,’ were so hard to convince to repeal redevelopment.  Josh Barro, a clever columnist for the New York Times, […]

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Michael Lind’s New Paradigm, and the ‘End’ of Social Conservatism

  • Economics
July 6, 2014August 24, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Lind has released a new essay titled “The Coming Realignment” in The Breakthrough Journal, one of the most innovative magazines around today.  He predicts that social conservatism as we know it will fade away, but that we will not […]

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A Strategic Political Realignment for Evangelicals?

  • Politics
April 12, 2013August 24, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Darryl Hart, of Hillsdale College, in these two links (“From Culture to Party Wars?” and “Abandon the GOP, Join the Democratic Party”) proposes that evangelicals, probably soon to be rejected by Republicans, could consider joining the Democratic party to evangelize […]

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Allergy to Antithesis, Again

  • Politics
February 4, 2013July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal, declares that Obama is trying to destroy the Republican party using a Marcusean strategy of ‘liberating intolerance’.  But in the previous term, Obama was trying a policy of including the Republicans and everyone […]

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The D.C. Mistake

  • Politics
October 23, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We have been warned both by Nate Silver and by the Washington Post that there is a possibility of an electoral tie with each side getting 269 electoral votes.  How did we end up with that possibility?  How did we end […]

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RIP Thomas Fuentes, 1948-2012

  • Politics
May 29, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Thomas Alexander Fuentes, long time Director of Communications for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, and also Chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, died in May 2012.  People had actually expected him to die the previous fall, but […]

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