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Howard Ahmanson

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2006

    GOP $ Man: Stoning No Longer "A Necessity"

    Ever committed adultery? Are you homosexual? Prop 90 supporter Howard Ahmanson Jr. wouldn't mind stoning you. Yesterday we discussed Howard S. Rich, a wealthy fellow from New York, and his intense desire to screw with California government by financing groups that back Proposition 90. And Prop 90 is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2008

    OC Fundie Funder Gives Money to Wacky Reeps, Homo-Haters--And Lou Correa?!

    The most influential Orange County man you've never heard of is undoubtedly Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., heir to the Home Savings (remember that bank?) fortune. He rarely makes public appearances due to suffering from Tourette's Syndrome, but that hasn't stopped him from giving millions of dollars away ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Ahmanson-Funded Creationists Palling with Islamic Counterparts

    In the Department of Hypocrisy...the Discovery Institute, largely funded by board member, certified homophobe and Orange County native Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., is the country's premier organization pushing for the teaching of creationism in American classrooms over evolution. They're now helping out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2008

    Baby Hewie Firmly Aligned With Howard Homophobe Ahmanson

    In the couple of years I've been listening to local conservative blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt, I've seen the two causes he most firmly aligned himself with fail miserably: the 2006 mid-term election and the laughable presidential primary effort of Mitt Romney. Let's hope Hewie makes it a losing trifecta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2008

    Is Howard F. Ahmanson Reading Navel Gazing?

    *Updated, with new information on the bottom... Over the Labor Day weekend, someone claiming to be Christian fundie financier Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. left the following comment on my previous post about local conservative blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt being in cahoots with Ahmanson to end gay marriage i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2008

    On A Flippant Attitude Toward the Diocese of Orange Sex Abuse Scandal

    *Updated, with new information on the bottom... Over the Labor Day weekend, someone claiming to be Christian fundie financier Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. left the following comment on my previous post about local conservative blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt being in cahoots with Ahmanson to end gay marriage i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    Nativo Lopez Organization Cowardly Stays "Neutral" on Propositions 8 and 4

    Remember Nativo Lopez? Guy called Larry who became radicalized during the 1960s, led renter strikes against SanTana slumlords during the 1980s, served on the SanTana Unified School Board during the 1990s, then was recalled for his conflict-of-influenza, amongst other sins in early 2004? He's spent t ... More >>

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Endorse-O-Matic!

    Remember Nativo Lopez? Guy called Larry who became radicalized during the 1960s, led renter strikes against SanTana slumlords during the 1980s, served on the SanTana Unified School Board during the 1990s, then was recalled for his conflict-of-influenza, amongst other sins in early 2004? He's spent t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Rick Warren Offers to Save Homo-Hating St. James Anglican Church, But Where's Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr?

    Rick Warren has finally crossed the Rubicon of homo-hating with his invitation to St. James Anglican Church in Newport Beach to set up camp at Saddleback Church because the California State Supreme Court recently ruled they can't stay on their Balboa Peninsula property. A quick primer: St. James spl ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 18, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    Rick Warren has finally crossed the Rubicon of homo-hating with his invitation to St. James Anglican Church in Newport Beach to set up camp at Saddleback Church because the California State Supreme Court recently ruled they can't stay on their Balboa Peninsula property. A quick primer: St. James spl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. Responds to Weekly Query

    Over the weekend, Christian philanthropist extraordinaire and Weekly reader Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. responded to my post asking whether he'd buy a new property for Newport Beach's St. James Episcopal Church because they're currently homeless for casting their theological lot with a homo-hating Ugand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Howard Ahmanson Jr. Only the Second Biggest Hater

    Gustavo's pal Howard F. Ahmanson Jr. just missed the top spot on the Dishonor Roll published online by Californians Against Hate. The Knights of Columbus of New Haven, Conn., gave $1.425 million to the campaign for the same-sex-marriage-barring Prop. 8, while Howie only ponied up $1.395 million.Hey, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. Has a Website!

    A couple of months ago, my pal, religious-right funder extraordinaire Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., responded to my offer of blogging for Navel Gazing with the exciting news that he and his company, Fieldstead & Co., would soon launch a website complete with blog. A couple of days ago, under the head ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Busy Weekend for Haters, "So-Called" Hater

    When the Clockwork Scooter pulled out the Weekly parking lot Friday evening, there were just over 50 comments to the post that went up shortly after authorities revealed Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart died in a Fullerton car crash. At last check today, there were 112 comments. That means, acco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Rick Warren is a Big, Fat Coward

    So Purpose Driven® Rick Warren is blaming his no-show on the ABC news program This Week because he sniffed too many fumes at the pulpit? Is this the beginning to a bad Catholic joke? And Warren is still insisting that every culture in human history has defined marriage as between a man and a woman, ... More >>

  • News

    January 22, 2009

    Have the Problems of the Capo Unified School Board Been Solved After the Recall/Reform Movement Won?

    So Purpose Driven® Rick Warren is blaming his no-show on the ABC news program This Week because he sniffed too many fumes at the pulpit? Is this the beginning to a bad Catholic joke? And Warren is still insisting that every culture in human history has defined marriage as between a man and a woman, ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 8, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    So Purpose Driven® Rick Warren is blaming his no-show on the ABC news program This Week because he sniffed too many fumes at the pulpit? Is this the beginning to a bad Catholic joke? And Warren is still insisting that every culture in human history has defined marriage as between a man and a woman, ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

    So Purpose Driven® Rick Warren is blaming his no-show on the ABC news program This Week because he sniffed too many fumes at the pulpit? Is this the beginning to a bad Catholic joke? And Warren is still insisting that every culture in human history has defined marriage as between a man and a woman, ... More >>

  • Features

    November 4, 1999

    Orange Countys 31 Scariest People

    So Purpose Driven® Rick Warren is blaming his no-show on the ABC news program This Week because he sniffed too many fumes at the pulpit? Is this the beginning to a bad Catholic joke? And Warren is still insisting that every culture in human history has defined marriage as between a man and a woman, ... More >>

  • Features

    October 27, 2005

    OC's 31 Scariest People

    Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  • Features

    January 3, 2002

    Diary of a mad county

    Orange County, California: 2001

  • Columns

    July 12, 2001
  • News

    November 30, 2000

    Freebies for the Rich

    Garden Grove hoteliers got millions in free land

  • Columns

    June 1, 2000

    If You Believe They Put Mine on the Moon

    Garden Grove hoteliers got millions in free land

  • News

    September 10, 1998
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    June 4, 1998

    Republicans Who Smear Republicans

    Who's behind the campaign to get Pat Bates?

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2009

    Time for Boston To Give Us Their Crown as the Kings of Bigotry

    OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any day​Let the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.†... More >>

  • News

    November 19, 2009

    Proposition 8 Is Keeping Same-Sex Couples From Marrying, But It Has United OC's Gay Community

    OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any day​Let the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.†... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. FINALLY has his Blog Up!!!

    ​For almost a year now, in private email between he and I, fundie-funder supreme Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. has claimed he was developing a blog to express his views instead of merely haunting Navel Gazing. I started to doubt Ahmanson would ever do it, but here it is: Blue Kennel, which makes no sens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Has the Era of the Nationally Influential OC Conservative Eclipsed?

    Baby Hewie: Despite my constant ridiculing of him, brother is hella influential among conservatives...​I know lists are notoriously arbitrary and are usually created with the sole purpose of causing controversy, but there must be some local meaning in a recent article by the UK's conservative Dail ... More >>

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