Recent Calvert Institute PublicationsThe Role of Money in Political Campaigns January 24th, 2012
Letter to the Editor The role of money in political campaigns January 24 Regarding the Jan. 18 editorial “A less-than-super fix,” on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s statement that candidates should be allowed to collect unlimited donations: Mr. Romney is right on this issue. The 1974 campaign finance legislation was a cure [...]
Another Distant Warning: ‘Civil Gideon’ and Fee Shifting January 3rd, 2012
November 2011 Another Distant Warning Earlier this year, we drew attention to an impending treasury raid sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union in the form of a study proposing a massive building program for the Baltimore City public schools, to be carried out through the use of >funny financing= in the form [...]
The Governor and Reapportionment: Another Look January 3rd, 2012
The Governor and Reapportionment: Another Look The Governor=s Redistricting Commission has performed as expected in its lay-out of Congressional districts. Fifteen years ago, four of Maryland=s eight congresspersons were Republicans: each and all persons of strikingly independent judgment and diverse views who punched well above their weight in the House. The purge of them [...]
December 20th, 2011
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-norquist-20111219,0,497956.story baltimoresun.com Norquist’s ‘beast’ thrives Influential anti-tax activist’s work has done nothing to limit the size of government By George W. Liebmann 6:00 AM EST, December 19, 2011 Advertisement For the last 20 years, the charming Grover Norquist has been perhaps the most successful of American political entrepreneurs, having used a letterhead and small office [...]
September 18th, 2011
Confronting Party Myths by George W. Liebmann Some cheer can be obtained from recent fiscal events. The Reagan-Bush tax cuts ended the Democratic era of tax and spend. The debt limit crisis ended the Republican era of borrow and spend. Perhaps the hour of the late Adlai Stevenson, who told us “there are no gains [...]
Reefer Madness: Reform our crazy marijuana laws August 15th, 2011
baltimoresun.com Reefer madness: Reform our crazy marijuana laws 750,000 marijuana arrests a year have gotten our society nowhere By George W. Liebmann 7:00 AM EDT, August 15, 2011 The militarization of the Mexican border is a new phenomenon for two nations whose militaries have traditionally been made to stay out of politics. There are constant [...]
August 10th, 2011
The Immigration Conundrum Chapter 191 of theActs of 2011 relating to college tuition has now been successfully petitioned to referendum. This is a welcomc development in that it curbs the increasing arrogance and lack of accountability of Maryland’s single-party government. Itis likely. however. to touch off an unedifying campaign between the self-righteously sentimental and the self-righteously parsimonious [...]
Reapportionment and Redistricting: The Great Betrayal August 9th, 2011
The Governor has appointed a reapportionment commission of flive members: his patronage secretary;President Miller, Speaker Busch. a businessman. and a former Republican delegate. safely ‘out of the loop’ as as respects his party’s leadership, The commissionis in effect a Society for the Protection of Democratic Incumbents, Was this the constitutional design? [...]
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Recent Calvert Institute Press HitsG. Liebmann, “The Role of Money in Political Campaigns,” Washington Post, January 24,2012 G. Liebmann, “Norquist’s Beast Thrives,” Youngstown, Ohio News, January 4, 2012 G. Liebmann, “Norquist’s Beast Thrives,” Contra Costa (Cal.) Times, December 22, 2011 G. Liebmann, “Grover Norquist’s No Tax Campaign Thriving in Congress,” Chicago Tribune, December 19, 2011 G. Liebmann, :The Grover Norquist Beast Thrives,” West Hawaii Today, December 22, 2010 G. Liebmann, “Norquist’s Pledge Hasn’t Starved the Beast,” Press of Atlantic City, December 27, 2011 G. Liebmann, “Norquist’s Beast Thrives,” Sacramento Bee, December 20,2011 G. Liebmann, “Norquist’s Beast Rules the Roost,” Glens Falls (N.Y.) Post-Star, December 21, 2011 G. Liebmann”Grover Norquist’s Beast Survives,” San Jose Mercury News, December 21,2011
G. Liebmann, “Norquist’s Beast Thrives,” Oregon.live.com, December 21, 2011 G.Liebmann, “Norquist’s Beast Thrives, Baltimore Sun, December 19, 2011 G. Liebmann, “Rehabilitating Lochner,” (Book Review), Law and Politics Book Review, July 16, 2011 G.Liebmann, “Confronting Party Myths,” Conservative Battleline Online, September 14, 2011 A. Marso, “Same Issue, Different Era? Baltimore Lawyer’s Book Links Prohibition, Pot,” Maryland Daily Record, September 12, 2011, 9B M.Franck, “Bench Memos: Loving Lochner, Once Spurned”, National Review Online, September 8, 2011 G. Liebmann, “Reefer madness: Reform our crazy marijuana laws, Baltimore Sun, August 15, 2011 “Prohibition in Maryland,” http://alcoholanddrugshistorysociety.com, July 7, 2011 Editorial, Board Holds Firm on Pension Investment Rule, Gazette of Politics and Business, 2011-04-29 Random Calvert ExpertDr. Michael A. SchuylerSenior Economist Institute for Research on the Economics IRET provides policy makers with objective, closely-reasoned analyses of economic effects of public economic policy initiatives, primarily at the federal level. Schuyler has addressed a wide range of tax and regulatory issues, concentrating on how government policies affect economic choices by altering incentives. |