Recent Calvert Institute PublicationsThe Feds, the States, and the Controlled Substances Act January 12th, 2015
The Feds, the States and the Controlled Substances Act How exactly is Colorado undermining federal law? Nothing requires a state to make marijuana illegal. Wall Street Journal January 12, 2015 To the Editor: Maryland, under Gov. Albert Ritchie, steadfastly refused to prohibit alcohol sales throughout Prohibition, and Al Smith’s New York repealed its prohibition […]
Time for ‘Bottom Up’ Education Reform November 3rd, 2014
Time for ‘Bottom-Up’ Education Reform by George W. Liebmann The renewed clamor for postponement of ‘common core’ testing provides further evidence of the failure of ‘top-down’ reform in Maryland public schools. Who can forget MSPAP, the State Board’s high stakes tests for graduation, and the procrastination in fulfilling the ‘Race to the Top’ promise that […]
Expanding Distance Learning in Maryland Schools October 23rd, 2014
Expanding Distance Learning in Maryland Schools A Comparative Analysis of Distance Learning in Maryland and Other States by Nicholas Schwaderer Calvert Institute for Policy Research 8 West Hamilton Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Tel: (410) 752 5887 Contents 1 MARYLAND ONLINE EDUCATION […]
August 12th, 2014
The Institute’s Executive Director’s Pratt Library talk on his book The Last American Diplomat was broadcast on C-Span2′s Book Week on Saturday August 9 at 8:45 p.m. and will be re-broadcasted on Sunday August 17 at 2 p.m.
August 6th, 2014
O’Malley’s latest ‘pop’ issue – baltimoresun.com Maryland’s governor has proposed that undocumented child immigrants should be placed in foster care By George W. Liebmann 1:31 p.m. EDT, August 6, 2014 O’Malley takes on another ‘pop’ issue [Commentary] Gov. Martin O’Malley, a presidential hopeful, has taken on yet another “pop issue,” proposing that we provide foster […]
June 9th, 2014
Letters Brief Book-Price Regulation Primer This latest adventure isn’t directed against exclusionary practices but fosters concentration in publishing and distribution and is contrary to the public interest. June 4, 2014 2:25 p.m. ET Regarding L. Gordon Crovitz’s “The Antitrust Book Boomerang” (Information Age, June 2) and Holman Jenkins’s “Washington vs. Books” (Business World, […]
Property Tax Incentives for Business–Another Folly April 2nd, 2014
A Worthy Report on Property Tax Incentives for Business The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has issued an exceptionally valuable report on state and local misuse of property tax incentives for economic development. Its authors are Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam H. Langley, and Bethany P. Paquin. Ms Kenyon is well known as the principal author […]
April 2nd, 2014
More Pension Follies With great fanfare, Governor O’Malley announced his 2014-15 budget. Three thick budget volumes were released. Nowhere in these volumes (with one minor exception) are any of the pertinent data concerning Maryland’s pension and employee health obligations disclosed. The re-design of Maryland’s budget documents carried out by the present budget secretary, Eloise Foster, […]
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Recent Calvert Institute Press HitsG. Liebmann, “The Feds, the States, and the Controlled Substances Act,” Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2015 + G. Liebmann, “Time for ‘Bottom Up’ Education Reform,” Baltimore Sun, November 4, 2014 George Liebmann’s C-Span2 Book Week talk on The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of American Diplomacy will be re-broadcast at 6:00 a.m. on Monday, September 1 on C-Span2 The Institute’s Executive Director’s Pratt Library talk on his book The Last American Diplomat was broadcast on C-Span2′s Book Week on Saturday August 9 at 8:45 p.m. and will be re-broadcasted on Sunday August 17 at 2 p.m. G.Liebmann, “O’Malley Takes On Another Pop Issue,” Baltimore Sun, August 6, 2014 G. Liebmann, “Brief Book-Price Regulation Primer,” Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2014 G.Liebmann, “Intellectual Complacency and Intolerance,” 17 Green Bag 2nd 12 (Winter 2013 G. Liebmann, “Maryland’s Pension System Has Performed Poorly for Decades,” Baltimore Sun, February 20, 2014 Editorial,”Balancing the Budget With The Pension System,” Maryland Daily Record, January 17,2014 G. Liebmann, “The Problem with Obamacare,” Baltimore Sun, October 22, 2013 W.Olson, “Maryland Developments,” Overlawyered.com, October 4, 2013. Editorial Advisory Board,”Funding for a new professionalism Center: Hit the Pause Button,” Maryland Daily Record, September 8, 2013
L. Bowie, “Maryland Teacher Certification Law Criticized as Too Tough,” Baltimore Sun, September 7, 2013, A2. Random Calvert ExpertMr. Patrick F. FaganFitzGerald Fellow for Family Heritage Foundation Writes on the links of social problems such as crime, welfare, child abuse and drug addiction with the breakdown of marriage and the abandonment of regular religious worship. Deputy assistant secretary for social service policy and for family and community policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Bush administration. |