October 14th, 2024
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Abortion ballot question to test voters’ social conscience Baltimore Sun, October 14,2024 By George Liebmann Maryland’s constitutional amendment referendum on the ballot in November that would enshrine “reproductive” rights adds little to existing law that could not simply be accomplished by an act of the General Assembly. It is on the ballot to mobilize the […]
May 26th, 2024
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Baltimore Sun, May 26, 2024 Be wary of extreme abortion access laws The recent denunciation of state Sen. Chris West, and by extension all Republicans, by the former chair of Planned Parenthood of Maryland (“Hogan will fall in with his party on abortion if elected,” May 19) for failing to support an extreme abortion access […]
August 2nd, 2023
Category: Budget, Economic Regulation, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Regulation, Welfare and Other Social
The American Conservative Justice Kagan’s Apostasy The judiciary abdicates its duty when it tolerates broad-ranging executive “emergency powers.” George Liebmann Aug 2, 2023 12:01 AM Supreme Court–watchers who try to see beyond the moment have frequently perceived Justice Elena Kagan as a future chief justice. She comes from a family of civil servants and is […]
July 6th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Dobbs Comes to Maryland The state and localities are wrestling with post-Roe realities. George Liebmann The AmericanConservativeOnlineJul 5, 2023 12:01 AM The Dobbs decision brought an end to the federal regime of abortion-on-demand, with only a vague “mental health” standard previously limiting third-trimester abortions. Abortions are no longer available with certainty. The screams that the […]
February 19th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Why are Maryland Dems so jubilant about expanding abortion access? | READER COMMENTARY For The Baltimore Sun • Feb 16, 2023 at 11:10 am by George Liebmann State constitutional abortion amendment a ‘political mobilizing device’ for Dems Maryland has a liberal abortion law, unaffected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s […]
December 17th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Welfare Reform and Dobbs The landscape of government welfare has changed since the historic decision. George Liebmann, TheAmericanConservativeOnline, December 17, 2022 Dec 17, 2022 Some glib “liberal” writers are wont to proclaim of the “culture wars”: “They’re over! We won!” However, there are major intellectual and political developments that suggest that, as in the English […]
October 17th, 2022
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Book Announcement- JOURNAL OF TWO PLAGUE YEARS by George W. Liebmann This is a collection of 70 op-ed pieces appearing in the Baltimore Sun, The American Conservative Online, the Washington Examiner, Chronicles Online, the Washington Times, and the Calvert Institute website in the two years beginning with the presidential election of 2020. It reflects the […]
August 2nd, 2022
Category: Budget, Corporate Welfare, Economic Regulation, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Health Care, Markets and Privatization, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Joe Manchin’s bargain | GUEST COMMENTARY By George Liebmann For The Baltimore Sun • Aug 2, 2022 From the beginning of discussion of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better proposal, I forecast that the time would come when Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia would be “bought off” by the Biden administration with the provisions […]
August 2nd, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right
Their Party’s Call The Democrats have completely disregarded late Senator Bob Dole’s admonition to “read before you sign.” Aug 2, 2022 12:01 AM “He always voted at his party’s call / And he never thought of thinking for himself at all.” This Gilbert and Sullivan character anticipated by 150 years virtually all the Democratic members […]
June 26th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
The Price of Free Love by George Liebmann www.calvertinstitute.org, June 25, 2022 The wails of anguish surrounding the anticipated abortion decision bring to mind Mencken’s jaundiced view of the ‘family planners’ of the 1920s: “Nor is the moral virtuoso made more prepossessing when he takes the Devil’s side and howls for license instead of […]