May 25th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Moral Anarchy and Its Consequences by George Liebmann “Abroad, to show that everyone was passionate for peace All children under seven joined the army or police The babies studied musketry while mother filled a shell And the Minister still wondered why the population fell” This spoof by the British humorist and independent M.P. A.P. Herbert […]
May 22nd, 2022
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion
Democrat Libertarianism: Five Modest Proposals By George Liebmann The recent statement of the Biden administration in support of trans-gender rights and operations is one of the more astonishing documents of our time, It must have been vetted by Attorney General Garland and HHS Secretary Becerra, whose names deserve to be indelibly associated with it. Fifty […]
May 22nd, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Abortion: An End to Hysteria The reaction to Justice Alito’s leaked abortion opinion makes clear that the industry and its Democratic allies have abandoned any desire that abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare.’ That would imply efforts to discourage it in the European manner through waiting periods, counselling requirements, co-payments and notification requirements. What […]
January 4th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Regulation, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Last Stand Of The Court Packers The nation’s political centralizers find themselves distressed in an age in which there is increasing demand for decentralization. JANUARY 4, 2022|TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN The hysteria of such as E.J. Dionne, Linda Greenhouse, and Laurence Tribe about an assertedly partisan and conservative Supreme Court is amusing to observe. I recall […]
December 31st, 2021
Category: Budget, Corporate Welfare, Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Economic Regulation, Education, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Health Care, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Markets and Privatization, Miscellaneous, Philanthropy, Regulation, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO by George W. Liebmann This is a collection of 110 short ‘op-ed’ articles written over a 25-year period encompassing the unfortunate Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and Trump administrations; included are a few longer pieces on welfare, reapportionment, Palestine, and civil rights ‘consent decrees.’ This collection is followed by book reviews of […]
December 1st, 2021
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Dobbs V. Jackson: An Easy Opinion The rejection of a “compelling state interest” test will remove abortion from national politics. DECEMBER 1, 2021|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN Asimple Baltimore lawyer here tenders a short opinion to dispose of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the abortion case from Mississippi in oral arguments before the Supreme Court […]
November 23rd, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Our Unrestrained Attorney General Merrick Garland has done nothing to show himself to be the moderator of partisanship some hoped he might be. NOVEMBER 23, 2021 | 12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN When Merrick Garland was appointed attorney general, there was a widespread belief that as a person acclaimed as a “moderate,” he would be a […]
September 24th, 2021
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
They Have Eyes With Which To Read But Readeth Not One has the impression that research by today’s government lawyers consists of tapping keywords into databases compiled since 1992. TheAmericanConservativeOnline SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 They Have Eyes With Which To Read But Readeth Not One has the impression that research by today’s government lawyers consists of […]
May 28th, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Whither Roe?: A Secular Case For Abortion Restriction America’s unusually lax abortion laws have led to more out-of-wedlock births and non-college-educated women in poverty. The American Conservative Online GEORGE LIEBMANN The recent grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court in the Dobbs case from Mississippi has led to much speculation as to the ultimate fate […]