March 25th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, The Right
The Alaska Lady, The Gray Lady, And Libel Sarah Palin’s claim against the New York Times was reasonable, and the behavior of the trial judge, Jed Rakoff, was outrageous. TheAmericanConservativeOnline MARCH 25, 2022|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is not generally noted for her contributions to civil discourse, so the recent defeat […]
March 10th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Education, The Right
Chroniclesonline,March 10, 2022 One Root of Cancel Culture Can Be Found in How We Teach History By George W. Liebmann 4 ¼ min Ours is an age in which, when one thinks of undergraduates, one thinks of cancel culture. This was on full display recently when students at the University of North Texas shut down […]
February 4th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, The Right
How Biden Should Choose A New Justice We want on the bench persons aware of “the crooked timber of humanity,” not dependable ideologues. FEBRUARY 3, 2022|12:01 AM, TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN The Biden administration’s promise about the identity of its forthcoming Supreme Court nominee shows disbelief in Justice Felix Frankfurter’s proposition that “as judges, we are […]
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 […]
September 18th, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The End Of Doe V. Bolton And The End Of Roe If the abortion decisions fall, a great deal of other judicial activism might fall with them. SEPTEMBER 16, 2021|12:01 AM,TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN For a long time, I thought that whatever changes took place on the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade would not be overruled […]
June 16th, 2021
Category: Markets and Privatization, The Right
April 20, 2021