Supreme Court is Embracing Reason and Compromise

Baltimore Sun OPINIONCOMMENTARY Supreme Court is embracing reason and compromise | GUEST COMMENTARY By GEORGE LIEBMANN PUBLISHED: July 21, 2024 at 5:30 a.m. More than half a century ago, Charles de Gaulle published the last volume of his memoirs. As the moving force behind France’s first successful constitution, his reflections on the American Constitution are […]

The Root of Political Disfunction

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The Politics of Defamation

The politics of defamation Biden Trump Baltimore Sun, June 10, 2024 By George Liebmann Seven years ago, I ventured to make some policy suggestions to the new Trump administration. None bore fruit, except for the drift toward marijuana legalization, a consequence of our federal system and not of Trump. In 2020, the Trump-led GOP did […]

Be wary of extreme abortion access laws

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 […]

A New Affirmative Action

Baltimore Sun OPINIONCOMMENTARY A new affirmative action | GUEST COMMENTARY By GEORGE LIEBMANN April 26, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. A few years ago, prior to the Supreme Court affirmative action litigation, a major newspaper published charts showing flat enrollment of Black students at major universities, under the assumption that, since Harvard Ph.D.s do well, African […]

FDR’s CCC was AAA. What’s Biden Doing?

Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2024 FDR’s CCC Was AAA. What’s Biden Doing? “If you put a rose in his hand, it would wilt” was a saying once unfairly directed at President Herbert Hoover but which applies in full to President Biden’s miniaturized “climate corps” proposal (“Biden Builds a Domestic Green Army,” Review & Outlook, […]

Book Review of ‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann

The New York Sun When Presidents Could Be Quietly Effective Biographies like Smith’s and Liebmann’s yearn for presidents such as Taft and Ford, who spent more time on the substance rather than the presentation of public policy. CARL ROLLYSON Wednesday, June 7, 2023 05:30:00 am ‘The Tafts’ By George W. Liebmann Twelve Tables Press, 432 […]

Kamala Harris Continues to Fail at the Border Kamala Harris Continues to Fail at the Border It is worth remembering that America’s uncontrolled immigration previously gave rise to the KKK. by GEORGE LIEBMANN American Spectator Online,October 24, 2023, 11:25 PM By now it is notorious that President Joe Biden’s choice as vice president and possible […]

The Road Not Taken, EV Edition

Menu The American Conservative Logo The Road Not Taken, EV Edition George Liebmann TheAmericanConservative.com,Oct 28, 2023 12:01 AM Anyone contemplating the American response to the alleged global warning crisis must be bemused by its allocation of priorities. It is conceded that the increased American use of natural gas in place of coal and petroleum and […]

Labor Day Was Once A Sacred Day on the Democratic Party Calendar

Menu The American Conservative Logo Subscribe POLITICS The Democrats and Labor The Democratic Party was once the party of labor. That has changed. TheAmericanConservativeOnline George Liebmann Sep 4, 2023 12:01 AM Labor Day was once a sacred day on the Democratic Party calendar, commemorated by massive demonstrations in Detroit—the home of the UAW, the Reuther […]