OpinionCommentary JFK’s legacy deserves a critical eye | GUEST COMMENTARY Author By George Liebmann PUBLISHED:Baltimore Sun August 19, 2024 at 6:03 a.m. “The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” President John F. Kennedy famously declared in his 1961 inaugural address. He was right to say his inauguration marked a sea change […]
SubscribeLogin Menu American Spectator logo Blog Democrats Want to Lower the Voting Age I’ve got a little list. by George Liebmann August 16, 2024, 10:30 AM Yaran/Shutterstock Today’s focus on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris should not obscure the contest for control of Congress. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution unambiguously declares: “All legislative […]
This was no isolated incident The July 17 editorial, “How to read J.D. Vance,” fashionably stigmatized Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio as an “isolationist.” Taft, though cautious about direct involvement in foreign conflicts, was not an isolationist but a realist. His was the decisive Republican voice supporting the relaxation of the Neutrality Act of […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
George Liebmann From: george.liebmann2@verizon.net Bcc: Jason Willick Wed, Mar 27 at 12:11 PM REMARKS OF GEORGE W. LIEBMANN, PRESIDENT OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR, INTRODUCING DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN, MARCH 26, 2024 I have always proceeded on the premise that introductions should not exceed three minutes in length. Our speaker’s monumental resume would […]