A New Affirmative Action – George Liebmann https://lawliberty.org/?p=50119&preview=true 1/7 A New Affirmative Action What would an action program renouncing ethniccategories and embracing individualistic liberalismlook like? g e o r g e liebmann About a year ago, a major newspaper, mingling itseditorial and news pages as is now usual, published chartsshowing flat Black enrollment at a […]
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 […]
The American Spectator Online Trump Can Win: 2024 Isn’t 2020 A Biden voter and non-fan of Donald Trump declines to play the derangement game. by GEORGE LIEBMANN August 13, 2023, 11:11 PM Surmounting Trump derangement syndrome is not an easy task. This is said by someone who enthusiastically grasped three opportunities to vote against him, […]
On Centralized and De-Centralized Federal Courts Constitutional litigation should be more rare, and should involved fully developed and not assumed facts. George Liebmann,TheAmericanConservativeOnline Jul 20, 2023 12:01 AM Today’s discourse about legal issues is characterized by two phenomena: partisan polarization and indifference to history. Recent comments on the decision of Judge Terry Doughty in the […]
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 […]
Maryland’s Ill-Considered Jobs Program Maryland’s urban youth desperately need opportunities, and Governor Moore’s new program doesn’t deliver. George Liebmann,thyeamericanconservativeonline Apr 4, 2023 12:01 AM With great fanfare and much-sought national publicity, Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has unveiled a “a year of service” program for high school graduates. It amounts to a token program whose […]
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 […]
The American Conservative Online An End to Leveling Down Many well-intentioned people defend the affirmative action regime despite its visible consequences. George Liebmann Feb 1, 2023 12:01 AM The affirmative action cases pending before the Supreme Court will undoubtedly produce an uproar—before and after the court’s decision—comparable to that accompanying the Dobbs abortion case. The […]
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 […]
Congressional compromise: Republican modifications to a Democratic agenda could satisfy all | GUEST COMMENTARY By George Liebmann For The Baltimore Sun • Nov 21, 2022 at 10:58 am A simplistic Democratic wish list at the federal level would include: An assault weapons ban; Marijuana legalization; Amnesty for illegal residents of long standing; A $15 minimum […]