May 26th, 2024
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
May 1st, 2024
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Philanthropy, State and Local Politics, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
April 22nd, 2024
Category: Efficiency in Government, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Philanthropy, The Right, Urban Affairs
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 […]
April 10th, 2024
Category: Drugs, Education, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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, […]
March 17th, 2024
Category: Criminal Justice, Drugs, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
Time to end Baltimore’s policing consent decree Baltimore Sun, March 15,2024 By George Liebmann Cities with consent decrees like Baltimore’s are likely to have higher homicide rates because two of the principal effects of such decrees are to discourage police recruitment and prevent proactive policing. Competent police commissioners can reform police; insulated federal judges cannot. […]
December 9th, 2023
Category: Book Review, Comment, Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Education, Efficiency in Government, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Publication Types, Regulation, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
November 30th, 2023
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
SUBSCRIBELOGIN MENU American Spectator logo Firearms Control: It’s Time for a Common-Sense Bargain AMERICA RIPE FOR REFORM Firearms Control: It’s Time for a Common-Sense Bargain Trading an assault weapons ban for reducing federal police presence. by GEORGE LIEBMANN November 29, 2023, 11:05 PM The last 50 years have confirmed Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson’s warning against […]
November 29th, 2023
Category: Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
Welcome to the TLS Letters to the Editor The US Constitution December 1, 2023 Lawrence Douglas’s review of Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Livitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, on the American Constitution (November 3), is infected by presentism. In the 1940s people criticized the electoral college because it was thought to give an advantage to […]
November 28th, 2023
Category: Criminal Justice, Drugs, Judiciary and Legal Issues
From: George Liebmann To: Rules Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 05:34:01 PM EDT Subject: Extended Coverage Rule Ms. Sandra Haines Rules Committee Dear Ms. Haines: My views on the proposed Rule may be succinctly stated: 1. There is no reason in law or policy for Maryland to depart from the practice of the federal […]
November 26th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]