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 […]
October 29th, 2023
Category: Corporate Welfare, Economic Regulation, Efficiency in Government, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Markets and Privatization, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
August 5th, 2023
Category: Economic Regulation, Job Training, Markets and Privatization, Regulation, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
George Liebmann To: The Democrats and Labor by George Liebmann It is time to consider the non-existent Labor Agenda of the anti_Trump Party. Doing so will convince the impartial that while the Republicans are vexed and encumbered by one man, the Democrats have almost entirely succumbed to an ideological epidemic When there was widespread unemployment […]
August 5th, 2023
Category: Education, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
www.calvertinstitute.org A New Affirmative Action by George Liebmann About a year ago, a major newspaper, mingling its editorial and news pages as is now usual, published charts showing flat Black enrollment at a number of major universities in an effort to influence the then-pending Supreme Court affirmative action litigation. There was no qualitative assessment including […]
July 21st, 2023
Category: Economic Regulation, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Markets and Privatization, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The American Conservative A Built-In Solution to America’s Housing Shortage Easing restrictions on accessory apartments will allow us to maximize the housing stock we already have. George Liebmann Jul 21, 2023 12:01 AM Thirty-three years ago, I published an article urging states and localities to relax zoning restrictions on accessory apartments and home occupations. After […]