May 22nd, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Abortion: An End to Hysteria The reaction to Justice Alito’s leaked abortion opinion makes clear that the industry and its Democratic allies have abandoned any desire that abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare.’ That would imply efforts to discourage it in the European manner through waiting periods, counselling requirements, co-payments and notification requirements. What […]
April 10th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Here’s how Ketanji Brown Jackson should prepare to join the U.S. Supreme Court | READER COMMENTARY For The Baltimore Sun • Apr 10, 2022 at 10:34 am by George Liebmann The recent hearings on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, since confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, fall into the middle ground on measurements of […]
January 19th, 2022
Category: Budget, Economic Regulation, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Job Training, Markets and Privatization, Welfare and Other Social
Working With Biden On Build Back Better Salvageable parts of Biden’s program should be enacted as free-standing bills. TheAmericanConservativeOnline JANUARY 19, 2022|1:00 PM GEORGE LIEBMANN Biden’s Build Back Better was originally promoted as a Keynesian effort to restore the economy after Covid-19; inflation has undercut that justification. The bill’s revenue provisions carefully forswear the imposition […]
January 4th, 2022
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Regulation, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Last Stand Of The Court Packers The nation’s political centralizers find themselves distressed in an age in which there is increasing demand for decentralization. JANUARY 4, 2022|TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN The hysteria of such as E.J. Dionne, Linda Greenhouse, and Laurence Tribe about an assertedly partisan and conservative Supreme Court is amusing to observe. I recall […]
December 31st, 2021
Category: Budget, Corporate Welfare, Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Economic Regulation, Education, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Health Care, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Markets and Privatization, Miscellaneous, Philanthropy, Regulation, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO by George W. Liebmann This is a collection of 110 short ‘op-ed’ articles written over a 25-year period encompassing the unfortunate Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and Trump administrations; included are a few longer pieces on welfare, reapportionment, Palestine, and civil rights ‘consent decrees.’ This collection is followed by book reviews of […]
December 1st, 2021
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Dobbs V. Jackson: An Easy Opinion The rejection of a “compelling state interest” test will remove abortion from national politics. DECEMBER 1, 2021|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN Asimple Baltimore lawyer here tenders a short opinion to dispose of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the abortion case from Mississippi in oral arguments before the Supreme Court […]
November 23rd, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Our Unrestrained Attorney General Merrick Garland has done nothing to show himself to be the moderator of partisanship some hoped he might be. NOVEMBER 23, 2021 | 12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN When Merrick Garland was appointed attorney general, there was a widespread belief that as a person acclaimed as a “moderate,” he would be a […]
November 3rd, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Another 1973 abortion ruling — ‘Doe,’ not ‘Roe’ — is at the heart of next month’s Supreme Court Case | GUEST COMMENTARY By GEORGE W. LIEBMANN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN | NOV 02, 2021 AT 1:48 PM On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a high-profile Texas case that blocks most abortions in […]
October 14th, 2021
Category: Budget, Economic Regulation, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Markets and Privatization, Regulation, Welfare and Other Social
Budget Reconciliation And The End Of Liberalism The budget process, and legislation in general, now functions by fostering clientelism, allocating alms to special interest groups. TheAmericanConservativeOnline, OCTOBER 13, 2021|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN The current budget reconciliation bill is a travesty of what was intended when Congress enacted the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, in the […]
September 24th, 2021
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
They Have Eyes With Which To Read But Readeth Not One has the impression that research by today’s government lawyers consists of tapping keywords into databases compiled since 1992. TheAmericanConservativeOnline SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 They Have Eyes With Which To Read But Readeth Not One has the impression that research by today’s government lawyers consists of […]