August 14th, 2021
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Restrictions on Baltimore police, prosecutors allow criminal ‘underworld’ to flourish | COMMENTARY By GEORGE LIEBMANN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN | AUG 14, 2021 AT 6:42 AM The Sun has recently reported the quarterly self-congratulatory ceremony before Judge James Bredar in which the sponsors of and financial and reputational beneficiaries of the Baltimore police consent decree […]
August 12th, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Drugs, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Welfare and Other Social
Covid And The Individual: What Should Have Been Said Public health authorities could have helped normal people decide what they could do for themselves to prepare for the pandemic. AUGUST 12, 2021|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN What follows bears no resemblance to the advice tendered in the last year by Dr. Anthony Fauci, Governor Andrew Cuomo, […]
June 23rd, 2021
Category: Budget, Culture Wars, Drugs, Education, Fiscal, Markets and Privatization, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Biden’s Education Schemes Foreclose Sensible Reforms The need to improve our schools is obvious, as are many of the real solutions. JUNE 23, 2021,TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN President Joe Biden’s education proposals are not fiscally modest. Two new years of free preschooling, staffed by unionized teachers. Free community colleges, for another year or two. Massive forgiveness […]
June 15th, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The Future Of Motherhood And Childhood Under Biden The value of structured preschool education has been severely questioned, and there are better alternatives. JUNE 15, 2021,TheAmericanConservative.com GEORGE LIEBMANN The apparent determination of some of President Joe Biden’s supporters to recreate the late ’60s is reflected in the administration’s “infrastructure” proposals relating to child day care. […]
June 11th, 2021
Category: Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Markets and Privatization, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
NEW URBANISM Biden’s Housing Plan: An Anthology Of Failed Approaches The administration aims promote racial and socio-economic integration through social engineering. JUNE 11, 2021, The AmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN The Biden administration has just announced a $318 billion “infrastructure” housing plan, conspicuous for its almost total absence of new thinking and for its large investments in […]
June 8th, 2021
Category: Efficiency in Government, Health Care, Markets and Privatization, Publications, Regulation, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Biden Pushes Home Health Services As Infrastructure The centralized approach replaces family and community with unionized federal home care workers. TheAmericanConservativeOnline JUNE 8, 2021|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN The Biden Administration, as part of its somewhat misleadingly entitled “infrastructure” bill, has proposed an enormous $400 billion program to expand home health services, capitalizing on the justified […]
May 28th, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Whither Roe?: A Secular Case For Abortion Restriction America’s unusually lax abortion laws have led to more out-of-wedlock births and non-college-educated women in poverty. The American Conservative Online GEORGE LIEBMANN The recent grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court in the Dobbs case from Mississippi has led to much speculation as to the ultimate fate […]
May 17th, 2021
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Economic Regulation, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
On Crime And Punishment In Large Cities Consent decrees hamper police and lead to increased homicides. Reforms are possible without stopping all minor crime enforcement. MAY 17, 2021|1:00 PM GEORGE LIEBMANN,TheAmerican Conservative Online Recent events might lead the uninitiated to believe that, on the crime front, America’s large cities are getting better and better. Several […]
May 10th, 2021
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Economic Regulation, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Budget Reform /Criminal Justice On Crime and Punishment in Baltimore George Liebmann ,Maryland Public Policy Institute blog, May 10, 2021 Two recent events might lead one to believe that, on the crime front, Baltimore is getting better and better. In March, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced with pride that the “war on drugs is over […]