August 21st, 2024
G. Liebmann, “JFK’s Legacy Deserves A Critical Eye,” Baltimore Sun, August 19, 2024
JFKs Legacy Deserves A Critical Eye
August 21st, 2024
OpinionCommentary JFK’s legacy deserves a critical eye | GUEST COMMENTARY Author By George Liebmann PUBLISHED:Baltimore Sun August 19, 2024 at 6:03 a.m. “The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” President John F. Kennedy famously declared in his 1961 inaugural address. He was right to say his inauguration marked a sea change […]
“I’ve Got a Little List”
August 17th, 2024
SubscribeLogin Menu American Spectator logo Blog Democrats Want to Lower the Voting Age I’ve got a little list. by George Liebmann August 16, 2024, 10:30 AM Yaran/Shutterstock Today’s focus on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris should not obscure the contest for control of Congress. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution unambiguously declares: “All legislative […]
This Was No Isolated Incident
July 26th, 2024
This was no isolated incident The July 17 editorial, “How to read J.D. Vance,” fashionably stigmatized Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio as an “isolationist.” Taft, though cautious about direct involvement in foreign conflicts, was not an isolationist but a realist. His was the decisive Republican voice supporting the relaxation of the Neutrality Act of […]
Supreme Court is Embracing Reason and Compromise
July 22nd, 2024
Baltimore Sun OPINIONCOMMENTARY Supreme Court is embracing reason and compromise | GUEST COMMENTARY By GEORGE LIEBMANN PUBLISHED: July 21, 2024 at 5:30 a.m. More than half a century ago, Charles de Gaulle published the last volume of his memoirs. As the moving force behind France’s first successful constitution, his reflections on the American Constitution are […]
The Root of Political Disfunction
July 10th, 2024
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The Politics of Defamation
June 12th, 2024
The politics of defamation Biden Trump Baltimore Sun, June 10, 2024 By George Liebmann Seven years ago, I ventured to make some policy suggestions to the new Trump administration. None bore fruit, except for the drift toward marijuana legalization, a consequence of our federal system and not of Trump. In 2020, the Trump-led GOP did […]
Be wary of extreme abortion access laws
May 26th, 2024
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 […]
A New Affirmative Action
May 1st, 2024
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 […]