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 […]
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 […]
After Voting For 16, ‘They’ll None Of Them Be Missed’ By supporting lowering the voting age to 16, progressive Democrats, 125 of them, have painted a political target on themselves. MAY 29, 2021|,TheAmericanConservative.com GEORGE LIEBMANN On March 3 of this year, 125 Democrats voted to give 16-year-olds the vote in federal elections. No Republicans joined […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Minimum Conditions For Biden’s Minimum Wage Paired with real efforts to address youth unemployment, a minimum wage hike would not be as disruptive as free-marketers fear. MAY 1, 2021|12:01 AM,TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN An increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15.00 an hour is said to be part of the initial […]
The Quintessence Of Blinkenism Assuming all human rights are equal is a recipe for instability. APRIL 20, 2021|12:01 AM,TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN One of the more startling manifestations of the Biden administration’s subserviency to liberal advocacy groups is its sudden dismissal of the Commission on Unalienable Rights appointed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the […]
Technical fixes do more to help people than popular partisanship. APRIL 13, 2021,TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN Some years ago, the late Elliot Richardson, who served in multiple cabinet offices before becoming a major contributor to the downfall of President Richard Nixon, wrote of the utility in politics of “end runs.” By these he meant proposals which, […]
Taft’s Anti-Plutocracy Conservatism How the lesser known conservative trust-buster handled wealth concentration. APRIL 8, 2021,TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN The last Democratic presidential primary saw more than the ordinary focus on disparities of wealth and income, alleged by some of the candidates to endanger democracy. The remedies floated for this condition included wealth taxes endorsed by Senators […]