July 27th, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right
The Washington Examiner OPINION The secular case for abortion restrictions by George W. Liebmann | July 27, 2020 12:00 AM Chief Justice John Roberts’s controlling opinion in the recent Louisiana abortion case June Medical has been widely viewed as a setback for opponents of abortion as a constitutional right. But in fact, it paves the […]
July 2nd, 2020
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The Washington Examiner OPINION Reminder: The 2015 Baltimore riots accomplished nothing by George W. Liebmann | July 02, 2020 12:00 AM The precursor to the recent demonstrations, in America and throughout the world, were the Baltimore riots, mostly by young black people, that the nation watched on television in 2015. The immediate cause of the […]
June 19th, 2020
Category: Markets and Privatization, Regulation, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
___ The American Conservative To Save Elderly At Risk Of Covid, Legalize ‘Granny Houses’ Also allowing more small businesses in residential areas will promote economic resilience. JUNE 19, 2020 GEORGE LIEBMANN Thirty years ago, I published an article in a rather obscure legal publication (the Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Journal) entitled “Suburban Zoning: […]
June 18th, 2020
Category: Criminal Justice, Drugs, Efficiency in Government, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Urban Affairs
Thur, Jun 18, 2020 From The Washington Times ————————— Greater federal control over local law enforcement intrudes on liberty and is inefficient By George W. Liebmann In a nation with 40 million blacks and nearly a million police, there will always be abuses of power that can be fastened on. But identity politics, as the […]
May 23rd, 2020
Category: Budget, Education, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Policy Changes that Have Been Sparked by the Coronavirus Pandemic Townhall Columnists George Liebmann OPINION May 23, 2020 As Americans suffer the coronavirus pandemic, the economy is in a precarious state and unemployment has reached levels not seen since the Great Depression. It is a time to reconsider some policies relating to taxation and labor […]
May 18th, 2020
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Religion, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Tracing the epidemic of allegations of sexual misconduct in today’s United States Regular Joe Biden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times By George Liebmann – – Sunday, May 17, 2020 ANALYSIS/OPINION: The #MeToo movement, like the flash mobs greeting the Trump administration’s announcement of immigration restrictions, are examples of an “epidemic of ideas” — a […]
April 30th, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Efficiency in Government, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Society/Family/Community/Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Why Not the Best? Washington Times, April 30, 2020 by George W. Liebmann These suggestions regarding the selection of the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee come from what might be considered a suspicious source: a registered Republican. To be sure, I have been unable to vote for my party’s nominee in the last four Presidential […]
April 7th, 2020
Category: Criminal Justice, Economic Regulation, Education, Education/School Choice/Multiculturalism, Health Care, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Click here for the accessible version SEARCH Search Input (Press cntl+alt+a to switch to accessible mode) george.liebmann2@verizon.net Sign Out Options Wed, Mar 18, 2020 7:33 pm Youth and the Virus Crisis by George Liebmann No one can enjoy the spectacle of an antique and floundering President, being overborne by public health events. Nor can one be […]
April 7th, 2020
Category: Miscellaneous
Coronavirus is exposing national weaknesses that we need to address by George W. Liebmann | April 06, 2020 11:26 AM Some years ago, the British Thatcherite historian Correlli Barnett wrote a somewhat overwrought book called The Audit of War, pointing out that the advent of World War II revealed defects in British society — the class system, […]
March 31st, 2020
Category: Criminal Justice, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Regulation, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Some Emergency Powers Need Congress’s OK by George W. Liebmann Regarding the suggestion by David B. Rivkin ‘Jr. and Charles Stimson in “A Constitutional Guide to Emergency Powers” (op-ed, March 20) that • “widespread noncompliance with federal quarantines and travel bans promulgated under the Public Health Service Act may qualify as an insurrection.” […]