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 […]
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 […]
September 18th, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The End Of Doe V. Bolton And The End Of Roe If the abortion decisions fall, a great deal of other judicial activism might fall with them. SEPTEMBER 16, 2021|12:01 AM,TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN For a long time, I thought that whatever changes took place on the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade would not be overruled […]
August 20th, 2021
Category: Culture Wars, Efficiency in Government, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
The Decline And Fall Of New York Democracy Cuomo is only one more chapter in a long and depressing story. TheAmericanConservativeOnline,AUGUST 20, 2021|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN The recent ignominious departure from office of Andrew Cuomo is the latest act in New York’s sad saga of political decline. Cuomo fell because of his private life, such […]
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, […]