Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

NPR, which has been interviewing Democrats about the future of their party, featured Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen today on Morning Edi...

I do a fair amount of cooking and lots of baking. Naturally, I have built up a repertoire of useful kitchen skills. I do make mistakes, howe...

The Trump administration has claimed that its cuts to the federal government are eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. If this is true, where...

Never in modern times has one political party been so philosophically monolithic as is today’s Republican Party. Never in modern times has a...

Pharmaceutical commercials on television are required to list possible, often scary (or even deadly), side effects. (Not every conceivable s...

Hamas may indeed be forced to accept the “peace” plan presented by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today. It is a one-sided plan in Isra...

I don’t use ordinary #2 pencils very often. I probably use them most often for marking walls when hanging pictures. For ordinary writing, I ...