Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Yesterday, Donald Trump accomplished what had seemed impossible. He simultaneously pissed off both pro-choice and anti-choice activists. The...

Over the past week, I’ve written limericks about the major presidential candidates—Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sande...

The importance of filling the currently vacant Supreme Court seat with a justice considerably to the left of the idiosyncratic Antonin Scali...

Republican Senators conveniently have found (i.e., invented out of thin air) the principle that a president should not be granted a Suprem...

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Open compounds often become closed compounds over time. For example, “rail road” long ago became “railroad.” More often than not, whether a ...

A few minutes ago, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Antonin S...

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Back in October, I wrote about ways I thought our political debates could be improved. (See “ Suggestions for Presidential Debates .”) Since...

Bill Maher was in good form on HBO last night. The quote below is from his opening monologue on Real Time with Bill Maher . (Click on the im...

In a New York Times  column , Paul Krugman observed that Donald Trump is implicitly promising to make America “white again.” This inspired t...

Earlier today, I listened to a discussion on the Diane Rehm Show  about the Texas Supreme Court case involving restrictions on abortion cli...

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Apparently, surveys have found that only about 50% of Americans believe that Apple is right in refusing to defeat the encryption on one of i...

Jeffrey Toobin, the legal correspondent for The New Yorker , wrote a “Talk of the Town” piece for the February 29 issue that quickly puts th...

When a prominent person dies, unless that person was generally recognized as a scoundrel, commentary following the death is usually dominate...

I have written the message below to Senator Mitch McConnell. Topic: Judicial Subject: Supreme Court Vacancy I urge you to rec...

Kentucky Senator and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Republicans are arguing that, since President Obama has less than a year lef...

Famous optical illusion: Can you see both the young and the old woman? A small number of words in English can have nearly opposite mean...