Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have cooked up an interesting scheme to help keep Donald Trump from accumulating the delegates needed to win the Re...

Some time ago, I published here an essay about the motto of the United States, “In God we trust,” and what many have assumed to be the mot...

I don’t often buy sweetened soft drinks. I consume a fair amount of flavored and (more often) unflavored seltzer, however. I occasionally br...

As Episcopalians who follow church news closely are well aware—see ENS story here —Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, shortly after he was offi...

National Poetry Month is here again. This year is the 20th such celebration. Read some poetry today. You can read my own poetry on my Web si...

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...