Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

The Republican Party officially nominated Donald J. Trump as its presidential candidate last night. Reasonable, well-educated people thought...

Black Lives Matter is a fine slogan, born of a spate of murders of young black men, largely at the hands of white police. The slogan was ne...

No, the title of this post isn’t a mistake, though it is true that I am not a big fan of the last Republican president. Both President Obama...

I’m listening to (and sometimes watching) the interfaith memorial service being held in Dallas, Texas, for those police officers who died la...

Gun violence in America has reached epidemic proportions. All Congress has been able to do is to offer prayers and moments of silence. Not o...

I had not intended to embark on a campaign for gun control, but, since the massacre at the Pulse nightclub on June 12, I have written two es...

I cheered the sit-in in the House of Representatives led by Representative John Lewis yesterday. I was particularly delighted with the DYI l...

The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette carried the full-page ad shown below on page A-12 of this morning’s newspaper. (Click on the image for a PDF ve...

Gun control advocates regularly assure gun owners that they only want to tighten gun laws; they do not want to take people’s guns away. Thi...

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In response to the massacre of club goers in Orlando carried out with an assault rifle, the House of Representatives responded quickly by st...

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;               ...

Last week, I attended the 2016 Network Meeting of Episcopal Relief & Development. The event, which was held at a hotel near Chicago’s O’...

For a long time, my Web site has contained a list of pluperfect digital invariants (PPDIs) in bases 2 through 10. Recently, I have been fin...

Readers may notice a few changes in the sidebar at the right. I removed the list of recent posts because the software that generated the tit...

Absentee ballots have long been available to voters who expect to be out-of-town on election day or for whom, due to disability, find voting...

As the Democratic presidential primaries have progressed, Bernie Sanders has repeatedly complained about superdelegates. These are delegates...

In the long run-up to the 2016 presidential election, I have frequently found myself thinking about how we vote in this country, in genera...

I recently wrote about the lack of transparency regarding the firings at the Episcopal Church Center. (See “ Thoughts about Presiding Bishop...

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...