Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I had been planning to write an essay explaining why President Trump’s approach to a nuclear-armed North Korea is flawed. But the increasing...

It is understandable that people of goodwill can differ on immigration policy. Our national immigration policy has been inconsistent over th...

I watched President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly this morning. I would like to offer a few observations of h...

As the baseball season winds down, I think it a good time to offer some thoughts on aspects of the game. The basic rules of baseball have ...

I wrote the poem below on September 27, 2001. It is one of several poems I wrote in response to the attacks of September 11. This poem r...

I am continuing my postcard campaign of lobbying my senators and representative in Washington. (See “ Beginning My Postcard Campaign .”) I a...

The stamp shown above was issued in 1956. I have used it to illustrate my Labor Day poem “ A Labor Day Lament ,” which I wrote in 2011. S...

Labor Day 2017 finds most workers no better off than they were a decade ago. Wages are largely stagnant—there have been signs of a slight up...

I am here in Indiana, Pennsylvania, shortly before the much-touted eclipse of the sun will begin to be seen on the west coast. Although the ...

 The song “South of the Border” is widely known. It was written by James B. Kennedy and Michael Carr and was featured in the 1939 movie of t...

A few days ago, I was returning to my car in the Walmart parking lot and found myself walking behind a woman in jeans, flip-flops, and a top...

Fifteen years ago, a life-and-death drama was playing out in the Southwestern Pennsylvania coal fields. On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, nine co...

Like so many peopele—a majority of voters, no doubt—I was distressed by Donald Trump’s winning the presidential election. I anticipated that...

I am not in the habit of reacting to every asinine tweet made by our dumb-ass president, but I feel compelled to do so now. As President Tru...

For many years, I have purchased a patriotic T-shirt to wear on the 4th of July. Many stores stock such shirts at very low prices as the 4th...

I recently went to a nearby Pizza Hut/KFC restaurant. (Both chains belong to Yum! Brands, Inc.) I was interested in ordering a meal combo th...

Memorial Day is most certainly an appropriate day of remembrance and gratitude for those who gave their lives for their country. But, it is ...

Some of my most treasured childhood toys were Smith-Miller trucks. These large-scale die-cast trucks were not museum-quality scale models, b...

I was listening to Here and Now  on NPR this afternoon. A reporter was interviewing some Republican woman; I wasn’t paying close attention a...

I was intrigued this afternoon by a discussion on the WNYC program On the Media  involving the words “Jew” and “Jewish.” The point was made...