Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

If President Donald Trump did not have a problematic relationship with the Russian government and if he were a mentally healthy person of no...

Having read the extended report by the editorial board of The New York Times  titled “ A Woman’s Rights ,” I was distressed to read the sto...

The government shutdown caused by President Trump’s insistence that Congress appropriate nearly six billion dollars for his border wall cont...

I am not in the habit of making predictions regarding political events. Prognostication too easily leads to embarrassment. Nevertheless, tod...

For the past two years, Congress, under Republican control, refused to pass bills—in many cases, even refused to consider bills—that Preside...

Lyin’ Trump I listened to 1A  on NPR yesterday. The New York Times  reporters who investigated the source of Donald Trump’s wealth were ...

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Coming home from the supermarket this afternoon, I drove down Philadelphia Street, the main drag of Indiana, Pennsylvania. On the sidewalk f...

Yesterday, Brett Kavanaugh proved beyond doubt that he is unqualified to be a judge, much less a Supreme Court justice. After showing himsel...

On this day in 1983, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (1939–2017), who was the duty officer at the Soviet Union’s command center for the Oko nu...

A second woman (and possibly others) have accused Supreme Court justice candidate Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. First, it was an inc...

My PC, which was once very quiet, has been quite noisy of late. Initially, this was worrisome, as I feared the noises, which were clearly co...

I want to address the charges Dr. Blasey has brought against Judge Kavanaugh as this psycho-political national drama moves toward a conclus...

I was writing a new post about the charges leveled against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when I learned that his accuser is request...

Senate Republican leaders in the hours after The Post’s article was published indicated that they intended to move forward with voting on h...

Last Wednesday, The New York Times , published an op-ed essay anonymously written by “a senior official in the Trump administration.” The p...

Five years ago, I reported that Keuka Spring Vineyards won the Governor’s Cup for the top New York wine entered in the New York Wine Class...

Nancy Pelosi Democrats have not learned one of the most important lessons of the 2016 election: Leaders with exceptionally high negative...

I was reasonably satisfied with my original version of “ The Donald Goes Rolling Along .” As is typical, however, the satirical lyrics to th...

I have occasionally used this blog to display a poem in progress. I am doing that again in this post. I invite literary criticism in comment...