Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Some years ago, I attended a workshop sponsored by the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer. I participated in one session on the structure of coll...

I was particularly struck by an op-ed in The New York Times by Charlie Warzel, “ Trump Chooses Disaster as His Re-Election Strategy .” This...

I picked up limes and tonic at the supermarket yesterday. After dinner, I planned on having a gin and tonic. When I took the gin bottle out ...

For the sake of argument, suppose that we could immediately test everyone in the country for the coronavirus and instantly get test results....

Why can’t this administration get anything right? Not only is President Trump’s latest travel ban essentially useless and a great inconvenie...

The media have made much of the reputed progressive/moderate split in the Democratic Party. The split is real of course, though it must be a...

The political landscape has changed rapidly during the past week. The departure of Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Steyer, and then Bloomberg from the...

Americans are increasingly anxious about coronavirus and its potential to cause a pandemic. Public statements from the governments of both C...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is a Presbyterian minister who is also a hymn writer. America’s recent political upheavals have inspired her to com...

 The final and much-anticipated poll results from the Des Moines Register  were not released yesterday. Questions about the validity of the ...

From the competition between Democratic presidential candidates so far, one might be led to think that policy positions are the most importa...

I have written a number of collects, either for general use or for use in particular circumstances. As the Senate prepares to try the Presid...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants a Senate “trial” of President Trump without the introduction of any documents or witnesses. A...

A few days ago, I received a Blu-ray disk of Bad Santa  from Netflix. For some reason, I had put this movie in my queue some time ago, and I...

In September 2012, I was thinking about the upcoming election in which President Obama was seeking a second term. As a way of assuaging feel...

Terry Gross’s Fresh Air  has been broadcasting reruns of notable interviews during the holidays. At the end of today’s program, Gross announ...

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will almost certainly approve two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump. Now is a...

If you have never done so, you should take a look at the Freedom House Web site. It rates countries (and some territories) on how free they...

At the recent annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, I noticed that, although proposed amendments to the Episcopal Church...

NPR ran a story this morning about both liberal and conservative groups urging President Trump to ban flavored e-cigarettes. Apparently, th...