Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Thanksgiving is in two days. In an ordinary year, millions of Americans would be traveling to attend family gatherings. This year, with coro...

I created the graphic below for posting on Facebook. I was disappointed that it didn’t seem to get much attention. Perhaps it isn’t as cleve...

 My last post expressed concern about how Donald Trump will behave after he has definitively lost his re-election bid and before his term e...

Once all the frivolous Republican litigation challenging Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election is resolved, Donald Trump wil...

 I need to apologize to a few people who left comments on this blog but who never saw their comments approved. Somewhere along the line, a c...

 Sixteen years ago, I wrote a post titled “ Is ‘Both’ Really Necessary? ” It was written in response to this sentence heard on NPR: “Both of...

Presidential campaigns usually emphasize policy positions intended to appeal to one constituency or another. The 2020 presidential campaign ...

Amy Coney Barrett, in the hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, defined originalism , a system of legal interpretation to whi...

Responding to a Facebook post, a person can indicate a “reaction” by clicking on one of a collection of icons tagged LIKE, LOVE, CARE, HAHA,...

 Although I have never been involved in anyone’s decision to have or not have an abortion, legal restrictions on abortion have never made mu...

 Before the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign was relying on touting the economy as Trump’s greatest accom...

 Apparently, there is a large cohort of people who will believe whatever President Donald Trump says, irrespective of how outrageous it may ...

Opinion writers for The New York Times  have been commenting daily on the just-ended party conventions. Each writer has offered opinions on ...

 I am in sympathy with the Black Lives Matter movement. Blacks have suffered from seemingly racist policing in this country, in addition to ...

 

 As is my habit, I listened to NPR this morning. I was struck by a remark by newscaster Korva Coleman on the 9 A.M. newscast. Introducing a ...

 I’m beginning to find progressive voices lamenting the moderation of Joe Biden tiresome. In the abstract, I would like to have a more liber...

In 2016, the slogan of the Trump-Pence campaign was “Make America Great Again.” The implication was that, in 2016, America had ceased to be ...

 I believe that the November 2020 election is the most important election in my lifetime. It is probably also the most problematic, given th...

Joe Biden has articulated his plans and objectives for addressing myriad matters —the environment, education, women, gun violence, you name ...