Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

 I am a big movie fan, and much of my movie watching is done on the television. (Particularly so in the current circumstances, of course!) I...

I was surprised to learn today that the Supreme Court instructed the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss two suits alleging that Pres...

 Donald Trump is to be tried once again by the Senate. There is much confusion—some of it intentionally generated by Trump partisans—about t...

 NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday led off today with a story titled “ Unpacking The Biden Administration's Coronavirus Strategy .” Dr. Carlo...

 Many of the insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol on January 6 are claiming, in their defense, that the president told them to do what th...

 The latest addition to the politically correct lexicon is the use of the phrase enslaved person for the more succinct slave . Supposedly, ...

With another election behind us, I have been planning to write one or more essays promoting and analyzing ranked choice voting. I have long ...

 On September 16, 2001, I wrote an essay titled “ What’s in a Name .” That essay considered the meaning of the events of September 11, 2001....

 Where should I start? Today held much promise. It seemed likely that two Democrats had won senatorial elections in Georgia, thereby giving ...

 I listened to an NPR report this morning about the difficulty of providing COVID-19 vaccines. Of course, different localities are encounte...

Today is the first day of a new year—2021. The greeting “Happy New Year” carries more meaning now than in most years. We leave behind what ...

This is the time when pundits review the year that is about to end, offer lessons learned, and opine about what is to come. There are many l...

 Last week, a visitor found a set of keys on the driveway as she was leaving. The keyring held two keys—one was assuredly a house key—and a ...

The authorities in Washington, D.C., said on Sunday that they had arrested a man in connection with the stabbing of four people on Saturday ...

 Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. The election was not close, and there is no evidence that the contest was other than perf...

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...