Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

The Second Amendment, at least insofar as it has been interpreted by the Supreme Court and has been treated as a political third rail by Con...

The lawn of Christ Episcopal Church in Indiana, Pennsylvania, hosts two sets of crosses today. On one side of the entrance are crosses repre...

Pre-COVID—will that become a common period designation?—I regularly attended the free wine tastings at a local liquor store. (For non-Pennsy...

Seldom do I miss an episode of American Experience  on PBS. These programs provide insights into both well-known and obscure corners of Amer...

Yesterday’s school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, coming as it did on the heels of the supermarket massacre in Buffalo, New York, made me sadder...

My post A Comprehensive Examination of the Abortion Question is admittedly lengthy. Realizing this, I thought it would be helpful to offer ...

People in hundreds of cities and towns were marching for abortion rights today. Indiana, Pennsylvania, is not a city large enough to rival t...

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, trying to counter the outrage over the possible overruling of Roe v. Wade , dismissed the fact that,...

It used to be common for proponents of legal abortion to assert that the procedure should be “safe, legal, and rare.” The word “rare” was me...

I am feeling overwhelmed by the multitude of stories about what life in the United States will be like if Roe v. Roe  is overturned. I keep ...

What follows is a minor revision of an essay first written last December and subjected to minor changes a few days later. Given the precari...

I heard a brief item on the radio today. It concerned the Pittsburgh public schools. The reporter wanted to communicate the fact that most t...

I first encountered Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” in high school. It is an excellent piece of literature to study, ...