Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Although it seems as though the 2024 presidential election has been going on for a long time, we don’t even know the names of all the major ...

This paragraph led off a story from The Times of Israel  a few days ago: Responding to the ICJ [International Court of Justice] ruling that...

I was driving from Clifton Springs to Geneva yesterday when I heard on the radio that President Biden had decided to end his re-election bid...

President Biden held a news conference tonight at the conclusion of the NATO meeting in Washington, D.C. He faced reporters for about an hou...

The picture above was taken at sunset from the solarium of the Spa Apartments. I have taken to going upstairs as the sun sets to enjoy the e...

 President Biden was interviewed earlier today by George Stephanopoulos, and the 22-minute unedited interchange was broadcast on ABC Televis...

In light of Joe Biden’s appalling performance in the June 27 debate, Democrats are struggling with whether Biden should remain the party’s s...

Given the Supreme Court’s immunity decision today, it looks as though Biden can have a Seal Team assassinate Donald Trump. As long as the pl...

I have added the sonnet below to my 26 poems of A Trump Alphabet . And there you have the ABCs Of an American political offender, A felon ex...

For a long time, I have been working on a project called “ A Trump Alphabet ,” a collection of 26 poems based on properties of the former pr...

Clifton Springs, New York, has too few restaurants. Before I moved here in 2022, there was a Chinese restaurant on Main Street, a short walk...

For a long time, I was pictured on my blog in a cream-colored hat I liked very much. I discovered that my friends associated that hat with m...

News organizations are careful to avoid suggesting the guilt of persons not convicted in a court of law. Thus, news reports often refer to “...

A far-right Supreme Court today invalidated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives rule against bump stocks. The rule had...

The big news from the Gaza war is that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have freed four hostages presumed to be held by Hamas. That operati...

The photo on the left was taken from my bed yesterday (Wednesday). It shows a refrigerator parked just inside the door of my bedroom. There...

There has long been uncertainty as to how much integrity we should attribute to erstwhile U.N. ambassador and presidential primary candidate...

Things have not gone well in the cooking department this week. Two days ago I was baking banana bread for yesterday’s coffee hour at the Cli...

Louisiana is about to enact a law  mandating that the Ten Commandments—a specified version of them—be posted in every Louisiana school class...

I’ve lived through the Civil Rights movement and the Women’s movement, each of which achieved successes though neither achieved all its goal...