The Un-civil War at HHS

Mike Magee The Health and Human Services department (HHS) includes in its dominion the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is fair to say that their new leader, RFK Jr. is not a wallflower. In June, the FDA led the news with […]

Not to worry . . . it’s just an “haboob.”

Mike Magee We awakened this morning to learn that there is a new word we Americans must learn if we wish our children and grandchildren to breathe healthy air in their near future. It is haboob. According to the National Weather Service, haboob is “an intense, fast-moving wall of dust kicked up by thunderstorm […]

Measles Vaccine – Misremembering, Forgetting, and Deceiving.

Mike Magee If there were a contest for longest titles for a small piece of art, surely Belgian artist Rene’ Magritte’s “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. would be a contender. Despite the 26 word […]

“Lead Us To The Saving Of Our Country.” – FDR

Mike Magee When the Depression struck, he was 5 years old. Simultaneously, the great dust storms arrived. John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” immortalized the travails of the Joad family from Oklahoma, tenant farmers trapped in the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck could have easily substituted the family with this boy, who remembered years later, “The dust […]

Zohran Mumdani Triggers NYC Memories of Fiorello La Guardia

Mike Magee What are the chances that citizens of New York, the largest city in the nation, would vote in a majority to oppose a formerly corrupt politician with a party machine behind him, and instead favor a little known candidate – the son of immigrant parents with “swarthy skin and belligerent independence,” from a […]