“America Was a Providential Fact” – Did Tocqueville Get It Right?

Mike Magee We find ourselves in the middle of America’s most important religious, political, and economic holiday. The current Administration has made a point of pushing the envelope toward state sponsored religion for example with this official Homeland Security greeting on their X platform: “Christ is Born! We are blessed to share a nation and […]

A “Policy Induced Downturn” Hits The Hoosier State.

Mike Magee In his classic review of the famous movie, “The Hoosiers,” Roger Ebert writes, “This is a movie about a tiny Indiana high school that sends a team all the way to the state basketball finals in the days when schools of all sizes played in the same tournaments and a David could […]

Why President George H. W. Bush “froze out” Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.

Mike Magee For the past seven years the AIDS epidemic had raged throughout America. One year earlier, an AIDS activist group had coalesced in Greenwich Village, New York. They called themselves ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). They were largely HIV-positive individuals who were fed up with being given the cold shoulder by government […]

Koop’s Ghost of Christmas Past Haunts RFK Jr.

Mike Magee The Ghost of Christmas Past, in the form of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, has returned this season to torture one RFK Jr who refuses to fully share life saving vaccines with children. In the encounter, the ghostly Koop reviews a time 37 years ago when citizens came together to celebrate separating […]

“Talking Smart and Telling Lies.”

Mike Magee On the back end of Thanksgiving celebrations with family, and in a reflective mood, I came across a United Methodist Insight publication from a year ago with the title “Remembering Big Lies Told at Church Pancake Suppers.” It was written by John Sumwalt, a retired United Methodist Pastor from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. In […]