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Trump Sucker Punches Catholic Conservatives – Twice.

Mike Magee If there is one thing we Catholic kids learned in what we used to call “Parochial School” was the look and feel of  “schoolyard bullies.” They were recognizable from a distance and you gave them plenty of space because they were unpredictable. You could be standing there doing nothing, and the next thing […]

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The Meaning of “Memorial Day” in 2025.

Mike Magee According to Veterans Administration historians, one claim on the origin of Memorial Day dates back to 1864 when three women from Boalsburg, Pennsylvania joined in grief to decorate the graves of family members who had died in the Civil War. A year later, other townspeople joined in and one year later, in 1866, […]

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The “Pursuit of Blessedness” Is Running Out Of Time.

Mike Magee Nine months ago, during the Presidential debate, Trump declared, when questioned directly about the Project 2025’s  “Mandate for Leadership, “I know nothing about it.” Even for Trump, this was a strikingly bald-faced lie considering that the former President’s name was mentioned over 300 times in the 887 page document.  Described at the time […]

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The Pope’s Algebra Lesson – Health, Politics, and Religion.

Mike Magee Algebra came to life last week when Trump/Musk’s dismantling of our federal health services collided with the dramatic election of our first ever American Pope. As Health, Politics, and Religion collided, we saw the Transitive Property of Equality (If A=B, and B=C, then A=C) spring back to life for the first time since […]

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The Day a Republican Senator Stood Up For Democracy and Against a Malignant Bully.

Mike Magee This past week, Trump’s posting of himself as The Pope surfaced once again David French’s classic Christmas, 2024, New York Times column titled “Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel?” As I wrote at the time, “French and his wife and three children have experienced the cruelty first hand since he openly expressed […]

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“What would FDR do if faced with Trump and Vance and Musk?”

Mike Magee Children of this era, decades from now, will recall a pandemic and their experiences with vaccines, in the same manner as citizens of my age recall the polio vaccine campaigns in the 1950’s. While my generation was less informed on the science than our counterparts today, we had three advantages: National administrative leadership […]

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The Birth of Immunology

Mike Magee The field of Immunology is little more than a half-century old and still shrouded in a remarkable degree of mystery. Even describing what we do know is a complex challenge. One way to proceed is to climb the scaffolding provided by the wide array of Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine over the […]

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