“We The People.”

Comments are encouraged. To contribute a comment, click on word “comments” above. ——————————————————————————————————- Mike Magee With the 2024 Presidential election four weeks away, I continue to struggle with the fact that up to 75 million of our fellow citizens may vote for Trump. On the surface, it feels like a broad recrimination of the goodness […]

The Silicon Curtain Is Fast Descending On Our Democracy.

Comments are encouraged. To contribute a comment, click on word “comments” or “no comments” above. ——————————————————————————————————— Mike Magee Whether you’re talking health, environment, technology or politics, the common denominator these days appears to be information. And the injection of AI, not surprisingly, has managed to reinforce our worst fears about information overload and misinformation. As […]

Jimmy Kimmel (Practically) Says It Out Loud: “Trump is mentally ill.”

Jimmy Kimmel and Donald Trump don’t get along. A back and forth about the viability of Trump’s Truth Social site has been the stuff of legends. But Sunday night, the 96th Academy of Awards host might as well have informed his worldwide audience: “Donald Trump is mentally ill. Say it out loud!” As the Awards […]

Don’t Panic. This Is Democracy.

Mike Magee Shock and dismay were once again in the air this week as Donald Trump did his best to be thrown out of the courtroom in New York City during his unrequested attendance at his second Jean Carroll libel trial. But as an engaged citizen, I thank the former President for crash testing our […]

Another Turn of the 25th Amendment – And Still Not The Answer For Trump’s Mental Illness.

Mike Magee On May 16, 2017 New York Times conservative columnist, Russ Douthat, wrote “The 25th Amendment Solution for Removing Trump.” That column was the starting point for a Spring course I taught on the 25th Amendment at the President’s College in Hartford, CT. I will not summarize the entire course here, but would like […]

A Speech For The Ages – 83 Christmases Ago.

Mike Magee On the evening of December 29, 1940, with election to his 3rd term as President secured, FDR delivered these words as part of his sixteenth “Fireside Chat”: “There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness…No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.” Millions of Americans, and millions of Britains were […]

The 1 Question Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Should Ask Tonight.

Mike Magee This evening, the Republican Party will sponsor their first Primary Debate. It will be historic in featuring the absence of their lead contender for the 2024 Presidential campaign, a candidate who appears committed to the destruction of his own political party Events over the past year clearly have confirmed that we are a […]

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