Playing Ball In Health Politics

Mike Magee The massive extension of tax cuts to the super-wealthy and financing of ICE-laced terrorism of immigrants doesn’t come cheap. The Kaiser Family Foundation predicts it will expand the nation’s debt ceiling by $5 trillion and add 17 million to the ranks of the uninsured by 2034. And a big part […]

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 […]

The Texas Flood Disaster – Not “An Act of God.”

Mike Magee In the wake of last week’s human tragedy in Texas, it would be easy (and appropriate) to focus on the role played by Trump’s reckless recent dismantling of FEMA and related federal agencies. But to do so would be to accept that the event was an anomaly, or as Trump labeled it on […]

Stand Tall Stanford. Lead Again – Divest TESLA!

Mike Magee On the Stanford campus this Spring, in the middle of Silicon Valley, it was impossible not to hear echoes of Apartheid re-emerging with force 3/4 of a century after the original battle for social justice here and in far away lands was fully engaged. Stanford’s President, Jonathan Levin, said it best in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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