Project 2025: Cheat Sheet for Tonight’s Debate.

Mike Magee Donald Trump says he’s never heard of Project 2025. Denials aside, expect the term Project 2025 to come up multiple times in this evening’s debate. But you are less likely to hear the name Kevin Roberts. He’s been president of the Heritage Foundation, and the voice for Project 2025 until it became too […]

What Are the Harris-Walz Health Policy Team Reading?

Mike Magee Clearly the Harris-Walz ticket has been doing their homework. Last week, this book was spotted on one prominent thought-leader’s pile: “Human Evolutionary Demography.” It’s a 780-page academic Tour de force led by veteran scientist Oskar Burger, leader of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Laboratory of Evolutionary Biodemography. That’s the […]

Dobbs’ Created “Moral Distress” – Country Responds “We’re Not Going Back!”

Mike Magee When Andrew Jameton, a Nursing Professor at the Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing at UCSFin 1984 published “Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues”, the term “Moral Distress” was a novel term in clinical health care. It focused primarily on “care that they were expected to provide but ethically opposed.” Over the past […]

“Weird” – Culture and Technology and Politics Collide.

Mike Magee “It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it,” was an admonition I heard literally hundreds of times growing up. The source was my mother who majored in English and Drama at Rutgers. She was especially tuned in, not only to words and meaning, but also to volume, cadence, speed, and tone. […]

“I Understand The Assignment”: The Case of Justice Tom Parker.

Mike Magee Without hyperbole, Project 2025 feels similar to Germany in the early 1930’s. Their website introduction reads: “It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to […]

U.S. Presidents and Vice-Presidents Are Never Immune From Danger – Political Or Otherwise.

Mike Magee This has been a disorienting period of mixed messages when it comes to the highest offices of the land. Just two weeks ago on July 1, 2024, a majority of the Supreme Court decided to expand Presidential immunity for criminal malfeasance to former President Trump who had so severely tarnished the post on […]

“Off the Record, Mike, What’s Pelosi Doing in a Few Bullet Points?”

An imagined conversation drawn from a compilation of real discussions with multiple individuals that occurred over the prior 48 hours. Mike Magee ______________________________________________________________________ OK. But not to be attributed to me. Speaker Emerita Pelosi this morning (on MSNBC) signaled the timing (after the NATO summit) and outcome (Biden pulls out of the campaign) for the […]

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