America Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/america/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:05:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png America Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/america/ 32 32 The Story Is Much Bigger Than It Seems https://mind-at-work.com/the-story-is-much-bigger-than-it-seems/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:03:51 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6130 The story is that Mark Zuckerberg's parent company Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, has replaced its controversial "fact checking program" with one similar to Elon Musk's program X. Fact checking had been in effect in Meta since 2016 when Trump first became president, and it resulted in hundreds of thousands if not [...]

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]]> The Challenge of Restoring Harmony https://mind-at-work.com/why-restoring-harmony-is-uncertain/ Sat, 23 Nov 2024 14:04:00 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6077 For several years Democrats have warned that Republicans would refuse to accept the outcome of the 2024 election and behave responsibly. Now that the election has come and gone, that warning has proved prophetic. But, wonder of wonders, the resisters have turned out to be the Democrats themselves! The governors of Illinois, Massachusetts, and California [...]

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]]> The Catholic Church and the 2024 Election https://mind-at-work.com/the-catholic-church-and-the-2024-election/ Sat, 09 Nov 2024 13:35:25 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6058 The 2024 presidential election was admirably carried out. Around the nation crowds of voters waited patiently and politely, often in long lines, to add their ballots to those submitted by mail. Observers commented that there seemed to be a strong sense of purpose at work, and the election results proved them right. A majority of [...]

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]]> Donald Trump’s Problem, And Ours https://mind-at-work.com/donald-trumps-problem-and-ours/ Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:39:16 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6004 Donald Trump's problem and the problem of many American voters, though separate, are very much intertwined. Trump's problem is his propensity for stream of consciousness speaking, and it was on full display for much of the September 10th debate with Kamala Harris. The voters' problem is that Trump's speaking mode invites his enemies to lie [...]

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]]> Was America’s Decline Planned? https://mind-at-work.com/was-americas-decline-planned/ Sat, 18 May 2024 15:46:36 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5915 Rodin's The Thinker Given the increasingly destructive things that have been happening in America in recent decades, it is easy to believe that a group of people designed a single master plan to destroy America. However, what actually happened is that two separate plans for destruction were set in motion, and then a [...]

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