Government Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/government/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 07 Dec 2024 13:54:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Government Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/government/ 32 32 Approving Trump’s Cabinet https://mind-at-work.com/approving-trumps-cabinet/ Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:17:54 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6085 The 2024 Presidential election is now over, the new president has announced his choices for Cabinet positions, and members of the U.S. Senate are considering which of those choices they will approve and which they will disapprove. Theoretically, the senators make their decisions solely on whether the candidates are qualified to hold the respective positions. [...]

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]]> Is the First Amendment in Jeopardy? https://mind-at-work.com/is-the-first-amendment-in-jeopardy/ Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:28:38 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6044 The First Amendment of the U.S. constitution is as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." [...]

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]]> The Soros Effect https://mind-at-work.com/the-soros-effect/ Sat, 11 May 2024 12:40:59 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5903 George Soros is a controversial financier accused by conservatives of undermining entire economies and defended by progressives as a misunderstood philanthropist. Born in Hungary, his Jewish family escaped Hitler's concentration camps and settled first in England and later in the U.S. His "daring investment decisions" in world-wide hedge-funds made him a multi-billionaire. He was later [...]

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]]> Reconsidering Trump https://mind-at-work.com/reconsidering-trump/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 12:07:29 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5082 The word sanctimonious means “making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness.” Its synonyms include phony, insincere, deceitful, fake. Simply said, to be sanctimonious is to lack genuineness, honesty, sincerity. Two days before the 2022 election, Donald Trump used that word to describe Florida governor Ron DeSantis, the most acclaimed governor in the country [...]

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]]> The Mental Whiplash Epidemic https://mind-at-work.com/the-mental-whiplash-epidemic/ Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:21:36 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4569 A condition best termed “mental whiplash” is approaching epidemic proportions in the United States. It is called this because of its similarity to the condition that occurs when a driving accident violently shakes the heads of its victims. The numbers of the infected vary among age groups: few if any among grade and middle school [...]

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