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The Devil Was in the Election Details

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 15:41:19 +0000

The scene is a college gymnasium. The visiting team is ahead by ten points with three seconds to play. The home team takes the ball out of bounds . . . then suddenly, the gym goes dark. A few minutes later, the lights go back on, play resumes, the home team shoots and misses. Just as [...]

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Jesuit Pontificating on the Election

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 19:02:46 +0000

Each member of the Society of Jesus completes between eight and seventeen years of advanced education. Not surprisingly, Jesuits were long regarded as intellectually superior, and whenever a group of them offered their consensus view of an issue, people were impressed. Today, alas, thinking people are likely to be depressed. This failure to live up [...]

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Was there Fraud in the Election or Not?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:42:08 +0000

An idea that is highly credible today may be questionable tomorrow and not credible at all the next day, as new information arises. If we value truth we must be alert for such changes, and if we value integrity, we must change our view when the information demands doing so. As I write, an idea [...]

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Jesuits Embarrassing Jesuits

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 14:07:39 +0000

St. Ignatius of Loyola There are fourteen Jesuit priests on the editorial board of America Magazine, each with 11 years of education and training plus a year of formation review. That is a combined 168 years of exposure to the most rigorous and thorough system of cognitive development in history. Thus, whenever such [...]

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Government’s Unintended Consequences

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 12:42:39 +0000

The official summary of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) “does not address every detail of each provision,” yet that summary is almost 11,000 words long. It could have been adequately stated in thirteen words—“A person’s health information cannot be given to others without the person’s permission.” No doubt the authors believed [...]

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