Biden Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/biden/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:54:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Biden Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/biden/ 32 32 Trump or Biden? A Not So Difficult Choice https://mind-at-work.com/trump-or-biden-a-not-so-difficult-choice/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:12:56 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5504 The early phases of the 2024 Presidential campaign are well underway and barring unforeseen events, the final faceoff will be between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Both candidates are known to all Americans. But the truth of what is known varies considerably, mainly because media coverage has bent over backward to depict Biden as a [...]

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]]> When the President Met the Pope https://mind-at-work.com/when-the-president-met-the-pope/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:43:51 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4658 On November 1, All Saints Day, the Catholic News Service reported on President Biden’s visit with Pope Francis. I’ll begin with a background note, then examine what the participants said about the meeting, and, finally, consider what message it sent to Catholics in America and people around the world. Background: President Biden has been strongly [...]

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]]> President Biden’s Foolish Refusal to Learn https://mind-at-work.com/president-bidens-foolish-refusal-to-learn/ Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:15:20 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4443 If we learn from our experience, we are considered intelligent. If we learn from our experience and other people’s as well, we are considered highly intelligent. If we learn from neither, we are considered stupid. The term is cruel when applied to those who lack cognitive capacity, but perfectly appropriate to describe those who have that [...]

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]]> The Devil Was in the Election Details https://mind-at-work.com/the-devil-was-in-the-election-details/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 15:41:19 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4327 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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]]> Let Catholic Voters Beware https://mind-at-work.com/let-catholic-voters-beware/ Sat, 12 Sep 2020 14:48:49 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4076 The article is titled  Trump or Biden? What’s a Catholic voter to do? and the author is Thomas Reese, an accomplished Jesuit priest. Depending in large part on one’s experience with Jesuit writings, one might expect either a profoundly meaningful discussion of the issue or, in contrast, a crafty, evasive, deceptive one. (The latter characteristics are [...]

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