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Assessing the Trump Presidency

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:52:59 +0000

Few reporters and commentators offer fair assessments of the Trump presidency. Liberals generally ignore the positive and focus exclusively on the negative. If they can’t find anything negative, they spin achievements into failures, virtues into vices. Conservatives tend to do the opposite—focus on the positive and ignore the negative or, worse, defend it. What is [...]

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The Age of the Double Standard

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:42:54 +0000

Applying a double standard means minimizing or overlooking the lapses in logic or ethics of people we like or agree with, while magnifying those of people we dislike or disagree with. Logic condemns double standards because they constitute unsound thinking; ethics condemns them because of their unfairness. Unfortunately, double standards are so common that they [...]

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How Charitable Are the Candidates?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 18:20:05 +0000

In evaluating political candidates, it is helpful to determine how closely their actions match their words. In the matter of overcoming poverty, for example, Democrats believe governmental programs are necessary whereas Republicans believe private charities such as churches are more effective. We would therefore expect Republican candidates to give more of their personal income to [...]

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