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Revisiting “Death by a Thousand Slurs”

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 13:49:01 +0000

I published "Death by a Thousand Slurs" on January 10th, 2018. It focused on Trump's performance during his first year in office and the media's response. Now, over five years later, I am revisiting that essay because doing so underscores how the media's hate-driven delusion has contributed to America's dramatic social decline. Here is that [...]

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Catholic Bishops’ Response to Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:35:52 +0000

President Biden has made clear his belief that everyone has a moral obligation to receive the Covid vaccine. The refusal of many citizens to act accordingly has, in his view, put the health of many Americans at risk. He therefore signed an executive order mandating that businesses with more than 100 employees ensure that all [...]

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The Victims of Hatred

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:48:34 +0000

I recently examined the source of the hatred that has metastasized in America in recent years, and I found it to be the media’s abandonment of journalistic standards. First, they mixed opinion with news, next they made their opinions an official narrative and ignored competing views, then they demonized and silenced those that embraced such [...]

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The Bishops’ Flawed View of Racial Problems

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:15:15 +0000

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and individual dioceses were quick to respond to the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protest demonstrations. One striking feature of many of those responses is their well-meaning but badly flawed view of racism. Let’s examine what they said and did, starting with the statement of my diocese [...]

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The Challenge of Healing America

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:13:53 +0000

Throughout Election Day I suffered from what might be termed anticipatory depression. I dreaded that the outcome shamefully engineered by the mainstream media and carelessly prophesied by most pollsters—the election of Hillary Rodham Clinton—would come to pass. I told myself that the voters would surely see through the incessant demonization of Trump and the absurd [...]

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