The Media Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/the-media/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:54:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png The Media Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/the-media/ 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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]]> Anatomy of a Bizarre Election https://mind-at-work.com/anatomy-of-a-bizarre-election/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 15:48:05 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4235 The 2020 election results won't be final until the ballot challenges and court cases are decided, and the process could be long and involved. Given the information available as I write, the odds favor Biden winning and Trump losing. If this proves to be the case, what will it mean for the country? To begin [...]

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]]> The Favorite Word of Liberals: “Hate” https://mind-at-work.com/the-favorite-word-of-liberals-hate/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:45:40 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3245 “Hate” seems to be the most popular word among liberals. If someone says almost anything about a controversial issue, or even asks a question concerning it, he or she is often accused of being a hater. The latter happened with Judge Jeanine Pirro concerning Congresswoman Ilhar Omar after it was reported that Omar had said, “Israel [...]

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]]> Why Is Socialism So Popular? https://mind-at-work.com/why-is-socialism-so-popular/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 20:19:26 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3146 Socialism has been the rage among intellectual elites for a long time. What was different in 2016 was that it had a strong political candidate, Bernie Sanders, who in a fair Democrat campaign would have beaten Hillary Clinton. But the political enthusiasm for Socialism didn’t end with his loss. Instead it grew to the point [...]

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]]> Restoring Restraint & Civility in America https://mind-at-work.com/restoring-restraint-civility-in-america/ Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:07:03 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2228 Recently, in an essay titled The Root of Violence, I proposed that the solution to the problem of violence is not to deny anyone’s freedom of speech, but to restore the moral context of that freedom—respecting others and exercising restraint and civility regardless of our feelings toward them. Such behavior is not inborn but must [...]

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