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Ronald E. Yates

Ron Yates is a US Army veteran and author of historical fiction novels. Before turning to fiction he was an award-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois where he was also the Dean of the College of Media.

Jogging With the Greatest

November 16, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

Now that the election is over (at least I hope so) I thought it might be a good idea to post something that, as they used to say on the old Monte Python TV show, is “completely different.”

Categories Culture, History, Media, U.S. News/Policy Leave a comment

The Mainstream Media are in a Financial and Credibility Tailspin

November 14, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

Newspapers are losing record print circulation, morning and nightly network news shows are hemorrhaging viewers, and cable news outlets are losing audiences at a record rate. So what’s going on?

Categories Culture, Government, History, Media, Politics Tags fake news, Legacy Press, Media, Press 1 Comment

Trump Won: Let the Corrupt Media & Backbiting Bureaucratic Assaults Begin

November 13, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

Unfortunately, Trump’s arduous election campaign will perhaps be the easiest thing he does during the next four years.

Categories Biden, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Leave a comment

Great Leader Gavin Newsom Bans Satire in the People’s Republic of Kalifornia

October 21, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

The world has long known that communist despots have very thin skins and do not like it when the unwashed proletariat pokes fun at them or their tyrannical minions.

Categories Constitution, Culture, Elections, Government, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Newsom 1 Comment

Why Freedom of Speech Matters

October 18, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

At a recent Donald Trump political rally, Elon Musk took the stage and, in a few masterful words, explained why the 2024 presidential election is so critically important.

Categories Biden, Constitution, Culture, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics Tags Censorship, Free Speech Leave a comment

GOP RINOs Endorse Kackling Kamala Harris & Tampon Tim Walz

October 5, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

I am sorry to report that three prominent GOP RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) from my home state of Kansas have defected to the two Marxist Democrats who want to seize the White House on November 5th.

Categories Constitution, Elections, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Republican DXeserters, RINOs 3 Comments

Vance Waltzes Past Walz

October 4, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

For the most part, the partizan CBS duo gave Walz a leftist tongue bath while peppering Vance with questions designed to rattle and cower him. It didn’t work.

Categories Biden, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Vance-Walz Leave a comment

Is Inspiring the Assassination of Donald Trump a Democrat Campaign Strategy?

September 21, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates
Butler, PA was first assassination attempt

I wonder what it will take before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stop calling the former president a “threat to democracy” and a potential “dictator?”

Categories Culture, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags #Trump Assassination Attempt, Trump Assassination Leave a comment

Why US Military Recruitment is Perilously Low

September 20, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

During her debate with Donald Trump, Kamala Harris insisted that the Biden administration had done an excellent job supporting and managing America’s military. The facts say otherwise.

Categories Biden, Culture, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Military Recruiting 3 Comments

Why do Americans overestimate the size & power of minority groups?

September 18, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much more prominent to many Americans. Why?

Categories Biden, Culture, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy 1 Comment

Lieutenant George S. Patton Pursues Pancho Villa

September 7, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

Before World War II fame, Patton was part of the 1916 U.S. Army “Punitive Expedition” into Mexico to capture and punish Mexican revolutionary rebel Pancho Villa,

Categories Culture, Foreign News/Policy, History, Media Tags history, Mexico Expedition, Patton Leave a comment

The Biden-Harris War on Women Loses Crucial Title IX Battle

August 26, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates
Supreme Court

Men who declare they are women got a kick in the groin from the Supreme Court this week. Specifically, in a 5-4 decision, the Court stopped the administration’s absurd effort to expand protections under Title IX to include transgender students.

Categories Biden, Culture, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags NCAA, Title IX, Womens sports Leave a comment

Komrad Kamala’s Idiotic Plan to Create a Soviet-style Managed Economy in America

August 24, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

Kamala Harris wants to fix prices on groceries and several other items Americans spend their hard-earned money on.

Categories Biden, Culture, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy 2 Comments

Kamala Harris & Tim Walz: The Two Marxists Who Want to Rule America

August 21, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates
Harris/Walz: Continuing Biden/Harris America Last Agenda

It is bitterly disappointing to me (and perhaps to other military veterans) that the Democratic Party is now trying to elect two anti-American Marxists as President and Vice President.

Categories Democrats, Elections, U.S. News/Policy Tags #Harris/Walz Leave a comment

A Few Thoughts About the Paris Olympic Games

August 17, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are over, and now that I have had a moment to evaluate them, I figure it’s time to share a few thoughts.

Categories Culture, Foreign News/Policy, History, Media Tags Olympics Leave a comment

Don’t let Kamala Fool You: She is an Unabashed Marxist

August 16, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates
Border Czar Harris' Accomplishments

The Democrats are attempting to gaslight you into believing that Kamala Harris is a moderate—a political creature that has been mostly extinct in the Democrat Party for a couple of decades now.

Categories Biden, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Harris, Leftist 4 Comments

Will 2024 be a Reprise of the Disastrous 1876 Presidential Election?

August 3, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

What a question, you might ask. But let’s look at what happened in 1876, and then you can decide. The political comparisons between 1876 to 2024 are striking

Categories Biden, Constitution, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Election 2024 3 Comments

Kamala Harris: The Untouchable Political Chameleon

July 27, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates
Kamala Harris

In 2020, after Joe Biden announced that Kamala Harris would be his running mate, an ad hoc group of Democratic Party operatives sent an extraordinary memo instructing all news media outlets on how to cover Kamala.

Categories Biden, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Kamala Harris 4 Comments

Did Joe Biden’s Inflammatory Comments Inspire Failed Assassin?

July 20, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

Even after an assassin almost gunned down his number one opponent, Joe Biden doubled down on his insistence that Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy.

Categories Biden, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Biden, Hateful Rhetoric, Rhetoric 1 Comment

Is America on the Cusp of a Second Civil War?

July 18, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

The most controversial movie of 2024 (so far) is the dystopian film “Civil War.” It depicts a politically and socially divided America in the throes of a second civil war.

Categories Biden, Constitution, Culture, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Civil War II 3 Comments
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