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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.

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

The Pitiful State of America’s News Media

July 13, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates
Mark Twain quote

Consumers of newspapers, network news, and cable news know that most of our media are producing socialist propaganda, not unfiltered and unbiased news.

Categories Biden, Constitution, Culture, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags legacy media, Media, Propaganda 1 Comment

Will the 2024 Democrat National Convention be a Replay of 1968?

July 6, 2024July 6, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

As Mayor and Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee, Daley promised that nothing amiss would occur as thousands of Democratic delegates converged on the Chicago Amphitheater

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

America’s Descent Into an Orwellian Abyss

July 1, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

When it comes to common sense and settled science, we have moved through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole into an alternate reality.

Categories Biden, Culture, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Gaslighting, Government Lies, Lies, Orwell 2 Comments

Do Big Conservative Victories in Europe Foreshadow the U. S. Presidential Election?

June 28, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

A majority of Europeans have spoken vociferously when it comes to preserving their national identities and culture while rejecting mass migration and the unwelcome transformation of their nations.

Categories Biden, Culture, Elections, Foreign News/Policy, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Euro-Conservatism, europe 4 Comments

The First Presidential Debate Will Be a Minefield for Trump

June 27, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

If anybody believes this debate will be moderated fairly, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I would like to sell to you.

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

When Does a Generation Gap Become a Generational Canyon? (Part 2)

June 25, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

Generation gaps have no doubt existed on this planet since the first homo sapiens appeared about 200,000 years ago. However, the drastic differences that the term implies were not much in evidence until the twentieth century.

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

When Does a Generation Gap Become a Generational Canyon? (Part 1)

June 24, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

This is the first in a 2-part series on how generation gaps can become generational canyons when it comes to building wealth for our progeny

Categories Culture, Economy, Education, Family, Government, History, Lifestyle, Politics, Society, U.S. News/Policy Tags economy, Experiences vs Assets, Socialism, Wealth Leave a comment

Lawfare & the Persecution of the Political Opposition

June 21, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

For the first time in American history, a sitting president has approved and presided over the prosecution and conviction of his chief political rival

Categories Biden, Culture, Elections, Government, History, Media, Politics 1 Comment

The First Casualty in War, is the Truth

May 23, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates
Communist China

There is an old saw about warfare; that the first casualty is always the truth. Both the UN and Hamas have confirmed that.

Categories Biden, Foreign News/Policy, Government, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Hamas Propaganda, Propaganda, War 1 Comment

Long Ago, & Far Away in a Land that Time Forgot

May 18, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

The 1950s were a more congenial and safer time to be a kid than it is today. There was no Internet or social media to bully and insult us.

Categories Culture, History, Media Tags Cultural Decline, Culture 3 Comments

The Demise of The Boy Scouts of America

May 15, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

The woke kingpins who control the Boy Scouts USA, decided this week to take the “Boy” out of Boy Scouts and change its name to “Scouting America.”

Categories Culture, History, Media Tags American Institutions, Boy Scouts, Institutional Decline, Long March 6 Comments

Should America Scrap the Electoral College?

May 11, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

With the 2024 presidential election less than six months away, squabbles about how Americans elect their president have begun anew.

Categories Biden, Elections, History, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags Electoral College, Popular Vote, Voting 2 Comments

China’s Undeclared War on America

May 10, 2024May 10, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

In case anybody in Washington is interested—and that includes our feckless, unwitting president—China is at war with America.

Categories Biden, Culture, Government, History, Media, U.S. News/Policy Tags China, China Military, Chinese Aggression 1 Comment

Let’s call the Goons Attacking Jewish Students what they are: Resurrected Nazis

April 29, 2024 by Ronald E. Yates

In the 1930s, Nazi thugs rampaged across Germany, attacking Jews and blaming them for the ills of the world.

Categories Culture, History, Media, Politics, U.S. News/Policy Tags anti-Semitism, Hamas Supporters, NAZIs, Student Protests Leave a comment
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