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About Ronald E. Yates
Author, former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and Dean & Professor Emeritus of the College of Media at the University of Illinois, his acclaimed works are now available through this site.
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California Dreamin’ or California Nightmare?
Like hundreds of thousands of other Californians, I am about to lose representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. That will occur if voters decide this November 4 to accept Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “Election Rigging Response ” scheme to undermine California’s independent Citizens Redistricting Commission and gerrymander congressional district maps …
By Hoping Trump Fails, Democrats are in Fact Hoping the Country Fails
One early summer day in 1959, when I was about 14, I was working on my cousin’s farm in Kansas, loading hay bales. After maybe two hours of heaving 60-pound alfalfa bales onto a flatbed trailer as it was pulled along by a Farmall IH tractor, we took a break. …
My War Against Communism: Was it all for Naught?
When I was in the U.S. Army in the 1960s, one of the most persistent exhortations from my superiors was: “The only good communist is a dead communist.” Our job, we were told during basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, and even during my advanced training in signals intelligence …
The Legacy Media’s Bias of Omission & the Flap Over “Jeanetics”
Most of us are aware of the kind of anti-Trump propaganda the legacy media loves to disgorge. It’s easy to spot and just as easy to refute. What’s not so easy is when the media ignore stories or events that may reflect positively on Donald Trump, Republicans, conservatives, or anybody …
An Invitation to Read Chapter 10 of the Award-Winning “Finding Billy Battles” Series
Dear Reader, For the past several weeks, I have been sharing, at no cost, several chapters of Book #1 in the Finding Billy Battles series on Substack. It was a way for me to introduce readers to the three-book series. Today, my experiment in book marketing will end with Chapter …
Tomorrow, Read Chapter 10 of the Award-Winning “Finding Billy Battles” Series–Gratis
Dear Reader, For the past several weeks, I have been sharing, at no cost, several chapters of Book #1 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy on Substack. It was a way for me to introduce readers to the three-book series. Tomorrow, my experiment in book marketing will end with Chapter …
An Invitation to Read Chapters 8 & 9 of Book #1 in the Award-Winning “Finding Billy Battles” Series
Dear Reader, Today and every Saturday for the next few weeks, I will be sharing, at no cost, several chapters of Book #1 in the Finding Billy Battles series on Substack. My objective in writing the Finding Billy Battles series was to tell a compelling story by weaving fact and …
Tomorrow Read Chapters 8 & 9 of the Award-Winning “Finding Billy Battles” Series–Gratis
Dear Reader, Tomorrow and every week for the next few weeks, I will be sharing, at no cost, several chapters of Book #1 in the Finding Billy Battles series on Substack. My objective in writing the Finding Billy Battles series was to tell a compelling story by weaving fact and …
Not my Father’s (or my Mother’s) Democratic Party
My parents were lifelong Democrats. My mother sometimes volunteered at polling stations during primary and general elections. My father, a lifelong salesman with a great gift of gab, occasionally canvassed for various Democratic candidates. That’s saying a lot considering that I grew up in Kansas, which once upon a time …
An Invitation to Read Chapters 6 & 7 of Book #1 in the Award-Winning “Finding Billy Battles” Series
Dear Reader, Today and every Saturday for the next few weeks, I will be sharing, at no cost, several chapters of Book #1 in the Finding Billy Battles series on Substack. My objective in writing the Finding Billy Battles series was to tell a compelling story by weaving fact and …
Tomorrow Read Chapters 6 & 7 of the Award-Winning “Finding Billy Battles” Series–Gratis
Dear Reader, Tomorrow and every week for the next few weeks, I will be sharing, at no cost, several chapters of Book #1 in the Finding Billy Battles series on Substack. My objective in writing the Finding Billy Battles series was to tell a compelling story by weaving fact and …
Are Communists about to control America’s three largest Cities?
If Muslim communist Zohran Mamdani wins New York City’s mayoral election in November, it will mean that for the first time in history, America’s three biggest cities (New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) will be governed by communist mayors. The other two communist mayors are Brandon Johnson of Chicago and …
