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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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Is Inspiring the Assassination of Donald Trump a Democrat Campaign Strategy?
Here we go again. Another attempt to assassinate Donald Trump. 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?” Will they and their sycophants in the corrupt state-run media cease with their endless lies …
Why US Military Recruitment is Perilously Low
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. According to Military.com, an online site for news and information about the U.S. military, the U.S. Army failed to reach its recruitment goals …
Why do Americans overestimate the size & power of minority groups?
From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much more prominent to many Americans. Why? Part of the answer is attributable to the media—news and entertainment. Have you noticed, for example, that in almost EVERY film and EVERY commercial, there MUST be at least one or two of …
General George A. Patton Pursues Pancho Villa: An Excerpt from the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy
What follows is a little more shameless self-promotion. It’s an excerpt from my Finding Billy Battles Trilogy that I posted a while back. I hope you will enjoy it, and naturally, I hope it will inspire those of you who have not yet read the trilogy to do so. I …
Why Journalists Risk Their Lives: It’s Part of the Job
Why Journalists Risk Their Lives: It’s Part of the Job Nobody ever said doing good journalism is easy–or safe. In fact, reporters and photographers who have spent significant time covering war, revolution, political upheaval, and natural disasters are keenly aware that when they arrive in war-ravaged places like Ukraine, Iraq, …
A Little Shameless Self-Promotion: Three Reviews of the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy
For most of my professional life, I worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. I feel privileged to have been a journalist during one of that newspaper’s golden eras—from about 1969 to 1997 when I left to teach journalism as a professor and dean at the …
The Biden-Harris War on Women Loses Crucial Title IX Battle
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. The Biden-Harris Title IX expansion would have opened the doors …
Komrad Kamala’s Idiotic Plan to Create a Soviet-style Managed Economy in America
Kamala Harris wants to implement federal price controls on groceries and other items Americans spend their hard-earned money on. She wants to give first-time homebuyers $25,000 to afford a starter home and give families earning $50,000 or less a $6,000 income tax credit for each minor child. She wants to …
A Few Thoughts About the Paris Olympic Games
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. Yes, America amassed 126 medals, 40 of which were gold. I am proud of those athletes. They performed at the highest levels. Good …
Don’t let Kamala Fool You: She is an Unabashed Marxist
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. Don’t let them hoodwink you. The facts say otherwise, no matter how much gaslighting Kamala’s leftist handlers attempt …
Kamala Harris & Tim Walz: The Two Marxists Who Want to Rule America
When I joined the U.S. Army in the 1960s, we were told our job was to defeat communism—specifically, the kind practiced in the old Soviet Union. After almost a year of specialized top-secret training, I was assigned to a specialized detachment of the Army Security Agency in West Germany. Our …
Can This Country Return to Old-School Journalism?
A few days ago, Laura Hollis, a friend and former faculty colleague from my days as a professor and dean at the University of Illinois, contacted me. Today, Laura is a professor at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, where she teaches business law, among other subjects. She was …
