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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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Artificial Intelligence: The Final Nail in Journalism’s Coffin?
Once upon a time, newspapers and magazines were physical products you flipped through as you read them—not microelectronic cybernetic versions of themselves that you squinted at on a cell phone or other hand-held wireless device. You could pick up, fold, and stick newspapers and magazines into a briefcase or backpack. …
Restrictive Rules of Engagement + Women in Combat = Disaster
NOTE: I wrote the following post in 2015 as America was heavily involved in its war with the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Obama administration was hell-bent on its social engineering campaign of the U.S. military—namely, the inexplicable determination by military brass to insert women into combat. As you will …
Marxist Tactics Exposed: Beware of BLAFIWHIMPs!
Today, I am turning over my blog to former California State legislator Steve Baldwin. Steve is an astute political observer and author who served as Executive Director of the Council for National Policy in Washington D.C. FYI, this Steve Baldwin is NOT the younger brother of ultra-liberal actor Alec Baldwin. …
Thoughts about America: the Angry, the Miserable, the Suicidal
We hear a lot today about fake news in America. But what about “fake journalists?” Watch television, cable, or surf the Internet, and we see a profusion of talking heads, political pundits, academics, bloggers, and news aggregators out there masquerading as journalists. Unfortunately, too many people can’t distinguish between skilled professional …
Happy Veterans Day to my Fellow Vets
Today is Veterans Day. Given that only 7 percent of the people of this nation have ever put on a uniform–including those currently serving–I am not sure many Americans have any idea why Veterans Day is a holiday. Yes, it means schools and most government offices are closed. But it …
The U.S. Should Exit the U.N. & Evict it from New York
In high school, I joined something called Model United Nations, which was a simulation of UN organizations, including the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, UNICEF, UNHCR, etc. As with many of my altruistic teenage peers, we thought the United Nations was a worthy organization, and the Model UN …
Are American College Students Today’s Neo-Nazi Brown Shirts?
In the 1920s, as Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party, otherwise known as Nazis, was gaining political and social power, its brown-shirted paramilitary wing called the Sturmabteilung (SA) was busy marching and demonstrating in cities and university campuses. Their main target? Germany’s Jews. I never thought I would see …
Is the World Nearing Armageddon in the Middle East?
The Bible tells us in the Book of Revelation that Armageddon is the place where the forces of evil will converge upon the people of God, with the intent of bringing about their destruction. It is the place of a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and …
As we focus on the Middle East, terrorists are infiltrating the homeland
I believe in the notion that we can learn a lot from history, and if we don’t learn from it, we are condemned to repeat it. So, as Americans are preoccupied with Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists in the Middle East and Israel’s newly declared war on them, I find myself …
Iran is doing what China wants: Creating Chaos in the Middle East
When Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel over the weekend, don’t think for an instant it did so without Iran’s permission—and, by extension, China’s. Our world has suddenly become a much more dangerous place, and no one is happier to see that than dictator-for-life Xi Jinping. The Chinese Communist …
A Dog’s Dinner of Cogitations & Reflections: Vol. IV
Every week, a lot of information and hearsay finds its way to my desk, either from The Internet or via snail mail. It often merely sits there in my computer or on my desk until I delete it or send it into the “round file.” Normally, this material is not …
Donald Trump is Gulliver; Leftists are Lilliputians
Today, I am turning my blog over to Mike Ford, founder and managing editor of the American Free News Network https://afnn.us/ to which I am a contributor. Mike is also a former U.S. Army Colonel and US Military Academy graduate (class of 1980). In today’s post, Mike looks at the …
