Ronald E. Yates 
At a time when prices for everything from eggs to gasoline are high, I thought it might be interesting to share a list of commodities and services that are actually much cheaper than they once were when compared to dollar values and wages in the past. Will this take the …
After spending 13 years as a professor, Department Head, and College Dean at the University of Illinois, I learned a lot about higher education, its benefits, and its faults. Don’t get me wrong. The University of Illinois is a first-rate institution. It is home to world-class faculty and facilities, including …
During my career as a foreign correspondent, I spent a lot of time in what could only be called roach hotels. It wasn’t out of choice but necessity. I often had no option where I slept at night. You were happy to have a roof over your head in war …
Lost among the burst of executive orders emanating from Donald Trump’s felt tip permanent marker was his decision to appoint three iconic actors—Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone—to serve as his special envoys to Hollywood. Their mission, Trump said, is to return Hollywood to its former Golden Age. Restoring …
As promised, on day one of his administration, Donald Trump took pen in hand and signed a mound of executive orders in a flurry of cursive penmanship. Here are my favorites. I hope all will become permanent law someday. Of course, that will be up to Congress. In the meantime, …
Looking back on the last four years, I feel like I have been mucking a giant pile of manure out of a barn. The more I shoveled, the higher the pile of manure got. There didn’t seem to be any end to the execrable crap being dispensed by the Biden …
Today, I am reposting a column by author and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan in which she shares some poignant thoughts about life as we enter the new year. This particular column appeared in her Signposts on the Wisdom Trail column. As for me, I will return to posting …
Well, what do you know? A new study by Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) has revealed what most of us have long suspected—DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) pedagogy is ineffective and doing more harm than good. Of course, our mainstream media has largely refused to cover …
I just finished reading a new book by Newsmax anchor Bianca de la Garza that does an excellent job of explaining how the woke mob managed to brainwash at least a few generations of Americans. Her book describes how caustic policies such as DEI (Diversity, equity, inclusion), Critical Race Theory, …
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to reign in the transgender zealots who, for the past four years, have managed to contaminate once-rational minds with bogus notions about gender identity, human biology, settled science, and women’s athletics. Recently, the National Association of Scholars, an organization I belong to …