Ronald E. Yates 
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …