Ronald E. Yates 
The following is a letter I sent to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. My letter was in response to a weekly newsletter Bonta sends to Californians. In his letter, he argued that children have the right to feel safe, respected, and protected while at school. I couldn’t agree more. Then …
Having grown up in two small Kansas towns, I guess I should be distraught and maybe remorseful. Why? Because when an award-winning Country-Western singer writes a song about life and values in America’s ubiquitous small towns and is immediately attacked and canceled, he must have done something wrong, right? Wrong! …
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 …
Good judgment and common sense have long been rare among California’s ruling left-wing political doyens. There was no telling what inane law or regulation the blockheads in Sacramento might come up with—all designed to make life more miserable for the state’s law-abiding citizens and the business community. That’s one reason …
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 explains why the …
Good journalism, somebody once said, is a nation talking to itself. That’s “talking to itself,” not yelling, screaming, shrieking, talking over one another, and generally engaging in verbal bullying. Yet that is just about all we see on prime-time television, especially cable television. Prime-time cable TV outlets such as Fox, …
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, he says we have …
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, Afghanistan, or Syria, they may not return home in one …
Two years ago, when I heard that Larry McMurtry passed away in his Archer, Texas, home at the age of 84, I was saddened. What a loss! What a prolific writer! What a storyteller! His 30 novels, many of which have been turned into classic films and television series, such …
All authors are emotionally engaged with their protagonists. I am no exception. I want readers to love my characters as much as I do. That means creating a flawed, three-dimensional protagonist who still has “things to work out.” The Finding Billy Battles series follows Billy from his roots in Kansas, through …