Ronald E. Yates 
Why do I live in California? For those of you who do not live in California let me answer that question. I feel I have to do this because all I ever hear from friends and relatives in places like Pittsburg, Kansas City, or Des Moines is: “Why do you …
I was getting ready to post today on America’s “silent majority,” and then I read the column below by former Chicago Tribune colleague and columnist John Kass. John left the Tribune in 2021, the victim of “cancel culture” primarily because he wrote a column that was critical of socialist billionaire …
Saturday Funnies for Your Enjoyment and Edification. Enjoy!
Crime in our cities is out of control, mothers can’t find infant formula for their babies, inflation is at a 40-year high, there is a nationwide infestation of homeless people—many of them drug-addicted and mentally ill, and our borders are wide-open to a stream of migrants who are unlawfully swamping …
If you are a faithful reader of my blog you will know that I often repost commentaries from historian and social critic Victor Davis Hanson. Today, I am reposting another forceful and well-argued commentary from Hanson. In it, he explains why America is becoming more and more like the defunct …
America is facing one of the most critical and consequential mid-term elections in its history and fully half of the voting population is largely ignorant of American history, civics, or the way our federal, state, and local governments work. Their knowledge of current events is shaded by a news media …
Here, once again, is “something completely different” that I have culled from various emails and notes from friends and followers. As I have done in previous Piñatas, in this third installment, I am sharing some of these epistles and dispatches with readers as a way for all of us to …
I saw this commentary the other day and it seemed to capture Joe Biden and his willful destruction of the democratic American republic perfectly. With an insidious dose of Marxism, Biden and his minions are doing what communists have always done: divide and conquer. They are turning Americans against one …
Writing is hard work. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. I think most non-writers think that when authors sit at their computers (or for some, at their typewriters) the words just fly onto the written page. They don’t. Sometimes getting words onto the page is like trying to squeeze the …
It’s been a week since 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered by a deranged 18-year-old with a rifle in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school. We have had time to process that tragedy, debate the police response (or lack of it), discuss the attack, and of course, politicize it. I am …