Ronald E. Yates 
When I think of America’s failed financial policies, its weak political leadership in the White House and Congress, and its feeble foreign policy I am reminded of a thought-provoking Thai phrase I once heard. “Maa du kruang bin tok.” Translated it means “A dog watching an airplane crash.” The phrase …
Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most cogent observers of the American milieu so I am always happy to reprint his commentaries on my blog. He speaks with precision and clarity. But most of all the glaring unembellished truth is always evident in his arguments and observations. Hanson’s commentary …
I never covered the White House during my 27-year career with the Chicago Tribune, but I knew plenty of people who did. “It’s like covering the cops,” one of my colleagues who did cover the White House once told me. “You don’t expect to get any real news out of …
I have often posted on this topic. Here is commentary from Rachel L. Brand, former Associate Attorney General of the United States. She makes excellent points about the erosion of Free Speech and the First Amendment at universities—places where diverse opinions SHOULD be available to all students but are not. …
I have written and posted often about Critical Race Theory—the internecine effort by socialists and communists to indoctrinate and infect the minds of American children with disproven and discredited Marxist dogma designed to weaken our democracy and obliterate our nation. CRT focuses on race, relativism, gender-bending, and identity politics at …
I stopped into one of my local watering holes the other day and after tossing back a couple of locally brewed Hefeweizen beers began chatting with a Texas border patrol agent. He was in Southern California for some R & R after weeks in Texas chasing down migrants attempting to …
You know it had to happen. The Biden administration, facing a disastrous mid-term election in November, has taken a cue from George Orwell’s dystopian book, “1984,” and created a “Ministry of Truth” in the Department of Homeland Security. And just as in Orwell’s novel, the job of the newly-created “Disinformation …
If there is one thing most authors have in common, besides the sheer agony that sometimes accompanies the writing process, it is the dreaded Rejection Letter from an agent or publisher. I don’t know who got this one from Harlequin, but it had to be devastating to the person receiving …
There is an adage that says “any publicity is good publicity–even if it is bad.” Why? Because the objective is to get people talking about you and your book. If you are like me, I don’t believe a lot of the negative reviews I see on sites like Amazon, Barnes …
I saw this commentary about education in America–specifically, the Department of Education–and decided to share it with my followers. Those who went to elementary, middle, and high school in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate. We learned “readin,’ writin,’ and rithmetic”–not all of this social engineering, gender identity, critical race …