Ronald E. Yates 
I recall when I was in middle school, junior high, and high school learning about our distinctive system of self-government and the necessity for the active informed civic participation of American citizens. Those classes had a variety of names: American history, History of the U.S. government, and social studies were …
A few days ago, Florida Governor Ron Desantis took the bold step of announcing that the decidedly racist, anti-white orthodoxy called Critical Race Theory will not be allowed to indoctrinate his state’s school children. “Let me be clear: There is no room in our classrooms for things like critical race …
Welcome to the United Socialist States of America where “digital book burning” and book banning are suddenly acceptable, where Dr. Seuss has been canceled, and where books that question “transgenderism,” the legitimacy of “critical race theory,” “cancel culture,” or the bogus 1619 project are censored and banned. Is this the …
I think I was in the second grade when U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin uttered these words to political opponents and federal bureaucrats during Senate hearings: “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” It was the early 1950s—the era of so-called “McCarthyism” …
Today I am posting a commentary from former California Assemblymember Steve Baldwin. Steve is an astute political observer and author who served as Executive Director of the Council for National Policy in Washington D.C. FYI, this Steve Baldwin is NOT the younger brother of Alec Baldwin. However, he is my …
Do you remember Andy Rooney? Between 1978 and 2011 he was a mainstay of CBS’s 60 Minutes. His homespun commentary at the end of every 60 Minutes broadcast was always filled with irony and prickly wit. Here are just a few examples: “I had one typewriter for 50 years, but …
Today, I am providing a link to a talk that Wall Street Journal columnist and editorial board member Kimberly Strassel gave recently at Hillsdale College on why we are seeing a resurgence of socialism in America. I have my own opinions about why this is happening and after watching Strassel’s …
I was very sorry to hear today that the cancer that Rush Limbaugh had been fighting for the past year finally won. With Limbaugh’s death America lost its most powerful conservative voice since the death of William F. Buckley Jr. in 2008. I first heard Rush Limbaugh on radio back …
Usually, I don’t care what happens in Hollywood. After all, it is the epitome of La La Land, where up is down, right is wrong, and leftists are always right. But yesterday, I read that Lucasfilm fired actress Gina Carano for a social media post that her critics insisted was …
When I was in college I read George Orwell’s gloomy and ominous novel, “1984” and while it was eye-opening, I never once considered that the totalitarian world it portrays was one that could ever materialize in America. Today, I’m not so sure it couldn’t. In fact, it seems to me …