Ronald E. Yates 
Americans are not a happy people. In fact, according to the latest Gallup World Happiness Report, for the first time in the report’s 12-year history, the U.S. was not among the top 20 happiest nations in the world. I am not surprised. Despite the rosy picture of America our doddering …
I have never read any of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books. However, as a fellow author who is not in the same league as Ms. Rowling, I have come to appreciate her common sense attitude on the incessant lunacy of transgenderism and the wacky cult it has spawned. Like …
I have often equated the journalism produced by today’s mainstream media to propaganda. Like the old Soviet Union’s Pravda newspaper and China’s Xinhua news agency, a majority of our news organizations have morphed into little more than state-sponsored media. As was the case with Pravda and Xinhua, our news media …
I thought idiotic far-left legislation was mainly confined to California. I was wrong. New York is attempting to one-up California with a new bill that would require K-12 students to learn how the terrorist attacks on 9/11 have contributed to American xenophobia and Islamophobia. The important lesson here is NOT …
Like many of my fellow students, when I was an undergraduate, I was conflicted about what my major should be. Finally, I narrowed it down to four areas: advertising, veterinary medicine, law, and journalism. After laboring through organic and inorganic chemistry classes, I abandoned a career as a veterinarian. I …
As I watched Joe Biden deliver his State of the Union Address Thursday, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Dana Carvey’s “Grumpy Old Man” sketches on Saturday Night Live in the 1980s. The Grumpy Old Man would be introduced as a commentator on SNL’s Weekend Edition segment. He would …
During my career as a foreign correspondent, I often found myself in situations where it would have been impolite or culturally inappropriate to decline food that didn’t seem edible. So I took a deep breath, closed my eyes (sometimes), and ate what was put in front of me. (Usually). Okay, …
When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Kansas, a requirement for graduation was a survey/readings course called Western Civilization. Many students loathed that course. I loved it. Okay, no doubt I was an outlier among some of my fellow undergraduates. The two-semester, six-hour “Western “Civ” curriculum consisted …
Since Joe Biden has occupied the White House, more than 7.2 million illegals have entered our nation, a number greater than the population of 36 states, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). They have done so with little or no opposition from the Biden administration, which has actually …
As angry parents coast to coast continue to rebel against leftist indoctrination of their children, the nation’s largest teachers’ unions have let it be known that they will support Marxist and socialist teachers who are teaching Critical Race Theory anyway. Here in California, the 310,000-member California Teachers Association, which is …