Ronald E. Yates's Blog, page 12
June 28, 2024
Will the 2024 Democrat National Convention be a Replay of 1968?
In 1968, Chicago was known as “the city that works,” meaning a powerful Democratic political machine commanded it. The master of that machine was a virtuoso politician and mayor named Richard J. Daley. A year before, “Boss” Daley had pitched Chicago as the site of the 1968 Democrat National Convention. As ...
June 23, 2024
America’s Descent into an Orwellian Abyss
In college, I read George Orwell’s gloomy and ominous novel 1984. While it was eye-opening, I never once considered that the totalitarian world it portrays could ever materialize in America. Today, I’m not so sure it couldn’t. We seem to be already moving toward the dystopian totalitarian state of “Oceania” ...
June 18, 2024
Sports Should Unify, Not Divide Us
I recently read the transcript of Clay Travis’s speech last April at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Bellevue, Washington. Travis is co-host of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show and founder of the sports media company OutKick. What he said about sports, particularly women’s sports, was powerful ...
June 16, 2024
The First Presidential Debate Will Be a Minefield for Trump
Does anybody believe the first presidential debate on June 27 between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be fair? I don’t—not when the moderators are Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, both of whom are afflicted with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) and are perhaps the biggest Trump haters at CNN. If ...
June 14, 2024
Do Big Conservative Victories in Europe Foreshadow the U. S. Presidential Election?
It used to be said that when the United States coughed, Europe caught a cold. Times have changed. In recent European Parliament elections, millions of Europeans cast their ballots across 27 countries, and Europe’s conservatives won big. Very big. It was MEGA, as in “Make Europe Great Again,” big. This ...
June 10, 2024
When Does a Generation Gap Become a Generational Canyon? (Part 2)
Accomplished wordsmith William Safire once defined a generation gap as “a frustrating lack of communication between young and old, or a useful stretch of time that separates cultures within a society, allowing them to develop their own character.” That’s a pretty good definition. But it doesn’t tell the whole story. ...
June 9, 2024
When Does a Generation Gap Become a Generational Canyon? (Part 1)
In the past couple of weeks, two stories caught my attention. One decried the growing wealth gap between the young and old in America. The other highlighted the growing difference between older and younger Americans in terms of social values and morality. Should we be surprised by either of these ...
June 6, 2024
Lawfare & the Persecution of the Political Opposition
Kim Dae-Jung, Jose Napoleon Duarte, & Donald Trump. What do these three men have in common? Other than the fact that they once led their nations, all three were prosecuted and convicted during show trials of bogus crimes by the reigning governments of their respective nations. Two were sentenced to ...
June 3, 2024
Remembering Tiananmen Square: A Massacre that Foretold China’s Ingrained Malevolence
As Washington passively watches China pursue political and military domination in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and now, apparently in Latin America, it’s clear to me that our leaders and Americans, in general, have short memories about how brutal the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can be. That’s one reason ...
June 2, 2024
A Retrospective on the Tiananmen Square Massacre Tomorrow
Please join ForeignCorrespondent tomorrow, June 4, for my retrospective on the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China–a horrendous event that I covered on that date in 1989. In light of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) continued threats against Taiwan, its menacing alliance with Russia and Iran, its antagonistic presence in ...
