Ronald E. Yates's Blog, page 18
July 31, 2023
Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing: Annotated
At least once every year I find it useful to take a look at the late Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing. It is sage advice from a master. Every writer should read these rules and remember them. I’m doing my part by posting them here for your edification and ...
July 23, 2023
They are Our Children, Not the Government’s
The following is a letter I sent to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. My letter was in response to a weekly newsletter Bonta sends to Californians. In his letter, he argued that children have the right to feel safe, respected, and protected while at school. I couldn’t agree more. Then ...
July 20, 2023
Small Town Life and Values: The Latest Target of the Woke Mob
Having grown up in two small Kansas towns, I guess I should be distraught and maybe remorseful. Why? Because when an award-winning Country-Western singer writes a song about life and values in America’s ubiquitous small towns and is immediately attacked and canceled, he must have done something wrong, right? Wrong! ...
July 18, 2023
Leftist Democrats and The Scourge of Child Sex Slavery
Today, I am turning my blog over to Mike Ford, founder and managing editor of the American Free News Network https://afnn.us/ to which I am a contributor. Mike is also a former U.S. Army Colonel and US Military Academy graduate (class of 1980). In today’s post, Mike looks at the ...
July 16, 2023
Two New California Laws that Defy Common Sense
Good judgment and common sense have long been rare among California’s ruling left-wing political doyens. There was no telling what inane law or regulation the blockheads in Sacramento might come up with—all designed to make life more miserable for the state’s law-abiding citizens and the business community. That’s one reason ...
July 12, 2023
Why the Left & Mainstream Media Hate This Movie: Sound of Freedom
Today, I am turning my blog over to Mike Ford, founder and managing editor of the American Free News Network https://afnn.us/ to which I am a contributor. Mike is also a former U.S. Army Colonel and US Military Academy graduate (class of 1980). In today’s post, Mike explains why the ...
July 11, 2023
Today’s Journalism: Experience & Honesty Not Required
Good journalism, somebody once said, is a nation talking to itself. That’s “talking to itself,” not yelling, screaming, shrieking, talking over one another, and generally engaging in verbal bullying. Yet that is just about all we see on prime-time television, especially cable television. Prime-time cable TV outlets such as Fox, ...
July 7, 2023
To Get the Corrupt Ringleaders-We Must Target the Complicit Rank And File At DOJ/FBI
Today, I am turning my blog over to Mike Ford, founder and managing editor of the American Free News Network https://afnn.us/ to which I am a contributor. Mike is also a former U.S. Army Colonel and US Military Academy graduate (class of 1980). In today’s post, he says we have ...
July 6, 2023
Journalists at Risk: It’s Part of the Job
Nobody ever said doing good journalism is easy–or safe. In fact, reporters and photographers who have spent significant time covering war, revolution, political upheaval, and natural disasters are keenly aware that when they arrive in war-ravaged places like Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria, they may not return home in one ...
July 4, 2023
Ramblings about the Late Larry McMurtry
Two years ago, when I heard that Larry McMurtry passed away in his Archer, Texas, home at the age of 84, I was saddened. What a loss! What a prolific writer! What a storyteller! His 30 novels, many of which have been turned into classic films and television series, such ...
