Ronald E. Yates's Blog, page 22
March 28, 2023
Women as Infantry Grunts. Why?
I am not sure why any woman would want to go to war with a company of infantry grunts. Yet, if we are to believe Joe Biden and several woke generals who are determined to use the U.S. military as a vehicle for social engineering, that is exactly what most ...
March 22, 2023
Eight Startling Ways the Democrat Party Emulates Germany’s Nazi Party
Today, I am reposting a commentary by journalist Steve McCann who raises some fascinating and disturbing similarities between the Nazi Party of Germany in the 1930s and the Democrat Party in 21st-century America. I wrote a similar commentary about a year ago that mooted some of the same parallels. You can ...
March 21, 2023
This Is Worse Than Watergate: Can DeSantis recover?
Today, I am sharing my blog with Erin Geary, a fellow Substack columnist, who has penned a delightful tongue-in-cheek look at potential 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. Enjoy! This Is Worse Than Watergate: Can DeSantis recover? By Erin Geary BREAKING NEWS: Governor Ron DeSantis is embroiled in a huge scandal. One so ...
March 20, 2023
Why Do the Mainstream Media Support Censorship?
It’s a question I have struggled with since it began to happen during the Obama administration. I watched the media erect a protective media shield around President Obama to protect him from tough questions that might embarrass his administration. Then, during the 2020 presidential election, the media recreated that media ...
March 14, 2023
University of Kansas Study Reveals Secrets of Success on the Basketball Court
With March Madness upon us and millions of fans having frenziedly filled out their NCAA tournament brackets, the University of Kansas has just published a 7-year-long study that reveals the secrets of success on the basketball court. It’s fitting that the University of Kansas published this study because you can ...
March 13, 2023
What Will it Take to Lose the Blues in Chicago
Today, I am reposting a commentary by Erin Geary, who describes herself as a “Renaissance Woman.” Her commentary originally appeared in the blog produced by John Kass https://johnkassnews.com/. I am particularly focused on Chicago because I lived and worked there for many years as a Chicago Tribune reporter and editor–in ...
March 10, 2023
A Censored Commentary in 2021 is Proven Accurate Today
Today, I am turning my blog over to Mike Ford, founder of the American Free News Network, former U.S. Army Colonel, and US Military Academy graduate (class of 1980). In the commentary that follows, Mike explains that a column he wrote in 2021 for a news outlet about the January ...
March 6, 2023
Almost 80 Percent of American Men Unfit for Military Duty: DOD
A new Department of Defense reports that almost 80 percent of American men between the ages of 17 and 24 are unfit for military service. When I saw that, I did a double-take. Eighty percent of American men are not fit for military service. Is that even possible? And then I ...
March 1, 2023
The Ghosts of DEI: Past, Present & Future
Today I am posting a commentary by Andrew Gutman, a New York City parent who, in 2021, pulled his daughter out of the Brearley School, an all-girls private school in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, to protest the school’s woke policies regarding race and gender. Gutman wrote a scathing ...
February 28, 2023
The America Premium
During my almost 30-year career as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, about one-third of the stories I produced had to do with business–specifically, international business. I wrote a lot about the theft of intellectual property rights and American competitiveness–or the lack thereof. I witnessed the hollowing out of ...
