Ronald E. Yates's Blog, page 36
April 28, 2022
Joe Biden’s New “Ministry of Truth”
You know it had to happen. The Biden administration, facing a disastrous mid-term election in November, has taken a cue from George Orwell’s dystopian book, “1984,” and created a “Ministry of Truth” in the Department of Homeland Security. And just as in Orwell’s novel, the job of the newly-created “Disinformation ...
April 23, 2022
Dealing with Rejection Letters from Agents & Publishers
If there is one thing most authors have in common, besides the sheer agony that sometimes accompanies the writing process, it is the dreaded Rejection Letter from an agent or publisher. I don’t know who got this one from Harlequin, but it had to be devastating to the person receiving ...
April 22, 2022
How to Handle a Negative Book Review
There is an adage that says “any publicity is good publicity–even if it is bad.” Why? Because the objective is to get people talking about you and your book. If you are like me, I don’t believe a lot of the negative reviews I see on sites like Amazon, Barnes ...
April 19, 2022
For the Sake of Our Children, Abolish the Department of Education
I saw this commentary about education in America–specifically, the Department of Education–and decided to share it with my followers. Those who went to elementary, middle, and high school in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate. We learned “readin,’ writin,’ and rithmetic”–not all of this social engineering, gender identity, critical race ...
April 18, 2022
Biden Pushes Puberty Blocking, Transition Surgeries for Transgender Children
I am republishing a commentary by author and attorney Wesley J. Smith. It deals with the Biden administration’s disturbing and dangerous campaign that calls for minor children who may suffer from gender dysphoria to have unregulated and unrestricted access to gender transition interventions, therapies, and surgeries. It’s a policy that ...
April 17, 2022
Conservative Comic Trio Wants to Win America Back—One Joke at a Time
A while back I read an interview with Hollywood comedic legend Mel Brooks. In it, the producer and director said America has become “stupidly politically correct, and that has been the death of comedy.” Brooks added that many of his films – including the 1974 comedy western “Blazing Saddles,” which ...
April 15, 2022
University of Chicago Students Execute a Takedown of Media Elites—Here’s How They Did It
If you are a faithful reader of the ForeignCorrespondent blog, you know that I often post about the disgraceful state of America’s news media—specifically about its dishonesty, its one-sidedness in reporting and supporting leftist ideas and narratives, and the abandonment of its “watchdog of government” function when that government is ...
April 14, 2022
Will Elon Musk Save Twitter and Restore Free Speech?
Will Elon Musk save Twitter and Restore Free Speech? That’s the $43 billion question the world is asking since Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered that amount to buy Twitter. As a Twitter user myself, I certainly hope so. Like a lot of people, including some 217 million daily Twitter users, ...
April 13, 2022
Journalism Today: Not My News Media
I spent 28 years as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. It was a great career—one that I’m proud of. I won my share of major journalism awards and was nominated a couple of times for a Pulitzer Prize. But prizes or, for that matter, money was ...
April 12, 2022
I Never Cared
I don’t know who wrote this little treatise entitled “I Never Cared,” but I think it reflects the feelings of millions of Americans today who are fed up with those who want to destroy our way of life, who promulgate the culture of victimhood, who demand that men and boys ...
