Ronald E. Yates's Blog, page 6
January 19, 2025
After Joe Biden‘s Perverse Reign of Devastation, a Muckraker’s Thoughts on a New Era of Common Sense
Looking back on the last four years, I feel like I have been mucking a giant pile of manure out of a barn. The more I shoveled, the higher the pile of manure got. There didn’t seem to be any end to the execrable crap being dispensed by the Biden ...
January 6, 2025
Things I’ve learned from Lincoln, C.S. Lewis, David Foster Wallace, and my friend’s grandmother.
Today, I am reposting a column by author and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan in which she shares some poignant thoughts about life as we enter the new year. This particular column appeared in her Signposts on the Wisdom Trail column. As for me, I will return to posting ...
December 9, 2024
Study Reveals DEI is Ineffective & Harmful
Well, what do you know? A new study by Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) has revealed what most of us have long suspected—DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) pedagogy is ineffective and doing more harm than good. Of course, our mainstream media has largely refused to cover ...
December 3, 2024
The Left’s War on Truth
I just finished reading a new book by Newsmax anchor Bianca de la Garza that does an excellent job of explaining how the woke mob managed to brainwash at least a few generations of Americans. Her book describes how caustic policies such as DEI (Diversity, equity, inclusion), Critical Race Theory, ...
November 19, 2024
Why the National Association of Scholars Opposes the Cult of Transgenderism
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to reign in the transgender zealots who, for the past four years, have managed to contaminate once-rational minds with bogus notions about gender identity, human biology, settled science, and women’s athletics. Recently, the National Association of Scholars, an organization I belong to ...
November 17, 2024
Paul vs. Tyson 2024: A Pathetic Vestige of Douglas vs. Tyson 1990
Well, wasn’t THAT something? Jake Paul, a 27-year-old social media YouTuber, actor, and fledgling professional boxer, vs. 58-year-old Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight champion, in an eight-round bout that was essentially a pugilistic travesty. Last Friday’s bout was like watching an exasperated grandfather chase his bratty grandson around the ...
November 12, 2024
The Mainstream Media are in a Financial and Credibility Tailspin
America’s legacy media are in big trouble. Newspapers are losing record print circulation, morning and nightly network news shows are hemorrhaging viewers, and cable news outlets are losing audiences at a record rate. So what’s going on? As someone who spent almost 30 years toiling in the newspaper world and ...
November 10, 2024
Happy Veterans Day to my Fellow Vets
Today is Veterans Day. Given that only 6 percent of the people of this nation have ever put on a uniform–including those currently serving–I am not sure many Americans have any idea why Veterans Day is a holiday. Yes, it means schools and most government offices are closed. But it ...
November 7, 2024
Trump Won: Let the Corrupt Media & Backbiting Bureaucratic Assaults Begin
The world knows that Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election in a landslide, exposing Kamala Harris as the inept leftist political novice she is. Unfortunately, Trump’s arduous election campaign will perhaps be the easiest thing he does during the next four years. Because waiting in the political swamp that ...
November 5, 2024
Jogging With the Greatest
Now that the election is over (at least I hope so) I thought it might be a good idea to post something that, as they used to say on the old Monte Python TV show, is “completely different.” If nothing else it will take your mind off of the election–especially ...
