(Akiit.com) If you’re working well towards making fitness a part of your life, you want to start looking beyond how to get started. You know about what kind of exercises you should be doing and how intensely. But there are other things besides the workout itself that influence how effective ...
(Akiit.com) If you’ve spent any time following the folk of Silicon Valley, a couple of bugbears come up over and over again. One is that the government is regulating everything to death and innovation is harder than ever. The other is that education is an industry that seems immune to ...
(Akiit.com) When Senator Ted Cruise was running for president, Donald Trump, now the presumptive Republican nominee, enjoyed referring to him as “lyin’ Ted Cruise.” At one rally, he said, “Lyin’ Ted Cruise – L-y-i-n-dash.” Actually, he should have said “apostrophe” instead of “dash,” but accuracy is not important to Donald ...
(Akiit.com) The Department of Education was created under President Carter in 1979 under the same misguided pretense that has driven much of the growth of our massively bloated federal government — that if there is something we really care about, we should give more money and power to Washington bureaucrats. ...
(Akiit.com) I remember the first time I saw a Black raised fist. I was watching the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and two Black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raised their black-gloved fists and bowed their heads on the medal ceremony stand during the playing of the “The Star ...
(Akiit.com) As we get older, it does become more difficult to stay healthy. Our bodies are not what they once were and even our minds start to show signs of strain. Your first injury after you hit forty is going to be a shock. You’ll find that your body no ...
(Akiit.com) I wasn’t alive in the 80’s, or when Hip Hop truly began to emerge. I’m a late 90’s baby and to many I don’t know much, or about the “good old days.” Although I don’t know much, I know enough. There are some people that you are conditioned to ...
(Akiit.com) For more than a decade, broad-based coalitions at both the state and federal levels have united consumer advocates, labor, clergy, civil rights champions and others in calling for an end to predatory lending. Although 16 states and the District of Columbia effectively ban payday lending, the majority of the ...
(Akiit.com) Ralph Nader is at it again. He’s been conveniently dredged up and trotted in front of a lot of cameras, mics, and reporter’s note pads in recent days. He’s got fresh media shelf life in order to answer one question and beat up on one candidate. The question is ...
(Akiit.com) There are plenty of current statistics and reports that suggest the recession is over. Whether that is true or not, there are thousands of families still struggling as if these were the most difficult of times financially. It can be hard to make ends meet. But what might be ...