(Akiit.com) Truth is a threat to authoritarianism. Reading is a path to truth. That’s why the freedom to read is essential to the freedom to learn. And that’s why the freedom to learn is often attacked by those who abuse power and those who cling to it. Every year, the ...
(Akiit.com) Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a pre-taped interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last weekend. As is often the case with her interviews, Harris said a few awkward, ill-informed or downright odd things. For example, she claimed that the U.S.-Mexico border is “secure.” When asked if she was ...
(Akiit.com) New polling data from Gallup show Americans are not having an easy time through this period of rising prices. According to Gallup, 56% of Americans say now that rising prices are causing severe or moderate hardship. Drilling down, we see that the hardship is not shared equally. Among low-income ...
(Akiit.com) The most reliable and popular cryptocurrency token is Bitcoin. A significant majority of cryptocurrency users worldwide largely hold, trade, and mine it. Due to its acceptance and importance in the modern world, many individuals are searching for the best exchange to cash out Bitcoin from. The options are numerous. ...
(Akiit.com) In our church on Sunday, a servant for Voice of the Martyrs ministry shared how he went to Sudan a few years ago to encourage Christians being persecuted and was suddenly arrested, imprisoned for 14 months with ISIS killers, then sentenced to life imprisonment before God miraculously set him ...
(Akiit.com) Once given up for dead, Democrats are increasingly optimistic about their chances in November’s midterm elections. The race for the House is narrowing, although Republicans are still predicted to win control, while the race for the Senate is a toss-up. Formerly pessimistic Democrats now think November will not be ...
(Akiit.com) To reduce inflation, battle climate change, reduce gas prices, stem rising crime and to protect our southern border, President Joe Biden has forgiven $10,000 in federal student loans and extended $20,000 in debt cancellation to Pell Grant recipients for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year. A study by ...
(Akiit.com) This August, you can’t turn on a television or open a newspaper without reading or hearing about the teacher shortage. And it is clear that current shortages are being highly publicized and politicized, with reasons for shortages ranging from low pay to teacher burnout, to teacher dissatisfaction, to COVID, ...
(Akiit.com) (***) If the job of an act/thr/hor is to scare the daylights out of you, Beast gets the job done. The success of this film’s eye-catching, ear-grabbing hocus pocus can be traced back to smart direction, near seamless visual/sound effects, tight editing and the supremely talented Idris Elba. “Cujo as a lion” was the goal. Screenwriter Ryan ...
(Akiit.com) It is often said that the measure of character is not in how a person handles triumph, rather it is measured by how a person handles adversity. Often the requirement for a loss is a concession. Like others, I have experienced having to offer a concession speech when things ...
(Akiit.com) “No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”—Theodore Roosevelt If you chanted “Lock her up!” in 2016 ...
(Akiit.com) When Charles Diggs, Jr., won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at least one Black member of Congress. That’s likely to change this year. Because of redistricting, Detroit no longer has majority-Black congressional districts. And in the ...