(Akiit.com) There is probably no easy cure for the Marjorie Taylor Greene phenomenon. She’s a repellent clown whose presence on the national stage has yielded nothing but degradation — except for the guffaw she afforded us when denouncing Nancy Pelosi’s “Gazpacho police.” And she has lots of company. Her colleagues ...
(Akiit.com) The reason Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter couldn’t be clearer: more freedom of speech on a platform that, like it or not, has become Earth’s “de facto” town square, as he put it. Twitter, along with just about all the Big Tech giants, uses dirty algorithms and misleading ...
(Akiit.com) Tucker Carlson’s foray into testicle toasting is only the latest (and possibly most amusing) example of the right wing’s masculinity obsession. The manliness theme keeps reappearing. Trump’s strutting tough talk was imbibed greedily by fans eager for affirmation of the manly virtues. Trump and his acolytes didn’t invent this; ...
(Akiit.com) It’s been proven time and again that critical race theory (CRT) isn’t taught in K-12 public schools, but the idea that it does continues to live rent free in the minds of many. Republicans continue to find ways to twist anything that may have to do with race into ...
(Akiit.com) I know, I know, I have lamented several times over the years about the abysmal service we get from the vaunted U.S. Postal Service. It seems that just about anyone I speak to has his or her own story about postal problems. And yes, I am in the midst ...
(Akiit.com) School districts are embroiled in a battle over whether to teach children from kindergarten to third grade about being transgender. Advocates recommend teachers read their young students “Introducing Teddy,” a book about a boy teddy bear who transitions to be a girl, calling it a heart-warming story “about being ...
(Akiit.com) Your life could get a lot more dangerous. Republican appointees on the Supreme Court seem poised to strip away basic safety standards for our workplaces, our food, our air and water. Congress gives federal agencies the authority to enact regulations that protect us in our daily lives. Congress defines ...
(Akiit.com) (***) If bed swapping was a sport, these French twentysomethings would be Olympic-caliber athletes. Millennials have infested Paris’13th arrondissement district. They walk down streets, chatting and philosophizing. It’s enough to make you wonder who they are, what they do and where they’re going. If your eyes focus on Émilie ...
(Akiit.com) It is beyond ironic that, at the very same time Disney is using all its might to oppose Florida’s Education Bill (falsely named the “Don’t Say Gay Bill”), Warner Bros. has announced that it will not say gay in China. Specifically, the Hollywood giant has stated that it will ...
(Akiit.com) In March, inflation jumped 8.5%, the biggest spike since 1981. Economic growth is expected to slow. Voters are expected to be angry. Yesterday, press secretary Jen Psaki warned, “We expect March CPI (consumer price index) headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin’s price hike.” Today, her future ...
(Akiit.com) Resurrection: return to life, transformation, rebirth, coming back into notice, Millions of Christians around the world completed their celebration of Easter, the essence of the Christian ethos; the rising of Yeshua from the dead, thereby accomplishing his earthly mission: the redemption of humanity, victory over death and providing righteous immortality ...
(Akiit.com) I pray everyone had a truly blessed Resurrection weekend; that is what this past weekend was about. It was about one person, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, laying down His life for us to have eternal life. Last week I was honored to narrate Haydn’s string quartet, The ...