(Akiit.com) When America elected Barack Obama to the world’s most powerful office – twice – many thought that naming the “first black this” or the “first black that” would become moot. Misguided Republicans even voted for Obama, thinking: “Finally, this will show the world that America has turned the chapter ...
(Akiit.com) Other than the commercials that used to come on during daytime TV or Saturday mornings about special edition, commemorative coins for collectors, I never thought much about the United States Mint, the Mint for short. I’m going to venture to say I’m like most people in that regard; the ...
(Akiit.com) Members of Congress use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption. There’s no good reason for elected officials to trade individual stocks at all. Unless you have special insider knowledge, buying and selling individual stocks ...
(Akiit.com) By now you have heard what was forecast as the inevitable – all Senate Republicans and two Senate Democrats believe the Senate Filibuster Rule to be more significant than the right of millions of (actually all) Americans to participate in free and impartial elections. It stands clear that the ...
(Akiit.com) With Democrats’ multitrillion dollar Build Back Better initiative hitting a wall in the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden has suggested that components of the bill be advanced separately. One of these components is a plan for government funded universal pre-K schooling. It would fund school for some 6 million ...
(Akiit.com) Here we go again with police officers, Deputy Sheriff, US Marshalls, Troopers, Constables that fall in the category of Law Enforcement Officers who are task with the duties of enforcing local, state and federal laws of the country and with the discretion of using the spirit or letter of ...
(Akiit.com) In 1992, I included the following two quotes in columns written for the Richmond Free Press, focusing on the critical need for Black organizations and institutions to become unified if they want to more effectively promote and protect the group interests of our people in this country. The first ...
(Akiit.com) There’s no sense in pretending that we don’t take pleasure in the total failure of our Marxist-curious party of the left. Through a combination of outright fraud, procedural irregularities, plus the total support of the garbage establishment and its failed institutions, the Democrats took power by the thinnest of ...
(Akiit.com) Last week, while reading The Wall Street Journal, I came across an op-ed piece that for a moment led me to believe that the sober and serious Journal was opening a comics section. Why not? If the Journal executes “the funnies” as competently as it covers serious news, I ...
(Akiit.com) The Biden administration fumbled the ball. Big time. As a presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden heavily criticized then President Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. I expected more (let’s be honest, the bar was set really low) from President Joe Biden, and he seemed to expect ...
(Akiit.com) After a COVID-19 driven timeout last year, March for Life returns this year to Washington, D.C., for the 49th year, noting the anniversary of and support to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision of Jan. 22, 1973. This began the era of legal abortion in the USA. A high ...
(Akiit.com) The Tragedy of Macbeth was theatrically released nationwide in 2021 and is now streaming on AppleTV+. Watch this work of art on a TV screen and you’ll likely agree that last year’s “Best Film” is this year’s masterpiece. Joel Coen (O, Brother, Where Art Thou) has created a magnus opus ...