(Akiit.com) President Biden’s call during his State of the Union address for Congress to pass legislation to control drug prices provides a good opportunity to note a law that already is on the books that helps curb drugmakers’ price hikes. As lawmakers prepare to debate the proposals, it is a ...
(Akiit.com) When Tucker Carlson insists there is no reason for Americans to distrust Russian President Vladimir Putin — and that his reputation for criminal brutality is simply fabricated by the “globalist deep state” controlled by George Soros — his rhetoric conceals the true source of friction between the United States ...
(Akiit.com) “Well, you all imagined it,” Vice President Kamala Harris commented during a so-called clean-transit event, where she appeared with her fellow tautologist, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. “That’s why we’re here today — because we have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and ...
(Akiit.com) The majority of my role so far representing Michigan’s 10th Congressional District is the financing of government and the regulation of the economy. There are four ways to finance government. Taxation, borrowing, inflation and the leasing and/or sale of government assets (i.e. sale or lease of land, lumber, mineral, oil ...
(Akiit.com) “Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.” (Candidate Joe Biden, Democratic Presidential debates, March 15, 2020.) Well, whatever else we might say about ...
(Akiit.com) Whenever gasoline prices spike, commentators turn theatrical with emotional talk of “pain at the gas pump.” An analyst for CNN just went further, calling the most recent rise “a slap in the face.” Slingers of hyperbole might ask Ukrainians now under vicious bombardment what they would consider “a slap ...
(Akiit.com) Tom Bevan at RealClearPolitics shared on Twitter a local horror story from the Chicago area. His fifth grader came home from school with a vocabulary assignment in science class. The words included “transgender,” cisgender,” “nonbinary” and “consent.” The last word carries the most irony — because the educational elite ...
(Akiit.com) OVERHEARD in MOSCOW — If I am in the Russian president’s head — and I am indeed the one mighty Vladimir Putin — then I’m fighting mad that Ukraine is running away from home, from Mother Russia. I’m even more mad that Ukraine is fighting hard, fighting well against ...
(Akiit.com) I wrote last week about the collapse of the Soviet Union as result of the strength, moral clarity and leadership of President Ronald Reagan. I quoted Reagan’s observation that the ultimate battle we fight, around the world and at home, is one of good and evil. This battle never ...
(Akiit.com) President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address reminded Americans that democracy needs defenders—here at home as well as in Ukraine. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine was understandably a major focus of Biden’s speech. Putin’s eagerness to expand his power by unleashing brute force against his neighbors ...
(Akiit.com) “White people go around, it seems to me, with a very carefully suppressed terror of Black people—a tremendous uneasiness. They don’t know what the Black face hides. They’re sure it’s hiding something. What it’s hiding is American history. What it’s hiding is what white people know they have done, ...
(Akiit.com) As of this writing, predictions of a Russian day or two romp through Ukraine, all the way to the point of threatening NATO countries, have proven wrong. Profoundly wrong. War is always unpredictable. But clearly much of the American news coverage underestimated both the totalitarian appetite of Russian President ...