(Akiit.com) In a July tweet poll that – given its mere 5,248 respondents – was almost certainly massively suppressed by Twitter, Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie asked the following question: “Legalities aside, which is more immoral? (1) Subjugating people to second-class status because they haven’t been vaccinated, or (2) carrying a fake ...
(Akiit.com) Pecan trees can grow as tall as 100 feet with a productive life of 40 years. But 40 is average. In 2017, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas became home to a “champion” pecan tree – one of the nation’s tallest and oldest. Recorded by Lewis and Clark as a “tall ...
(Akiit.com) As President Joe Biden‘s poll numbers sank this fall, and the presidentially ambitious in his party began to stir, the White House put out the word. Forget all that 2020 campaign chatter about Biden being a “transitional president.” He intends to run and win a second term. Well, perhaps. ...
(Akiit.com) He is alive! Norman Podhoretz is alive, and he agreed to an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s very perceptive Barton Swaim this weekend. He says that many of his peers are now deceased but not him, and he certainly did not sound deceased. Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol ...
(Akiit.com) Not new and not old! But Today is the right time for all African Americans to realize and understand that every time you decide to eat out, order food online, over phone or in person at a restaurant, coffee shop, and/or a fast food restaurant that is owned by ...
(Akiit.com) Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment as president may not have been the policies he enacted or the justices he appointed. Instead, as important as those accomplishments were and are, it is possible that the most important thing he did as president was to say to the political world, “I will ...
(Akiit.com) With a Senate dominated by conservative Democrats and obstructionist Republicans, when HR 40 passes in Congress, it is unlikely to pass in the Senate. However, it is essential to acknowledge the enormous progress the reparations movement has experienced since Conyers first introduced HR 40. The Honorable John Conyers, who ...
(Akiit.com) As my daughter and I talked in the kitchen over the weekend, she asked me if I’d seen the photo circulating on social media. I told her I had not. She proceeded to find the image on her phone and show it to me. I sighed, rubbed my forehead ...
(Akiit.com) Most Americans don’t stay up nights worrying about “voting rights” reforms in the belief that they are needed to eliminate what progressives call “barriers to voting.” A September Morning Consult poll found that 44% of U.S. adults believe voting rules are not strict enough, while “only” one-third believe it’s ...
(Akiit.com) In 1972, President Richard Nixon visited mainland China, opening the door for diplomatic relations between the two countries. It was a dramatic visit, as Nixon became the first United States President to visit the communist nation. Nixon met with Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, who is considered the world’s greatest ...
(Akiit.com) In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open. For years, the chasm widened between the GOP’s heartland base, the river valley-dwelling “Somewheres” from David Goodhart’s 2017 book, “The Road to Somewhere,” and the ...
(Akiit.com) In 1995, we warned in our magazine Africamerica that one of the great problems of humanity would soon be forced migration––mainly because of the wars and internal crises that would take place in various countries (even if these crises were often instigated from abroad). In December 2019, Congresswoman Karen ...