(Akiit.com) I’ve been writing about “Obama the bad guy” for many years. I was the first to name former President Barack Obama the head of the Obama crime family. I coined the phrase “Obamagate” to describe his reign of crimes against candidate and then President Donald J. Trump. Obama’s public ...
(Akiit.com) Democrats are desperate because they have nothing left in their arsenal. They have nothing left except weaponizing fear about the coronavirus to turn Americans against the president. As I write, #TrumpHasNoPlan is trending on that sewer pit known as Twitter. Whatever. What truly matters is the truth that’s trending ...
(Akiit.com) The 1800-page HEROES Act was passed along party lines on Friday in the House of Representatives, without hearings, without input from any Republicans and likely without meaningful input from most Democrats. How striking is it that the HEROES Act includes the grand sum of $1,200 in aid for individuals ...
(Akiit.com) “The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood,” tweeted presidential candidate Joe Biden in regard to the recently released video of the February shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia. In his shameless rush to judgment, Biden has taken a page straight out of ...
(Akiit.com) For years now, we have heard the urban legends about Amazon’s rise to power. Back in the 1990s, a visionary Jeff Bezos saw the potential in selling books on the Internet, drove cross-country with his wife, found a warehouse in Seattle, hooked it up to a modem, and the ...
(Akiit.com) Historians recognize some U.S. presidential elections as realignment elections — elections that fundamentally alter and reconfigure the various voting constituencies of our major political parties. The 2016 presidential election was one such realignment election. The preexisting blue-red partisan split was, at its core, deeply artificial: Both the Republican Party ...
(Akiit.com) America holds its “Greatest Generation” in a unique place of honor. We treasure the enormous contributions the men and women who are now our senior citizens have made to our freedom and prosperity, at home and abroad. Yet the sacred right of today’s seniors to have their political choices ...
(Akiit.com) As a person who’s been on the front lines of protests advocating for Black folks for media job hiring, slavery reparations and more Black history teaching in public schools, just to name a few. I’ve witnessed for decades how my work was being translated by news reports as “working ...
(Akiit.com) Nearly everyday we hear some version of the statement that truth matters, but does it really? Day after day, we hear about the number of times Donald Trump has told yet another lie. When we heard he had made over 18,000 false or misleading claims many of us just ...
(Akiit.com) The good news is that you might get out of future jury duty, because when you are asked under oath about your own biases during a federal criminal case jury selection you would have to answer honestly by responding, “Your Honor, I don’t trust a damn thing anyone in ...
(Akiit.com) Cities depend on density. They depend on people milling around downtown, or at neighborhood parks, or street fairs and restaurants. Not only does this milling about bring energy to urban areas, but it also contributes dollars to city coffers. Now with the coronavirus causing some cities to issue “shelter at ...
(Akiit.com) Predicting the future is a tough racket. If people were any good at it, we’d all be multiple lottery winners. Since we aren’t, that’s a pretty good indication that we have the ability to guess what will happen, but possess no clairvoyance. That brings us to today, when the ...