(Akiit.com) “Almost everybody wants to be a hero. … Do the thing so improbable, so mind-blowing, that you’ll never be forgotten.” – From Hero in the Zone: Dwight Clark During my 10th-grade year, 1974-75, Dwight Clark was one of the most noticeable 12th graders to walk the halls of Garinger ...
(Akiit.com) About three weeks before the 2020 election, the New York Post published a bombshell, election-changing story about presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, that, if true, derailed Joe Biden’s claim to know nothing about his son’s multimillion-dollar influence peddling. The Post claimed: “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President ...
(Akiit.com) How could this be? Under our noses, social media and all, we now have photographs of a genocide. Are those mass graves full of innocent civilians, people whose only crime was that they were in the way of a madman and his army? What do you call that, if ...
(Akiit.com) We see the world through the lens of the major media-for most people that means television. Book newspapers, magazines and the Internet play a role, but the vast majority of people around the world get their information from television. And, if those who own the global media conglomerates, and ...
(Akiit.com) As Russia’s completely unnecessary (and increasingly brutal) war in Ukraine rages on, President Volodymyr Zelensky has been steadily trying to ratchet up the pressure on the United States and its allies to provide more assistance to his country. In pleading his case, Zelensky is appearing in every forum from ...
(Akiit.com) If anyone had any doubt that our “objective” television news operations are deeply partisan and nearly unanimous Biden-voter caucuses, observe the revulsion and disgust spilling out into public view when one of them hires a Republican to offer the Other Party’s Viewpoint on their airwaves. CBS News decided to ...
(Akiit.com) Recall the theme of Joe Biden’s presidential address, “Unity”. Well, that was a bunch of bovine excrement, as we would say here in Texas. The real theme of Biden’s speech, and the mantra of the progressive socialist left is “conformity”. And if you actually paid attention to Biden’s address ...
(Akiit.com) In the beginning, the rich nerds who launched tech startups saw themselves as “disruptors.” They had power, swagger and money. But a funny thing happened on the way to their revolution: The tech startups became giants, and then the giants became enforcers of the status quo. The erstwhile disruptors ...
(Akiit.com) The criminal justice system in the United States is a labyrinth of laws and criminal charges. These criminal records have an impact on your life that can last for years, or even decades to come. A criminal record is a life-long stigma that can affect everything from your ability ...
(Akiit.com) Whenever the history of racial discrimination in the United States appears to repeat itself, it produces predictable rhymes and sometimes tragic social consequences. Mark Twain, Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison all had one thing in common as visionary authors. They used their pens to offer literary ...
(Akiit.com) We keep learning more about the attack on the U.S. Capitol. And we keep learning more about the many schemes former President Donald Trump and his team tried to use to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In some ways, it is discouraging. We know just how badly Trump’s inner ...
(Akiit.com) Imagine a social media platform where people can say whatever the hell it is they want to say; where the only limitation is whether or not what you post is legal or illegal. It’s a pretty simple concept – threats, calls for violence, child pornography, etc., are banned, everything ...