(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) (***) Sometimes a modicum of dialogue works best. That’s seems to be a basic strategy for Austrian writer/director Sebastian Meise and co-writer Thomas Reider. Show first. Tell second. The two filmmakers created this perceptive ode to the downtrodden with special care. They set up the premise: persecution of gays ...
(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) Some books have impeccable timing, the Traci Fenton’s Freedom at Work is one of those. The lockdown of the pandemic, the forced isolation of workers, millions of people working at home, has led to an unexpected result – many people are opting to leave their jobs in search of ...
(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 ...
(Akiit.com) Recently a leftist journalist from The Nation named Elie Mystal referred to the U.S. Constitution as “trash”. He appeared on The View last Friday to promote his new book “Allow me to Retort: A Black Guys Guide to the Constitution”. This is the ideological battle in which we are ...