(Akiit.com) In an era of global climate change, Texas has retained an unshakable allegiance to fossil fuel production and use. It brings to mind the joke about the man who tells his psychiatrist that his brother thinks he’s a chicken. The psychiatrist asks why the family hasn’t gotten him help. ...
(Akiit.com) Next month will mark effectively one-year suffering under the COVID-19 virus. Here is the good, bad, and ugly about what we have learned about ourselves, and our country, when the chips are down. The Good: Free Markets. With the exception of the genuinely unforeseeable panic-buying of paper supplies and disinfectants ...
(Akiit.com) With the apparent defection of Mitch McConnell from the Trump camp, the Republican Party finds itself in a major identity crisis. Is it the older, reliably worthless Democrat Party of twenty years ago, or is it the party of Donald Trump? Does it go along to get along, or ...
(Akiit.com) “If I’m your president,” Joe Biden promised at the Democratic National Convention last summer, “on day one we’ll have a national mask mandate.” Now that Biden is the president, his policy has changed from a general requirement to an executive order that applies only on federal property and interstate ...
(Akiit.com) As I write today, our nation has reached significant milestones, which in their differences are connected. We’ve experienced the loss of a QUARTER OF A MILLION Americans to COVID-19. We’ve moved toward a total infection rate of 12 million. This upswing in the disease has overburdened and threatens to break ...
(Akiit.com) Joe Biden spoke of it during his victory-claiming, Saturday night speech. Time Magazine has now made it their new front cover. It is, we are being told, “time to heal.” But will it be that easy? And can a party with strong, radical elements lead the way in healing? Of course, we still ...
(Akiit.com) Economic recovery will be a long time coming. The Federal Reserve Bank says our corona recession will last into 2021, and perhaps even into 2022. If a vaccine is developed, a distribution plan still needs to be worked out, and there is still so much we don’t know about ...
(Akiit.com) Hearing loss will often occur gradually, and you may not notice it at first. Your colleagues and family member may recognize your hearing loss before you do. Let’s have a look at some of the reasons for taking action when you have hearing loss is important: The Signs Of ...
(Akiit.com) If there’s one thing that you should take care of from a young age, it’s your senses. You need to be able to see, so you go to get some glasses. You need to be able to hear, so you speak to an expert audiologist about your hearing and ...
(Akiit.com) Many people with an addiction problem fail to ask for help. It might be because they don’t believe they have a problem at all, or it could be because they don’t want to admit their ‘shameful secret’ to others. There are also those people who don’t want to appear ...
(Akiit.com) Right now, increasing numbers of people are looking for a new career. The coronavirus pandemic has made the vast majority of industries and fields of specialism pretty unstable when it comes to job security. Countless companies have collapsed and even more people have lost their work, as many companies ...
(Akiit.com) Donald Trump is likely to survive his infection with the coronavirus. But it’s hard to imagine how his reelection campaign can. The president has trailed Joe Biden in national polls for a year, and his performance in the first debate did nothing to close the gap. The news that ...