(Akiit.com) The effort to undo the Senate’s legislative filibuster is an un-American, Constitution-eroding, radical play to nationalize politics by empowering slim and fleeting majorities to institute wide-ranging, generational policies. Judging from the media coverage, you might be under the impression that Mitch McConnell has some kind of duty to “diffuse” ...
(Akiit.com) I know there are some who remember the film shorts called “Cliffhangers.” They were serial shorts designed to lure viewers back into theaters for each weekly episode. These serials had common characters: a hero, a heroine, the hero’s loyal sidekick, a villain, minions to the villain, and a seemingly impossible challenge(s) the ...
(Akiit.com) As massive as the spending is in the American Rescue Plan – $350 billion for state and local governments, $130 billion for schools, $25 billion for rental assistance and $4.5 billion for low income home energy assistance – “the change in the paradigm”, as President Biden called it, is ...
(Akiit.com) How would reparations be funded? Conservative writer Michael Medved estimates that only 5% of whites in America “bear any authentic sort of generational guilt for the exploitation of slave labor.” Why should anyone but Democrats pay? Scholar Dinesh D’Souza notes that all but a “handful” of slave owners were ...
(Akiit.com) Eighty-year-old Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was sworn in to preside over the second Senate impeachment trial by eighty-six-year-old Chuck Grassley (R-IA). That is the state of American politics today; an aging group of septuagenarians and octogenarians clinging to their last vestiges of power. The coming decade will see the inevitable ...
(Akiit.com) Keeping a business running is more difficult than most people think. Starting a business is already a massive undertaking that requires a serious amount of dedication and money. However, most startups will end up failing within a decade of starting up because they’re just not thinking about the future. ...
(Akiit.com) Pick up any news article and there’s a solid chance you’ll find statistics in it somewhere. This is particularly likely if it’s on politics or economics. Statistics can be massively useful, but they can also be plain misinformation. If you want to be able to tell truth from deception, ...
(Akiit.com) Imagine this scenario: A friend asks you to care for his dog “Fifi.” From the animal’s name, you infer it probably is not much bigger than your own small pooch. But you are shocked to learn later Fifi is a giant mastiff. As such, the animal consumes far more ...
(Akiit.com) The hottest theme in liberal punditry is mocking conservatives for their objections to Woke Culture’s long march through American entertainment conglomerates. It’s not “real news.” NBC late-night “comedian” Seth Meyers denounced the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, claiming, “(T)he only truly unifying thing at CPAC, the beating heart ...
(Akiit.com) Did you know America is going bankrupt? Most people don’t. Maybe the saddest part about our country’s state of affairs is that all our vitriol and dysfunction has come at a time when we aren’t even addressing our biggest problems. It would be one thing if America collectively decided ...
(Akiit.com) “It is utterly embarrassing that “pay people enough to live” is a stance that’s even up for debate,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently tweeted. “Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage. McD’s workers in Denmark are paid $22/hr + 6 wks paid vacation. $15/hr is a deep compromise — a big ...
(Akiit.com) Home based entrepreneurs were once in the minority, it was only a lucky few who could benefit from such a lifestyle. These days, things are different, and more competitive as a result. With so many home based entrepreneurs vying for business, the blue waters have turned red. It’s time ...