Movie Review; Great Freedom.

Tweet (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 post WWII. Picked a […]

Vladimir Putin Isn’t the One Who Banned U.S. Offshore Oil Drilling.

Tweet (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 Biden, we can’t say […]

The Advantages of Running Your Company Like a Democracy.

Tweet (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 something else. This ‘Great Resignation’ is […]

Paying More for Gas Is the Least We Can Do.

Tweet (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 in the face.” The […]

The Autocracy of the Gender Benders.

Tweet (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 in this country isn’t […]

Breaking Donald Trump’s Heart in Moscow.

Tweet (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 my army. Tanks stopped […]

A Morally Weak Biden Invites Vladimir Putin’s Advances.

Tweet (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 ends. Evil always seeks […]

State Of The Union: Democracy Needs Defenders.

Tweet (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 is a threat to […]

Reflections back & forward on 10th anniversary of Trayvon Martin murder.

Tweet (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, and what they like […]

Ukraine: Vladimir Putin’s Misadventure Unites the West.

Tweet (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 Vladimir Putin and the […]

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