(Akiit.com) As far as most people are concerned, sports stars are some of the healthiest people on the planet. Because of their job, they have to be able to push the barriers of fitness further than the average person. And, that goes for every sporting player regardless of their skill ...

(Akiit.com) This is the season of college Commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times. Two themes seem to dominate Commencement speeches. One is shameless self-advertising by people in government, or in related organizations supported by the taxpayers or ...

(Akiit.com) I constantly tell my readers to always remember the key tenant of liberalism is “intent, not result.” To a liberal, the ends always justify the means. Now I want to paint several scenarios for you. You go to a restaurant and tell your server you want seafood, but yet ...

(Akiit.com) George Mason University School of Law has just been renamed the Antonin Scalia School of Law in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Accompanying the name change was a receipt of a $30 million gift: $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation and $20 million from ...

(Akiit.com) If you are like me, you sometimes find yourself surfing the Web when you are supposed to be doing something more important. You may notice “click bait” that poses questions like, “What has happened to these childhood stars?” or offers, “Secrets of the Mayans revealed.” Well, the other day ...

(Akiit.com) If you’re working well towards making fitness a part of your life, you want to start looking beyond how to get started. You know about what kind of exercises you should be doing and how intensely. But there are other things besides the workout itself that influence how effective ...

(Akiit.com) If you’ve spent any time following the folk of Silicon Valley, a couple of bugbears come up over and over again. One is that the government is regulating everything to death and innovation is harder than ever. The other is that education is an industry that seems immune to ...

(Akiit.com) When Senator Ted Cruise was running for president, Donald Trump, now the presumptive Republican nominee, enjoyed referring to him as “lyin’ Ted Cruise.”  At one rally, he said, “Lyin’ Ted Cruise – L-y-i-n-dash.” Actually, he should have said “apostrophe” instead of “dash,” but accuracy is not important to Donald ...

(Akiit.com) The Department of Education was created under President Carter in 1979 under the same misguided pretense that has driven much of the growth of our massively bloated federal government — that if there is something we really care about, we should give more money and power to Washington bureaucrats. ...

(Akiit.com) I remember the first time I saw a Black raised fist. I was watching the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and two Black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raised their black-gloved fists and bowed their heads on the medal ceremony stand during the playing of the “The Star ...