(Akiit.com) Since 1897, the New York Times has boasted that it publishes “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” That slogan, created by Adolph S. Ochs, the original owner, still appears on the masthead of the Times each day. On the front page of last Sunday’s edition, the New York ...
(Akiit.com) I wish the cops in charge of babysitting the protests that occurred around the country last night had job applications to pass out to the crowds. I suppose the protesters never considered that maybe the Black Lives Matter movement, with their anti-cop sentiments, may be responsible for the overreaction ...
(Akiit.com) Where to start with actor Jesse Williams’ widely praised rant on police brutality and white racism delivered at this year’s Black Entertainment Television awards show? To his enthusiastic audience, Jesse Williams reeled off lie after lie, all in the name of black “resistance” over the “oppressor” — meaning anyone ...
(Akiit.com) Being in Europe and interacting with many one-on-one across the spectrum truly gives a different perspective about Brexit. Since 2007, it has been a right of European Union member states to withdraw from the EU per Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union. On June 23, 2016, ...
(Akiit.com) In the space of a few days Baltimore Police Lieutenant Brian Rice is scheduled for trial in the death of Freddie Gray and the Justice Department announced that it will conduct a probe into the police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La. and one has been called ...
(Akiit.com) It didn’t take long for the predictable. Loose-lipped former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh frothed at President Obama in the aftermath of the slaying of five Dallas police officers and the wounding of several others. Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump couldn’t tweet fast enough denouncing the murders. Needless to ...
(Akiit.com) I woke up this morning to the news that another Black man was killed by Baton Rouge police officers Blaine Salamoni and Howie Lake. My social media newsfeeds were flooded by commentary on the shooting. Some sharing the emotionally charged video and others opting out of watching yet another ...
(Akiit.com) A recent ruling by the U.S. Department of Commerce dramatically increased tariffs on some Chinese steel products, such as cold-rolled steel, which is used to make appliances, cars and electric motors. Tariffs were raised by 500 percent on some other Chinese steel products. President Barack Obama and the major ...
(Akiit.com) The boards of trustees of our Social Security and Medicare programs just issued their annual report, and we learn, once again, that both programs are fiscally insolvent. The trustees project there will be insufficient funds from the Social Security program to pay its obligations beginning in 2034, 18 years ...
(Akiit.com) It happened again. This time, outside a slummy Baton Rouge liquor store in the early morning hours on the day after America celebrated it’s freedom from oppression and tyranny. Police officers tasered, tackled, and fatally shot a Black man – 37 year old Alton Sterling – several times in ...
(Akiit.com) There was a time when the Fourth of July meant something more than a three-day weekend. Speeches, writings and commemorative ceremonies reminded us of the origins and greatness of America. No matter where in the world our ancestors came from, we today are almost invariably better off because they ...
(Akiit.com) Actor Jesse Williams used his platform at the recent BET Awards to attack whites and promote lies, and he got a standing ovation for doing so. Williams, who received the network’s humanitarian award for his role in the Black Lives Matter movement, said that, “a system built to divide ...