(Akiit.com) Who is working overtime to paint themselves into the biggest political corner of this election cycle? Democrats obviously don’t recognize it yet, but they have placed themselves in an inescapable trap with extreme positions on energy and the environment – irresponsible positions that have fragmented their party and could ...
(Akiit.com) Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to uphold so-called “affirmative action” admissions policies at the University of Texas. Those policies had been challenged by a young white woman who believed that she was denied admission to the school while other “lesser” African-American and Hispanic students were admitted. The ...
(Akiit.com) Giving his most disciplined speech to date, Republican nominee Donald J. Trump assailed his Democrat challenger Hillary Clinton as unfit for the presidency. Donald Trump offered substantive examples – from the economy to foreign policy – about how he would lead the country, in contrast to Clinton’s 32-year record ...
(Akiit.com) Many will remember the 1993 HBO film “And the Band Played On,” based on the best-selling book “And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic” by Randy Shilts. The movie centers around a researcher for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who becomes involved in ...
(Akiit.com) Supporters of Donald Trump are being heckled and attacked daily by liberals, particularly supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. And the liberal media blames the presumptive Republican nominee for attacks on his own supporters. It defies common sense and logic, yet the liberal media persists in perpetuating this ...
(Akiit.com) In many instances, the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action ruling upholding the University of Texas’s affirmative action program was overshadowed by a same-day order overturning President Obama’s executive order to ease illegal immigrants’ path to U.S. citizenship. World News Tonight With David Muir, while leading its broadcast with the ...
(Akiit.com) I recently did a “VideoRant” for my website entitled “What if Islamic Terrorists Were White?” (See: mychal-massie.com) I’d like to address that question in a bit more detail. Remember Obama’s behavior when Sgt. James Crowley (who is white) of the Cambridge Police Department, in accordance with competent police procedure, ...
(Akiit.com) After finally getting the endorsement of House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Donald Trump frittered the goodwill away. Trump called a judge born in Indiana a “Mexican.” Rather than apologize, Trump, at first, doubled and tripled down, until finally saying that he didn’t ...
(Akiit.com) Martin Luther King Jr. used to say that “ the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Of course that arc is sometimes so long that it’s hard to see it bend. As someone who has been present at the making of much history ...
(Akiit.com) Monday night, actor and activist Jesse Williams gave a powerful speech at the BET Awards upon receiving the Humanitarian Award, during which he spoke eloquently, passionately, and dare I say — even lovingly to the audience of millions. I have seen hundreds of awards show acceptance speeches and Williams ...
(Akiit.com) I have always had enormous admiration for Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) and that admiration increased exponentially when I watched him led dozens of his congressional colleagues to sit-in on the floor of Congress to force a vote on gun control. As the supercilious Paul Ryan called for “decorum” (where ...
(Akiit.com) Last week the Supreme Court of the United States voted that President Obama exceeded his authority when he granted exemptions from the immigration laws passed by Congress. But the Supreme Court also exceeded its own authority by granting the University of Texas an exemption from the Constitution’s requirement of ...