Keep an Eye on Hillary Clinton.
January 20, 2022 by Staff
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) Last week, while reading The Wall Street Journal, I came across an op-ed piece that for a moment led me to believe that the sober and serious Journal was opening a comics section. Why not? If the Journal executes “the funnies” as competently as it covers serious news, I can see it earning […]
Joe Biden administration needs to do better.
January 20, 2022 by Staff
Filed under Health, News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) The Biden administration fumbled the ball. Big time. As a presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden heavily criticized then President Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. I expected more (let’s be honest, the bar was set really low) from President Joe Biden, and he seemed to expect government to do more […]
Will this be D.C.’s last March for Life?
January 19, 2022 by Staff
Filed under Health, News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) After a COVID-19 driven timeout last year, March for Life returns this year to Washington, D.C., for the 49th year, noting the anniversary of and support to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision of Jan. 22, 1973. This began the era of legal abortion in the USA. A high turnout is expected Friday […]
Hospitals, Stop Hiding Your Prices.
January 18, 2022 by Staff
Filed under Health, Money/Business, News, Politics, Tech/Internet, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) Most people using hospital services must sign a form indicating that they will pay whatever their health insurance doesn’t. Federal transparency rules can help defend us against the consequence of that signature. Federal price transparency rules require hospitals to post all negotiated rates, including cash prices for the uninsured, every single commercial insurance […]
Joe Biden Should Declare NATO Membership Closed.
January 18, 2022 by Staff
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) In 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a U.S.-backed coup that ousted a pro-Russian regime in Kyiv by occupying Crimea, President Barack Obama did nothing. When Putin aided secessionists in the Donbass in seizing Luhansk and Donetsk, once again, Obama did nothing. Why did we not come to the military assistance […]