President Joe Biden Lets His True Self Show.
June 20, 2021 by Staff
Filed under Education, Money/Business, News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) The public image of Joe Biden is the affable dunce, a sort of Mr. Magoo wandering through the day. As others around him engage in shady activities and make money from questionable, to put it mildly, activities Joe claims no knowledge of. He just skates through life trying to do the right thing, […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci and His Enemies.
June 20, 2021 by Staff
Filed under Health, News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) Ever since the Republican Party devolved into a wholly owned subsidiary of former President Donald Trump, it is increasingly preoccupied with conspiracy theories and smear campaigns. For Trump himself, as well as such Trump operatives as Roger Stone, smears and conspiracies define politics, rather than policy or principle. Over the past few years, […]
Is the U.S. Postal Service going to survive?
June 19, 2021 by Staff
Filed under Money/Business, News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) I don’t know about you, but I spend too much time going through my mail. It was not mail I was expecting, but mail that only can be described as JUNK! Just before I started to write this, I went through the mail that was delivered to my home in one day – […]
The Myth of ‘GOP’ Obstructionism.
June 18, 2021 by Staff
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) The political media have spent the entire Joe Biden presidency up to this point pressuring holdout moderate Democrats to join the left’s efforts to destroy the legislative filibuster. One way they do this is by cobbling together revisionist histories that cast Republicans as uniquely obstructionist and undemocratic. CNN’s White House correspondent John Harwood […]
The ‘Democrats’ Trapped in Progressive Echo Chamber.
June 16, 2021 by Staff
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) The reason Democrats in Washington are increasingly frustrated is because their legislative ambitions far outstrip their congressional majorities. They have no majority at all in the U.S. Senate — it is evenly divided, 50-50, between Republicans and Democrats — and depend on Vice President Kamala Harris to break ties. They have a tiny […]