(Akiit.com) If America’s competitors intentionally tried designing a tax system to destroy the American economy, they probably couldn’t come up with a better plan than the way the United States currently taxes its own businesses. To fully appreciate the stupidity of the American corporate tax, consider this simple example: If you ...
(Akiit.com) In some ten days, we will have the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. There can be no doubt that the election of Mr. Trump enabled a philosophical stay of execution for America. In these past eight years, we have been heading down the failed road of progressive socialism, which ...
(Akiit.com) Actress Meryl Streep’s political diatribe at the Golden Globes awards isn’t the only surprise attention-getting provocation from the event. Nominee film “Hidden Figures,” a box-office hit about the true story of three black women mathematicians who played important roles at NASA in the early days of the space program, is ...
(Akiit.com) I have been thinking about the controversy surrounding so-called fake news, much of which has been discussed in connection with the November 2016 elections. It is important to understand that “fake news” is a form of propaganda called “black propaganda.” Black propaganda refers to information that is manufactured to appear ...
(Akiit.com) SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement following the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be U.S. Attorney General: “For decades, America’s working families and communities of color have struggled to build a better life in an economic and political system that favors ...
(Akiit.com) In Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant wrote: “…knowledge therefore of every understanding, or at least of the human understanding, must be by means of concepts, not intuitive, but discursive.” With the start of anything new, there is always an opportunity to improve and avoid the mistakes of the ...
(Akiit.com) NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks issued the following statement opposing the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions as potential Attorney General: “America yet stands at the beginning of presidential administration but also in the middle of a Twitter age civil rights movement based on old divisions. Senator Jefferson Beauregard ...
(Akiit.com) Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron and Muslim Advocates Executive Director Farhana Khera, who is also a member of AFJ’s Board of Directors, raised serious concerns about Sen. Jeff Sessions, whose most recent supplement to his Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ) confirms that he delivered speeches to a hate group in ...
(Akiit.com) Buy American and hire American – those are the two rules the Trump administration will follow, says the president-elect. What’s surprising is that this isn’t government policy already. We’ve traditionally used government procurement in projects ranging from infrastructure to national defense to build the economy, promote innovation and lift ...
(Akiit.com) While people are being critical of President Obama as he leaves office, some of us wish he had been more like he has been in the last six weeks of his presidency during the entire eight years. He has been very active in the last month, and he has ...
(Akiit.com) You probably heard of stories of people who have sold their houses for cash. Or you have seen posters and online advertisements that say, “We Buy Houses For Cash in 7 Days”. Enticing isn’t it? These people are commonly known as cash home buyers, the home buyers, or real estate ...
(Akiit.com) I desperately called on my dear mother. Across the chasm of her death nearly 20 years ago, she reminded me of what she said to me and to her many children nearly sixty years ago. I felt her spirit moving within me. I was strengthened. Now, I can go on. ...