(Akiit.com) Among the more noteworthy (if not newsworthy) events taking place since the Nov. 8 election have included the political left telegraphing its intention to push back against President-Elect Donald Trump’s policies based on issues that were central to Trump’s campaign. This is excluding the editorializing of the establishment press and ...
(Akiit.com) Imagine if Donald Trump got two million more votes than Hillary Clinton, but by some fluke of Electoral College math, Clinton won. What would Trump be saying? The answer is easy: He’d be saying what he said weeks before Election Day: That the election was rigged against him. Why the ...
(Akiit.com) A series of developments following the Wells Fargo scandal has now led to the introduction of legislation designed to bring financial justice to the millions of consumers affected by fees and fraudulent accounts they never authorized, nor opened. On December 1, Ohio U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, introduced a bill that ...
(Akiit.com) Democrats and the media claim that President-elect Donald Trump is giving a platform to “white supremacists” – but the facts show otherwise. Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton’s campaign director of communications, recently repeated these accusations at a Harvard forum that became a heated debate with Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. ...
(Akiit.com) There was fury when former BET founder and financial mogul Bob Johnson urged African-Americans to give President-Elect Trump a “shot” and “the benefit of the doubt.” Johnson was lambasted with a slew of printable and unprintable epitaphs from many blacks who raged at him for daring to say such ...
(Akiit.com) I was sitting at a Starbucks trying to mind my own business and right next to me two individuals were discussing the aftermath of the November 8th presidential elections. At one point, they began discussing the protests that have spontaneously spread across the United States in the aftermath of Donald ...
(Akiit.com) “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”— George Santayana It is imperative we study and learn our history. History is the prologue to the present. We live in volatile times. Stay alert, keep your eyes and ears open, remain open minded yet skeptical (I know ...
(Akiit.com) Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is right to back a vote recount in the three states, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that gave Donald Trump the White House. But there’s a big but after that. First, here’s why she’s right to support the recount and how it will work. She conceded ...
(Akiit.com) Here is the full hideous point by point list of the major votes of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions on civil rights issues complete with the dates he torpedoed them. Banning the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. (Jan 2006) Voted NO on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. (Feb 2013) Voted ...
(Akiit.com) You’re excited, you’ve done your time and are trying to get your life on track by applying for a life changing job. You checked the mailbox and received a letter from an employer stating, “Thank you for applying but at this time, we are going in a different direction. ...
(Akiit.com) Donald Trump’s surprise win has millions of Americans, many of whom are black, in a tizzy. Many, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, are writing about what it means to be black during a Trump administration even though Trump’s presidency has yet to begin. My argument has always been that the ...
(Akiit.com) While watching the third presidential debate, I found myself screaming at Donald Trump when he addressed Chris Wallace’s questions regarding his Supreme Court appointments. Donald Trump, I assumed, fell into the litmus test trap when he answered Wallace’s first question on gun rights. Trump said, “We are going to ...