(Akiit.com) WASHINGTON (AP) — A stopgap spending bill that’s needed to avert a government shutdown on Friday advanced in the Senate as lawmakers prepared to head for the exits for the midterm elections. The measure easily advanced, 83-15, Tuesday on a procedural vote that puts it on track to pass ...
(Akiit.com) What does one do with a woman who routinely obsesses about masturbation, drag queens, fetishes, Madonna and Britney Spears, nude sunbathing, psychics, freak dancing, and Lord of the Ring’s author J.R.R. Tolkien? Answer: You make them a Republican Senate candidate. The woman in question with the prurient interest in ...
(Akiit.com) It’s time for us to stop getting hysterical about every slur launched at the president. Nobody’s vote is going to be changed by crazy theories and veiled racial comments… I presume we all agree that Newt Gingrich’s latest charge against our president is so absurd that it doesn’t even ...
(Akiit.com) In September 2006 the headline of the Washington Post read “Fenty Prevails in Mayor’s Race.” The then-Ward 4 council member defeated council chair Linda Cropp in the Democratic primary 57 percent to 31 percent; winning all eight wards and every precinct in the District. A year later, Fenty, like ...
(Akiit.com) In his address to the American people from the Oval Office, President Obama spoke about “the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and the need to rebuild our nation here at home.” He stated that America’s future is “ours to shape” and ...
(Akiit.com) In the last few weeks much discussion regarding a unique matter involving race has surfaced within the African-American community. Such is the case, as President Barack Obama’s appearance on the daytime talk show, The View, in which he classified African Americans as a “mongrel people” has provoked feelings of ...
(Akiit.com) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – On Tuesday, Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council, or CEP as it is known by its French acronym, will disqualify some of the 34 people who have filed formal applications to become the next president for various reasons. In the past, the thinning of candidates was a routine ...
(Akiit.com) On Friday evening while celebrating a Ramadan Iftar dinner at the White House, President Obama did what any president should do. He defended the rights of Americans to practice their religion on America soil. The problem is that on Saturday, bowing to pressure from some Republicans and others, the ...
(Akiit.com) In the many months since the 2008 presidential election, an increasing number of those within the African-American community have begun to question whether the electing of the United States first African-American President, Barack Obama, has functioned to yield any significant results in regard to remedying the abject condition of ...
(Akiit.com) Men have to take their fair share of the blame in the gender breakdown because too many of us believe that it’s cool to tuck our emotions away. And too many of us think that having a discussion about feelings is for women and gay men. Consequently, our voice ...
(Akiit.com) My friend and I watched looters gleefully make mad dashes into the corner grocery store; their arms bulged with liquor bottles and cigarette cartons. Suddenly, my friend shouted out as if he was speaking to an audience, “Maybe now they’ll see how rotten they treat us.” The “they” was ...
(Akiit.com) After a nine-month investigation into alleged ethics violations against Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) the House Ethics Committee has released its report. The Committee has found that the congresswoman improperly used her office to assist OneUnited, a Massachusetts-based bank in receiving $12 million in federal bailout funds in December 2008. ...