(Akiit.com) Two weeks ago Dr. Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist and the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Kentucky, appeared on the Rachel Maddow show to clarify statements he had made, which seemed to suggest that he would have opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For 20 minutes Paul and Maddow ...
(Akiit.com) The world’s a mess; war is everywhere. To set things straight, the president needs to stop indulging in magical thinking and face some hard realities in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. For starters… Sometimes I wonder if President Obama reads too many Ben Okri novels. As we transform from a ...
(Akiit.com) In Washington, commentators ironically label the Obama administration’s oil spill strategy as “too much, too late.” Lt. Gen. Russell Honore (ret.), himself a black Creole from the very communities facing this catastrophe, lamented that it’s not merely a way of life being destroyed on the Gulf. It’s lives, measured ...
(Akiit.com) Artur Davis should have learned a lesson or two from Barack Obama. Since Obama’s triumph in the 2008 presidential campaign politicians have heralded American politics’ entrance into a post-racial age. In many ways this is true: America in all her diversity and despite her difficult history, has finally fulfilled ...
(Akiit.com) Even some of the most vicious criminals have a code of honor. No matter how much you hate your rival, you never attack his wife or children.The same can be true for most politicians and political commentators, who typically have enough decency to realize that your children have nothing ...
(Akiit.com) This one could have been mailed in. Sarah Palin predictably knocked President Obama for, as she put it, failing to “dive in there” and solve the Gulf spill disaster. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and a rash of GOP senators were slightly more grammatically intelligible but still pounced on Obama ...
(Akiit.com) As tens of thousands of barrels of oil cause irreversible damage to shores of the Gulf of Mexico, this messy spill can’t come close to matching the massive political slop that will cover the Obama presidency as a result of this catastrophe. Attacks are coming from the right, left ...
(Akiit.com) I don’t dislike Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat. He claims to believe in freedom, and he’s from Kentucky, just like me. But growing up under the fist of Kentucky racism affected me, and Rand Paul reminds me of the men and women who hurt ...
(Akiit.com) Two legislative initiatives recently signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer have brought to the national forefront a conservative driven agenda that many critics say is racist in one instance, and in the other, an attempt to set back advances in educational diversity. On April 23, Senate Bill ...
(Akiit.com) The U.S. Senate recently reduced the sentencing disparities for possession of powder cocaine and crack, from 100-1 to 18-1. That’s hardly progress… The U.S. Senate recently reduced the sentencing disparities for possession of powder cocaine and crack, from 100-1 to 18-1. That’s hardly progress. Nothing symbolizes the conflicted state ...
(Akiit.com) Activists say the Obama administration has placed the war on terror above democracy in the Horn of Africa. Activists say the Obama administration has placed the war on terror above democracy in the Horn of Africa. Chris Flaherty, an American documentary film producer who’s married to a woman from ...
(Akiit.com) His nominee for the high court is qualified, but why weren’t more black women considered? His nominee for the high court is qualified, but why weren’t more black women considered? President Barack Obama needed only to look across his dinner table each evening or in the bed next to ...