(Akiit.com) Walking onto the floor of the new Congress must’ve been like visiting the planet of Tatooine where Obi-Wan Kenobi stumbled into a hive of misfits in that Star Wars cantina bar scene. There was the Israel-hating Rep. Rashida “Impeach The Mother**ker” Tlaib (D-Mich.), who defiantly said after bipartisan criticism, “The ...
(Akiit.com) “You want our vote, come get our vote.” – Angela Lang, executive director, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities The nation recently experienced a midterm election of historic dimensions: more than 47% of eligible voters cast a ballot in November – the highest percentage since 1966. Black voter participation drove were a ...
(Akiit.com) If for some strange reason you didn’t already know how much the liberal media hates President Trump, you found out this week. The Trump Hate Machine got revved up even before the president gave his national prime-time address Tuesday night about what he called “the growing humanitarian and security crisis ...
(Akiit.com) Now that the mid-terms are over, and the new Congress has started, political observers have already started to focus on the 2020 presidential campaign. Every election cycle it begins earlier, especially in this case, because the Democrats and their supporters in the media are obsessed with defeating President Donald Trump. ...
(Akiit.com) President Trump continues to refine the substance behind the “Wall” meme he has used so effectively to dramatize the urgent need to regain control of our nation’s southern border. In an article I wrote in January of last year, I observed and supported his efforts to do so: “Whatever anxiety ...
(Akiit.com) In 1986, on her award-winning “Control” album, singer-songwriter Janet Jackson asked: “What have you done for me lately?” This is a question the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is asked a lot. Well, here’s our latest answer to that question: Since its founding in 1971, the CBC has used the legislative ...
(Akiit.com) It’s not unusual to find Black women who, despite the odds, make us proud. 2018 was no different. There were many who did just that. Black women in politics opened many new doors, ran in many areas across the country, who won and helped others win. We’ve come a long ...
(Akiit.com) Mitt Romney’s declaration of independence from Donald Trump as he takes his seat in the U.S. Senate has been illuminating — more for the responses than the op-ed itself. Professional speculators are asking whether it’s the opening gambit of a 2020 primary challenge (his denials notwithstanding) or mere virtue signaling. ...
(Akiit.com) Two days before he was sworn in as Utah’s junior U.S. senator, Mitt Romney published an op-ed in The Washington Post, publicly broadcasting, once again, his disapproval of President Donald Trump. Disappointing, but not surprising. Something seems to compel those in the never-Trump crowd not only to perpetually obsess over ...
(Akiit.com) On Christmas Eve in 1818, exactly 200 years ago, Austrian Priest Father Joseph Mohr and his parish music director, Franz Gruber unveiled the Christmas Carol “Stille Nacht”- Silent Night. The first performance at the Church of St. Nicholas was met with “the general approval of all” according to writings of ...
(Akiit.com) I will never forget the first time I realize that Barack Obama was clueless about the Middle East. I was traveling in the US during the 2008 campaign. An Obama commercial stuck with me like a bone in my throat. In speaking about the Middle East he said something to ...
(Akiit.com) By the time you read this, you’ll know whether the federal government has been partially shut down for the holidays. You’ll also know whether Donald Trump had the political courage and brains to do what Republicans running Congress have failed to do for two years– put their butts on the ...