(Akiit.com) There has been a strange response by many White conservatives to the separation of migrant children from their parents. Whether we are discussing undocumented migrants or those requesting asylum, there has been rightwing pushback to the larger chorus of condemnation of the Trump administration for its zero tolerance. These right-wingers ...
(Akiit.com) Donald Trump voters are so fed up with fake news about the president that they’re willing to dismiss real news. Trump supporters view the latest revelation of Michael Cohen’s secret tape recordings where he discussed payments to former Playboy model Karen McDougal as more evidence of a media that’s out ...
(Akiit.com) “Democracy demands that we’re able to also get inside the reality of people who are different than us, so we can understand their point of view. Maybe we can change their minds, maybe they’ll change ours.” That was Barack Obama speaking in South Africa on the 100th anniversary of Nelson ...
(Akiit.com) The crusading journalist, Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862. Although she made her mark as a journalist, she was also a social worker, advocate, feminist, and organization leader. She too often gets short shrift in history, mainly because she did not go along to get along with ...
(Akiit.com) This week, The Washington Post published an op-ed headlined “It’s not wrong to compare Trump’s America to the Holocaust.” As with similar examples of this genre, it’s a sickening display of moral relativism that belittles the suffering and murder of millions in the service of some shortsighted and crass partisan ...
(Akiit.com) As people, it is necessary for us to have our own beliefs and thoughts on all sorts of subjects to do with life. Some of these opinions can be voiced regularly, especially when it comes to things like politics. Other times we may not really voice it though fear of ...
(Akiit.com) It is already all over the “fake news” that President Trump openly criticized the FBI and the rest of America’s intelligence community during his meeting in Helsinki this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Except that it wasn’t fake news, the president actually went on live television on foreign soil ...
(Akiit.com) The 2018 midterms are fast approaching, and Democrats are still crowing about the coming “blue wave.” If past is precedent, I suspect that this is just media-fueled propaganda (remember Hillary Clinton’s 98 percent certainty of winning the presidency?). There has been recent news about how Democrats lead Republicans in voter registrations by ...
(Akiit.com) As long as I can remember, women have been complaining about gender discrimination. What surprises me is seeing so many women in the street protesting one thing or the other. Yet, we have no Equal Rights Amendment. We complain about sex discrimination. Many women spend their early married years supporting ...
(Akiit.com) Last week was not a good one for anti-Trumpers, who include virtually all Democrats and most establishment Republicans. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein picked last Friday, just three days before President Trump was scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to announce the indictment of a dozen Russian intelligence ...
(Akiit.com) Hillary Clinton still thinks she is relevant. This week Hillary spoke in Pittsburg to the American Federation of Teachers. Since her 2016 lost to an utterly political outsider in President Trump, Hillary has not swayed far from the opportunity to make news headlines or receive a cool $250,000 just for ...
(Akiit.com) When Donald Trump started running for the Republican nomination for president in June 2015, he began by attacking the Republican establishment in Washington, and he began his attack by calling the establishment “the swamp.” His real target was the permanent government and its enablers in the legal, financial, diplomatic and ...