(Akiit.com) A lot of people who have never been in a fistfight will tell you that you shouldn’t kick a man when he’s down. Baloney. That’s the best time to kick a man – before he can get up again and maybe put you on the ground – or in it. ...
(Akiit.com) A man I have known since grade school changed his name, years ago, to an Arabic one. He told me he rejected Christianity as “the white man’s religion that justified slavery.” He argued Africans taken out of that continent were owed reparations. “From whom?” I asked. Arab slavers took more ...
(Akiit.com) As a rule, we all tend to enjoy thinking of ourselves as enlightened, insightful, and able to perceive the truth, particularly when it comes to things like politics. But, with many people being more and more worried about echo chambers and biased reporting of the news in recent years, it’s ...
(Akiit.com) I’ve never met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year old New York activist, but I am surely looking forward to it. This giant-slayer of an organizer (she worked for Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2016 campaign) was out-spent, but certainly not out-worked, by her opponent, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY). Crowley had ...
(Akiit.com) Republicans are right to call for tough measures to deter illegal immigration — which means building the wall, ending the “catch and release” policy and challenging the harboring strategies of sanctuary cities. But where Republicans are wrong is in calling for strict caps and even reductions in legal immigration visas. ...
(Akiit.com) There’s no denying that there are some seriously weird things happening in this world. On a day to day basis, we’re seeing more and more change in the world, for both the better and the worse. Take the recent peace treaty signing between South Korea, and North Korea. It made ...
(Akiit.com) President Trump has proven adept at taming the regulatory state. One of his early executive orders directed the bureaucracy to eliminate three regulations for every new one put on the books. That has succeeded beyond everyone’s wildest dreams, with 22 regulations going into the shredder for every new entry in ...
(Akiit.com) A few weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in the Wayfair vs. South Dakota case. Last week, the Court sided with South Dakota in a narrow ruling to overturn their own precedent (Quill vs. North Dakota) that states cannot force businesses to collect ...
(Akiit.com) Ronald Reagan appointed Justice Anthony Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 11, 1987. In his nominating speech President Reagan described the U.S. Circuit Judge Kennedy as “a true conservative – one who believes that our constitutional system is one of enumerated power – that it is we, the ...
(Akiit.com) Black mothers are dying and it’s time to do something about it. Every year, more than 700 American mothers lose their lives to pregnancy or birth-related complications. Some medical professionals estimate that at least half, if not more, of these deaths are entirely preventable. While the deaths of 700-plus American ...
(Akiit.com) When the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was enacted in 1977, urban disinvestment, redlining and blockbusting were widespread across the country. Credit was also tight in rural communities where the mortgage needs of rural residents were mostly served by smaller banks. In both types of communities, little oversight paid attention to ...
(Akiit.com) Witnessing the political left’s increasing irrationality and aggressiveness is, in the obvious sense, discouraging, but on the bright side, it’s immensely clarifying. People with selective memories may be unaware, but the left’s extremism and fascism are nothing new. Donald Trump is not the root cause of its angst, nor is ...