(Akiit.com) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will hold a vote on a bill codifying abortion’s legality so that voters, he contends, can “see where every senator stands.” Though Schumer believes this is a political slam dunk for Democrats, it presents a magnificent opportunity for Republicans to make their case. Though ...
(Akiit.com) Speaker Nancy Pelosi went to the House floor Sept. 24, 2021, to express her support for a bill that would enshrine a “right” to abortion in federal law. “For years, radical restrictions on women’s reproductive health freedoms have been pushed across the nation, with 2021 on track to be ...
(Akiit.com) One way to shut down debate on a contentious subject is to declare that there is no debate on the subject. Everyone, absolutely everyone, agrees with one side, so why are you even trying to argue? It’s settled. The Biden administration is doing that now on what officials call ...
(Akiit.com) This week, an anonymous leaker violated generations of Supreme Court norms by passing on to Politico a draft decision by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Mississippi, the case considering overturning Roe v. Wade (1973). That draft decision, reportedly supported by a majority of the Court including Justices Clarence ...
(Akiit.com) I don’t know about you, but I am sometimes confused about circumstances that dictate our compliance and action, and what those appropriate actions must/should be. COVID created that type of conundrum for me and millions of others. The 81 million U.S. COVID cases and the 990,000 American COVID-related deaths ...
(Akiit.com) When the House of Representatives convened for a three-minute session on Monday, the proceedings opened with a written statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “I hereby appoint the Honorable Andy Kim to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day,” Pelosi declared. As recorded by C-SPAN, Kim, empowered by ...
(Akiit.com) America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters. Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care. The once secure border of 2020 vanished. Two-million ...
(Akiit.com) It is beyond ironic that, at the very same time Disney is using all its might to oppose Florida’s Education Bill (falsely named the “Don’t Say Gay Bill”), Warner Bros. has announced that it will not say gay in China. Specifically, the Hollywood giant has stated that it will ...
(Akiit.com) Whenever the history of racial discrimination in the United States appears to repeat itself, it produces predictable rhymes and sometimes tragic social consequences. Mark Twain, Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison all had one thing in common as visionary authors. They used their pens to offer literary ...
(Akiit.com) I guess you could mark me down as a “climate change skeptic.” I’m not a climate scientist, so I have no expertise on what is happening with the planet’s temperature or severe weather events that can wreak havoc on life and property. I am skeptical that “collective action” through ...
(Akiit.com) It’s not often you see a grown man slap another man. If you’re going to violence, men will generally punch other men. When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock for telling a bad joke (“bad” as in not funny and dated, not beyond the pale in terms of taste), it ...
(Akiit.com) The days of marijuana prohibition may soon be over as the House of Representatives is prepared to vote on the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act this Monday. If passed, the MORE Act will federally legalize marijuana throughout the country. Despite failed efforts to advance this bill in ...