(Akiit.com) However great the shock of the massacre in Orlando, it is only a matter of time before we start hearing again the fact-free dogma that “diversity is our strength.” If there is any place in the Guinness Book of World Records for words repeated the most often, over the ...
(Akiit.com) What Constitutional authority gives Obama the power to dictate that all schools in the United States make their bathrooms available to everyone according to their self-proclaimed so-called gender identity juxtaposed to the biological sex they were born? What Constitutional authority allows Obama to deny funds to schools that refuse ...
(Akiit.com) Muhammad Ali was, among other things, a proud Black man. He embraced his Blackness, and often referred to it. He is often quoted for saying he had no quarrel with the Vietcong, but less frequently quoted for saying, in the very next sentence, “the Vietcong never called me a ...
(Akiit.com) “If not for the teachers that I had at PS 276 in Canarsie and Mark Twain Junior High School in Coney Island, New York, I would not be alive today. Maybe I’d be in jail today. But those teachers, they chose to invest in me and to see hope ...
(Akiit.com) June is National Soul Food Month so I’m sharing a few quick thoughts on how to make it a little healthier. Merriam-Webster.com defines soul food as, “the type of food traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the southern U.S.” I define it as the food I grew up on. Growing ...
(Akiit.com) When you run a small business, it’s easy to view bigger competitors as unbeatable. But that’s not necessarily the case. Throughout history, there have been many small businesses that have wiped out larger rivals. It takes creativity and cunning but it can be certainly be done. That’s not to ...
(Akiit.com) More and more Americans are heading to college every single. If you’re one of the aspiring academics preparing to start your course later this year, you’ll already be counting down the days. It won’t be long until you become a freshman. Higher Education is a wonderful time for developing ...
(Akiit.com) One thing that everyone is looking for when running a company is higher levels of profits. When we open a business and start it out on the market, we want it to be as profitable and productive as possible. The easiest and best way to boost business revenue is ...
(Akiit.com) Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky’s velvet glove sentence of 6 months, of which he’ll serve only three months, to former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner after his rape conviction was no aberration. The case of Brian Banks, falsely convicted or rape, and who served five years, before exoneration, was ...
(Akiit.com) Hillary Clinton must be cringing right now. This has been a bad week for the Democratic presidential frontrunner. First, the FBI announced an investigation into potentially illegal donations made to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for governor and fundraising he did for the Clinton Foundation. Next, the State Department ...
(Akiit.com) The danger that Rep. Donald Trump, practitioner of questionable business practices, inveterate bully, racist, sexist, demagogue and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president of the United States, presents to American society was never more evident than in how he behaved last week amid a flurry of negative news ...
(Akiit.com) Muhammad Ali wasn’t just the greatest boxer ever, he was my father. I remember when I was around seven years old, he would come into my room and sit on the side of my bed and tuck me in before leaving for his big match. He had a tightly ...