Baseball Season – Get Outdoors

Friday, 29 May 2009, 14:59 | Category : Authors, Sports, Wink
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Yikes. Is it baseball season already? Wow, time to join in.
Yes, we know the season started many weeks back, but it takes a while for us to get warmed up. We mean ‘warmed up’ quite literally, because it can be stinking cold at those early season games, but all is well now, the weather [...]

Supreme Sotomayor? We Knew That!

Thursday, 28 May 2009, 6:36 | Category : Authors, Politics, Wink
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So Sonia Sotomayor is the Supreme Court nominee? Are you surprised? Not if your read Winkest Link. We called that more than two weeks ago. (“Supreme Court Pick” May 12, 2009)
Did our moles give us the inside scoop? Are we clairvoyant or did deductive reasoning lead us to that conclusion? What [...]

Memorial Day

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 18:42 | Category : Authors, Wink
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What did you do over Memorial Day? Have a picnic? Wash your car? Go shopping?
Most people don’t do much of any consequence. It is just a free day.
Some people visit gravesites to remember family members who have passed away. That is nice and we would encourage that.
There are a number of people [...]

Health Care – I Got Mine

Friday, 22 May 2009, 6:00 | Category : Authors, Politics, Wink
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Do you like specious arguments? If so, just bring up the issue of national healthcare with the average citizen. Be ready for red herrings galore:

It will ruin the current system
Drug companies will not be motivated to create new drugs
It will cost way more than our current system, because government is wasteful
We have [...]

Open vs. Opaque Government

Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 8:04 | Category : Authors, Bush, Obama, Politics, Wink
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The May 18 Winkest link article was obviously written several days before it was printed.
In it we wrote that the Defense Department, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, was going to release photos showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This did not happen. The Obama Administration [...]

Andrew McCarthy: Bonehead du Jour

Monday, 18 May 2009, 7:00 | Category : Authors, Obama, Politics, Wink
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In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Defense Department is going to release photos showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On the web site of the National Review, Andrew McCarthy, apparently a master of hyperbole, wrote “American soldiers, American civilians, and other innocent people are going [...]

Tragedy Strikes the NBA

Thursday, 14 May 2009, 7:18 | Category : Authors, Humor, Sports, Wink
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The NBA has produced many exciting moments this year, but only one situation that can be truly described as a tragedy.
In Orlando, during the playoffs, Magic fan Ernest Provetti had secured two seats right next to the Magic bench, in row one, to watch the game with his 12 year old son, Nicholas. [...]

GOP Struggles

Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 7:37 | Category : Authors, Politics, Wink
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A report shows that people, and especially women, are leaving the Republican Party. Why would they do that? Why would anyone struggle with Republican ideology? We have our own ideas, but today we will just pass along some random quotes from the blog world.
(Note: We have tidied up grammar and spelling [...]

Supreme Court Pick

Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 16:28 | Category : Authors, Wink
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Sonia Sotomayor will be the next Supreme Court Justice.
Write it down.

Electoral College, Part 2

Monday, 11 May 2009, 6:00 | Category : Politics
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If you read the October 6, 2008 Winkest Link* (titled, appropriately enough “Electoral College”) you will see that the editors of Winkest Link hate the Electoral College.
Hate it.
In the races for the Senate, for Congress, for governors and mayors, for city council, we just count up the votes. The person with the highest vote [...]