By Kasson
Yesterday President Obama went to Norway to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize. He spent 26 hours there, long line I guess, these days they seem giving them out to everybody. He get’s to Norway and prepares to deliver his acceptance speech.
What will he talk about? Well it is the Nobel Peace Prize, so [...]
By Wink
Like him or don’t like him, you can’t say President Obama hasn’t done anything since he took office. Here is a partial list, as of August 2009.
I did not compile this, as I am far too lazy. This was put together by Robert Watson, Ph.D., the Coordinator of American Studies at Lynn University.
By Cessna
“Liberals” have pretty much been on the right side of every major issue in the history of this country.
Ending slavery. Medicare. Social Security. Voting rights. Every one fiercely opposed by conservatives.
Those soft-hearted liberals were against going to war in Vietnam and Iraq. Those ventures both went well, didn’t they?
Now liberals [...]
By Wink
Sometimes I am really naïve. I thought my July 22 article about Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship would not be controversial. Let me synopsize:
1) Obama is a U.S. citizen
2) Anyone who says he isn’t is an idiot
Some of the responses were fun, but not Matt’s. Matt is [...]
By Wink
As everybody knows by now, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, a top African-American scholar, was arrested on July 16 and accused of disorderly conduct after police responded to a report of a possible burglary at his Cambridge home.
None of us were there, but we can probably guess what happened. The policeman, responding [...]
By Wink
The Senate has voted to block expansion of one of the country’s most controversial and expensive defense programs, the F-22 fighter jet. The vote gave the White House and Pentagon a key victory over congressional supporters of the F-22, many of whom represent states and districts where jobs are tied to the production of [...]
By Wink
The conspiracy nuts are always with us…
JFK had multiple killers. The moon landing was faked. Israel crashed those jets into the twin towers. The Holocaust didn’t happen. On and on they go.
I don’t really understand the pathetic people who continue to push these conspiracies, except for those whose sole desire is to sell books.( [...]
By Wink
How much influence does the Surgeon General of the U.S. have? Precious little, I think. It always seemed to me more ceremonial than functional. I imagine seeing the budget for this position would make me cry.
I guess being a ‘spokesman’ is a job. Previous ones have spoken out against smoking and in favor of [...]
By Wink
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 [...]
By Wink
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 [...]
