The Winkest Link

By Wink Can we stop with the name-calling already? This is seventh-grade stuff… On ‘Fox and Friends’ Hank Williams Jr. recently called President Obama ‘Hitler.’ Really Hank, Hitler? Do you know who Hitler was? What he did? Pull your head out. You have the right to free speech, Hank. You won’t go to jail for [...]

By Wink Thomas Sowell of the Creators Syndicate wants Rush Limbaugh to sue somebody. He is quickly becoming my favorite columnist. Apparently when the Winkest Link honored Sowell with the prestigious “Bonehead Du Jour” Award (Feb 19, 2009) he became obsessed with trying to be the first two-time winner. Now he is saddened because he [...]

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 a very serious person, [...]

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 [...]

With the work of one little Civil War, what began as slavery was reduced all the way down to systematic racism. Which is pretty much where we have been since the Civil War.   Light a small candle in memory of those who suffered through these two stages of life in America. To those who [...]