By Wink You have heard about the $16 muffins, haven’t you? Some government organization somewhere held a conference at a nearby hotel, and they were charged $16 for each and every muffin that they ate. Sixteen dollar muffins! Horrible! This is a classic story of how all government is wasteful, and all tax dollars are [...]
By Wink GOP legislators in 40 states have introduced bills to make it harder to vote. The stated objective is to stop ‘voter fraud.’ Many of these bills have already passed. Why are Republicans doing this? Why not Democrats? Isn’t voter fraud bad? Don’t Dems think voter fraud would be bad? Yeah, they would think [...]
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 I can’t predict the future. Heck, sometimes I even have a hard time predicting the PAST. I have no idea whether or not Sonia Sotomayor will be an especially effective Supreme Court Justice. I know anybody can be a racist, but I really don’t get the feeling that Judge Sotomayor is. While I [...]
By Wink 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 where [...]
Written by Ike This may not come as a shock to anyone, at all, anywhere, but Rush Limbaugh recently demanded the former Secretary of State Colin Powell join the Democratic Party because he (Powell) did not vote for the same person that Limbaugh did. Rush reiterated that Powell’s endorsement of then-Senator Obama was based entirely [...]
The Republican Party likes to think of itself as the staunch defenders of all that is right with America. They are standing strong as defenders of liberty and morality, and all that is just. There is only one thing wrong with this. They do not stand strong. They have no spine. Three Republican leaders, in [...]
“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell even claimed that government spending didn’t get us out of the Great Depression. What does he think did? Tax cuts? New Deal programs reduced unemployment nearly in half (if you include government jobs) and the Depression ended when the government intervened heavily in the economy at the onset of WWII.” [...]
