No links in sidebar menu

I just started using wordpress so there may be something simple I’ve overlooked, but I’ve copy and pasted the code from the codex pages and the archive and categories show up in the menu but they have no link. I’ve searched and found plenty of threads that talk about permalinks and such where the links are broken, but I haven’t seen any threads that talk about the links missing all together. Here is my site so you can inspect the code.

http://TreeofLifeStairs.com/whatsnew/

Any help would be appreciated even if it’s just a link to a thread that takes care of this issue.