Month: August 2012

Path to the Senate

In the last few days, Missouri Congressman Todd Akin has undermined the Republicans’ ability to recapture the Senate on November 6th. By making the gaffe he made and by refusing to step aside, Akin has in many people’s minds cost us the Senate seat in Missouri. The Missouri seat should have been a cakewalk because incumbent Claire McCaskill has been polling double digits behind all three of the main Republican challenges, Akin, Steelman, and Brunner. Now, many on the Right have written off Missouri as far as the Senate is concerned. Assuming that’s true, there are a few more...

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The Record Breaking President

Maybe Tales from a tribble has  been wrong about all the criticism it has been giving President Obama.  Has there ever been a president with this many record breaking accomplishments? I haven’t seen any other blog give the president his just do, so Tales from a tribble will try and rectify that situation. Record breaking accomplishments of president Obama:   1. On August 5, 2011 for the first time in US history S&P lowered the credit rating of the United States to AA+, from AAA.  No other president in history can claim this happened on their watch…so fans of...

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The Nation Magazine’s Sexist Hypocrisy

We all know how tolerant progressives are, right? Here’s one of America’s leading progressive opinion journals, The Nation, proclaiming that, if you are a conservative woman breaking a long-enduring glass ceiling, your victory does not count. This Reason.com blog entry breaks it down and gives a link to the original article: The Nation: Condoleezza Rice Is Wrong Kind of Female to Break Gender Barrier at Augusta...

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