http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/09/whats-nathans-deal-with-birther-probe/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/09/whats-nathans-deal-with-birther-probe/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:22:09 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=27340 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/09/whats-nathans-deal-with-birther-probe/feed/ 1 Nathan Deal shows that in today's GOP, the inmates are running the asylum http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/08/u-s-rep-paul-broun-congressional-time-waster/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/08/u-s-rep-paul-broun-congressional-time-waster/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:28:41 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=24682 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/08/u-s-rep-paul-broun-congressional-time-waster/feed/ 2 During time of war, high unemployment and weakening of America's global position, congressman worries about Pledge of Allegiance recited in Spanish http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/06/29/rep-paul-broun-makes-georgia-proud-%e2%80%94-again/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/06/29/rep-paul-broun-makes-georgia-proud-%e2%80%94-again/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:50:25 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=21617 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/06/29/rep-paul-broun-makes-georgia-proud-%e2%80%94-again/feed/ 0 Rep. Paul Broun shames Georgia with his views on climate change http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/11/paul-broun-compares-obama-to-hitler/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/11/paul-broun-compares-obama-to-hitler/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:13:42 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=8966 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/11/paul-broun-compares-obama-to-hitler/feed/ 33 Paul Broun manages the miraculous feat of getting stupider. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/perdue-supports-big-spender-wags-finger-at-local-governments/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/perdue-supports-big-spender-wags-finger-at-local-governments/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:14:04 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/perdue-supports-big-spender-wags-finger-at-local-governments/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/perdue-supports-big-spender-wags-finger-at-local-governments/feed/ 1 Are you a U.S. Congressman who’s careless with your spending? Gov. Sonny Perdue understands and he wants to help. But if you’re a city or county, well, in that case, you were reckless and had it coming. U.S. Rep. Paul Broun recently made the news thanks to a congressional report that says the Republican congressman’s office [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/morning-headlines-94/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/morning-headlines-94/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:24:10 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/morning-headlines-94/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/morning-headlines-94/feed/ 0 RUNSOFF: Jim Martin and Vernon Jones will face off in a runoff Aug. 5 to determine who faces Saxby Chambliss in November; Burrell Ellis and Stan Watson will also have a runoff in the DeKalb CEO race; the Fulton County sheriff’s race will be running off to decide whether incumbent Myron Freeman or retired FBI [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/11/broun-im-more-jesus-y-than-my-opponent/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/11/broun-im-more-jesus-y-than-my-opponent/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:51:01 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/11/broun-im-more-jesus-y-than-my-opponent/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/11/broun-im-more-jesus-y-than-my-opponent/feed/ 1 10th Congressional District Republican incumbent Rep. Paul Broun is loud and proud when it comes to Jesus. Last year he promised to subject all legislation that passes his desk to a Biblical test Yesterday, Broun pushed his overbearing Jesusness to new levels of stupidity when he accused his opponent, State Rep. Barry Fleming, R-Harlem, of not [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/07/broun-to-military-no-more-tax-funded-masturbation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/07/broun-to-military-no-more-tax-funded-masturbation/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 00:29:38 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/07/broun-to-military-no-more-tax-funded-masturbation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/07/broun-to-military-no-more-tax-funded-masturbation/feed/ 2 A pointless, brutal war and serial violations of the Geneva Conventions are apparently not the only things staining the honor of U.S. military personnel. According to Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, government-assisted masturbation (in the form of pornographic magazine sales at military facilities) is “denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad.” To protect America’s [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/16/broun-trying-to-abort-re-election-hopes/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/16/broun-trying-to-abort-re-election-hopes/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:46:01 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/16/broun-trying-to-abort-re-election-hopes/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/16/broun-trying-to-abort-re-election-hopes/feed/ 0 The knock against Paul Broun, when he first began gaining on state Sen. Jim Whitehead for the GOP nomination in the 10th District congressional race earlier this year, was that he was a wing-nut social conservative who wouldn’t play ball in the compromise-fraught world of politics. Not even four months in office, Broun seems intent on [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/27/broun-is-far-out-man/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/27/broun-is-far-out-man/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:17:14 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/27/broun-is-far-out-man/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/27/broun-is-far-out-man/feed/ 0 On his very first morning as the newest member of Congress, Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, managed to piss off a goodly number of his conservative constituents by being the only Georgia Republican to vote in favor of allowing medical marijuana use. The Democrat-backed measure would have prevented the feds from busting pot clinics in California and [...]