http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:18:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/05/sarah-palins-checkers-speech/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/05/sarah-palins-checkers-speech/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:24:22 +0000 Ken Edelstein http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/05/sarah-palins-checkers-speech/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/05/sarah-palins-checkers-speech/feed/ 3 A Republican war hero picks an inexperienced right-winger as his running mate. Questions quickly arise about the upstart VP candidate’s qualifications, and a scandal gets national media attention. But the running mate wows the party’s conservative base with a scrappy televised speech, turning the table with attacks on Democrats and the media. Sound familiar? Yeah, I’m talking [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/04/soapbox-palin-takes-the-stage/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/04/soapbox-palin-takes-the-stage/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:30:04 +0000 Web Editor http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/04/soapbox-palin-takes-the-stage/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/04/soapbox-palin-takes-the-stage/feed/ 0 Zac Farber, a junior at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., gives his impressions of the on-going Republican National Convention. Hurricane Gustav subsided, the Republicans were able to step off the political tightrope of balancing convention festivities with catastrophe sympathies Wednesday night and turn their efforts toward calming the storm surrounding their vice presidential nominee, Gov. [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/04/photo-of-the-day-prayer-for-palin/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/04/photo-of-the-day-prayer-for-palin/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:30:49 +0000 TL Pixley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/04/photo-of-the-day-prayer-for-palin/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/04/photo-of-the-day-prayer-for-palin/feed/ 0 The RNC is going strong now that weather patterns are no longer an issue. Also going strong are the multiple Palin controversies. But that didn’t stop the Republican VP candidate from presenting a speech invigorating to both right-wingers and the media. (Photo by Joeff Davis) Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/is-it-1980/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/is-it-1980/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:21:59 +0000 Ken Edelstein http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/is-it-1980/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/is-it-1980/feed/ 1 Just listened to Mitt “the Mittstigator” Romney’s speech and the Republican National Convention. He said something like: “We need change alright. We need to change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington.” Wait a sec. I’m confused. Fourteen years of a Republican Congress (out of the last 16), and eight years of Bush as president. [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/22/john-mccain-convention-parties/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/22/john-mccain-convention-parties/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:41:40 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/22/john-mccain-convention-parties/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/22/john-mccain-convention-parties/feed/ 4 James from ArcOfTime popped my Obama bubble in a previous post’s comments and reminded me that there are indeed parties planned in the metro Atlanta area to watch John McCain speak at the Republican National Convention. Click here to see all the McCain events within a 100-mile radius of CL’s Communist stronghold. (I tried 25 miles [...]