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NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal diverged from the red meat attacks on President Obama that have characterized the Republican Leadership Conference to caution conservative activists that they ought not demonize the president in the fashion some liberals did President Bush. Jindal recalled what he said were the "shrill, absurd and negative rhetoric" employed by the left during the eight years Bush was in office. "We must not mimic their shallow approach," he said to modest applause in a Friday afternoon speech here. Jindal, who just turned 40, is up for re-election this fall and is widely assumed by...

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one of the more controversial bills from the recent legislative session, one allowing guns to be carried into houses of worship. Jindal's office said Tuesday the governor acted on the bill in the past few days after receiving it June 20. Including the "gun-in-church" bill, House Bill 1272 by Rep. Henry Burns, R-Haughton, Jindal has signed into law 940 of the 1,067 bills the Legislature sent him, vetoed 12, and used his pen to line-item spending measures in four different budget bills.

I called Bobby Rush's (D-IL) office in Washington to express my opinion of HR 45, Rush's sweeping gun control legislation. I told his staffer politely that I understood why Bobby Rush, a convicted criminal (illegal gun possession) who lost his own right to possess firearms, might resent their possession by law-abiding people. The staffer hung up on me without even saying goodbye, and before I could tell him that law-abiding Americans are not interested in a common criminal's opinion as to whether they should be allowed to own firearms. This suggests that common criminal Bobby Rush, a former member of...

Bobby Rush, a former member of an organization known for killing police officers, doesn't want honest people to own gunsWe have written here frequently about the importance of the Second Amendment in the defense of the United States against militant "Muslims" and other terrorists. Although militant "Muslims" feel free to perpetrate rampant violence and gang rape in Europe, these practices are far less frequent here because of the widespread private ownership of firearms. Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL), a former Black Panther and a convicted felon whose illegal possession of firearms lost him his own right to own firearms, has proposed...

IS THIS THE ONE? CAN Bobby Jindal remove "EXCALIBUR" from the rock of the republican party and lead us to the promise land in 2012? YOU decide: http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Bobby_Jindal.htm

The animated mainstay "King of the Hill," the second longest lasting animated prime time cartoon, won't go beyond its 13-episode 14th season next year, Fox said. The creation of Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, which will reach its 250th season this season, "King of the Hill" concerns a Texas family led by Hank Hill and a wife who looks suspiciously like Sarah Palin. Its well observed stories and relatively subtle humor increasingly set it apart from the more blunt and outlandish Sunday night Fox cartoons like "Family Guy," "American Dad" and the impending "Cleveland Show." Cancellation is something that has...

Is Gov. Bobby Jindal at odds with LSU? Better put, does Jindal have a beef with LSU system president John V. Lombardi, or vice versa? Those are fair questions to ask in light of the governor's recent appointments to the LSU Board of Supervisors, a powerful board that's responsible for setting the direction of the state's flagship university. The new men on the block, or Jindal's appointments, are R. Blake Chatelain of Alexandria and James W. Moore of Monroe. If confirmed by the state Senate, Chatelain and Moore will represent the 5th District on the LSU board, or the two...

Breaking News from Louisiana: BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal announced today that he has vetoed the legislative pay raise. After days of saying he would not reject the unpopular measure, Jindal said this morning that he had rejected the measure. Lawmakers in the most recent session voted to raise their annual base salary from $16,800 to $37,500. Jindal has been criticized for his inability to stop the raise before it was passed and his refusal since then to veto the pay raise bill. He pledged during his gubernatorial campaign last year to prohibit an immediate legislative pay raise. The...

Bob Knight, the winningest NCAA men's division I basketball coach in history, has retired as Texas Tech's coach effective immediately. Knight, 67, won his 902nd game Saturday when the Red Raiders downed Oklahoma State. He will be replaced by his son, Pat. Knight informed athletic director Gerald Myers of his decision Monday morning. Knight won three national titles at Indiana, in 1976, '81 and '87. In all, he took the Hoosiers to 24 NCAA tournament appearances and reached the Final Four two other times. During his tenure at Texas Tech, Knight was 138-82, and he led the Red Raiders to...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland ( — Bobby Fischer, the brilliant, troubled former chess champion, has died, a spokesman said Friday. He was 64. Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said Fischer died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday. There was no immediate word on cause of death. U.S.-born Fischer, a fierce critic of his homeland who renounced his U.S. citizenship, moved to Iceland in 2005. He was world famous for defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972. The Chicago-born, Brooklyn, N.Y.-reared Fischer was wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Cold War rival Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of...

Candidates for state agriculture commissioner and Louisiana’s attorney general spent Sunday preparing for the Nov. 17 runoff. Democrat incumbent Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, 72, was forced into a runoff with 48-year-old state Rep. Mike Strain, R-Covington, who has served in the Legislature since 1999. Attorney General Charles Foti, a 69-year-old Democrat, was ousted Saturday after coming in third in three-way race. SNIP But Republican Governor-elect Bobby Jindal, who won Saturday’s primary election with 54 percent of the vote statewide, said Sunday that he would not endorse or help the Republican challengers in the two remaining races. “I have ‘R’ next...

BATON ROUGE -- For the second consecutive reporting period, Republican Bobby Jindal has proved himself the most prodigious money magnet among Louisiana's gubernatorial candidates, only to find himself looking up at a self-financed opponent with a bigger bottom line. In campaign finance disclosures filed Monday, Jindal reported $2.6 million in contributions from almost 5,300 individuals, businesses and political action committees between April 14 and July 12, the time span covered in the reports. After spending more than $1 million during the quarter, Louisiana's 1st District congressman reported a balance of almost $5.77 million in his effort to succeed Gov. Kathleen...

Mention the name "Bobby" in Louisiana political circles these days and most everyone will assume you are talking about Bobby Jindal, the popular second-term congressman now running at the top of the polls for governor. But some Democrats would like to remind voters that Bobby Jindal has another name: Piyush. In news releases, interviews and small talk, they frequently refer to Jindal by his Indian, given first name. Last week, "Piyush" popped out of the mouth of former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., who briefly considered running for governor. Democrats say it's a way of throwing back the curtain on what...

BOBBY Bobby uses an all-star cast to follow more than twenty characters through one of the most fateful days in American history. CLIP: “Senator Kennedy, welcome to the Ambassador Hotel.” “Thank you very much.” That’s Anthony Hopkins as a hotel doorman who joins Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, Lawrence Fishburne, Christian Slater, and many others to dramatize the night of Robert Kennedy’s assassination at his LA victory celebration in 1968. CLIP: “What if Kennedy loses?” “We can all forget it now. I’m 19, Jimmy, I don’t want to go to Vietnam.” “Do you?” “Now that Dr. King is gone, I don’t...

FORT HUACHUCA — “Bobby died doing what he knew best, being a soldier,” Chaplain (Maj.) Frank O’Grady said. As the soldier’s family listened, the Catholic priest said the combat death of 1st Sgt. Bobby Mendez, Rob to his loved ones, is sorrowful when seen through human eyes. To all of Mendez’s family, his wife, children, mother, father, sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews and cousins, as well as the extended relationship called soldiers, “It is a sad day,” the chaplain said. But, God’s compassion is a wonderful, joyous thing and now, the soldier is serving along side of Christ, he said during...

Singer-turned-crackhead Whitney Houston has allegedly engaged in lesbian sex escapades after getting high on crack-cocaine, according to a published report. Tina Brown, Whitney's sister-in-law who claimed recently that the star is addicted to drugs and living in filth, has made new claims describing how Whitney has had several raunchy lesbian sex affairs. The National Enquirer magazine quotes her as saying, "It's no secret. I've seen her with a woman a couple of times. They were walking around without shirts on when I came in the house." And if that's not interesting enough, Whitney's husband Bobby Brown reportedly knew about the...

New Orleans mayor crosses party lines, endorses Jindal Staff Reports Posted on November 4, 2003 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin crossed party lines Monday and endorsed Republican Bobby Jindal for governor. "Bobby Jindal understands that all of Louisiana benefits from and needs a strong New Orleans," Nagin said. With Jindal as governor, "New Orleans and the rest of the state will be partners, not adversaries - which is critical because we can only move this state forward together." Pollster Verne Kennedy surveyed voters on the possible impact of Nagin's endorsement of Jindal prior to its announcement. "It will be a...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

A RINO, a PAC, Trial Lawyers, & Bobby Kahn Democrats & Trial Lawyers Work To Unseat Bill Stephens Editor's Note:An anonymous reader submitted the information contained below but we have confirmed what we are told is true. --------------------------------Bubba McDonald's History Contributed $1,000 to Bill Clinton. Contributed $1,000 to Max Cleland in 2002. Ran (and won) PSC seat as a Democrat. Many contributors otherwise support Democrats only. Backed by Trial Lawyers. Only "Republican" included in "Democrat Fundraiser". Sang National Anthem at Democrat State Convention. Financial supporters support John Kerry & National Democrats. $100,000+ in Trial Lawyer money. Democrat Chairman an organizer...

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(New Orleans, LA) -- Republican Bobby Jindal is pulling ahead of Democratic challenger Kathleen Blanco in the latest poll released Thursday. Blanco's popularity sunk to an overall low of 38 percent, according to the report from Marketing Research Insight. Jindal's support has remained at a steady 54 percent but Blanco has consistently lost support over the past two weeks. The gubernatorial race will be decided by a runoff election scheduled for Saturday, November 15th.

It is unlikely that a man stranger and more mysterious than the American Bobby Fischer ever was, is or will ever appear in the chess world. He is a man about whom legends are composed already during his life. But it is more frequent that no news is available about Fischer at all. The man is elusive. Nobody can say for sure where Bobby Fischer has been living within over the past decades, or whether he is still alive at all. He was to celebrate his 60th birthday this March. The great chess player is some a kind of a...

Police are split on the issue of gun controls. "Front-line" cops oppose them, but the police establishment favors them. The view of most officers is simple and honest. Police and ordinary citizens are the good guys; criminals are the bad guys. Cops weed out bad guys so citizens can live in peace and safety. Defending the rights of citizens is an honorable job, so police earn the respect of citizens. Ordinary citizens, no matter how heavily armed, are no threat to police. This is the right view for a free country. Call it the Bobby view, after the legendary London...