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snip "Scientists and government officials fired back at Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal today, saying homegrown plans he is backing to protect the state's delicate coastline could actually do more harm than good." snip "Jindal flew over Barataria Bay on this 79th day of since BP's Deepwater Horizon well exploded..."

BATON ROUGE, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gov. Bobby Jindal signed three landmark abortion bills on Tuesday that significantly tighten the state’s regulations on abortionists and their practices, and opt out the state from the national health care reform’s abortion mandates.Jindal signed two bills that were introduced and shepherded through the legislature by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation (LARTL). The Ultrasound before Abortion Act (SB 528) adds strict ultrasound requirements to the state’s informed consent laws.  The law requires abortionists to perform an ultrasound on a woman at least two hours before she undergoes the induced abortion of her...

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.

<p>Louisiana National Guard troops will monitor and report the dispatching of skimmers to deal with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill off the state's coast, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Friday.</p> <p>Expressing frustration with a lack of information from the U.S. Coast Guard on how many skimmers are working at a given time, Jindal said a contingent of about 20 troops will assemble data daily and report to the state.</p>

Seventy-four percent (74%) of Louisiana voters now approve of the job being done by Governor Bobby Jindal, a 10-point jump from April for the already–popular chief executive. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds that just 26% disapprove of the performance of the Republican governor who has taken a hands-on approach to the Gulf oil leak and been highly critical of the response by BP and the federal government. These findings include 40% who Strongly Approve of Jindal’s job performance and 10% who Strongly Disapprove. Even as oil washes up on their shores from...

GRAND ISLE, La. -- Hurricane Alex didn't hit Louisiana, but its outer bands caused rough seas and plenty of rain in southeastern part of the state, impacting oil spill response efforts. Gov. Bobby Jindal was out on the water Thursday checking on Grand Isle. “You can see literally this is some of the oil we just literally have gotten out of the water in the pass. We’re over 70 days after the explosion. There’s nothing in these passes to stop this oil coming right in from Barataria Bay,” Jindal said. Just east of Grand Isle, Jindal watches oil flow through...

Sean Hannity got Bobby Jindal on the radio today to talk about the Gulf oil crisis and just let him go. One thing is clear: Bobby Jindal does not need a teleprompter to give you the entire run down on the Federal response to this crisis. In fact he spit out so much information I had to listen to this a couple of times because he really does lay it out in detail. The bottom line is what we all know already, that the Feds have botched this oil response royally from day one. But it’s the specifics that Jindal...

[Snip]GRAND ISLE – Today, Governor Bobby Jindal viewed firsthand a massive and heavy oil slick that is roughly three miles off the coast of Grand Isle where local leaders have been waiting weeks for federal officials to issue a permit to narrow passes and block oil from coming into Louisiana’s wetlands. Governor Jindal called on federal officials to immediately issue authorization for the project so work can begin to stop more heavy oil from hitting Louisiana’s coast. Governor Jindal said, “We saw waves of very heavy bands of oil that are just a few miles off our coast. We know...

Back when I was on the ground in the Gulf, I reported that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal had announced a plan to stop the oil spill from reaching his state's shoreline: building up barrier islands out of dredged materials to act as a shield. I was skeptical of the plan then, as I was worried that environmental concerns were not being taken into account. It turns out my hunch was correct -- scientist after scientist has now come forward questioning the approach, arguing that it will be expensive, ineffective, and could even make matters worse. One potential side effect is...

Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Gov. Bobby Jindal has declared Sunday a day of prayer in Louisiana, for perseverance in coping with the environmental crisis caused by the oil spill in the Gulf. Jindal issued the proclamation Wednesday, 66 days since the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 people and triggered the massive spill. In his proclamation, the governor says "Louisianians all across the world are united in hope for an end to this catastrophic event and pray for the recovery of our coastline, the rehabilitation of our fish and wildlife and the restoration of our extraordinary...

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal today held a "save our jobs" rally at an offshore services company facility in Houma. The governor had harsh words for the Obama administration. Jindal said the federal judge's ruling this week against the Obama administration's drilling moratorium is like a teacher chiding a pupil for a poor answer in an essay test. "It's not right that thousands of Louisianans are going to lose their job, because the federal government has failed to do its job," said Jindal, who told the crowd that if the federal government would just do its job, safe drilling could continue...

Last night, the United States Department of the Interior shut down operations by the State of Louisiana to build a series of sand berms to protect the Louisiana coastline from the massive oil slick that continues to drench unabated the fragile marshes, wetlands and beaches along the Louisiana coastline. The Feds say dredging the sand to build the protective barriers might hurt the environment. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar wants to lose precious time and delay the dredging until new pipe can be delivered that would allow dredging in another area that Salazar feels may be less damaging to the ecosystem....

Sand berms are an insurance policy meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil spill damage.  The Louisiana sand berm venture involves moving "sand from a mile out in the Gulf of Mexico and pumping it closer in to shore to build manmade barrier islands." Nevertheless, lacking a more formidable idea and one week into the project the federal government decided to shut "down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico."  Louisiana's Republican Governor Bobby Jindal staunchly supports protecting the coastline with a sandy barricade, which may explain why the "berm...

You can't be Indian in the U.S. this week and not have people ask you the million dollar question - "What do you think of Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley changing their names and converting?" First, the name thing. Dear Indian parents, with all due respect, have care for your child when you name it in the U.S. Exhibit A: Piyush, which is just an unfortunate name to give a child in this country. Up there with Shital and Ashit, both of which are perfectly good names in India but terrible here. It would have been one thing if Jindal...

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks to CNN's Anderson Cooper on his frustrations with the response to the gulf oil spill.

First there was Hurricane Katrina, then there was the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal now says that the newest threat to the economy of his state is President Barack Obama’s moratorium on deepwater drilling. Jindal today joined in support of oil service companies who are suing to halt the six-month ban on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, issued by the Minerals Management Service on May 30. A federal district court judge is hearing arguments on the lawsuit today and will rule no later than Wednesday. In an amicus brief filed with the court, Jindal argues that the...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has spent weeks throwing political punches at the Obama administration’s six-month freeze on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling, alleging it will wreak havoc on the region’s already battered economy. Now, Jindal is battling the moratorium in the courtroom, too. Jindal and state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell on Sunday filed a legal brief in support of a Louisiana-based offshore services company that’s asking a federal judge to lift the ban. The ban is “effectively turning an environmental disaster into an economic catastrophe for the state,” the brief alleges. The ban is in place while the administration and a...

On Wednesday, I posted a piece, drawing attention to what is now obvious even to Maureen Dowd: that, as an executive, Barack Obama is woefully incompetent. In that piece, I noted the propensity of the American people for electing to the Presidency men with ample executive experience – as generals, governors, cabinet secretaries, and the like. I remarked as well on the poor performance of the four Presidents they elected who did not have prior executive experience; and I suggested that it is time for the Republicans to ask who, in their number, has demonstrated a willingness and an ability...

Gov. Bobby Jindal could face tough decision on opening his oil spill recordsAssoicated Press ABC26 News June 18, 2010 WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives voted 77-12 today to ratify Senate changes on a public records bill that would require the governor to grant public access to all state records related to the Gulf oil spill, putting Gov. Bobby Jindal in uncomfortable position politically. House Bill 37 by Rep. Gary Smith, D-Norco, originated as an uncontroversial measure that would allow the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections to discard certain old records. But the Senate earlier this week adopted...