Bobby Jindal

The American Press of Louisiana reports:

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is moving ahead with education reform--but it isn't without controversy.

A judge that President Obama nominated for a district court bench “has thrown out a Louisiana law that bans certain sex offenders from Facebook and other social networking sites,” WDSU reports. “U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled Thursday that the prohibition—which took effect in August—was too broad and infringed on constitutionally protected speech.”

Today's Wall Street Journal takes a look at Bobby Jindal's education reform proposals and concludes that the Louisiana Governor's is actually making a serious attempt to challenge the public education monopoly:

Drudge has a story about Obama getting off of Air Force One in Arizona, greeting Republican governor Jan Brewer, and immediately giving her a piece of his mind. Evidently our president did not appreciate something Brewer wrote about him. According to the pool report, they had a testy exchange from which the president walked away as Brewer was still speaking.

Baton Rouge

The Hill: "Romney rushes to clarify his comments on union bargaining legislation"

National Review: "Rick Perry’s Rough Draft"

This morning, in reference to the Republican presidential primary, the boss commented: "The race seems to be more open and fluid than conventional wisdom has it." The boss also noted, according to the latest CBS/New York Times poll, "81 percent of GOP primary voters [are] in play." Considering that the first caucus/primary is only

Incumbent Republican governor Bobby Jindal was reelected yesterday in Louisiana's blanket primary election. Jindal, who received 65 percent of the vote against 9 other opponents, won a clear majority and therefore will not face a runoff. Jindal carried all 64 parishes and made big gains in Cajun country.

Hot on the heels of this morning's announcement of former Minnesota governor and former presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty's endorsement of Mitt Romney, the Perry campaign pulls out the stops to make sure they don't get one-upped ahead of tonight's debate:

1. C'mon, you knew this would happen, right?  Gallup finds a 10-point shift in party preferences toward the Democrats in the last week, which nobody else found: 

Joe Biden is in the Gulf today, and Bobby Jindal talked to NBC about his problems with federal response:

As he waited for Biden to arrive, Jindal -- in an exclusive on-camera interview with NBC News this morning -- said his message to the vice president is that the federal government "needs a greater sense of urgency" and that it needs to treat the disaster "like a war and either lead or get out of the way."