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by Newt Gingrich

You may have heard his name mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate, but if you don't know anything more about Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, you should.

Governor Jindal is leading a revolution of conservative reform in Louisiana. He is the most transformational young governor in America today. The principles that motivate his Louisiana Revolution are the same pro-innovation, pro-competition, anti-bureaucracy and anti- big government principles that I urge each week in this newsletter - the same principles that are so desperately needed in Washington, D.C.

For those of you who don't yet know him, I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to Governor Bobby Jindal. And for those of you already familiar with this rising reformer, read on. You may just learn one more reason why Bobby Jindal is a reformer to watch, regardless of whether or not he gets a spot on the 2008 presidential ticket.

In Six Months, Jindal Has Accomplished More Than Most Do In a Lifetime. The first thing to know about Governor Jindal is that he has been in office as governor for just six months.

Six months.

Governor Jindal has built his impressive record of conservative reform through an innovative, aggressive leadership that should be required learning for officials in Washington, D.C.

"Thanks to Bobby Jindal, today Louisiana ranks as the number one state in financial disclosure requirements of its elected officials. And this new transparency and accountability in government is having real world results.

New financial disclosure requirements for public officials that went into effect last week have prompted mass resignations from state boards and commissions."

I have often said, "When the government teams up with attorneys, and the governments are or act like corporations, then you see real corruption!" The Weld County Financial Corporation is one that we uncovered several years ago, but we could not get members of the County Council to help us expose it.

Gov. Jindal didn't wait for the Democratic controlled Louisiana legislature to come to him. He went to it, calling two historic special sessions before the regular session of the legislature even had a chance to begin.

In the first special session back in March, Governor Jindal began his reform agenda where it had to begin: fixing the culture of corruption and cronyism that has long dominated Louisiana politics and damaged Louisiana's economy.

The ethics reforms won by Governor Jindal catapulted Louisiana from a state with one of the lowest rankings to among the states with the highest ethics standards.

Thanks to Bobby Jindal, today Louisiana ranks as the number one state in financial disclosure requirements of its elected officials. And this new transparency and accountability in government is having real world results.

New financial disclosure requirements for public officials that went into effect last week have prompted mass resignations from state boards and commissions.

Said one Louisiana voter: "I don't know about anyone else, but I'm kinda liking the fact that this is resulting in 'out with the old and in with the new.' ... A new day Louisiana, a new day!"

Jindal's Louisiana: A Place to Work, Invest and Raise a Family. In yet another special session of the legislature and the regular session which ended just last week, Governor Jindal has built a spectacularly impressive record of accomplishment for the people of Louisiana.

Here are just a few of the highlights:

Six Major Tax Cuts worth more than $500 million, including eliminating taxes on business and capital investment and the largest personal tax cut in the history of the state - a $300 million reduction in personal income taxes, worth up to $500 for an individual and $1,000 for a family.

Governor Jindal brought about a Transformation of Job Creation and Retraining. He completely eliminated the Department of Labor and passed a guarantee for employers that Louisiana educational institutions will train its workforce to meet their needs, and if they fail, they will retrain workers for free.

He created $10 million in Opportunity Scholarships so 1,500 poor children in New Orleans can escape failing public schools.

Jindal led the passage of The Health Care Consumers Right to Know Act, creating transparency of cost and quality for the first time in Louisiana's health care system.

Bobby Jindal expanded the number of charter schools in Louisiana from 42 to 100.

He passed legislation cracking down on child molesters and also passed a resolution calling for the creation of involuntary civil commitment of sexually violent predators to keep them confined for treatment after they complete their prison terms.

Louisiana's Third Bond Rating Boost in a Week. All this, and Governor Bobby Jindal is just getting started. Just last week he vetoed $9 million dollars in pet projects and pork barrel spending in the legislature's budget - another area in which this 37-year-old governor is showing the way to Washington.

Not coincidentally, Jindal also announced that for the third time last week, Louisiana's bond rating had been raised by a major credit rating agency.

"The World Needs More Bobby Jindals"

The Governor was also in the news because he vetoed a bill that the legislature passed doubling members' current salary and guaranteeing future pay raises. Jindal had previously said he wouldn't oppose the pay hike, but he came to the conclusion that it was incompatible with his reform agenda.

His earlier comments, the Governor admits, were a "mistake," one that he chose to correct by vetoing the bill. And Jindal's correction has cemented his reputation as a principled conservative reformer.

Here's how one would-be opponent of Jindal's put it:

Dear Governor Jindal: I wanted to leave you a quick note that I plan to withdraw my recall petition effective tomorrow (July 03, 2008). I filed the recall petition about an hour before you announced your veto. After researching your record, your goals, and your vision for Louisiana, the only conclusion I could come to is that the world needs more Bobby Jindals.

"The world needs more Bobby Jindals." I couldn't agree more.

by Mass Resistance

The list of radical hardcore homosexual activist organizations in Massachusetts is staggering. They include: Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Boston Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Theater Offensive, Institute for Gender Education, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), and Bisexual Resource Center. All of these groups focus their energy on destabilizing society's institutions through homosexual activism and have been funded by homosexual activist, Tim Gill.

Gill is the homosexual Colorado multi-millionaire who spends his time using his huge fortune to defeat state and local pro-family legislators around the country, and fund organizations that destabilize social institutions by relentlessly pushing homosexuality and transgenderism. On June 15 the hardcore homosexual national magazine The Advocate {Warning: This is a homosexual site - Ed.} reported how Tim Gill, with Guerriero's help, is gearing up to send more money into Massachusetts and other states as reported by Americans for Truth. "Essentially, Guerriero and Smith want to ...work in virtual anonymity -- developing a hit list of the community’s worst enemies...and doing whatever has to be done to get the next hate-crimes bill passed or constitutional amendment killed at the state level. These were the good guys..forced to use the same brass-knuckle tactics pioneered by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove. And who better to take the weapons Rove and Gingrich deployed against LGBT people -- and train them back on conservatives -- than a couple guys who came up through the GOP ranks?"

Massachusetts has become a prime focus for Gill's millions since he hired Patrick Guerriero to coordinate his operations. Guerriero has deep political roots in Massachusetts. You may recall that Acting Gov. Jane Swift asked Guerriero to run for Lt. Governor as her running mate. He had been a Mass. state rep and mayor of Melrose. He later was head of the national Log Cabin Republicans, and became one of the major homosexual political operatives in America.
 
On June 14, the Governor of Massachusetts disgraced himself and insulted the entire state.  He participated in the Boston "Gay Pride" parade, an event so degrading that most people avoid it, and the first one thinks of is the mental health of the people involved.  We're talking about the Boston "Gay Pride Parade", of course. Governor Deval Patrick and his family marched in a public "parade" that included contingents of sado-masochists, male dancers on floats simulating homosexual sex acts, transvestites and cross-dressers, and general sick behavior. Parade details here:

Governor's Gay March When Mitt Romney became Governor, he appointed Guerriero to be on his transition team where he helped populate the Romney administration with homosexual activists.

 By Matthew Day

{Warsaw} Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus. 21 people died after being given the vaccine.

The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus. Authorities claim that the alleged victims received £1-2 to be tested with what they thought was a conventional flu vaccine but, according to investigators, was actually an anti bird-flu drug.

The director of a Grudziadz homeless centre, Mieczyslaw Waclawski, told a Polish newspaper that last year, 21 people from his centre died, a figure well above the average of about eight. Although authorities have yet to prove a direct link between the deaths and the activities of the medical staff, Poland's health minister, Ewa Kopacz, has said that the doctors and nurses involved should not return to their profession. "It is in the interests of all doctors that those who are responsible for this are punished," the minister added.

Investigators are also probing the possibility that the medical staff may have also have deceived the pharmaceutical companies that commissioned the trials. The suspects said that the all those involved knew that the trial involved an anti-H5N1 drug and willingly participated. 

The news of the investigation will come as another blow to the reputation of Poland's beleaguered and poverty-stricken national health service.  In 2002, a number of ambulance medics were found guilty of killing their patients for commissions from funeral companies.

by The Kansas Federalist E-Newsline                               

The Chinese, Mexicans, and Russians are drilling near our own coastlines! And yet, we serve the master of Oil Fascism in the US. That’s right my friends. God has blessed America with great natural resources. From oil reserves to gas to coal, the US has enough energy capability for the next 100 years+. In addition, we have great American ingenuity that can advance Biofuel energy for our future needs. America also has a great Nuclear energy program with successful energy centers across America. But do we drill, build new refineries or plants? No, instead we bow down to eco-liberalism and faulty science.
 
And yet what is our liberal-led congress doing in response? They are looking to increase personal, business and consumption taxes. And it’s not just the Federal Government, but state and local governments as well.
 
Let good old fashion America business ingenuity provide for us. Profitability, supply factors and demand will tell us what will work.  Regulate to prevent monopolistic behaviors is the guideline that should be used, not socialism. Free market rule and supply side economics will win the day.  
 
Until this happens, American consumers will continue to be held at gunpoint by OPEC and the sheiks. Congress needs to get the hell out of the way and let the natural market fix this issue. We need to drill now, build more refineries for gas, coal, and oil, and expand our nuclear program. At the same time, we can advance research for new methods of energy.
 
Our Founding Fathers responded to the Tyrant King under far less regulation and taxes.

 The Rutherford Institute 
    “In that land the great experiment of the attempt to construct society upon a new basis was to be made by civilized man; and it was there, for the first time, that theories hitherto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were to exhibit a spectacle for which the world had not been prepared by the history of the past.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

They called it the Great Experiment: a republic—planted in a new world, forged through revolution and sorely tested by the quest for self-government. Over the course of the past 232 years, the great experiment that is America has found itself buffeted by the storms of civil war, economic turmoil and terrorist attacks.

The flames that once burned so brightly in the hearts of Americans have been dampened by apathy, ignorance and political correctness.  Yet as this issue of Faith and Freedom shows, the spark has thankfully not died out. As long as there are Americans who will stand and fight for the ideals that once made this nation great—justice, equality and an adherence to the rule of law—hope remains.

Even so, there are times when our nation’s commitment to freedom and our understanding of what it means to truly mete out justice are sorely tested.  For example, consider our struggle to determine who is entitled to the protections afforded by the Constitution and whether torture—by any name—is ever sanctioned, even in the midst of this ongoing war on terrorism.  How we choose to respond to these difficult questions will largely determine whether this great experiment in self-government continues to stand. These are extraordinary times. Yet even in extraordinary times, the rule of law must prevail.

As Justice Anthony Kennedy reminded us in the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, “The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law.” The Rutherford Institute is committed to ensuring that our nation holds true to the ideals voiced in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in our U.S. Constitution.

Daily, we are being called on to weigh in on a variety of issues, ranging from habeas corpus rights for detainees to free speech rights for valedictorians. Whether we’re in the courts in defense of religious and civil liberties or educating the public on important issues affecting their constitutional freedoms, The Rutherford Institute will always be there to speak up, stand up, and fight for your rights. We hope you are equally committed to standing strong for freedom.  As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”