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Jindal's Volcanic Embarrassment

Last month in his nationally televised speech, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized Democrats for funding "something called volcano monitoring." Now with eruptions spewing ash 50,000 feet into the air over Alaska, the governor looks like the thumb-twiddling politician from every disaster movie.

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