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A look at Louisiana politics from Chaplain Hy McEnery and Christopher TidmoreCopyright News Talk 99.5 WRNO (WRNO-FM) 政治・政府
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  • SpaceX Starbase Plans Land In Louisiana

    SpaceX Starbase Plans Land In Louisiana
    2026/08/28
    Christopher broadcasts live from Juneau, Alaska on this week’s edition of The Founders Show. He and Hy talk melting glaciers, and how that could raise flood waters in South Louisiana, and the urgent needs to build flood protection to deal with a possible increase of four feet in ocean levels. That alone would make Mandeville, Tangipahoa, Slidell, and most of the South Shore outside of the ‘sliver by the river’ go underwater.We talk about Trump‘s renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake American. Prime Minister Mark Carney fired back, “The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontario, which, appropriately, means "the lake is beautiful, the lake is big". The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their.hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario- then, now and always.”However, most of our conversation is about the new potential 10 pad “Starbase Louisiana” announced earlier this week— and a bit of negative local reaction.It’s Rocketmen v. Cajuns. Since SpaceX’s announcement on Tuesday, August 25 that the company plans to construct a rocket launch facility at Pecan Island, critics have fired back with multiple impact environmental concerns. However, these objections pale in comparison to the anxieties of some local residents of Vermillion Parish wondering whether the new “multicultural” high income transplants who might move into their communities could upset the “balance”—as it was referred to in (at least) one public forum last week. “Multicultural invaders”, they have been so labeled, a curious moniker for the potential influx of hundreds of high-tech workers to build and operate the $100 billion ‘Starbase Louisiana’ project. “Outsiders” overtaking their small Cajun communities, some locals have gushed, hiding behind concerns that highly paid SpaceX employees could boost housing costs in the greater Abbeyville and that new schools may need to be built to handle the influx of children. More than a few area-locals even have uttered that their community will not “look” the same. Ironically, much of the Vermillion Parish region has lingered in an economic depression for decades, effectively since the oil boom of the 1970s. Small towns thoughout have watched their young people depart, year after year, not just for major cities in this state, but economic opportunities elsewhere across the US. Until recently, the local school board members worried about closing schools due to lack of potential pupils— a frequent challenge their colleagues have faced across Louisiana. It almost seems farce, then, to read social media posts complaining that highly paid potential employees of SpaceX might displace local school children and swallow up housing in the South Louisiana Parish. Opponents of the proposed launch facility actually view in-migration as a bigger problem than many other legitimate questions— including the potential environmental impact of pillars of fire. The Acadian majority of Vermillion Parish might wish to remember that 260 years ago, they themselves formed the massive influx of new settlers displacing the millennias-old cultures populating the wetlands, and these Cajun pioneers entered Louisiana with a five-year guaranteed subsidy paid by the Spanish crown as a means to displace and tame those native tribes. In fairness, Cajuns themselves were the original victims of ethnic cleansing, and they rebuilt their once-Nova Scotian society into a key thread the cultural fabric of Louisiana. Other newcomers can bring their own thread enriching the cultural tapestry as well. For Cajuns to imply otherwise displays an extreme degree of historical hypocrisy— as such cultural chauvinism would for most Americans. Nearly everyone was a newcomer to this continent, after all. The current ones are not just all white. How igniting rocket launches could affect wetlands does constitute a reasonable concern, though. SpaceX’s sonic booms so bothered communities in Cameron County, Texas, that locals there actually filed a lawsuit against the company. That could not happen here, thanks to Louisiana Act 874. Effective June 8, 2026 and passed at Governor Jeff Landry’s behest, the new law shields aerospace companies from liability, stating, “If an aerospace company owns and occupies at least 20,000 contiguous acres in Louisiana, it generally cannot be held liable for claims based on disturbances from aerospace activities.” The legislation’s stated categories include Noise & Sonic Booms, Vibration, Light, Heat, Exhaust & Smoke, Odors, Visual intrusion, as well as Temporary access restrictions or "any other disturbance" resulting from aerospace activities. It suffices to say, Act 874 defines "aerospace activities" ...
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  • Battle of Brooklyn Heights 250th Anniversary

    Battle of Brooklyn Heights 250th Anniversary
    2026/08/28
    This week marks the 250th anniversary of the crucial battle of Brooklyn Heights. George Washington was hemmed in by Hessan mercenaries, the British regulars, and the Royal Navy.

    The recently declared independence of the United States looked to be doomed. Hy and Christopher talk about fraught the military situation had become when our Founders pen the document just a few weeks before in Philadelphia. Independence seemed anything but sure.

    From Washington’s early escapes in the North, which Christopher kicks off the show discussing, to the ultimate battles in the South, which Hy recounts leading to Yorktown and America’s freedom, we dedicate this week show to the United States’ fight for independence a quarter millennium ago.
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  • Cassidy Played The Fool

    Cassidy Played The Fool
    2026/08/15
    Hy and Christopher kick off the show talking about flood protection, and the need to build a levee system for South Louisiana similar to the venture global LNG plant has constructed in Plaquemines Parish— 60 feet 129 foot foundations, capable pulling out the entire Gulf. We also need a flood gate and the Chef Pass and the Rigolets.
    We spend most of the show asking the question again, Cassidy Played the Fool.
    Christopher at least hoped that Sen. Bill Cassidy received some major financial commitment for his constituents in Louisiana prior to August 8. Otherwise, absent of political trade-off, why would he vote for Donald Trump‘s desperately unqualified personal lawyer Todd Blanche to become Attorney General of the United States? Cassidy cast the tie-breaking vote, 50-49, to confirm Blanche despite his fellow moderate Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska opposing until the end.
    The Louisiana Senator predicated his support on Blanche reaching a deal with Texas Sen. John Cornyn to nullify the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as part of Trump’s settlement with the IRS. Blanche played a key role in creating the fund for Trump allies — including Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump — on Aug. 2. The fact that Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general, was “comfortable” with the deal was important to Cassidy, he said.
    “What I’m told as regards to the Anti-Weaponization Fund, if you put it in the context of the political environment, the judicial environment, the process you would have to go back through in order to reinstate it, that effectively it’s dead,” Cassidy told Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” He went around to justify the vote by noting he had “a lot of positive things to say about Todd Blanche” and “stable leadership” was necessary for the DOJ to do its job.”
    Then, curiously, Cassidy added in the interview, that he almost voted against Blanche for continuing to grant protection to Trump and his family from IRS probes.
    “That is wrong — and no American should be targeted by the law, but no American should be above the law. And that, frankly, almost weighed to vote ‘No,’” he confessed to Brennan.
    If no one is above the law, why would Cassidy support a candidate for the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer who specifically labeled the sitting president and his family ‘as above the law’? More importantly, in the future, what does that say about an independent AG who might have to investigate the executive branch?
    Bill Cassidy has fallen pray to the promises of the Trump Administration before, only to have his hopes publicly dashed. As a physician, the Louisiana Senator spent most of his professional life championing vaccinations. He received a specific promise from then DHS Secretary-designate Robert F Kennedy Jr. that the current vaccination regime would be respected. Ample evidence existed that RFK would never go back on one of his major political promises, to emasculate required vaccinations in America.
    That’s exactly what happened less than a week after the Blanche confirmation battle. Donald Trump issued an executive order cutting the number of diseases all children should be vaccinated against from 18 to 11. The order reaffirms the dramatic overhaul to the vaccine schedule that Secretary Kennedy announced this year. (Those changes have been blocked in court.)
    How many times does Bill Cassidy have to be fooled?
    At least when he sold his soul to vote for RFK Jr.’s confirmation, he still held out hope that the President might endorse his reelection. After a bruising GOP primary in May, in which Trump’s attacks rendered him into an embarrassing third place, how can Bill Cassidy trust anything that the occupant of the Oval Office says?
    Even if Cassidy made a deal that we know nothing about, how can he be so obtuse as to believe that Trump will ever honor his word?
    Bill Cassidy could have gone down in history as a defender of the soul of the Republican Party. He was one of the few senators to vote to convict Trump after his impeachment. He could’ve stood up to the administration on issues where there was true disagreement. He would’ve lost reelection to another Republican, but Cassidy would have kept his honor.
    In the end, he lost both.
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