Editorial

In a sign that he is about to announce another presidential campaign, Donald Trump released a video this week of his awesome Boeing 757 being refurbished. This is the airplane he used to campaign during his successful 2016 election. According to Trump, “Now it has been completely modernized and renovated, and looks GREAT, all done in the Great State of Louisiana, and coming back to the skies in the Fall of 2022, or maybe sooner. Get ready!”
Americans are definitely “ready” for the return of Donald Trump to the White House, especially after 18 months of this current presidency.

The approval of the Keystone pipeline is back in the news as petroleum interests and members of the Louisiana congressional delegation are calling on the President to get this project moving forward. So is building the pipeline the huge job creator and the economic bonanza for Louisiana that key supporters say it is?

Many are now asking “what would George Washington do today?” President Washington has already answered that question in his Farewell Address to the Nation on 9-17-1796. The following warnings made 226 years ago should stop you in your tracks:
• “Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, and the apprehension of danger urge me to recommend to your frequent review some sentiments that are all important to the permanency of you as a people. They are offered as a disinterested warning of a parting friend---