September 15, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for September 12, 2025.
0:30 We reflect on the tragic assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. We dive into the controversy around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, explaining how many of Kirk’s comments have been taken out of context.
Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
13:30 We react to the silence from Shreveport’s Democratic city council members following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While Louisiana leaders across the state condemned the violence and offered condolences, Shreveport’s council refused even a bipartisan statement denouncing political violence.
23:00 Plus, we share some encouraging news for Louisiana drivers: road fatalities in 2024 dropped to their lowest level in five years. We Dig Deep into the legal battle over Louisiana's eroding coastline betwee Plaquemines Parish and Chevron. The federal government has now sided with Chevron, arguing the company acted under federal contracts critical to the war effort in World War II. If the Supreme Court agrees, the case would move to federal court and likely be dismissed under immunity for federal contractors.
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33:30 Plus, we guess which states were at the top of the Education Freedom Report Card. Play along!
40:30 And we finish off with Magnolia Pit BBQ in Shreveport. They've got house-made rubs, sauces, and Louisiana-style barbecue that delivers bold, soulful flavors you won’t find anywhere else.
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0:30 We reflect on the tragic assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. We dive into the controversy around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, explaining how many of Kirk’s comments have been taken out of context.
Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- A new poll from Fox 8 in New Orleans says the mayor's race is Helena Moreno's to lose.
- Southern University has suspended one of its professors over comments she posted on social media after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
- According to the latest Free Speech Rankings list from FIRE, free speech is improving at LSU.
13:30 We react to the silence from Shreveport’s Democratic city council members following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While Louisiana leaders across the state condemned the violence and offered condolences, Shreveport’s council refused even a bipartisan statement denouncing political violence.
23:00 Plus, we share some encouraging news for Louisiana drivers: road fatalities in 2024 dropped to their lowest level in five years. We Dig Deep into the legal battle over Louisiana's eroding coastline betwee Plaquemines Parish and Chevron. The federal government has now sided with Chevron, arguing the company acted under federal contracts critical to the war effort in World War II. If the Supreme Court agrees, the case would move to federal court and likely be dismissed under immunity for federal contractors.
32:30 Absorb more good stuff and detoxify the bad stuff with N-Sorb. Go to vni.life/agr. Use the code agr20 for 20% off.
33:30 Plus, we guess which states were at the top of the Education Freedom Report Card. Play along!
40:30 And we finish off with Magnolia Pit BBQ in Shreveport. They've got house-made rubs, sauces, and Louisiana-style barbecue that delivers bold, soulful flavors you won’t find anywhere else.
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
This is American Ground Radio, Stephen Poward.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Lewis, Happy Friday to all of you. It has been
a very difficult week for our country. And you know,
and I'm going to say this right up front, it's
not about a single man. Yes, what is what happened
in Utah is horrific, it is unconscionable. But there's something
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larger there. We'll certainly continue to talk about that later
on in the show. But Charlie Kirk, I want to
get to this because of what's going on in the
city of Shreetport. But Charlie Kirk, whether you adored him
or despised him, he was an American who dedicated his
life to ideas, to debate, to free speech. You know,
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he walked onto hostile campuses and said, let's talk, let's debate.
And for that, for words, for ideas, he was assassinated.
He was gunned down in cold blood.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And actually, I've been looking at a lot of this,
and everybody that I've talked to or I've seen online
saying that they're mad at Charlie Kirk for something he said.
It wasn't actually something that Charlie Kirk said exactly. It's
been characterizations of what he said. It's been interpretations of
what he said, but it's never been the exact words
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he said.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Or it's a misunderstanding of what he said or why
he said it not understanding, you know, for example, I
don't want to get into this, well we'll just get
into it. In other words, when he's talking about DEI, right,
if you're talking about DEI, and that is the fundamental
discussion point, right, you're talking about basically hiring folks, admitting
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people into universities, into education institutions that aren't qualified, that
don't have the grades. Maybe you hire someone that doesn't
have the experience or the competency, because you're more concerned
about how it looks that minorities are represented within whatever
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the situation may be. If it's a hiring decision for
a corporation, then if you've only hired a bunch of
white folks, then you're going to start looking for other
folks to hire that may or may not be qualified. Okay,
it doesn't mean that white folks are the most qualified.
It just means that you're now using a different set
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of criteria in order to make your hiring decision other
than competency, because now you're starting to say, well, it
would be really good if we had a person of color,
It would be really good, if we had a transgender person,
it would be really good if we hired a female,
because we've hired all men for this department and it
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doesn't really look good.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'll give you an example. If you look at any
sports team, any professional sports team, right now, no one
goes that person's on the field because of their skin
tup color. Say there's a you know, a Hawaiian field
goal kicker in the NFL, and there's been one before,
nobody goes, you know, what the reason why they got
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a Hawaiian field goal kicker was because Hawaiians have been
underrepresented in the NFL. They go that person got the
job because they're good at kicking field goals, and if
they stop being good at kicking field goals, they will
no longer have that job. There is no dei on
the field or on the court in any sporting event
because that's all based on merit. And as a result,
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we don't have people going, I wonder if they got
that job because they know somebody.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
But see, in professional sports, the scoreboard is what you know.
You don't have to wonder that, you don't have to
render that because the scoreboard tells you everything you need
to know. The scoreboard doesn't care what color your skin is.
It doesn't care what your gender is, your background, your ethnicity.
It cares all it cares about all that scoreboard cares
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about that w At the end of the game, all
that matters is whether you can catch the ball or
throw the pass, or run the route, or read the
defense or hit the shot under pressure. But the moment
you start picking people because of their identity markers instead
of their ability, what you do is you dilute excellence.
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So teams teams win because of performance, that's reality. But
what DEI does is it tries to reframe things so
that identity Trump's performance. So, and we're talking about DEI
in the context of a lot of folks have said, well,
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Charlie Kirk said some very racist things. He said that
when he gets on an airplane he is concerned if
he sees a person of color as the pilot. But
that is against the backdrop of a much larger discussion
about de policies, right, and gets taken out of context completely.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And when you take text out of context, all you're
left with is a con See what happens there, we
take the text out of context, you're left with the
con A lot of folks have been saying that they
hate Charlie Kirk because they've been conned, because they've been
told something that he said out of context. They actually
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haven't watched him sit there and interact with a minority,
or sit there and interact with somebody who was trans
or sit there and interact with an angry leftist who
was using a bullhorn. They haven't watched him actually have
the debate with the Oxford students.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
But see, we say a lot of things on this show.
Sure that folks, I mean very easily. I mean you
can snip a clip here and snip a clip there,
and you go, well, these are two white guys.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, we are two white guys. You're much whiter than me,
I understand.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
But nevertheless, these are two white guys that obviously do
not like people of color, that obviously are misogynists, et cetera,
et cetera, because you know they don't favor equal pay
I mean among the genders. I mean, women get paid
much less than men. And here you got these two
guys on the radio talking about how there's there's nothing
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wrong with that. I mean, how misogynists can you be?
You'd have to be taking those conversations way the heck
O got it. But that's what's But that is what
is happening with charge to Charlie Kirk's memory or worse,
someone goes, Charlie Kirk says violent racist things, and so
someone else goes, well, I can't stand Charlie Kirk because
they say violent racist things, although they haven't actually listened
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to Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And then you get a third person who heard that
second person, they go, well, I'm not gonna like Charlie
Kirk because obviously he says violent, racist things, and none
of those people actually listen to anything that he said.
So even when we say something here on the show
about what somebody else said, you don't have to believe
us on it. Go look at what those other people said,
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and if we've misinterpreted it, make your own interpretation.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But you know, like.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Sometimes you might hear somebody say something publicly and you're like,
you know that, what something doesn't seem right about that.
Let me go, let me look into this a little further.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I do that all the every day, and then you're like, oh,
that's not what happened. That's that's what they were talking about.
That's the context of the discussion.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You know. I did that with the Jasmine Crockett quote.
Today there was a headline about I don't remember what, Zach,
what the story was, but there's a headline about, so
Jasmin Crockett you believe Jazu Crocket said today, And so
I went and looked and I went, well, I mean,
I don't agree with what you said, but it's not
as bad as what the headline said. And that's that's
someone on the left too. I do not think as
a very intelligent person says awful things all the time.
(08:54):
But in this particular case, I didn't think that it
was near as bad as what the headline on a
right way website was saying.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
She said, But I think sometimes, Okay, you're proving a
great point here, is that both on the left and
on the right. Yeah, there are folks that jump to
conclusions without understanding the context in which sometimes these comments
are made. Now, once you put them in context and
you disagree with them, yeah, I mean, come on out
and show call them out.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, let's get to the top of the things you
need before them all. First thing you need before A
new poll from foxade to New Orleans says the mayor's
race is Atlanta Morenos to lose. Moreno grabbed fifty one
percent of the support of people polled. Coming in a
distance second was Oliver Thomas with just sixteen percent, followed
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by Royce Duplus's at eleven percent. Moreno led in all
demographic groups men, women, white, Black, Republicans, Democrats, and Independence.
The open primary for the mayor's race is October eleventh,
and if these poll numbers are correct, Moreno could win
on the first ballot.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You know, it's interesting that there isn't more of a
horse race, so to speak, for the Mayor's race in
New Orleans. But we're also seeing a lack of a
horse race, so to speak in the New York City
Mayor's race. It's almost like there's no one to counter
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this far left ideology in these very blue cities.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Second thing you know before a wrong. Southern University has
suspended one of its professor's law professor Kelly Carmena was
suspended over comments she posted on social media after the
murder of Charlie Kirk. Carmena allegedly posted, I will one
thousand percent wish death on people like him. He is
the epitome of evil, and I have no compassion, not
even a minute a minute ounce of it for people
like him who go around spewing hate the way he does.
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Southern University board chairman Tony Clayton said she was fired
because the statement was quote tantamount to participating and inciting
violence and spewing hate. What do you think about it?
She's obviously not listened to what Charlie Kirk did with
an objective mind at any point. And the third thing
you needablefore of all free speech is improving at LSU.
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That's according to the latest free speech ranking from FIRE,
the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. LSU made the
top fifty universities on the annual list for the first time,
coming in directly at number fifty. That's an improvement of
one hundred and forty nine schools in rankings in just
the past year. FIRE says the main reason for the
improvement in their free speech ranking was due to the
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campus adopting an institutional neutrality policy thanks to Governor Jeff Landry.
The only other Louisiana school on the list was Tulane,
which came in ranked near the bottom at two hundred
and seven.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Yeah, I mean in doctrination has no place on our
college campetate campuses.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And Tulane needs to do a much better job of
being neutral. We'll be back.
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Speaker 3 (13:13):
Welcome back to American grandmadm Stephen Poward Lewis.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Okay, So, as I was saying off the top, yes,
what happened in Streeport with regards to Charlie Kirk is
really a very sad, sad commentary, because here you had,
in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, you
had many Louisiana elected officials throughout the state offering their
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condolences to Charlie's family and friends, saying such political violence
has no place in a free country such as ours.
But what do you think happened in Shreeport. Not one
Democrat in the city on the city council. Yeah, said
a word, no statement, no condemn nation, no acknowledgment, only silence.
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Let's be very clear here, even if you thought Charlie
Kirk was a was vile, right, even if you loathed
everything he stood for, you should still be able to
say one thing, just one thing, that's all I'm saying,
just one thing, and that is murder is wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's a pretty little barber's that's it.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
That's that's as a leader on on an even though
you're on the city council, right, even though you're on
the city council in one city within the state of Louisiana,
right to make a statement to say, you know what,
here is a national issue, a national news story that
is going on, right, murder is wrong, and here's the
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reason why.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And we are a city that's that's politically divided. It's
what sixty percent Democrat forty percent Republicans.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Parishes is sixty forty And it's similar to I guess city.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yes, this city would be a little bit more Democrat
than the parish itself, but the point being you've got
both Republicans and Democrats that live in your neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Okay, But the larger issue, this is so much bigger
than Charlie Kirk. And this is where if you are
a true leader, if you're a true leader and not
just someone that is sitting on a government body trying
to gain powerful because of the way that it makes
you feel sure, then what you understand is that if
we fear for our lives whenever we speak, like Charlie
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Kirk was there on that campus, on that university campus,
speaking out and he lost his life as a result
of it. If we are in fear of our lives
whenever we speak out on social media wherever, then we're
no longer free. And yet you have the Democrats on
the Shreeport City Council refusing to defend even that basic truth.
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That's not just my friends, that is not just ridiculous,
it is shameful, and it's not of God, and it's
not of God.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know. There was this great pastor, Dietrich bon Hoffer.
Oh yeah, World War Two. He saved, he saved thousands.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Of He stood up to Hitler and he said, this
silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God
will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak,
Not to act is to act.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And he was right.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You can't just shrug off murder or look the other
way when evil is right before your eyes. And what
happened on that national stage, this assassination of this political commentator,
it happened right before your eyes. This is evil right
before your eyes. You can't just shrug off when a
man is slaughtered for speaking, because God sees and God knows,
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and God holds us accountable.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Now here's here's the part that I'm really incensed over this.
These are the same Democrats, by the way, who violated
the Open Meetings Act so that they could do a
proclamation talk about how great Bernie Sanders was when Bernie
Sanders came to the statement.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Well, that's the parish commission. I'm talking about city council.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You're right, city council. I'm sorry, I got that wrong.
You're right. Okay, So, but we have that, but they've
been silent as well. We have Yes, that's right, and
the Cattle Parish Comission loves passing resolutions talking about what
they believe politically. All right, So you have two Republicans
on the city council. You've got Jim Telafarrell and you've
got Grayson Butcher, and both of those gentlemen reached out
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to all five members of the City Council who are Democrats,
and they said, guys, would y'all like to put out
a joint statement, a joint statement from something that the
whole city Council can participate in. Now, So what what
the point of this is? It's not just that the
Democrats on the City Council didn't think to respond to
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the Charlie Kirk thing. They were invited to collaborate with
the Republicans on the City Council to put out a
statement they all could agree with, and the Democrats refused.
They refused to show any bipartisanship in a moment where
it was begging for bipartisanship.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
That's because a lot of those Democrats believe it is
karma that that Charlie Kirk got what he deserved.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And so it's worse to me that they were silent.
If you just decided I'm not going to say anything,
it's worse than if someone comes up and goes, hey,
would you like to work with I think.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Because maybe he didn't think about it, but in this case,
you actually didn't think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
There's some people go, you know what, there are people
that have not posted anything on their social media because
they didn't want to post them on their social media.
Get it. But when someone comes to you and says, look,
we're in a leadership position, we could set an example.
We could do something good. We could bring unity to
our community by putting out a joint statement we can
all agree on. Let's negotiate on what that joint statement's
going to be. We don't want it to be partisan
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statements saying Democrats are bad or Republicans or evil. We
want something about free speech. And when we want a
joint statement, and the Democrats on the city council all
went nah.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
But see here's the other part, and maybe the deeper concern.
When did it become socially or morally acceptable to shrug
at victims of violence? I mean, how did how did
we become qualified to start deciding when murder victims had
it coming or when they didn't. And you see this everywhere.
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You know, you've got a conservative commentator assaulted or or
murdered in this case, and a lot of folks will say, well,
that's on him, like, you know, he had it come
and he knew the risk.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
They're people saying that that's on Trump or or or
Charlie Kirkkeetta's coming because Trump supported him.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
But what about when a police officer is killed. You
know what they say, Oh, well he signed up for it.
Or when you have Christians that are killed overseas, or
are Christian that is killed praying in front of an
abortion clinic, you know what they say, Well, they shouldn't
have been there. You see, that's wicked. That is wicked.
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And the Bible this is Isaiah five point twenty. Woe
to those who call evil good and good evil.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, and there's a lot of people in the country
right now they've gotten that backwards.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Who put darkness for light and light for darkness. Right,
So when Democrats on the Streetport City Council refuse to
mourn a man assassinated for speech, if nothing else, they
refused to denounce political murder, that what they're doing, that's
the low bar they missed. But what they're doing is
not of God, because what they're doing is they're calling
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darkness light. They are justifying evil, and the Scripture says,
woe to them. See, this is not of God. Indifference
to murder is not of God. No excusing violence is
not of God. Silence in the face of evil is
not of God.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But look, they may not want the Ten Commandments in
the school, so they may not know this, but one
of the ten commandments is thou shalt not kill. I mean,
that's a pretty low bar. Again, right, that's where we are.
Can you denounce killing? Because again, these democrats on the
city council, they say they are Christian. One of them
says he's a reverend. How do you not know that
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murder's wrong? And if you know that murder's wrong, why
can't you denounce murder. Why can't you get together with
somebody else that you're supposed to be working with on
a weekly basis and say, you know what, we stand
together and we denounce murder.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
But see, if we want to remain I agree with you.
But if we want to remain a free people, we
must reject silence. We must stand against evil. We must
demand that our leaders, both Democrats, Republicans, independents alike, to
do the same, because freedom only survives when people are
willing to defend it, even and especially when others refuse
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to do so.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
If you only support people that you like saying things
that you like, then you do not support free speech,
and if you can't announce murder, who are you?
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Speaker 5 (23:00):
So, the state of Louisiana, our home state of Louisiana,
just announced that road fatalities in twenty twenty four hit
their lowest level in five years.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
All right, Okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Seven hundred fifty three deaths last year from motor vehicle crashes.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Fewer than even in twenty twenty when none of us
were allowed to leave any leave the house.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Now that's still missing. Well, that's still too many lives lost. Sure,
but look at the trajectory here, we're head in the
right direction. That's a seven point two percent reduction from
twenty twenty three. Now you compare that to the national
decline of only three point eight percent. So Louisiana's nearly double,
nearly double the national decline or the national trajectory of
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decreasing car fatalities I mean, does the report suggest why
that is not in particular, They're not any one. I
mean there's a number of things, you know, as far
as safety features of new vehicles, just one, and continued
road repairs and improved condition, improved infrastructure, even though I
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know we've got a big, big issue with bridges in
our state issue, but here here you have Louisiana out
pacing the rest of the country.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
That's fantastic improvement in road deaths. That's very good, especially
since our state is notorious for not having good roads.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Now again that's good. There is still a lot of
work to do, you know. I recently, well I recently
started driving a sedan, okay, temporarily, all right. My other vehicle,
your suv is just could put yeah, okay, don't know
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what's wrong with it, figure it out.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
We're burning incense.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
But my point here is driving that sedan, it's low
to the ground. Yeah yeah, boy, you feel every crack, crevice,
pothole in the road. I mean, you're driving along even
a highway, even I say a highway, even somewhat of
a freeway, like you know, wherever dun't go, don't go dunk,
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And you're and and all of a sudden. I mean,
if you hit a pretty good patch that there's a
chunk of road out, I mean you feel it and
you're like, my car's about to fall apart.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
But I digress, because the good news here is release
making progress.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Your your vehicle can be repaired. But the fact sometimes,
well no, they you got enough money. I mean, you know,
if you're willing to spend the money. But my point
is is that fatalities are down, and obviously lives cannot
be replaced, and so that is good news for the
state of Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
That stick deep going down, down down. The federal government
is citing with Chevron against Louisiana parishes. See this. This
is about the lawsuits filed by the parishes against oil
companies blaming them for coastal erosion because of practices dating
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back to World War Two. Earlier this year, there was
a jury in Plackman's Parish which ruled that Chevron owed
the parish seven hundred and forty five million dollars for
damage that was done by Texico during World War Two. Now,
Chevron bought Texico earlier the century, so Sevron is now
liable for all of Texico's legal troubles. Chevron is appealing,
saying this case should have been tried in federal court
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because it was done under contracts with the federal government
to support the war effort. Lower courts have denied that request.
It's now going to the Supreme Court, and.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
So now the federal government is saying basically that Texico
was only doing I guess their patriotic duty.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
See.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Now, one of the things that's a problem for this
case is that the jury pool for a trial like
this is all going to be impossibly conflicted if you
try the case in the parish that's suing for damages.
That's because every member of the jury has a vested
interest in finding the oil company as much money as
they can, since technically that money will be going into
their local government's bank accounts. It would all be taxpayer money,
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and every member of the jury is a taxpayer, So
you can't have an unbiased jury trying these in local parishes.
That's a problem. But that's not even the argument that
Chevron's making. That's not the argument the federal government is making.
As you were just alluding to what they're saying. And
then the US Justice Department just filed a brief saying,
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in this case and dozens like it, they should be
moved to federal court. They wrote, World War two from
beginning to end was a war of oil. They said
Taxico was operating under a federal contract, and so the
case because it was a federal contract, that Taxico was
doing its patriotic duty, that it was helping the United
States win that war, this case should be tried in
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a federal court. And there's a catch to this. If
this case gets to a federal court, it would then
be thrown out because there's a law saying companies acting
under a federal officer can't be sued. So if you
move it to a federal court because they were acting
under a federal officer, then it has to be thrown
(28:24):
out because there's immunity. Because there's immunity there, and the
federal government is saying, yeah, this Chevron's right, Texaco was
operating with a contract with us that helped us beat Nazis.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
That's a good thing, absolutely, But again, who is bringing
the lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
The parish Placaman's parish. So it's just a cashgram. I
think it's a cash grap.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I mean because I don't know. This is about fairness.
I think this is I mean, yeah, why would Placaman's
Parish wont to punish an industry I mean especially one
of the few oil companies right, I mean the mega
giant companies like Chevron. Right, why would you want why
would you want to go after them?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Well, there are trial lawyers that are part of this.
This isn't just a parish lawyers coming up with this.
There are trial lawyers that have gotten involved in this.
And one of the rules of law, Lewis, you went
to law school, you should know this. Don't sue poor people.
You always sue the rich people. The oil companies are rich.
You sue oil companies because oil companies have money. That's
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a great reason to sue them. Well, a lot of
times the lawyers get rich. You know that. That's my point.
I mean, I mean, I'm just saying, I'm just being real.
This might end up being a political windfall for Jeff
Landry because Jeff Lander's been trying to have it a
little bit of both ways. He has come out in
favor of these lawsuits, but he's also said he wants
(29:55):
the oil and gas industry to thrive in our state. Well,
you can't act like John Bell Edwards and say you're
pro oil. And John Bell Edwards supported these lawsuits. And
it's not just Black Men's Parish, there's dozens of these.
These lawsuits will drive oil and gas out of Louisiana
because why bother doing business with the state that hates
you when you've got taxes right next door.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Okay, but is this more about law fair? Because I
think this is lawfair because the environmental movement, you know,
they can't pat you know, they haven't been able to
pass the Green New Deal through Congress, right, and they're
frustrated that the American people keep rejecting their radical policies.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
And the environmental movement blames coastal erosion on the oil companies,
when the truth is, the reason we have coastal erosion
in South Louisiana is because we put levees along the
Mississippi River. We stopped the flooding of the Mississippi River
out into all those bayous and estuaries in South Louisiana. Well,
that's where all of that sediment that created that land
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in the first place came from, was from the Mississippi River.
When you put the levees in the Mississippi River. Now
all of that sediment goes out into the gulf. It
doesn't spread out across South Louisiana, and it doesn't build
up land. This lawsuit is flawed on the science of
how land is made in South Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
So the global warming folks have basically turned to the
courts to try to advance their agenda.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
That's what this is. Through a lawsuit like this, and
we've got lawyers who are like, sure, I'll jump on
that band wagon. We've got politicians going, Okay, you know what,
I get money from lawyers, so I'm not going to
speak out against this. But if this goes to federal
court and then he gets thrown out, then Lander can
say to those on the left, Hey, it's not my
fault I got thrown out. I was with you guys.
And then he can say to those on the right, drill, baby, drill.
(31:40):
This might end up being a political windfall for the
governor because he's a little bit of a conflicted place
right now. We'll be back.
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Speaker 3 (33:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio Stephen Pover, Lewis Blonay.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
And more good news about the state of Louisiana. All right,
unless we're gonna be talking about this later on in
the show, and I did not attend the show prep meeting.
Yes today, Uh huh, so you just can grimace at
will here. Okay, when you hear me start talking about
how Louisiana is now ranked fifth in the nation.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Hold on a second, come.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Out black battlesuit shall Well.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It's time to play a game, since you're just talking
about this. The Heritage Foundation released it's twenty twenty five
Education Freedom report card last week. They write schools on
the states on four different categories of education freedom one
education choice, to eat your freedom, three, transparency, and for
return on investment. Okay, that that wasn't what I didn't
(34:06):
want to talk about all these other states. I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
I wanted to, you know, love on Louisiana here a
little bit. Okay, are fifth in the nation, fifth in
the nation, so education freedom. So it state landed at
fifth in the nation on education freedom. Ah, that would
be uh Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
There we go. I don't even know why we have
the show prep meetings.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
No, I'm just saying, I mean, look, we can we
can do the we can do the game. Just saying
this is good news, It is good. I mean the
Heritage Foundation, I mean they don't just willy nilly. I
mean they're not just this.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
No.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
No, they're not wallet hub by any means No. No,
they're legit.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
They're looking at a lot of different categories there, looking
at categories that actually end up in and creating more
opportunity for students. They look at categories that have real
impact on student success. And yeah, I think this is
a good report, and I think it's good that Louisiana's
number fifth. And by the way, that's higher than Louisiana
has been in the past. So Louisiana's climbing. And this
is one of those those topics where Louisiana has forever
(35:07):
been at the bottom. You know, Louisian has been ranked
forty ninth, fiftieth in education. But since Superintendedicate Brumley has
come in, Louisiana has been climbing every single education ranking
list anywhere in the country, from consumer reports to Heritage Founding.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Okay, we're talking about education freedom. Right, Louisiana's fifth in
the nation. However, we are fourth in terms of our
return on investment.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Right, so what you're getting for the money in terms
of how much you spend per pupil, right, and then
the quality the education you get out of that. We
are fifth in teacher freedom right, fifth in teacher freedom,
and sixth in civic education.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Now that is those are good things. Those are great topics.
There were some other categories like transparency. We were fifteenth.
In education choice we were sixteenth.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, and we could have been better if we had
fully fun did the Llegator Scholarship Fund.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
But this is I mean, you understand, this is super
We're towards we are in the upper echelon top of
the country.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
So that was the game. That's exciting.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
News is exciting for this future of our state, which
is why.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I made it part of the game for today. So
which states were at the top of the Education Freedom
report card? Education freedom? Yeah, Texas Texas. Texas came in
at number seven, So Louisiana's I had of Texas in
terms of education. Ah, that's pretty good. That that's pretty good.
We should be touting that, we should be toting that.
Florida number one. Florida comes in at number one. Governor
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Ron de Santi's has been very, very focused on education freedom.
Arkansas Arkansas number four, just one spot above us. But
but but Arizona number two second in education freedom. Mississippi
not in the top ten, Alabama number nine, so we're
(37:00):
out Alabama, Georgia, Georgia not in the top ten.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
South Carolina not in the top ten. Tennessee number six.
Education freedom, and I guess that is the ability to
send your kid wherever you want.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Well, it's a lot of things. It's education troice, teacher freedom, transparency,
and return on investment.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Okay, it's at Arkansas, yeah, said Louisiana. Of course, Alabama.
I say South Carolina. You did not South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
No, I'm sorry. First one button, it's it's it's a no.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Okay, thank you. I appreciate that vote of confidence. Sorry, Okay,
we're running out of timeline.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
So here's the list of the top ten. Florida, Arizona, Idaho, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Alabama,
West Virginia. So you have nine red states, one purple state,
no blue states in the top ten and education freedom.
Which states were at the bottom of the education freedom
report card? At the bottom had the least amount of
(38:06):
education freedom. Oh gotta be California not in the top ten. Actually,
California came in about twenty.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Eight of the city the state of New York, yes,
number seven, New Jersey number nine, Massachusetts, Massachusetts number four,
New Hampshire, New Hampshire, No Connecticut Connecticut number five, Rhode
Island number two. I'm staying in the New England states here, Maine.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Number one, the least education freedom. Up in Maine, let
me jump over to the state of Washington. Washington came
in at eleven, Oregon number six, Illinois number ten. Okay,
we're running out of times. So you have Maine the
least education freedom, Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Oregon, New York, Delaware,
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Joe Biden's Delaware, New Jersey, and Illinois. All ten of
those states are Democrat run states, where you the Democrats
control the House, the Senate, and the governor's mansion. The
left is dominated by government unions, especially teacher unions, and
that's why they don't want your family to choose how
(39:27):
to educate your children. They want to control that because
it means more money for the union. And if the
union's getting more money, they give that money to Democrat candidates.
So the Democrats control the state, then they're going to
give the unions money because the unions give the Democrats money,
which means your kids don't get to pick where they
go to school. See how that works, well, Grebeck call.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
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Speaker 3 (40:14):
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Speaker 5 (40:18):
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Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yes, I know them very well.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
The thing is.
Speaker 5 (40:26):
What makes them different are all the rubs and the sauces.
They're all housemaide. Oh, They're meticulously crafted. They're not dumped
out of a bottle or copied from somebody else's playbook. Okay,
I mean you're talking about spice blends that strike the
perfect balance between heat and harmony. And it's all rooted
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in Louisiana's love of bold flavor. That's why we say.
That's why we often say it's Louisiana style barbecue. Well,
it's Louisiana Stele barbecue. But it's where you can savor
the soul of Louisiana a barbecue, right, because I mean Louisiana,
I mean, we're we're different, different than Carolina, different than
than Kansas City, Texas, I mean or Kansas Kansas, Carolina. Yeah,
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and then there's Texas Memphis, different than Memphis.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
We're different, right. We got our own kind of barbecue,
we have our own taste. Yeah, And Louis and Magnoli.
Pitt has got that down to a teaser. Go check
them out. Seven twenty nine Jordan Street in Streeport, right
off of Lint Avenue.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
Now I am seeing we'll talk about this a little
bit later in the next hour, Okay, but my heart
is breaking.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Of course they've got.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
The the suspect who shot Charlie Kirk, right, and my
heart is breaking for.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
If forgive me.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
I mean, there are folks, folks are going to say,
I can't believe you're saying this, but my heart hurts
for that accused murderer's family.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Well, yeah, I mean, if you've got anybody in your
family who's been accused of murdering, Yeah, that that's awful.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
I mean this, but apparently it was his family. And
the reason I'm saying this, and the reason I'm bringing
this up is that his it was his father, his
parents who turned him in.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Yeah, and they look like.
Speaker 5 (42:31):
A I mean, they look like an American on all
American family, they do, and it's like you do the
best you can as parents.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
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Speaker 5 (01:01):
Lewis, Happy Friday to all of you. It has been
a very difficult week for our country. And you know,
and I'm going to say this right up front, it's
not about a single man. Yes, what is what happened
in Utah is horrific, it is unconscionable. But there's something
(01:24):
larger there. We'll certainly continue to talk about that later
on in the show. But Charlie Kirk, I want to
get to this because of what's going on in the
city of Shreetport. But Charlie Kirk, whether you adored him
or despised him, he was an American who dedicated his
life to ideas, to debate, to free speech. You know,
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he walked onto hostile campuses and said, let's talk, let's debate.
And for that, for words, for ideas, he was assassinated.
He was gunned down in cold blood.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And actually, I've been looking at a lot of this,
and everybody that I've talked to or I've seen online
saying that they're mad at Charlie Kirk for something he said.
It wasn't actually something that Charlie Kirk said exactly. It's
been characterizations of what he said. It's been interpretations of
what he said, but it's never been the exact words
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he said.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Or it's a misunderstanding of what he said or why
he said it not understanding, you know, for example, I
don't want to get into this, well we'll just get
into it. In other words, when he's talking about DEI, right,
if you're talking about DEI, and that is the fundamental
discussion point, right, you're talking about basically hiring folks, admitting
(02:46):
people into universities, into education institutions that aren't qualified, that
don't have the grades. Maybe you hire someone that doesn't
have the experience or the competency, because you're more concerned
about how it looks that minorities are represented within whatever
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the situation may be. If it's a hiring decision for
a corporation, then if you've only hired a bunch of
white folks, then you're going to start looking for other
folks to hire that may or may not be qualified. Okay,
it doesn't mean that white folks are the most qualified.
It just means that you're now using a different set
(03:33):
of criteria in order to make your hiring decision other
than competency, because now you're starting to say, well, it
would be really good if we had a person of color,
It would be really good, if we had a transgender person,
it would be really good if we hired a female,
because we've hired all men for this department and it
(03:55):
doesn't really look good.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'll give you an example. If you look at any
sports team, any professional sports team, right now, no one
goes that person's on the field because of their skin
tup color. Say there's a you know, a Hawaiian field
goal kicker in the NFL, and there's been one before,
nobody goes, you know, what the reason why they got
(04:17):
a Hawaiian field goal kicker was because Hawaiians have been
underrepresented in the NFL. They go that person got the
job because they're good at kicking field goals, and if
they stop being good at kicking field goals, they will
no longer have that job. There is no dei on
the field or on the court in any sporting event
because that's all based on merit. And as a result,
(04:39):
we don't have people going, I wonder if they got
that job because they know somebody.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
But see, in professional sports, the scoreboard is what you know.
You don't have to wonder that, you don't have to
render that because the scoreboard tells you everything you need
to know. The scoreboard doesn't care what color your skin is.
It doesn't care what your gender is, your background, your ethnicity.
It cares all it cares about all that scoreboard cares
(05:04):
about that w At the end of the game, all
that matters is whether you can catch the ball or
throw the pass, or run the route, or read the
defense or hit the shot under pressure. But the moment
you start picking people because of their identity markers instead
of their ability, what you do is you dilute excellence.
(05:25):
So teams teams win because of performance, that's reality. But
what DEI does is it tries to reframe things so
that identity Trump's performance. So, and we're talking about DEI
in the context of a lot of folks have said, well,
(05:46):
Charlie Kirk said some very racist things. He said that
when he gets on an airplane he is concerned if
he sees a person of color as the pilot. But
that is against the backdrop of a much larger discussion
about de policies, right, and gets taken out of context completely.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And when you take text out of context, all you're
left with is a con See what happens there, we
take the text out of context, you're left with the
con A lot of folks have been saying that they
hate Charlie Kirk because they've been conned, because they've been
told something that he said out of context. They actually
(06:30):
haven't watched him sit there and interact with a minority,
or sit there and interact with somebody who was trans
or sit there and interact with an angry leftist who
was using a bullhorn. They haven't watched him actually have
the debate with the Oxford students.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
But see, we say a lot of things on this show.
Sure that folks, I mean very easily. I mean you
can snip a clip here and snip a clip there,
and you go, well, these are two white guys.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, we are two white guys. You're much whiter than me,
I understand.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
But nevertheless, these are two white guys that obviously do
not like people of color, that obviously are misogynists, et cetera,
et cetera, because you know they don't favor equal pay
I mean among the genders. I mean, women get paid
much less than men. And here you got these two
guys on the radio talking about how there's there's nothing
(07:26):
wrong with that. I mean, how misogynists can you be?
You'd have to be taking those conversations way the heck
O got it. But that's what's But that is what
is happening with charge to Charlie Kirk's memory or worse,
someone goes, Charlie Kirk says violent racist things, and so
someone else goes, well, I can't stand Charlie Kirk because
they say violent racist things, although they haven't actually listened
(07:47):
to Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And then you get a third person who heard that
second person, they go, well, I'm not gonna like Charlie
Kirk because obviously he says violent, racist things, and none
of those people actually listen to anything that he said.
So even when we say something here on the show
about what somebody else said, you don't have to believe
us on it. Go look at what those other people said,
(08:09):
and if we've misinterpreted it, make your own interpretation.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But you know, like.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Sometimes you might hear somebody say something publicly and you're like,
you know that, what something doesn't seem right about that.
Let me go, let me look into this a little further.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I do that all the every day, and then you're like, oh,
that's not what happened. That's that's what they were talking about.
That's the context of the discussion.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You know. I did that with the Jasmine Crockett quote.
Today there was a headline about I don't remember what, Zach,
what the story was, but there's a headline about, so
Jasmin Crockett you believe Jazu Crocket said today, And so
I went and looked and I went, well, I mean,
I don't agree with what you said, but it's not
as bad as what the headline said. And that's that's
someone on the left too. I do not think as
a very intelligent person says awful things all the time.
(08:54):
But in this particular case, I didn't think that it
was near as bad as what the headline on a
right way website was saying.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
She said, But I think sometimes, Okay, you're proving a
great point here, is that both on the left and
on the right. Yeah, there are folks that jump to
conclusions without understanding the context in which sometimes these comments
are made. Now, once you put them in context and
you disagree with them, yeah, I mean, come on out
and show call them out.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, let's get to the top of the things you
need before them all. First thing you need before A
new poll from foxade to New Orleans says the mayor's
race is Atlanta Morenos to lose. Moreno grabbed fifty one
percent of the support of people polled. Coming in a
distance second was Oliver Thomas with just sixteen percent, followed
(09:46):
by Royce Duplus's at eleven percent. Moreno led in all
demographic groups men, women, white, Black, Republicans, Democrats, and Independence.
The open primary for the mayor's race is October eleventh,
and if these poll numbers are correct, Moreno could win
on the first ballot.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You know, it's interesting that there isn't more of a
horse race, so to speak, for the Mayor's race in
New Orleans. But we're also seeing a lack of a
horse race, so to speak in the New York City
Mayor's race. It's almost like there's no one to counter
(10:21):
this far left ideology in these very blue cities.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Second thing you know before a wrong. Southern University has
suspended one of its professor's law professor Kelly Carmena was
suspended over comments she posted on social media after the
murder of Charlie Kirk. Carmena allegedly posted, I will one
thousand percent wish death on people like him. He is
the epitome of evil, and I have no compassion, not
even a minute a minute ounce of it for people
like him who go around spewing hate the way he does.
(10:48):
Southern University board chairman Tony Clayton said she was fired
because the statement was quote tantamount to participating and inciting
violence and spewing hate. What do you think about it?
She's obviously not listened to what Charlie Kirk did with
an objective mind at any point. And the third thing
you needablefore of all free speech is improving at LSU.
(11:09):
That's according to the latest free speech ranking from FIRE,
the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. LSU made the
top fifty universities on the annual list for the first time,
coming in directly at number fifty. That's an improvement of
one hundred and forty nine schools in rankings in just
the past year. FIRE says the main reason for the
improvement in their free speech ranking was due to the
(11:29):
campus adopting an institutional neutrality policy thanks to Governor Jeff Landry.
The only other Louisiana school on the list was Tulane,
which came in ranked near the bottom at two hundred
and seven.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Yeah, I mean in doctrination has no place on our
college campetate campuses.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And Tulane needs to do a much better job of
being neutral. We'll be back.
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Speaker 3 (13:13):
Welcome back to American grandmadm Stephen Poward Lewis.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Okay, So, as I was saying off the top, yes,
what happened in Streeport with regards to Charlie Kirk is
really a very sad, sad commentary, because here you had,
in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, you
had many Louisiana elected officials throughout the state offering their
(13:38):
condolences to Charlie's family and friends, saying such political violence
has no place in a free country such as ours.
But what do you think happened in Shreeport. Not one
Democrat in the city on the city council. Yeah, said
a word, no statement, no condemn nation, no acknowledgment, only silence.
(14:03):
Let's be very clear here, even if you thought Charlie
Kirk was a was vile, right, even if you loathed
everything he stood for, you should still be able to
say one thing, just one thing, that's all I'm saying,
just one thing, and that is murder is wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's a pretty little barber's that's it.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
That's that's as a leader on on an even though
you're on the city council, right, even though you're on
the city council in one city within the state of Louisiana,
right to make a statement to say, you know what,
here is a national issue, a national news story that
is going on, right, murder is wrong, and here's the
(14:47):
reason why.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And we are a city that's that's politically divided. It's
what sixty percent Democrat forty percent Republicans.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Parishes is sixty forty And it's similar to I guess city.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yes, this city would be a little bit more Democrat
than the parish itself, but the point being you've got
both Republicans and Democrats that live in your neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Okay, But the larger issue, this is so much bigger
than Charlie Kirk. And this is where if you are
a true leader, if you're a true leader and not
just someone that is sitting on a government body trying
to gain powerful because of the way that it makes
you feel sure, then what you understand is that if
we fear for our lives whenever we speak, like Charlie
(15:35):
Kirk was there on that campus, on that university campus,
speaking out and he lost his life as a result
of it. If we are in fear of our lives
whenever we speak out on social media wherever, then we're
no longer free. And yet you have the Democrats on
the Shreeport City Council refusing to defend even that basic truth.
(15:59):
That's not just my friends, that is not just ridiculous,
it is shameful, and it's not of God, and it's
not of God.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know. There was this great pastor, Dietrich bon Hoffer.
Oh yeah, World War Two. He saved, he saved thousands.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Of He stood up to Hitler and he said, this
silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God
will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak,
Not to act is to act.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And he was right.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You can't just shrug off murder or look the other
way when evil is right before your eyes. And what
happened on that national stage, this assassination of this political commentator,
it happened right before your eyes. This is evil right
before your eyes. You can't just shrug off when a
man is slaughtered for speaking, because God sees and God knows,
(17:04):
and God holds us accountable.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Now here's here's the part that I'm really incensed over this.
These are the same Democrats, by the way, who violated
the Open Meetings Act so that they could do a
proclamation talk about how great Bernie Sanders was when Bernie
Sanders came to the statement.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Well, that's the parish commission. I'm talking about city council.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You're right, city council. I'm sorry, I got that wrong.
You're right. Okay, So, but we have that, but they've
been silent as well. We have Yes, that's right, and
the Cattle Parish Comission loves passing resolutions talking about what
they believe politically. All right, So you have two Republicans
on the city council. You've got Jim Telafarrell and you've
got Grayson Butcher, and both of those gentlemen reached out
(17:45):
to all five members of the City Council who are Democrats,
and they said, guys, would y'all like to put out
a joint statement, a joint statement from something that the
whole city Council can participate in. Now, So what what
the point of this is? It's not just that the
Democrats on the City Council didn't think to respond to
(18:06):
the Charlie Kirk thing. They were invited to collaborate with
the Republicans on the City Council to put out a
statement they all could agree with, and the Democrats refused.
They refused to show any bipartisanship in a moment where
it was begging for bipartisanship.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
That's because a lot of those Democrats believe it is
karma that that Charlie Kirk got what he deserved.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And so it's worse to me that they were silent.
If you just decided I'm not going to say anything,
it's worse than if someone comes up and goes, hey,
would you like to work with I think.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Because maybe he didn't think about it, but in this case,
you actually didn't think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
There's some people go, you know what, there are people
that have not posted anything on their social media because
they didn't want to post them on their social media.
Get it. But when someone comes to you and says, look,
we're in a leadership position, we could set an example.
We could do something good. We could bring unity to
our community by putting out a joint statement we can
all agree on. Let's negotiate on what that joint statement's
going to be. We don't want it to be partisan
(19:10):
statements saying Democrats are bad or Republicans or evil. We
want something about free speech. And when we want a
joint statement, and the Democrats on the city council all
went nah.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
But see here's the other part, and maybe the deeper concern.
When did it become socially or morally acceptable to shrug
at victims of violence? I mean, how did how did
we become qualified to start deciding when murder victims had
it coming or when they didn't. And you see this everywhere.
(19:43):
You know, you've got a conservative commentator assaulted or or
murdered in this case, and a lot of folks will say, well,
that's on him, like, you know, he had it come
and he knew the risk.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
They're people saying that that's on Trump or or or
Charlie Kirkkeetta's coming because Trump supported him.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
But what about when a police officer is killed. You
know what they say, Oh, well he signed up for it.
Or when you have Christians that are killed overseas, or
are Christian that is killed praying in front of an
abortion clinic, you know what they say, Well, they shouldn't
have been there. You see, that's wicked. That is wicked.
(20:21):
And the Bible this is Isaiah five point twenty. Woe
to those who call evil good and good evil.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, and there's a lot of people in the country
right now they've gotten that backwards.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Who put darkness for light and light for darkness. Right,
So when Democrats on the Streetport City Council refuse to
mourn a man assassinated for speech, if nothing else, they
refused to denounce political murder, that what they're doing, that's
the low bar they missed. But what they're doing is
not of God, because what they're doing is they're calling
(20:54):
darkness light. They are justifying evil, and the Scripture says,
woe to them. See, this is not of God. Indifference
to murder is not of God. No excusing violence is
not of God. Silence in the face of evil is
not of God.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But look, they may not want the Ten Commandments in
the school, so they may not know this, but one
of the ten commandments is thou shalt not kill. I mean,
that's a pretty low bar. Again, right, that's where we are.
Can you denounce killing? Because again, these democrats on the
city council, they say they are Christian. One of them
says he's a reverend. How do you not know that
(21:35):
murder's wrong? And if you know that murder's wrong, why
can't you denounce murder. Why can't you get together with
somebody else that you're supposed to be working with on
a weekly basis and say, you know what, we stand
together and we denounce murder.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
But see, if we want to remain I agree with you.
But if we want to remain a free people, we
must reject silence. We must stand against evil. We must
demand that our leaders, both Democrats, Republicans, independents alike, to
do the same, because freedom only survives when people are
willing to defend it, even and especially when others refuse
(22:13):
to do so.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
If you only support people that you like saying things
that you like, then you do not support free speech,
and if you can't announce murder, who are you?
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Speaker 3 (22:56):
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Speaker 5 (23:00):
So, the state of Louisiana, our home state of Louisiana,
just announced that road fatalities in twenty twenty four hit
their lowest level in five years.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
All right, Okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Seven hundred fifty three deaths last year from motor vehicle crashes.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Fewer than even in twenty twenty when none of us
were allowed to leave any leave the house.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Now that's still missing. Well, that's still too many lives lost. Sure,
but look at the trajectory here, we're head in the
right direction. That's a seven point two percent reduction from
twenty twenty three. Now you compare that to the national
decline of only three point eight percent. So Louisiana's nearly double,
nearly double the national decline or the national trajectory of
(23:49):
decreasing car fatalities I mean, does the report suggest why
that is not in particular, They're not any one. I
mean there's a number of things, you know, as far
as safety features of new vehicles, just one, and continued
road repairs and improved condition, improved infrastructure, even though I
(24:10):
know we've got a big, big issue with bridges in
our state issue, but here here you have Louisiana out
pacing the rest of the country.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
That's fantastic improvement in road deaths. That's very good, especially
since our state is notorious for not having good roads.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Now again that's good. There is still a lot of
work to do, you know. I recently, well I recently
started driving a sedan, okay, temporarily, all right. My other vehicle,
your suv is just could put yeah, okay, don't know
(24:47):
what's wrong with it, figure it out.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
We're burning incense.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
But my point here is driving that sedan, it's low
to the ground. Yeah yeah, boy, you feel every crack, crevice,
pothole in the road. I mean, you're driving along even
a highway, even I say a highway, even somewhat of
a freeway, like you know, wherever dun't go, don't go dunk,
(25:14):
And you're and and all of a sudden. I mean,
if you hit a pretty good patch that there's a
chunk of road out, I mean you feel it and
you're like, my car's about to fall apart.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
But I digress, because the good news here is release
making progress.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Your your vehicle can be repaired. But the fact sometimes,
well no, they you got enough money. I mean, you know,
if you're willing to spend the money. But my point
is is that fatalities are down, and obviously lives cannot
be replaced, and so that is good news for the
state of Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
That stick deep going down, down down. The federal government
is citing with Chevron against Louisiana parishes. See this. This
is about the lawsuits filed by the parishes against oil
companies blaming them for coastal erosion because of practices dating
(26:13):
back to World War Two. Earlier this year, there was
a jury in Plackman's Parish which ruled that Chevron owed
the parish seven hundred and forty five million dollars for
damage that was done by Texico during World War Two. Now,
Chevron bought Texico earlier the century, so Sevron is now
liable for all of Texico's legal troubles. Chevron is appealing,
saying this case should have been tried in federal court
(26:35):
because it was done under contracts with the federal government
to support the war effort. Lower courts have denied that request.
It's now going to the Supreme Court, and.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
So now the federal government is saying basically that Texico
was only doing I guess their patriotic duty.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
See.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Now, one of the things that's a problem for this
case is that the jury pool for a trial like
this is all going to be impossibly conflicted if you
try the case in the parish that's suing for damages.
That's because every member of the jury has a vested
interest in finding the oil company as much money as
they can, since technically that money will be going into
their local government's bank accounts. It would all be taxpayer money,
(27:17):
and every member of the jury is a taxpayer, So
you can't have an unbiased jury trying these in local parishes.
That's a problem. But that's not even the argument that
Chevron's making. That's not the argument the federal government is making.
As you were just alluding to what they're saying. And
then the US Justice Department just filed a brief saying,
(27:39):
in this case and dozens like it, they should be
moved to federal court. They wrote, World War two from
beginning to end was a war of oil. They said
Taxico was operating under a federal contract, and so the
case because it was a federal contract, that Taxico was
doing its patriotic duty, that it was helping the United
States win that war, this case should be tried in
(28:02):
a federal court. And there's a catch to this. If
this case gets to a federal court, it would then
be thrown out because there's a law saying companies acting
under a federal officer can't be sued. So if you
move it to a federal court because they were acting
under a federal officer, then it has to be thrown
(28:24):
out because there's immunity. Because there's immunity there, and the
federal government is saying, yeah, this Chevron's right, Texaco was
operating with a contract with us that helped us beat Nazis.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
That's a good thing, absolutely, But again, who is bringing
the lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
The parish Placaman's parish. So it's just a cashgram. I
think it's a cash grap.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I mean because I don't know. This is about fairness.
I think this is I mean, yeah, why would Placaman's
Parish wont to punish an industry I mean especially one
of the few oil companies right, I mean the mega
giant companies like Chevron. Right, why would you want why
would you want to go after them?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Well, there are trial lawyers that are part of this.
This isn't just a parish lawyers coming up with this.
There are trial lawyers that have gotten involved in this.
And one of the rules of law, Lewis, you went
to law school, you should know this. Don't sue poor people.
You always sue the rich people. The oil companies are rich.
You sue oil companies because oil companies have money. That's
(29:35):
a great reason to sue them. Well, a lot of
times the lawyers get rich. You know that. That's my point.
I mean, I mean, I'm just saying, I'm just being real.
This might end up being a political windfall for Jeff
Landry because Jeff Lander's been trying to have it a
little bit of both ways. He has come out in
favor of these lawsuits, but he's also said he wants
(29:55):
the oil and gas industry to thrive in our state. Well,
you can't act like John Bell Edwards and say you're
pro oil. And John Bell Edwards supported these lawsuits. And
it's not just Black Men's Parish, there's dozens of these.
These lawsuits will drive oil and gas out of Louisiana
because why bother doing business with the state that hates
you when you've got taxes right next door.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Okay, but is this more about law fair? Because I
think this is lawfair because the environmental movement, you know,
they can't pat you know, they haven't been able to
pass the Green New Deal through Congress, right, and they're
frustrated that the American people keep rejecting their radical policies.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
And the environmental movement blames coastal erosion on the oil companies,
when the truth is, the reason we have coastal erosion
in South Louisiana is because we put levees along the
Mississippi River. We stopped the flooding of the Mississippi River
out into all those bayous and estuaries in South Louisiana. Well,
that's where all of that sediment that created that land
(30:52):
in the first place came from, was from the Mississippi River.
When you put the levees in the Mississippi River. Now
all of that sediment goes out into the gulf. It
doesn't spread out across South Louisiana, and it doesn't build
up land. This lawsuit is flawed on the science of
how land is made in South Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
So the global warming folks have basically turned to the
courts to try to advance their agenda.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
That's what this is. Through a lawsuit like this, and
we've got lawyers who are like, sure, I'll jump on
that band wagon. We've got politicians going, Okay, you know what,
I get money from lawyers, so I'm not going to
speak out against this. But if this goes to federal
court and then he gets thrown out, then Lander can
say to those on the left, Hey, it's not my
fault I got thrown out. I was with you guys.
And then he can say to those on the right, drill, baby, drill.
(31:40):
This might end up being a political windfall for the
governor because he's a little bit of a conflicted place
right now. We'll be back.
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Speaker 3 (33:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio Stephen Pover, Lewis Blonay.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
And more good news about the state of Louisiana. All right,
unless we're gonna be talking about this later on in
the show, and I did not attend the show prep meeting.
Yes today, Uh huh, so you just can grimace at
will here. Okay, when you hear me start talking about
how Louisiana is now ranked fifth in the nation.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Hold on a second, come.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Out black battlesuit shall Well.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It's time to play a game, since you're just talking
about this. The Heritage Foundation released it's twenty twenty five
Education Freedom report card last week. They write schools on
the states on four different categories of education freedom one
education choice, to eat your freedom, three, transparency, and for
return on investment. Okay, that that wasn't what I didn't
(34:06):
want to talk about all these other states. I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
I wanted to, you know, love on Louisiana here a
little bit. Okay, are fifth in the nation, fifth in
the nation, so education freedom. So it state landed at
fifth in the nation on education freedom. Ah, that would
be uh Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
There we go. I don't even know why we have
the show prep meetings.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
No, I'm just saying, I mean, look, we can we
can do the we can do the game. Just saying
this is good news, It is good. I mean the
Heritage Foundation, I mean they don't just willy nilly. I
mean they're not just this.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
No.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
No, they're not wallet hub by any means No. No,
they're legit.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
They're looking at a lot of different categories there, looking
at categories that actually end up in and creating more
opportunity for students. They look at categories that have real
impact on student success. And yeah, I think this is
a good report, and I think it's good that Louisiana's
number fifth. And by the way, that's higher than Louisiana
has been in the past. So Louisiana's climbing. And this
is one of those those topics where Louisiana has forever
(35:07):
been at the bottom. You know, Louisian has been ranked
forty ninth, fiftieth in education. But since Superintendedicate Brumley has
come in, Louisiana has been climbing every single education ranking
list anywhere in the country, from consumer reports to Heritage Founding.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Okay, we're talking about education freedom. Right, Louisiana's fifth in
the nation. However, we are fourth in terms of our
return on investment.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Right, so what you're getting for the money in terms
of how much you spend per pupil, right, and then
the quality the education you get out of that. We
are fifth in teacher freedom right, fifth in teacher freedom,
and sixth in civic education.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Now that is those are good things. Those are great topics.
There were some other categories like transparency. We were fifteenth.
In education choice we were sixteenth.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, and we could have been better if we had
fully fun did the Llegator Scholarship Fund.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
But this is I mean, you understand, this is super
We're towards we are in the upper echelon top of
the country.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
So that was the game. That's exciting.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
News is exciting for this future of our state, which
is why.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I made it part of the game for today. So
which states were at the top of the Education Freedom
report card? Education freedom? Yeah, Texas Texas. Texas came in
at number seven, So Louisiana's I had of Texas in
terms of education. Ah, that's pretty good. That that's pretty good.
We should be touting that, we should be toting that.
Florida number one. Florida comes in at number one. Governor
(36:38):
Ron de Santi's has been very, very focused on education freedom.
Arkansas Arkansas number four, just one spot above us. But
but but Arizona number two second in education freedom. Mississippi
not in the top ten, Alabama number nine, so we're
(37:00):
out Alabama, Georgia, Georgia not in the top ten.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
South Carolina not in the top ten. Tennessee number six.
Education freedom, and I guess that is the ability to
send your kid wherever you want.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Well, it's a lot of things. It's education troice, teacher freedom, transparency,
and return on investment.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Okay, it's at Arkansas, yeah, said Louisiana. Of course, Alabama.
I say South Carolina. You did not South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
No, I'm sorry. First one button, it's it's it's a no.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Okay, thank you. I appreciate that vote of confidence. Sorry, Okay,
we're running out of timeline.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
So here's the list of the top ten. Florida, Arizona, Idaho, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Alabama,
West Virginia. So you have nine red states, one purple state,
no blue states in the top ten and education freedom.
Which states were at the bottom of the education freedom
report card? At the bottom had the least amount of
(38:06):
education freedom. Oh gotta be California not in the top ten. Actually,
California came in about twenty.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Eight of the city the state of New York, yes,
number seven, New Jersey number nine, Massachusetts, Massachusetts number four,
New Hampshire, New Hampshire, No Connecticut Connecticut number five, Rhode
Island number two. I'm staying in the New England states here, Maine.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Number one, the least education freedom. Up in Maine, let
me jump over to the state of Washington. Washington came
in at eleven, Oregon number six, Illinois number ten. Okay,
we're running out of times. So you have Maine the
least education freedom, Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Oregon, New York, Delaware,
(39:04):
Joe Biden's Delaware, New Jersey, and Illinois. All ten of
those states are Democrat run states, where you the Democrats
control the House, the Senate, and the governor's mansion. The
left is dominated by government unions, especially teacher unions, and
that's why they don't want your family to choose how
(39:27):
to educate your children. They want to control that because
it means more money for the union. And if the
union's getting more money, they give that money to Democrat candidates.
So the Democrats control the state, then they're going to
give the unions money because the unions give the Democrats money,
which means your kids don't get to pick where they
go to school. See how that works, well, Grebeck call.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
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Speaker 3 (40:14):
Welcome back to American Grant Radium. Stephen Farv with Lewis
sar Avalon.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
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Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yes, I know them very well.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
The thing is.
Speaker 5 (40:26):
What makes them different are all the rubs and the sauces.
They're all housemaide. Oh, They're meticulously crafted. They're not dumped
out of a bottle or copied from somebody else's playbook. Okay,
I mean you're talking about spice blends that strike the
perfect balance between heat and harmony. And it's all rooted
(40:47):
in Louisiana's love of bold flavor. That's why we say.
That's why we often say it's Louisiana style barbecue. Well,
it's Louisiana Stele barbecue. But it's where you can savor
the soul of Louisiana a barbecue, right, because I mean Louisiana,
I mean, we're we're different, different than Carolina, different than
than Kansas City, Texas, I mean or Kansas Kansas, Carolina. Yeah,
(41:13):
and then there's Texas Memphis, different than Memphis.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
We're different, right. We got our own kind of barbecue,
we have our own taste. Yeah, And Louis and Magnoli.
Pitt has got that down to a teaser. Go check
them out. Seven twenty nine Jordan Street in Streeport, right
off of Lint Avenue.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
Now I am seeing we'll talk about this a little
bit later in the next hour, Okay, but my heart
is breaking.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Of course they've got.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
The the suspect who shot Charlie Kirk, right, and my
heart is breaking for.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
If forgive me.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
I mean, there are folks, folks are going to say,
I can't believe you're saying this, but my heart hurts
for that accused murderer's family.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Well, yeah, I mean, if you've got anybody in your
family who's been accused of murdering, Yeah, that that's awful.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
I mean this, but apparently it was his family. And
the reason I'm saying this, and the reason I'm bringing
this up is that his it was his father, his
parents who turned him in.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Yeah, and they look like.
Speaker 5 (42:31):
A I mean, they look like an American on all
American family, they do, and it's like you do the
best you can as parents.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
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