Jeff Crouere is a native of New Orleans, LA. He is the host of a Louisiana-based program, “Ringside Politics,” which airs at 7:30 p.m. Friday & 10:00 p.m. Sunday on WLAE-TV 32, a PBS station; and 7 till 11 a.m. weekdays on WGSO 990 AM in the New Orleans area & Wgso.com worldwide.
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Conservatives have long been suspicious of U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). He is rightly viewed as a deal maker with little backbone who often sacrifices principles for expediency. This is why it took fifteen ballots for him to finally get elected as House Speaker. He was able to secure the position due to support from conservative stalwarts such as U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and President Donald Trump.
While the United States is close to reaching its federal debt ceiling and talks continue between the Biden administration and House Republican leaders, there seems to be no ceiling on the amount of financial assistance our country is providing to Ukraine. After fifteen months, the war in Ukraine continues with no end in sight.
This weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the G-7 summit in Japan to solicit more military assistance for his country. Regardless of his plea, it is indisputable that the United States government has generously funded the Ukrainian war effort. Although, it can be argued that European countries should do more to support Ukraine.
The First Amendment is the essential foundation for our nation’s greatness, guaranteeing Americans our precious freedoms that are denied in so many countries. Thus, it is disturbing to behold a bi-partisan group of politicians advocating a big government attempt to restrict the First Amendment, a disastrous piece of legislation called the RESTRICT ACT.
In the 1980s, after the advent of FM music radio, the AM band was a sleepy place for forgotten stations and nostalgia programming. All of that changed when the legendary Rush Limbaugh took the nation by storm and reinvented the concept of modern talk radio.
His program was primarily featured on AM radio stations across the country. Single-handedly, he revived the AM band and made it a powerful vehicle for communication.
The worst nightmare for an incumbent President is to receive a serious intra-party nomination challenge. In recent history, it has happened three times. In 1976, a conservative challenger, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, made a valiant attempt that almost succeeded in denying the GOP nomination for President Gerald Ford.
In 1980, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) vigorously challenged President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. In 1992, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan offered Republican Party voters an alternative to moderate President George H. W. Bush.
As Americans face increasing economic pressures, social unrest, escalating crime, and the prospect of nuclear war, it would be wonderful to have a variety of comforting distractions.
In previous years, Americans flocked to the movie theaters for escapism, but that simple pleasure has been destroyed by an ever-increasing appetite for “woke” morality inserted in films by the far-left Hollywood powerbrokers. The revulsion by average Americans can be seen in the anemic ratings for recent television broadcasts of the Academy Awards.
President Joe Biden spends too much time on vacation and not “working” for the American people. For example, he just returned from a four-day vacation in Ireland but has ignored the victims of the poisonous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. In fact, Biden has been on vacation an astounding 326 days or 40% of his presidency.
Since the Ireland trip was another debacle, House Republicans should immediately demand that Biden submit to a mental competency test. As usual, Biden made numerous gaffes and embarrassing statements in Ireland.
For years, major American corporations have been moving to the far left, embracing radical causes, and showing disdain for their customers. A perfect illustration occurred in 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. The Claremont Institute discovered that major corporations gave $83.1 billion to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and “related initiatives.” As noted by Claremont Institute, this amount is “more than the GDP of 46 African countries.”
Of course, it did not matter to the “hundreds” of corporate donors that the co-founders of BLM espoused Maoist ideology, purchased luxurious mansions, and gave massive salaries to family members. Even more troubling is that the stated mission of BLM includes an attack on “the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”
The latest GOP presidential candidate to enter the 2024 nomination race is former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. He joins President Donald Trump, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as announced 2024 Republican presidential candidates.
On Sunday’s ABC’s This Week program, Hutchinson said, “I’m going to run for President of the United States…people want leaders that appeal to the best of America and not simply appeal to our worst instincts.” He claimed that Americans want “common sense, consistent conservatism, and optimism about our great country…I believe I can be that kind of leader for the people of America.”
At the end of the Trump administration, our southern border with Mexico was fortified as major improvements in security had occurred including the construction of a border wall. Unfortunately, the wall was not completed at the end of Trump’s term, and construction was promptly halted when Joe Biden became President.
During his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden welcomed immigrants from around the world to enter the United States. In a 2019 Democratic Party presidential debate, Biden said, “You want to flee, and you're fleeing oppression, you should come.”
America as the “shining city on a hill” is gone. It has been replaced by a country with a weaponized criminal justice system, a radicalized educational system, and a news media that is a mouthpiece for a tyrannical government.
It is difficult to be hopeful about America after twenty-six disastrous months of the Biden administration. All the progress of the previous administration has been reversed. Our country is no longer economically robust, energy independent or secure at our borders.
We face a border crisis, a crime crisis, an economic crisis, a banking crisis, an education crisis and are fighting a proxy war against Russia. To make matters worse, a “woke” leftist agenda has become dominant at our nation’s top corporations, universities, government agencies and media outlets.
The aggravating practice of changing our clocks every few months started during World War I, over one hundred years ago. It was created as a way for the United States to save power and fuel and enhance the economy by spurring consumer shopping in the evening.
The practice was halted after the war but was resumed in 1966 after the passage of the ‘Uniform Time Act.” This clock changing madness is part of our tradition of switching from standard time to daylight-saving time. The country will remain in daylight-saving time until the first Sunday of November when we “fall back” to standard time.
Should anyone believe the Biden administration’s ridiculous story about the mysterious balloons that gripped the nation several weeks ago? According to the administration, a massive Chinese spy balloon was allowed to travel from China across the Pacific Ocean into Alaska through Canada and back into the United States. At that point, the balloon traversed over the interior of the country before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina.
In 1840, New Orleans was the third largest city in the country. As a booming port city, New Orleans enjoyed incredible growth for decades due to increasing levels of commerce on the Mississippi River and its designation as the “Gateway to the Americas.”
The population of New Orleans continued to grow until 1960, when it peaked at 627,525 residents. At that time, it was the 15th largest city in the country.
This week marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. The war has been extremely costly for both sides. While Russia has been condemned by the international community for their aggression, Ukraine has been receiving significant support from many European countries and the United States. To date, the Biden administration has provided Ukraine with over $100 billion in military equipment and humanitarian aid.
Sadly, neither the United States nor our European allies are pushing for a peaceful settlement of this war. There is no end in sight to the war or to the financial and military commitment of the United States.
America needs more police officers. In cities across the nation, officers are retiring and resigning in record numbers. With police shortages, more violent criminals roam the streets of our country to prey on innocent victims. For example, New Orleans is the Murder Capital of the nation and has a shortage of over 600 police officers.
Police officers face constant scrutiny and oversight. While some officers abuse this public trust and are removed from their positions, the vast majority serve with distinction in very difficult circumstances.
The communist dictators of China are brutal authoritarians who have been repressing the basic human rights of their own people for decades.
In China, citizens do not have an independent media or the freedom to speak, assemble, petition their government, or practice their religious faith.
The last 2+ years have taken a horrific toll on the American people. Under President Joe Biden, a once thriving economy is saddled with $31.5 trillion in federal debt, stubborn inflation, rising interest rates, and increasing consumer debt.
On Friday, the 168 members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) re-elected Ronna Romney McDaniel as the party’s chair. This will be her fourth term as RNC Chair, the longest tenure since Edwin Morgan finished eight years at the party’s helm in 1864.
In serving as the first RNC Chairman, Morgan undoubtedly deserved such longevity. Did McDaniel deserve another term? If Republicans had been winning elections in the last six years, there would be overwhelming support for McDaniel to continue her leadership of the party.
As other Southern states, such as Texas and Florida, continue to enjoy explosive economic growth, Louisiana is suffering from the impact of misguided policies.
While other states flourished during the pandemic and embraced freedom, Louisiana enforced lockdown policies and COVID mandates pushed by liberal Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards and liberal Mayors such as LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans.