Taxpayer-Funded Charity Isn't Charity — Here's Why

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 14, 2026. We open with a look at Louisiana's new law extending citizenship and immigration verification requirements to NGOs administering taxpayer-funded public benefits, and make the case for why charity funded by taxation isn't really charity at all. From there we run through the headlines you need to know, covering reports of talks between the state of Louisiana and SpaceX over a possible launch pad in Vermilion Parish, the arrest of a Grand Coteau assistant police chief on malfeasance charges, and an extended FEMA deadline for Tropical Storm Arthur disaster assistance.We dig into Louisiana's crime debate and the uncomfortable question nobody wants to answer: where do you actually put criminals if you get tough on sentencing but don't build more jail space? In our Digging Deep segment, we break down the DNC's new "Southern State Resources Hub" and why we think the party misunderstands why the South is thriving in the first place.We also tackle President Trump's declaration that he intends to claim the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. territory, walking through the legal impossibility of the claim and making the case that it's really trolling aimed at Iran, with a nod to how Reagan used humor as a political weapon.We cover the sentencing of an illegal immigrant convicted of voter fraud and passport fraud, play a game guessing which states have the cheapest gas in the country, and close by revisiting Bernie Sanders' refusal to endorse a Democratic Socialist candidate in Wisconsin and what it reveals about the limits of his own ideology. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, visit AmericanGroundRadio.com, and join the conversation at 866-AGR-1776.