The World and Everything in It: Monday, July 17, 2023

PREROLL: The World and Everything in It is made possible by listeners like us. My name is Scot. I live in the inland Empire of Southern California. 30 years ago today I married someone who has stuck by me and helped me be more like Christ. Thank you, Cheryl for following Christ and making me better because of it. I hope you enjoy today's program.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning! Today on Legal Docket, we’ll tell you about some religious-liberty cases bubbling up from the lower courts and how a recent Supreme Court decision could drive the outcome. Religious-liberty lawyers say it couldn’t come at a more-needed time.

TAUB: Last year, there was six times as many charges of religious discrimination as there was the year before. So religious discrimination in the workplace is exploding over the past few years.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Legal Docket. Also today, the Monday Moneybeat.  Financial analyst David Bahnsen will be along. We’ll talk about the new numbers on consumer prices. Finally, some relief: who’s the hero? I’ll ask David.

And the WORLD History Book today, the sensational case of the Tylenol poisonings, the unsolved mystery is back to the headlines after the death of the only suspect.

REICHARD: It’s Monday, July 17th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now the news. Here’s Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Ukraine » Has the war in Ukraine turned into a stalemate? White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan answered that question on Sunday.

SULLIVAN: It has not. You’re seeing Ukrainian forces, in fact, make progress both in the east and the south. We said before this counteroffensive started that it would be hard-going, and it has been hard-going. That’s the nature of war. But the Ukrainians are continuing to move forward.

That from ABC’s This Week.

The United States recently started supplying cluster bombs to Ukraine, which Russia has been using all along.

While Ukraine is wielding powerful Western-supplied weapons. Russian troops spent months digging in before the counteroffensive started.

Some Republicans insist Kyiv’s forces could have hit harder, faster, if the Biden administration had acted more quickly.

Pennsylvania Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick serves on the Intelligence Committee:

FITZPATRICK: If this stuff would have been brought in a year ago, this war would be over long ago.

Ukrainian forces are making steady progress in the wrecked city of Bakhmut, which Russia has largely held since May.

But they’re making minimal gains on other battlefronts, like Zaporizhzhia.

DAA » Meantime, in Washington lawmakers are wrestling over U.S. defense spending, including support for the war in Ukraine.

House Republicans narrowly passed a defense bill on Friday. The vote was largely down party lines. That’s because Republicans want to eliminate what they call left-wing social engineering within the Biden Defense Dept.

The debate this week shifts to the Senate. GOP Senator Tom Cotton:

COTTON: You never quite know how it’s going to work out. I hope all these measures stay in there, because again, the military should not be paying for abortion tourism or diversity consultants or sex change operations. They should be buying the weapons that we need to defend our nation and to support our troops.

Democrats accuse Republicans of politicizing defense funding by seeking to strip funding for left-of-center social policies.

GA shooting » Police in Georgia on Sunday shot dead a man they believe gunned down at least four people yesterday in a neighborhood south of Atlanta.

Police identified the suspect as 40-year-old Andre Longmore.

Hampton Police Chief James Turner:

TURNER: Mr. Langmore shot and killed four residents of the City of Hampton all four victims are adults. There were three males one female

Police exchanged gunfire with the suspect twice before firing the fatal rounds.

PA flash flooding » In southeastern Pennsylvania, at least five people are dead and others are missing after torrential rains triggered flash floods near Philadelphia.

Upper Makefield Fire Chief Tim Brewer:

BREWER: I can tell you tragically. We are looking for two children from the same family. One boy who is nine months. One female who's his older sister who is two. We are attempting to locate one more female adult at this time.

Severe weather has battered other parts of the northeast while forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights.

Actors/writers strike » 

SOUND: (Chanting) “The jig is up! The jig is up!”

Hollywood has largely ground to a halt.

Actors joined the picket lines last week where writers have been staked out since May.

They say it's time for studios to change the way they pay writers and actors in the digital streaming era with royalty payments down sharply in recent years.

Actor Chris Gorham:

GORHAM: It’s driven to the point where your your everyday actor can't make a living doing this anymore. The only way to be able to raise a family here like we have is if you're a series regular on a TV show or a movie star. But the fact is you can't make TV shows and movies with only the series regulars and the movie stars.

This is the first time the two Hollywood unions have picketed together since the 1960s.

Box office » But that strike was far from view at movie theaters over the weekend as audiences flocked to see the latest Mission Impossible flick.

SOUND: [MI-Dead Reckoning trailer] The world is changing. Truth is vanishing. War is coming.

Dead Reckoning Part One set a Mission Impossible franchise record with an $80-million-dollar five-day opening. Over the weekend itself, it brought in $56 million.

SOUND: [Sound of Freedom trailer]

Running a very respectable second place was the faith-based drama Sound of Freedom.

SOUND OF FREEDOM TRAILER: It is the fastest-growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. We’re Homeland Security, you know we can’t go off rescuing Honduran kids in Colombia. God’s children are not for sale.

It hauled in another $27 million in ticket sales. The film is expected to eclipse the $100-million-dollar mark soon.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: religious liberty at work on Legal Docket. Plus, remembering the Tylenol tampering case.

This is The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Monday morning and a brand new work week for The World and Everything in It. Today is the 17th of July, 2022.

Good morning to you, I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. It’s time for Legal Docket.

We’re spending some time this summer talking to Christians who are defending their first-amendment rights.

First Liberty Institute is one of the religious-liberty law firms helping them, including this former firefighter.

HITTLE: My name is Ron Hittle, formerly fire chief of the city of Stockton for 24 years.

EICHER: Stockton, California. Hittle was chief the last six of those 24 years, right up to the time he was fired in 2011 for attending a Christian-affiliated leadership conference in 2010.

Ironically, it was Hittle’s deputy city manager who encouraged him to take leadership training. Hittle noticed an ad in a business magazine for the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. Turned out it was close by, so he signed up and placed the two-day event on the public city calendar.

Meaning, his supervisors received notice.

REICHARD: Hittle paid his own way and took the training along with three staff members. He says it was useful in several ways:

HITTLE: I think Jack Welch was probably one of the best speakers we had that night. He was the GE CEO, you know, and kind of brought them out of where they were going in a bad direction. And, and it just the principles that I learned their really not only just from the, I would say the secular speakers, but from the religious leaders that were a part of that was just how, first of all, how you're going to run a business, how you're going to treat your people, how you integrate their ideas and thoughts into your business plan at times, and how to bring people together. I learned a lot of things that day. And so yes, I was encouraged and I still believe I got the best training I've ever gotten on those two days.

I called the City of Stockton to provide its side of the story, but got no response. No surprise. Oftentimes, parties to litigation have too much to lose by talking to media. So I looked over Stockton’s legal filings to glean its point of view. From documents I reviewed, here’s the city’s position: put most simply, Hittle violated regulations that prohibit employees from going to religiously themed events on workdays.

HITTLE: And one thing led to another and there was a number of things that happened. I was put on leave and a whole bunch of items that were said that I had done. And specifically one that I had taken a couple of my deputies and captains to a religious leadership conference, Willow Creek Summit. And it got out there that I had taken them to this on duty. And the next thing I knew I was under investigation and ultimately fired for taking them there and myself.

On the list of things the city said he’d done wrong, the top five had to do with attending that religiously-affiliated leadership training. The others, Hittle told me, had already been handled to the satisfaction of HR.

EICHER: So Hittle sued in federal court for religious discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. But the district court ruled against him, and denied him a trial by jury.

Now he’s appealed, and First Liberty Institute represents him before the U-S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Stephanie Taub is senior counsel at First Liberty.

TAUB: If you look at the reasons for the terminations, the primary reasons, the ones that they flag first and second, are you're attending this conference. And you look at the investigation report, and there's all sorts of findings that “oh, you should have known better because when you came to the conference, it took place at a church and that should have flagged you to you that this is inappropriate.” But it's absolutely not the law that employees have to hide their religious identities, that you can bring your whole self to work if you're anything— except for if you're a Christian.

REICHARD: Hittle and his lawyers are asking the appeals court now to overturn the lower court opinion and let his case go to trial before a jury.

First Liberty has some other religious-liberty cases in the pipeline. Take the employment discrimination cases of two flight attendants on Alaska Airlines, Laci Smith and Marley Brown.

Taub explains what happened to them in February 2021:

TAUB: So Alaska Airlines posted on their internal messaging board, "Alaska supports the Equality Act." For those who don't know about this legislation, so it is legislation that would open up private spaces to people that are not the same biological sex. It is legislation that would curtail the applicability of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

EICHER: The Equality Act is proposed federal legislation that would add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes to several federal laws.

Alaska Airlines solicited employee comments on the internal message board about the Equal Opportunity Act.

Court documents show the airlines assert that questions the women asked violated the company’s anti-discrimination policies. The airline says they were harassing, discriminatory, and offensive.

REICHARD: I contacted Alaska Airlines for comment on this story, but didn’t hear back.

According to court documents, the airline promoted the idea that employees could have respectful conversations with the company and that different viewpoints are welcome. That’s why flight attendants Marley Brown and Lacey Smith felt comfortable asking questions as they did.

TAUB: They thought, Oh, well, maybe the company will take down their question if if they stepped out of line. And Marley said, What about the effect on religious freedom? What about the effect on women's safety in private spaces? And Lacey asked, do they think is it the company's place to regulate morality? And so these are very simple questions. And but just for asking, just for daring to question, they were fired.

EICHER: It is telling that in 2021, Alaska Airlines announced its commitment to a “more inclusive workforce.” Quoting the language directly: “..we believe every person deserves respect regardless of race, ethnicity, capability, age, gender or sexual orientation.”

Maybe you noted what’s missing in that list: religious belief.

REICHARD: The flight attendants sued the airline in May 2022 for religious discrimination and also their union for failing to defend them. That case is pending in district court in Washington State.

A final dispute you’ll hear about today: a nurse practitioner at CVS who was fired for her religious beliefs.

Robyn Strader’s religious beliefs do not allow her to prescribe abortifacient drugs or contraception. CVS accommodated her for years.

Then suddenly, a change in leadership:

TAUB: And they decided, oh, no, we're not going to honor these religious accommodation requests anymore, even though had been working great. Hardly anyone came in to ask for this sort of service. This is not the what she did. If there was if anyone did ask for those service, they just refer them to the other MinuteClinic practitioner or the Minute Clinic across the street, functionally across the street. And so this is an account religious accommodation that worked, but CVS MinuteClinic didn't want to honor it.

REICHARD: Strader with First Liberty’s help filed a lawsuit in federal court in January of this year.

It’s still early in this case, but the recent Supreme Court decision in Groff versus DeJoy, Postmaster General will likely help her. All nine justices agreed that employers must show more than an “undue hardship” on the business. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts requires an employer to show the burden of granting an accommodation would result in substantial increased costs.

That decision doesn’t cover every factual situation that might arise, but it’s a message to employers to take religious accommodation requests seriously.

EICHER: First Liberty Institute lawyer Taub says that legal correction comes at a good time.

TAUB: If you look at the EEOC statistics themselves, last year, there was six times as many charges of religious discrimination as there was the year before. So religious discrimination in the workplace is exploding over the past few years. We're seeing that from denials of religious accommodations, from employers not taking these concerns seriously. From increase in woke corporations trying to root out Christians or people that hold different religious beliefs on moral issues. This is an increasing trend. It's a major battle front right now in the fight for religious liberty, the fight for religious freedom for Americans.

REICHARD: And that’s this week’s Legal Docket!

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: The Monday Moneybeat.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s time to talk business, markets, and the economy with financial analyst and adviser David Bahnsen. He’s head of the wealth management firm The Bahnsen Group and he’s here now.

David, good morning!

DAVID BAHNSEN: Well, good morning, Nick, good to be with you.

EICHER: All right, the government released its consumer price index for the month of June, lowest CPI in, what?, two years. How do you read it?

BAHNSEN: Well, there's only one way to read it. And I want to add the CPI number that came Wednesday of last week was accompanied by the PPI number on Thursday, that's the Producer Price Index. And in the Consumer Price number, you got down to 3% year over year, inflation, which was indeed the lowest that we had seen. in over two years, the PPI number came in at 0.1%. Year over year, basically, no inflation. And core goods at the producer level, both processed and unprocessed goods had 4% deflation, year over year. So you most certainly have seen this inflation story go away, it has obviously not gone away, because all of a sudden the government started spending less money or other things that people previously thought were behind it. It's gone away, because the supply chain, normalize the things that were causing the inflation and 2021 and 22, as we had reopened to the economy, and left our economy unable to meet demand pushing prices higher. And over time, that huge policy mistake was just sort of naturally righted because the world reopened. And then, along with that you've seen inflation comes substantially down. The risk we have economically neck is that you have a Fed who believes that the cause of inflation was too many people having jobs and that the solution to inflation, is getting a lot of people to not have jobs. And I think at this point, it's become so abundantly clear that the course the Fed is on to draft This is very irresponsible. And we will see where they go from here.

EICHER: Don’t we have to wait for the Personal Consumption Expenditures number? I understand that’s the Fed’s preferred gauge and what the central bank looks to to determine that 2 percent “inflation” number to which it’s trying to steer policy.

BAHNSEN: Well, the PCE is a different metric of how to measure price movements, and I happen to think it is a better one as well. And that won't come out till later in the month, but it generally is going to correlate quite highly with CPI. And if anything, it may actually reflect even more disinflation than CPI is. Because I will point out that I believe CPI is showing a number at about 1.9%. Because the 3% is including a 35%, waiting to shelter to housing, that it is saying it has an 8% year over year inflation because of how big the lag is and rents coming down. That lag effect of housing is not nearly as severe in the PCE number that the federal looks to, so I won't be surprised if that metric shows even more disinflation than the CPI already does.

EICHER: All right, so who’s the hero of taming inflation here, David? Does you give the Fed credit for its policy choices?

BAHNSEN: Absolutely not. Absolutely not. And that's the biggest mistake that so many on the right have made throughout this is they have set things up to let the Fed take credit as a hero. Because once you said that the Fed caused the inflation or by the way, one someone said President Biden caused the inflation when it goes away, who's going to take credit for being the solution to it, the Fed or the Biden administration or what have you, in this particular case, because the inflation had such idiosyncratic causation, the shutdown of our economy, followed by a reopening where the consumer was ready to be normal, but the producer was not ready. That was the cause. And so there is no hero here. And we humans act, Rationally speaking people slowly but surely, saw various elements of their life go back to normal. Commodity prices have been forecasting for a year that inflation was headed way lower. And so I absolutely believe that the Fed will take a victory lap, the Biden administration is already doing it. And I think both things are just completely disconnected from reality.

EICHER: So looking ahead, I saw that you’d made note of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s call for the Fed to stand down on interest rate hikes. Do you think that’s what we’ll see about 10 days from now at the Fed’s next rate-setting meeting?

BAHNSEN: Well, it's pretty hard to bet against what the market is saying. And right now, the futures market for federal funds rate in July is showing a 93% chance of them hiking at the end of July meeting one more time. And yet they don't meet in August and their September meeting, there's an 83% Chance implied probability in the futures market that they just stay still. And so I suppose that's what you're supposed to bet on here, I cannot believe that they're actually going to go raise rates again, in the midst of this significant disinflation. And knowing that even just staying still not raising rates is still so incredibly tight, that they really are taking so much liquidity out of the system that they don't need to raise rates again, to still stay restrictive. But at this point, I think that they have said so much about going forward with the hike, that they're worried about credibility if they don't. And so right now, my bet would be that they go one more, and then they're done. But I think I've now said that three times.

EICHER: Just a few minutes ago, you cited the healing of the supply chain. But I’m seeing labor and management at UPS digging in. News on Friday was that UPS is training nonunion employees and the union representing the workers is saying if there’s no new deal by the end of the month, it’s ready to walk off the job. Now I realize it’s just one business, but it’s a big one, and that’s sort of supply-chain central. This can’t be good news coming off of the problems we had with getting goods to market.

BAHNSEN: Well, you're not going to get a return of global systemic inflation from one. But you won't talk about the word transitory obviously, a strike is by definition, a transitory event, and it could go for one hour, and it could go for one week. But those are the types of things that are awful interruptions to the business, and can result in a period of packages not being delivered or costing more. But it isn't systemic, like 41,000 employees, leaving federal express that were package handlers in the aftermath of COVID and 2021, people that were being paid to not work and receiving different extensions of unemployment, and transfer payments. And Fred Smith, the CEO of Federal Express, and founder of the company, told me that they had 41,000 package handlers leave. Now that is the kind of thing that resulted in a six month 12 month impact. A one week strike at UPS is not going to make the difference. And and as far as what their contingency plans are and, and how packages still get delivered. It has the capability of certainly being a spike of an interruption, and a disruption but not something that is embedded, which is what caused the inflation and embedded supply chain problems that still semiconductors do not come back to the US at the pace they were pre COVID. But shipping rates that had gone from $50 had gone up to $1,500. In order in getting cargo delivered from Shanghai to Los Angeles, ports were entirely closed, right. I mean, that's the type of thing I was talking about. Your restaurants all over the country with help wanted signs up. Those were embedded supply chain, including labor shortage issues that were just completely systemic in the reopening post COVID lockdown, something like a UPS strike is not good, but it's obviously transitory.

EICHER: And before we go, David, we discussed the trip to China by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and you wanted to spend more time analyzing that. What are your thoughts today?

BAHNSEN: Yeah, I actually think it was quite interesting, because it was very clearly well organized by the buyer administration, what their messaging was going to be coming back. I'm not convinced there's a whole lot of substance out of this. But it appears that it was a really useful trip for them to just set the lines of we plan to message, a real hard line with China on national security. And we plan to message that that's really separate from our economic relationship. And so the kind of dual themes that Yellen repeated in the talking points, were rather emphatic that we are economic partners, but we are not going to compromise on matters of our own, you know, foreign intelligence and national security. And I would imagine that they convert that into a campaign theme. But as far as any particular policy fronts, trade commitments, things like that that wasn't part of this deal. But I imagine that we are a little bit closer to Biden and Xi meeting in September at the G-20.

EICHER: David Bahnsen is founder managing partner and Chief Investment Officer at the Bahnsen Group. His personal website is bahnsen.com. His weekly Dividend Cafe is at dividend cafe.com. David, thank you. We will see you next time and I hope you have a terrific week.

BAHNSEN: Thanks so much, Nick.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Monday, July 17th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Next up, the WORLD History Book … for more than 40 years, Chicago’s Tylenol tampering case has officially remained unsolved. But the man many thought responsible died in his home last week. WORLD Radio Executive Producer Paul Butler has the story.

WGN NEWS: Well, the only suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders has died. James Lewis was never charged in the deaths of seven Chicago area residents who took Tylenol laced with cyanide.

PAUL BUTLER, REPORTER: Last Sunday, Massachusetts police discovered 76-year-old James Lewis unresponsive in his home. Officials declared his death “not suspicious…” For four decades, Lewis had maintained his innocence. Even so, he remained the primary suspect behind the random Tylenol murders.

The first victim was hospitalized on September 28th, 1982. She died the next day.

CBS2: 12-year old Mary Kellerman was a student at Jane Addams Junior High in Schaumburg. She died yesterday morning at Alexian Brothers Hospital in Elk Grove village.

Paramedics noticed an Extra Strength Tylenol bottle at the Kellerman home. The next day, Adam Janus consumed contaminated Tylenol from the same production lot and died in his home. His newlywed brother and his wife came to comfort the widow. They took some of that same Tylenol to take the edge off—not knowing it was the cause of Adam's death. They were rushed to the hospital and later died as well. By October 1st, there were seven victims.

CBS 2: The death of 35 year old Paula Prince stunned her family and friends. Her body was discovered last night inside her apartment on Chicago's near north side. It is believed that Paula Prince took the Tylenol that killed her sometime Wednesday evening.

Investigators determined that the poisoning occurred after the capsules were in the Chicagoland area. Police believed the perpetrator brought the bottles home, carefully opened the packaging, added potassium cyanide to some of the capsules, then returned the packages to the store shelves.

CBS 2: In Chicago today city inspectors began checking stores to be certain all Tylenol was off the shelf. The supplies are all being tagged and will be taken to the labs for testing.

Besides the five known bottles, health officials soon discovered more contaminated Tylenol.

CNN: The phone has been ringing off the hook at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. It's the regional poison control center for the entire Chicago area.

Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne insisted on a city-wide recall:

MAYOR BRYNE: We would like them to get out of their home. That's number one. It would aid and assist the police in this investigation if they had the time and the place of purchase of Tylenol in the city.

Johnson and Johnson eventually recalled 31 million bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol capsules nationwide.

WAVY TV: If you have Extra Strength Tylenol at home and want to check the lot number, look on the box or right on the label of the bottle.

The company received an anonymous letter claiming responsibility and demanding a million dollars. Officials eventually arrested suspect James William Lewis on December 13th, 1982:

CBS 2: Lewis has denied any role in the poisoning of seven Chicago area residents in late September.

Lewis admitted to sending the letter but nothing more. He claimed that he was only trying to get even with the company after they had mistreated his wife—a former employee of the pharmaceutical company. At the time, police couldn’t find any physical evidence to connect Lewis to the poisoning, except the letter. A jury then convicted Lewis of attempted extortion. He spoke with CBS 2 Chicago’s Mike Parker after the sentencing:

PARKER: Don't you feel you exploited a lot of people's fears and made worse an already near hysterical situation with all of those poisoning deaths.

LEWIS: It was not my intention to do that. Number one. Number two, I did not release that letter to the public. The FBI released that letter to the public and injected it into that situation with the public.

PARKER: Did you commit the Tylenol murders?

LEWIS: I did not.

PARKER: Do you know who did?

LEWIS: I do not know who did. No. I have been the officially designated evil one by the Justice Department. When one is the focus of that much hatred. It is virtually impossible for a person to convince very many people that he is not as he has been described. It will take a while and I am working on that and I will keep working on that and I will keep fighting on that for as long as I can.

Lewis left prison in October 1995 and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lived until his death last week.

After the Tylenol murders, dozens of copycat attacks sprang up around the country—resulting in the widespread use of tamper-proof packaging:

WAVY TV: Safety seals are one way to prevent contamination if the seal has been broken and you know the medication has been tampered with, and it's already being suggested that safety seals will become a required part of medications packaging.

And it didn’t just stop with medicines. The Tylenol murders also led to snap-off ring seals on beverage caps, plastic seals around many edible products, and those foil tabs beneath condiment caps. Many in the pharmaceutical industry also chose to move away from capsules after the incident.

Johnson and Johnson lost more than 100 million dollars due to the recall and lawsuits.

TYLENOL EXECUTIVE: We are now pleased to announce that we are reintroducing tylenol to the city of Chicago in safety seal packaging.

Johnson and Johnson’s handling of the crisis is often cited as one of the best examples of how to respond to victims, manage a public health emergency, and express more concern about customer safety than one’s own public image.

That’s this week’s WORLD History Book, I’m Paul Butler.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: The Senate holds a closed door session on the risks of artificial intelligence and Elon Musk launches an AI company to understand the universe…we’ll talk to an expert about the threats and opportunities of AI.

And back to the border: how communities are responding to migrants who die while crossing from Mexico.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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