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01.05.2022

President Joe Biden wants everyone driving an electric car, and every home powered by wind turbines and solar panels, but these technologies require rare earth elements and other critical minerals to function. China and other geopolitical rivals dominate raw and ...

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01.05.2022 Biden’s “Green” Energy Policies Threaten the United States’ National Security (Guest: Ann Bridges President Joe Biden wants everyone driving an electric car, and every home powered by wind turbines and solar panels, but these technologies require rare earth elements and other critical minerals to function. China and other geopolitical rivals dominate raw and ...
01.04.2022 Epic New Great Reset Book. You Don't Want to Miss This One The Great Reset is one of the most complex and important stories affecting our world today. A new book by Glenn Beck and Justin Haskins (with Donald Kendal serving as a contributor) breaks down the most important parts of the ...
12.23.2021 Green Energy Is Powered by Human Rights Abuse (Guest: Ronald Stein) In his new book Clean Energy Exploitation, co-authored with Todd Royal, engineer and energy expert Ronald Stein shows that the policies being pushed by relatively wealthy developed countries to end the use of coal, oil, and natural gas to fight ...
12.23.2021 326. (w/Christian Toto) No More Woke? Hollywood and China Decoupling The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal and Jim Lakely talk with movie and pop culture critic Christian Toto of HollywoodinToto.com and the Right on Hollywood Podcast on this edition of the In the Tank. The gents break down Toto's review of ...
12.22.2021 CBO Destroys Biden's Claim Build Back Better Costs Zero After claiming for months that the Build Back Better Act would "cost zero" and add nothing to the national debt, the CBO delivered the Biden Administration a big reality check. Turns out the plan would add trillions to the national ...
12.21.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 54: Purchasing Submission (Guest: Philip Hamburger) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and President of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, to discuss Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom. They talk about how the ...
12.20.2021 The Truth About the Midwest Tornadoes The media is using the recent devastating tornadoes that tore through the Midwest to push their message of climate alarmism. Don’t believe it. Andy Singer, James Taylor, Anthony Watts, and H. Sterling Burnett acknowledge the devastation but prevent evidence showing ...
12.17.2021 325. Build Back Better Is Dead? COVID Alarmism Fading? The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 325 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about the Tornadoes that ravaged across America’s Heartland, the Build Back Better Act dying ...
12.16.2021 What President Biden Needs to Do to Control COVID-19 (Guest: Peter Mccullough, M.D.) The U.S. has been trying to manage the SARS CoV2 virus by limiting public behavior and pouring billions into vaccine development and hospital treatments, but little has been done to explore better ways to treat people before they get seriously ...
12.15.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 53: The Cloud Revolution (Guest: Mark P. Mills) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Mark P. Mills, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, to discuss The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. They ...
12.14.2021 How the States Can Save Health Care (Guests: Brian Blase and Naomi Lopez) The nation has waited for years for the federal government to fix health care. Obamacare did not live up to its promises. The Republicans failed to pass reform when they were fully in control in 2017. Now, reformers are fending ...
12.10.2021 324. Media Harder on Biden Than Trump? Trump Tax Cuts Act Vindicated The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 324 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about a new “study” that suggests the media has been harder on ...
12.08.2021 Europe's 'Green Energy' Crisis is Real and Spectacular Wolfgang Müller and Holger Thuss, Ph.D., of the European Institute for Climate and Energy discuss how "green energy" mandates in Europe are causing a crisis, harming the economy, and even making Thuss (raised in East Germany) reminisce about his childhood... ...
12.07.2021 How the “Plan for America” Can Solve the Stability Problems Facing Social Security and Medicare Social Security and Medicare are rapidly paying out more than they are taking in. Is it time to completely revamp these programs for a “Plan for America?” The “Plan for America” is the brainchild of Terry Nager, a certified financial ...
12.06.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 52: The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness (Guest: Joel Berry) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Joel Berry, managing editor of the news satire website The Babylon Bee, to discuss The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness. They discuss the Bee’s origin story, how Berry became involved with it, comedy and ...
12.03.2021 323. Fauci IS Science, Omicron Variant, Jack Leaves Twitter The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and Nate Myers present episode 323 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about the new Omicron variant of COVID-19. Is the new variant something ...
12.02.2021 Touring AOC's Crazy Online Store Do you love Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so much that you would pay more than $50 for a pro-AOC sweatshirt? No? Didn't think so. Still, we had a blast touring AOC's online merchandise store. Don't miss this fun episode of “Stopping Socialism ...
12.01.2021 The Challenges of a Climate Realist in State Government Oregon State Senator Art Robinson, Ph.D. discusses the issues he faces in government related to climate realism. Climate change is often used as an excuse to reduce the freedom of Americans. Robinson discusses how essential it is fighting the climate ...
11.30.2021 Going Down the Climate Change Rabbit Hole H. Sterling Burnett, senior fellow on environmental policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News, takes the stage at the 14th International Conference on Climate Change to discuss climate change alarmism. Specifically, Burnett discusses how climate alarmists claim ...
11.29.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 51: A Round of Golf with My Father (Guest: William Damon) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Stanford University’s William Damon to discuss his new book from Templeton Press, A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exploring Your Past to Make Peace with Your Present. They discuss ...
11.24.2021 Plastics Benefit Humans and the Environment (Guest: Chris DeArmitt, Ph.D.) Chemist and materials scientist Chris DeArmitt's book “The Plastics Paradox: Facts for a Brighter Future” shows that plastics are better than the alternatives for both human health and the environment. Other materials use more energy and produce more waste. Neither ...
11.24.2021 322. Brightspots - What Are We Thankful For? The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and Linnea Lueken present episode 322 of the In The Tank Podcast, recorded live on Tuesday, Nov. 23. On this episode, the ITT crew keeps it positive by talking about what ...
11.23.2021 "New Normal" Means Lowering Your Standards of Living Recently, there has been a flood of articles suggesting Americans need to learn to live with less. Whether its fewer goods on store shelves, or less reliable energy systems, we are increasingly being told "this is going to be the ...
11.22.2021 Hospitals – Stop Hiding Your Prices (Guest: Katy Talento) Hospitals appear to be dragging their feet in posting their prices even though it’s required by a federal rule. The rule went into effect nearly one year ago on January 1, 2021. Several studies have found that the majority of ...
11.19.2021 321. Rittenhouse Trial Wraps, COVID-19 Lab Leak The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 321 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about the Rittenhouse Trial, the journalistic malpractice that plagued the trial, and the implications ...
11.18.2021 Crony Capitalists Take Over Michigan’s Energy Production (Guest: Jason Hayes) Ignoring what is good for Michiganders, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is colluding with crony capitalists to force ever greater amounts of intermittent, expensive energy on the electric grid while restricting the use of fossil fuels. This is bad for people and ...
11.17.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 50: Our First Civil War (Guest: H.W. Brands) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by H.W, Brands, Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss his new book from Doubleday, Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution. ...
11.11.2021 Biden Administration Wants Tax Dollars to Fund Abortions (Guest: Rachel Morrison, J.D.) The Biden administration is in the process of making radical changes to the federal government’s family planning program, known as Title X. Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation, and the Guttmacher Institute have been trying to undo Trump administration efforts ...
11.10.2021 Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom (Guest: Patrick Moore) The environmental catastrophes and doom-and-gloom end of the world stories being pushed by elitist politicians, mainstream media outlets, politically connected industry insiders, and radical environmentalists are fake. They point to non-existent, invisible (so they can't be disproven) threats and say ...
11.09.2021 Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul (Guest: Brian Kilmeade) Fox & Friends co-host and New York Times best selling author Brian Kilmeade joins the Heartland Daily Podcast to discuss his new book, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul. This is Kilmeade's third time on ...
11.08.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 49: The Wires of War (Guest: Jacob Helberg) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology senior advisor Jacob Helberg to discuss his new book, The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power. They discuss the current and potential front- ...
11.05.2021 319. Voters Reject Biden Agenda? COP26 Kicks Off The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and Cameron Sholty present episode 319 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about Tuesday’s election results and what those results mean for next year’s ...
10.15.2021 316. Google Blacklists Heartland, Global Supply Chains Break Down The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 316 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about the Huffington Post’s attempt to cancel Heartland’s climate conference, Google’s move to demonetize ...
10.11.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 46: The Cause (Guest: Joseph J. Ellis) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis to discuss his new book, The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783. They discuss how changes in British imperial policy lead to the war, how the ...
10.08.2021 315. Energy Crises at Home and Around the Globe The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal is joined by Isaac Orr (Center of the American Experiment) and Jason Hayes (Mackinac Center for Public Policy) for episode #315 of the In The Tank Podcast. From Michigan to California and the United States ...
10.07.2021 My Job or the Jab - One Nurse’s Story (Guest: Nancy Hossfeld Cuzman) Nancy Cuzman, R.N., a 26-year veteran, lost her job at Tucson Medical Center because she decided the risks of the COVID-19 vaccine outweighed the benefits. As a 26-year veteran, Cuzman is not against vaccines, but she feels there are too ...
10.06.2021 Fossil Fuels in an Age of Climate-Change Alarm E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., founder & national spokesman for The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, gives a preview of his presentation at the Fourteenth International Conference on Climate Change titled, "Fossil Fuels in an Age of Climate-Change Alarm." ...
10.05.2021 The Media’s Brazen Attempt in Controlling Health Care Information (Guest: Chad Savage, M.D.) This week, The Lancet made it clear how it regards the word “woman” in medical science. On its cover, it pulled a quote from an article describing women as “bodies with vaginas.” The mainstream media barely noticed. That’s likely because ...
10.04.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 45: Out On a Limb (Guest: Andrew Sullivan) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Andrew Sullivan to discuss his new book, Out On a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021. They discuss Sullivan’s career, whether Barack Obama was a radical, the decline of both the American Left and American Right ...
10.01.2021 314. The Biden Administration's Economic Illiteracy The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and Cameron Sholty present episode #314 of the In The Tank Podcast. Joe Biden and White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki have been saying some really stupid things in regards to the ...
09.30.2021 China's Alarming Afghanistan Power Grab In the wake of President Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan, China is making a troubling push to seize greater influence over the war-torn country. Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal explain in this episode of ...
09.29.2021 Ill Literacy, Episode 44: Ends of War (Guest: Caroline E. Janney) Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Caroline E. Janney of the University of Virginia to discuss her new book, Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox. They discuss the surrender terms and the legal and societal ...
09.03.2021 The Pfizer Vaccine Is FDA Approved (Guest: Jonathan Emord) Christina Herrin, government relations manager interviews Jonathan Emord, author, constitutional lawyer, and health freedom advocate. The discussion focuses on the newly approved Pfizer vaccine, mandatory vaccinations, and vaccine passports. Emord offers a unique perspective regarding the legality for COVID mandates ...
09.03.2021 310. Electric Vehicle Public Policy Disaster The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal and Chris Talgo are joined by Isaac Orr and Robert Bryce for episode #310 of the In The Tank Podcast. The ITT crew talk about why electric vehicles are lame and why the public policy ...
09.02.2021 Mutiny at the American Medical Association Physicians are fed up with the American Medical Association and its march leftward. This spring, the AMA released an 86-page document called “Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advanced Health Equity,” the culmination of a two-year effort to ...
08.16.2021 10 Perplexing Items in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (Guest: Isabelle Morales) What does funding a marketing board to get more women to embrace trucking as a career, establishing a miles traveled tax on the nation, and funding study groups and boards for various river and trail management agencies all have in ...
08.13.2021 307. UN IPCC Report – Is There a Climate Crisis? The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo and special guest Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com discuss the latest alarmist climate report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The so-called "AR6 Report" is getting a ton ...
08.12.2021 The Cure for Health Care (Guest: Dr. Tony Dale) Christina Herrin is joined by Dr. Tony Dale, founder and chairman of Sedera Health, to discuss his new book The Cure for Health Care. The discussion focuses on free market solutions to our country’s greatest health care challenges and the ...
08.11.2021 Will the Dollar Survive the Next Decade? The U.S. government Federal Reserve are printing/spending trillions upon trillions of dollars, putting the country at grave risk. How much longer can this go on? Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal discuss the potential collapse of the dollar in ...
08.11.2021 America's Middle Class Is Getting Hooked on Government Cash A new set of federal programs are being used to get the middle class hooked on government cash. Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal explain in this episode of “Stopping Socialism.” To see the op-ed discussed in this episode, ...

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