In a new paper, Daren Bakst, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, explains how Congress is trying to use the COVID-19 pandemic response to permanently double the size of funding (from $30 billion to $68 billion annually) under the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act. This will give the Agriculture Secretary complete discretion over how to spend the money. This plan removes accountability for spending, which the Constitution gives solely to the Congress of the United States.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Dr. Matthew B. Crawford to discuss his book, Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road. They discuss how active transportation is crucial to human identity and how driverless cars may become a threat to our freedom. They also discuss how safety features in cars are atrophying our skills and taking away the fun of driving while simultaneously gadgets like smart phones are taking our eyes off the road. From there, they shift gears to talk about automotive subcultures across the United States, tear into the red light camera racket, praise the taxi drivers of London, and turn the hairy eyeball on Uber. 

Show Notes:

First Things: Driving and Democracy

https://www.firstthings.com/media/driving-and-democracy

Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture: Videos: Matthew Crawford on the Car as a Domain of Skill and Freedom

https://iasculture.org/crawford/why-we-drive-video

The New Atlantis: GPS and the End of the Road 

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/gps-and-the-end-of-the-road

New Statesman: The freedom of driving

https://www.newstatesman.com/why-we-drive-driverless-cars-matthew-crawford-review

Observer: ‘Why We Drive’ Takes Aim at Self-Driving Vehicles and Other Threats to Car Culture

https://observer.com/2020/06/why-we-drive-matthew-crawford-review/

San Francisco Chronicle: Review: ‘Why We Drive’ skewers the utopianisms of driverless cars

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-why-we-drive-skewers-the-utopianisms-of-driverless-cars

Wall Street Journal: ‘Why We Drive’ Review: Awake at the Wheel

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-drive-review-awake-at-the-wheel-11591225475?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=2

Heartland's Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 253 of the In The Tank Podcast. After getting sidetracked on a conversation about COVID-19 and a weird Andrew Cuomo poster, the ITT crew discusses Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards. This set of criteria, while intending to incentivize companies to be “green,” has some major macroeconomic implications.

Weird Cuomo Poster

ESG STANDARDS

Forbes – Major investors To Fed: Act On Climate Change or Face ‘Disastrous’ Economic Consequences

CEI – “Social Responsibility” Expectations for Business Pivot from Voluntary to Mandatory

CEI – Secretary Scalia to Pension Funds: Manage for Returns, Not Virtue Signaling

WEF – Toward Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation

Heartland Institute – Fallacies of so-called ‘sustainable’ investments

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Former Vice President and king of climate alarmism Al Gore has joined a growing movement of world leaders calling for a "Great Reset" of global capitalism.

Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal break down Gore's connection to the Great Reset in this episode of “Stopping Socialism.”

Heartland’s Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins discuss Karl Marx’s racist history. As statues are torn down across the United States, Karl Marx has dodged the cancel culture bullet. Donald and Justin break down what Karl Marx said and why, if playing by the Left’s rules, he should be cancelled.

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Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Dr. Bradley C.S. Watson to discuss his book Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea. They discuss how progressive historians have portrayed progressivism since the advent of the movement up until the end of the 20th Century, and how that portrayal does not emphasize what a complete break with the ideals of the American founding and natural rights theory that it actually was. They then talk about the pushback these historians have received from political theorists on the right over the past few decades, and how the progressive historians have paved the way for the radicalism of the 1619 Project. They also chat about hockey and some other stuff.

Heartland's Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 252 of the In The Tank Podcast. Joe Biden released his climate plan. The ITT crew picks through the crazy plan, discusses some of the wildest elements, and finally reveals the larger agenda at play.

Joe Biden Site – Climate: Joe’s Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice

Joe Biden Site – The Biden Plan to Build a Modern, Sustainable Infrastructure and an Equitable Clean Energy Future

Center of the American Experiment – Biden’s New energy Plan Is Terrible

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Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been used safely for nearly 70 years in the treatment of malaria and auto-immune disorders. It had been sold over the counter in France and was added to table salt to help control malaria in parts of southeast Asia.  The Food and Drug Administration has sent the medical providers mixed messages about the use of the drug to stave off or mitigate severe symptoms of early onset COVID-19.  Nass says trials that deemed the drug “unsafe” used toxic levels of the drug and says the retraction of studies in The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine should be raising red flags with the public.

Henry Ford Hospital released a favorable study on hydroxychloroquine the week of July 6. It found treatment with the drug significantly reduced the death rate by more than one half. Yet, the Lancet and NEJ studies did their damage. The FDA will not say the drug is safe for early use (says it is only appropriate for hospitalized patients) and physicians are afraid to prescribe the drug due to increased liability for lack of FDA guidance.

A petition is circulating asking the Trump Administration for a new Emergency Use Authorization of hydroxychloroquine calling for 5 changes…2 involve prophylactic use of HCQ for health care workers and first responders…allow contact tracers to prescribe the drug, allow physicians to prescribe based on their professional judgment and continue studies of early use HCQ. 

Nass discusses her list,  How a False Hydroxychloroquine was Created, now consisting of 28 examples.

Her personal experience with HCQ in her practice, what role vaccine and brand name drugs may play in the current FDA stance.

And the separate petition, Support for the Request for Emergency Use Authorization of HCQ for Ambulatory Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19.

Some of the world's most powerful leaders in the U.K. royal family, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and a number of major corporations are calling for a "reset" of global capitalism. They call it the "Great Reset," and it's terrifying.

We're not exaggerating when we say this is the most important story facing the country today, and almost no one is covering it.

Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal reveal the truth behind the "Great Reset" in this episode of “Stopping Socialism.”