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The Republicans will be in control of the U.S. House starting next month. Brian Blasé and Drew Keyes, both health care policy and administration and legislative veterans now at the Paragon Health Institute, say Congress should focus on four key areas: more affordable health care, ending the COVID-19 health emergency, eliminating waste and abuse at Medicaid, and restoring trust in the CDC and NIH. 1. The Republicans in Congress will have a long list of priorities. Can something meaningful happen on health care policy?2. “Anti-inflationary” agenda: Many people think the solution is more government spending to offset the high costs of health care. Why is this boneheaded thinking?3. How will ending the COVID emergency help all Americans?4. Medicaid oversight… has abuse and waste gotten worse during the current administration and how does this impact all health care, private care, and care for the needy?5. Restoring trust in CDC and NIH…what can Congress really do here since this is under control of the current administration? What can Congress do to make sure these agencies are service all Americans, not just special interest groups?6. Senate HELP committee led by Sanders, Cassidy. What will happen: fireworks or a miracle? Keyes and Blase released a brief on December 5, 2022: “A Health Policy Agenda for the 118th Congress” In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal and Jim Lakely present episode 377 of the In The Tank Podcast. With Christmas just around the corner, we take a look at the potential ghost of Christmas future. Based heavily on articles and rhetoric from the World Economic Forum - the biggest advocates of The Great Reset - the ITT crew talks about a world in the not-too-distant-future where people no longer own anything. Sounds crazy, but we may be well on our way to realizing that scenario. World Economic Forum - Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better https://web.archive.org/web/20200919081413/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is?utm_content=buffer60978&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer The New York Times - Disney Adds Warnings for Racist Stereotypes to Some Older Films https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/business/media/disney-plus-disclaimers.html World Economic Forum - 3 circular economy approaches to reduce demand for critical metals https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/3-circular-approaches-to-reduce-demand-for-critical-minerals/ World Economic Forum - This is how millennials are fueling the rental economy https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/generation-rent-how-millennials-are-fueling-the-rental-economy/ Tech Crunch - Lyft says nearly 250k of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/16/lyft-says-nearly-250k-of-its-passengers-ditched-a-personal-car-in-2017/ Uber - Transit Horizons: Toward a New Model of Public Transportation https://www.uber.com/us/en/transit/horizons-paper/ CNBC - I drove hundreds of miles ‘hands-free’ in GM, Ford and Tesla cars – here’s how it went https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/21/test-driving-gm-ford-and-tesla-hands-free-systems.html New York Post - How corporations are buying up houses – robbing families of the American Dream https://nypost.com/2020/07/18/corporations-are-buying-houses-robbing-families-of-american-dream/ Bloomberg - U.S. Moves Toward Home ‘Rentership Society https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-07-20/u-s-moves-to-rentership-society-as-owning-tumbles-morgan-stanley-says World Economic Forum - A Framework for the Future of Real Estate https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_A_Framework_for_the_Future_of_Real_Estate_2021.pdf World Economic Forum - These facts show how unsustainable the fashion industry ishttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/fashion-industry-carbon-unsustainable-environment-pollution/ Breitbart - WEF Adviser Yuval Harari: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’ in Today’s Worldhttps://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 376 of the In The Tank Podcast. With the recent deluge of "Twitter Files," some of the most important facts have been lost in the 24/7 news cycle. But, between the revelations about the Hunter Biden laptop, the deplatforming of a sitting president, and the rampant "shadowbanning" of conservative voices, these stories are too important to ignore. The ITT crew sifts through the "Twitter Files" and highlight the facts you need to know. OPENING CHIT CHAT The Blaze - Ocasio-Cortez's climate change documentary has embarrassing opening weekend, earning only $81 per theaterhttps://www.theblaze.com/news/aoc-climate-change-documentary-flops PRIMARY TOPIC – THE TWITTER FILES PART 1 – 5 Matt Taibbi – The Twitter Files Part 1https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394?lang=en Bari Weiss – The Twitter Files Part 2https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600 Matt Taibbi – The Twitter Files Part 3https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 Michael Shellenberger – The Twitter Files Part 4https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1601720455005511680 Bari Weiss – The Twitter Files Part 5https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515 National Review - Remembering the Journalists and Elected Dems Who Dismissed the Twitter Shadow-Banning ‘Conspiracy Theory’https://www.nationalreview.com/news/remembering-the-journalists-and-elected-dems-who-dismissed-the-twitter-shadow-banning-conspiracy-theory/ Newsweek - 'Twitter Files' Offer House GOP Opportunity To Force Big Tech Transparency | Opinionhttps://www.newsweek.com/twitter-files-offer-house-gop-opportunity-force-big-tech-transparency-opinion-1766053 In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Bruce Gilley, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Portland State University, to discuss his new book, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West. They chat about the reasons why Gilley contends German colonialism was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished, and why critics of German colonialism helped destabilize the country and played into the hands of the Nazis and communists. Get the book here: https://www.regnery.com/9781684512379/in-defense-of-german-colonialism/Show Notes: Law & Liberty: Jesse Russell – “Colonialism Reconsidered”https://lawliberty.org/book-review/colonialism-reconsidered/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Climate science is tragically politicized. For one, the tremendous benefits rising carbon dioxide concentrations (CO2) have on the earth is completely ignored. As CO2 levels increase, crop production follows suit in rich and poor nations alike. Alarmists have chosen to ignore this fact. They’d rather promote climate disaster stories built on computer models, not real-world data. Time and time again, the computer models have proven inadequate. Data on climate change indicates the world is becoming better for human civilization. The fact alarmists want to hide is this. CO2 is not a pollutant. Will Happer, physicist at the CO2 coalition, joins host H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the misinformation permeating throughout our society regarding the benefits of rising CO2. Unlike climate alarmists who push hypothetical disaster scenarios built on faulty computer models, Happer references real-world data to highlight the benefits of rising CO2 concentrations. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The latest report from the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs shows that more than one in ten staffers have yet to complete mandatory suicide prevention training. Sally Pipes, CEO, president, and health care policy fellow at the Pacific Research Institute discusses the report and why the VA needs to move to a voucher system quickly. Read the report: https://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-22-00813-253.pdf Our veterans put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms America stands for. They deserve the best when it comes to health care. Sadly, this isn’t the case, especially when it comes to mental health and crisis care. Veterans get care through the Veterans Health Administration, a health system managed by the government. It provides a glimpse of care under a socialized medicine model. On this episode, Pipes discusses: - The October report from the Inspector General and what it says about mental health care- The prevalence of suicide among vets- How VA care functions- Long waits and why vouchers for private care could provide the best solution Pipes has written about VA care in many articles and speaks on the issue. Two recent articles include: The VA is Failing America’s Heroes - AgainDec 4, 2022, News-Presshttps://www.news-press.com/story/opinion/2022/12/04/va-failing-americas-heroes-again/10799464002/ Veteran Suicides Testify to a Health Care TravestyNov 1, 2022, Washington Examinerhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/veteran-suicides-testify-to-a-healthcare-travesty In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 375 of the In The Tank Podcast. Recently, there has been a wave of stories coming out that paint a pretty bleak picture of our "green" future. From high energy prices and energy shortages to dictates about how you should live your life and whether you should have kids, climate alarmists seem to have no shortage of bad ideas. The ITT crew talks about these stories and more. OPENING CHIT CHAT Fox News - NBC, ABC, CBS called out for silence on Elon Musk's 'Twitter files' release: 'They're failing Americans'https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-abc-cbs-called-silence-elon-musk-twitter-files-release-failing-americans PRIMARY TOPIC - Our Dystopian Green Future Heritage Foundation - A Hard Winter Looms for Americans’ Energy Bills and Wallets. Blame Biden.https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/commentary/hard-winter-looms-americans-energy-bills-and-wallets-blame-biden Conservative Treehouse - No Joke, Climate Change Professionals Now Provide Goals and Individual Allowances for Transportation, Food, and Clothinghttps://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/05/no-joke-climate-change-professionals-now-provide-goals-and-individual-allowances-for-transportation-food-and-clothing/ Fox Business - Switzerland could ban electric vehicle use during energy crisis: reports https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/switzerland-could-ban-electric-vehicle-use-during-energy-crisis-reports The Blaze - Newsom proposes a ‘civil penalty’ on oil companies: ‘Either Big Oil reins in the profits and prices, or they’ll pay a penalty’ https://www.theblaze.com/news/newsom-proposes-civil-penalty-oil-companies?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202022-12-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement Washington Post - Should you not have kids because of climate change? It’s complicated.https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/02/climate-kids/ (Throwback) Scientists Demand Westerners Have Fewer Children To Stop Climate Changehttps://summit.news/2019/11/05/scientists-demand-westerners-have-fewer-children-to-stop-climate-change/ Breitbart - WEF Adviser Yuval Harari: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’ in Today’s Worldhttps://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Rob Bradley, Ph.D., the founder and chairman of the Institute for Energy Research, is a global on energy markets. Bradley argues that the false narrative of an impending climate crisis perpetuated by certain politicians and the corporate media is creating climate anxiety. This isn’t a problem with climate change. It’s a problem with pushing false narratives. Data easily refutes it. Rob Bradley explains that attending the 15th International Climate on Climate Change February in Orlando should alleviate any anxiety or fear anyone has about the dangers of climate change. It is bad climate policies that we should truly fear. https://climateconference.heartland.org/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Troy Senik, cofounder of Kite & Key, to discuss his new book, “A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.” They chat about Cleveland’s meteoric political career and how his stubbornness and his incorruptibility became the key to his political appeal, as well as to his political fall. They also place the context behind Cleveland’s frequent yielding of the veto pen, discuss whether the personal scandals that dogged him were true, and if there are any lessons his presidency can offer us in the 21st Century. Get the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Man-of-Iron/Troy-Senik/9781982140748Show Notes: City Journal: Stephen Eide – “Ironbound Liberalism”https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-a-man-of-iron-by-troy-senikLaw & Liberty: Paul Moreno – “The Last President Worth Voting For?”https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-last-president-worth-voting-for/National Review: Colin Dueck – “Not Over Grover: Reconsidering Cleveland”https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/not-over-grover-reconsidering-cleveland/The Wall Street Journal: Roger Lowenstein – “‘A Man of Iron’ Review: Grover Cleveland, Honest to a Fault”https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-man-of-iron-book-review-biography-grover-cleveland-honest-to-a-fault-11663340565Washington Free Beacon: Tevi Troy – “Cleveland Rocks”https://freebeacon.com/politics/cleveland-rocks/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Reports have a knack for becoming public policy, and the latest report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Long COVID could be the next case in point. The report, more a marketing document than a medical report, recommends to “encourage or mandate policies and protocols regarding masking and social distancing in public spaces.” (emphasis added). Today’s guest is Rik Mehta, Pharm.D., J.D., biotech entrepreneur, and former consumer safety officer at the U.S Food and Drug Administration. Mehta, who knows first-hand how politics and public policy are intertwined as a former U.S. Senate candidate in New Jersey, discusses how seriously the public should take the report. He covers whether the CDC or schools will use the report as a basis to mandate masks, how the federal government can compel people to wear masks, why the Democrats backed off from masks in early 2022, the significance of the descriptions of “discrimination” mentioned in the report by people claiming to suffer from Long COVID, what the Biden administration can do if it really wanted to help patients and the public in general, and how effective a Republican led Congress will be in staving off more COVID policies. HHS Report: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/healthplus-long-covid-report.pdf Related Reading: https://heartlanddailynews.com/2022/12/hhs-report-on-long-covid-encourages-return-to-mask-mandates/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Olivier Zunz, the James Madison Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia, to discuss his new book, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. They chat about Tocqueville’s dedication to achieving a new kind of democracy at the center of his life and work, why America remained central to his thought and actions throughout his life, and his fears that the democratic experiment might yet fail. They also discuss his harrowing family story, his commitment to abolitionism, and his attempts to apply the lessons of Democracy in America to French politics.Get the book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691173979/the-man-who-understood-democracyShow Notes: Commentary: Michael M. Rosen – “Citizen Tocqueville”https://www.commentary.org/articles/michael-rosen/tocqueville-democracy/The Hedgehog Review: Jay Tolson – “Following Alexis de Tocqueville: A Conversation with Historian and Biographer Olivier Zunz”https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-use-and-abuse-of-history/articles/following-alexis-de-tocqueville-a-conversation-with-historian-and-biographer-olivier-zunzLaw & Liberty: Theodore Dalrymple – “The Life of Democracy's Interpreter”https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-life-of-democracys-interpreter/Library of America: “Olivier Zunz on Alexis de Tocqueville, ‘The Man Who Understood Democracy’”https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1969-olivier-zunz-on-alexis-de-tocqueville-the-man-who-understood-democracyLiterary Review: Alan Ryan – “Oui, the People”https://literaryreview.co.uk/oui-the-peopleThe New York Review of Books: Lynn Hunt – “‘A Great Democratic Revolution’”https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/a-great-democratic-revolution-alexis-de-tocqueville/Times Literary Supplement: Stephen W. Sawyer – “He chose democracy”https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-man-who-understood-democracy-olivier-zunz-book-review-stephen-w-sawyer/The Wall Street Journal: Barton Swaim – “‘The Man Who Understood Democracy’ Review: Tocqueville’s Dilemma”https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-understood-democracy-book-review-history-politics-notes-from-america-11651245341 In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 374 of the In The Tank Podcast. The ITT crew starts off talking about a new analysis from the Socialism Research Center showing how 90% of candidates endorsed by various socialists groups won election in the 2022 midterms. Then they discuss on the ongoing protests that are boiling over in China due, in large part, to the country's strict zero-COVID policies. Also, why is Apple threatening Twitter while seemingly providing cover the Chinese Communist Party? OPENING CHIT CHAT Socialism Watch: 2022 Midtermshttps://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/an-analysis-of-socialist-candidates-in-the-2022-midterm-election MAIN TOPIC – CHINA PROTESTS WHILE ELITES PROVIDE COVER BBC - China plans 'crackdown' after Covid protestshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63796135 WSJ - China’s Failed Covid Vaccine Nationalismhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-failed-vaccine-nationalism-sinovac-sinopharm-zero-covid-pfizer-moderna-xi-jinping-11669759952 NYT - ‘Breach of the Big Silence’: Protests Stretch China’s Censorship to Its Limitshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/business/china-protests-censorship-video.html NYT - China’s Dramatic Dissenthttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/briefing/china-protests-covid.html The Hill - Biden treads lightly in response to COVID protests in Chinahttps://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3755371-biden-treads-lightly-in-response-to-covid-protests-in-china/ CNBC - Apple limited a crucial AirDrop function in China just weeks before protestshttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/30/apple-limited-a-crucial-airdrop-function-in-china-just-weeks-before-protests.html CNBC - Elon Musk claims Apple has threatened to remove the Twitter apphttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/elon-musk-claims-apple-has-threatened-to-remove-the-twitter-app-.html Michael Tracey – Twitter Policy in 2015https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1597392181341589504 In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Yeonmi Park escaped from North Korea into China when she was only 13 years old. She didn't do it for freedom. North Koreans don't know what freedom is. Yeonmi did it for a bowl of rice. While she was fed in China, human traffickers sold her for $200 into a life of physical abuse. Thus, she escaped again, this time into Mongolia followed by South Korea. Yeonmi travelled across the frozen Gobi desert in the middle of the night, a trek that kills almost everyone who attempts it. And unlike her first escape, it was for freedom.Yeonmi Park defied the odds and made it to South Korea. Soon, she came to America. In her words, America is the best country in human existence. Yet, Yeonmi has a dire warning for this country. Growing up under a dictator gives her a unique perspective of how a population can be manipulated. She says it's happening right now in America. Woke culture is the way Americans are being manipulated, and ultimately controlled, into losing the freedom that makes this nation great. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, to discuss his new book, Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II. They chat about the six major naval powers of the war and their individual strengths, weaknesses, and challenges, and how the war was won and lost in the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. They also talk about how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered by the war and the rise of American economic and military hegemony. Get the book here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300219173/victory-at-sea/ Show Notes: Engelsberg Ideas: Lincoln Paine – “A marriage of the geopolitical, the military and the material” https://engelsbergideas.com/books/a-marriage-of-the-geopolitical-the-military-and-the-material-victory-at-sea-naval-power-and-the-transformation-of-the-global-order-in-world-war-ii-by-paul-kennedy-review/ Foreign Policy: Alexander Wooley – “The Navy Made America a Superpower Once. Can It Again?” https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/30/us-navy-victory-at-sea-review-paul-kennedy-history/ The New Criterion: Jeremy Black – “A new ruler of the waves” https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/9/a-new-ruler-of-the-waves The Sunday Times: Max Hastings – “Victory at Sea by Paul Kennedy review — did the navy win the Second World War?” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victory-at-sea-by-paul-kennedy-review-did-the-navy-win-the-second-world-war-bd7tft0l9 Wall Street Journal: Brendan Simms – “‘Victory at Sea’ Review: Ruling the Waves in World War II” https://www.wsj.com/articles/victory-at-sea-book-review-ruling-the-waves-in-world-war-ii-11650634290 Washington Free Beacon: Mike Watson – “How We Achieved Naval Supremacy—And How We Could Lose It” https://freebeacon.com/culture/how-we-achieved-naval-supremacy-and-how-we-could-lose-it/ Washington Post: Robert D. Kaplan – “How the naval battles of World War II reshaped the global order” https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/20/how-naval-battles-world-war-ii-reshaped-global-order/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

You may want to rethink checking that box making you an organ donor. Unlike tissue donation, organs often need to be harvested from a live person in order to be viable for a transplant. Heidi Klessig, M.D., retired anesthesiologist, pain management specialist, and co-founder of respectforhumanlife.com, highlights how hospitals have harvested organs from live patients for the last few years. This procedure makes the person brain dead and then resuscitates their heart to keep blood flowing to the organs. According to Klessig, this goes against the Uniform Definition of Death Act (UDODA).UDODA, passed in 1981, states that to declare someone legally dead, there must be irreversible cessation of cardiopulmonary function or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem. These determinations are to be made in accordance with accepted medical standards, but hospitals can never be 100 percent sure. Klessig says there are many cases where people have been resuscitated and survived 10 minutes after the heart stopped beating, but a transplant team may begin the harvest of organs in a matter of minutes.The procedure is banned in Australia and the American College of Physicians has asked for a pause until legal and ethical issues can be ironed out. Yet, hospitals have been vigorously pushing the procedure to increase the supply of organs which require a patient to be alive before they can be harvested.She also discusses:How hospitals can take your live organs if you are incapacitated, no family can be reached, and they determine your condition is “irreversible,” which Klessig says, “is terrifying because their interest lies in what money can be made from your organs, not what is in your best interest.” Organs can be worth about $5 million to transplant centers. The only way to prevent this is by carrying a card: https://halovoice.org/wp-content/uploads/donor_refusal_card.pdf How putting all resources into “live organ harvesting” has nearly eliminated research and development of alternatives to people with failing organs Ethical donations (tissue after death, kidney or lobe of liver from healthy donors) In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 373 of the In The Tank Podcast. On the eve of Thanksgiving, the ITT crew talks about the news and policy items they are thankful for. Also, they discuss story that the World Economic Forum wants us to eat crickets. Is this just a conspiracy theory, or is there truth to it? WEF - Could insect farms meet our food demands of the future? (April 17, 2018) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/insect-farms-gear-up-to-feed-soaring-global-protein-demand WEF -Good grub: why we might be eating insects soon (July 16, 2018) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-might-be-eating-insects-soon/ WEF - Burgers, bugs and the shift to a new way of eating (Sep 23, 2019) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/sustainable-food-alternative-proteins/ WEF - Why we need to give insects the role they deserve in our food systems (July 12, 2021) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/ WEF - 5 reasons why eating insects could reduce climate change (Feb 9, 2022) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/how-insects-positively-impact-climate-change/ WEF - Worms for dinner? Europe backs insect-based food in a bid to promote alternative protein (May 6, 2021) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/europe-insect-based-food-meat/ CBC - Massive cricket-processing facility comes online in London, Ont. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/cricket-farm-london-ontario-1.6506606 In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Dave White's new environmental science textbook, “Climate Crisis Changed: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Are Deliberate Science Fiction," examines the basic science of what drives climate change. White dives into the evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to claim that we face a climate crisis. The evidence doesn’t support the position. Claims of climate catastrophe are based on a faulty understanding of the impact different greenhouses gases have on temperatures and related climate phenomena. White controversially writes that the present warming is impacted by shifts in the earth's tilt. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Christopher M. Reali, assistant professor of music at Ramapo College, to discuss his new book, Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals. They chat about the Muscle Shoals music scene in the 1960’s and 1970’s, what exactly is the “Muscle Shoals Sound,” and how that sound became such a potent cultural power that still means something even up to the present day. They also talk about the overlooked history of Muscle Shoals' impact on country music and describes the region's recent transformation into a tourism destination and something of a pilgrimage stop for musicians from all over the world.Get the book here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=45zfd3qs9780252044519Blues Blast Magazine: Mark Thompson – “Christopher M Reali – Music And Mystique In Muscle Shoals | Book Review”| https://www.bluesblastmagazine.com/christopher-m-reali-music-and-mystique-in-muscle-shoals-book-review/Deep South Magazine: Erin Z. Bass – “Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals” https://deepsouthmag.com/2022/07/19/music-and-mystique-in-muscle-shoals/Southern Review of Books: Lacey Lyons – “Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals” Chronicles a Legendary Music Scene https://southernreviewofbooks.com/2022/08/08/music-and-mystique-in-muscle-shoals-christopher-reali-interview/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, S.T. Karnick, and Linnea Lueken present episode 372 of the In The Tank Podcast. The ITT crew discusses how COP27 and the G20 summit is going so far – and it is all bad news if you cherish your liberty.The head of the United Nations says we’re on a “climate highway to hell,” Klaus Schwab says “the future is built by us” (and by “us” he means the unaccountable global elite), and every G20 nation has embraced the idea of mandatory “global health passports” to permit free movement of people during “the next pandemic.”Show notes:OPENING BANTERTrump is running for president againCOP27CNBC - We’re on a ‘highway to climate hell,’ UN chief Guterres says, calling for a global phase-out of coal www.cnbc.com/2022/11/07/were-on…guterres-says.html“We are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing,” Antonio Guterres tells the COP27 climate change summit. “It is either a climate solidarity pact, or a climate suicide pact.”“Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing, global temperatures keep rising, and our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible,” he adds.“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” Guterres, speaking in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, says.Reuters - COP27: Talks on carbon market rules off to slow start www.reuters.com/business/cop/cop2…start-2022-11-14/The Independent - ‘Stop this crime against life’: Children at Cop27 call for end to illegal mining and deforestation www.independent.co.uk/climate-change…-b2222075.htmlMichael Sheren, Former Bank of England Advisor (clip from COP27) The “Tokeization” of carbon, using it as a currency.G20 (B20) SUMMITBizPacReview - Red flags go up when Klaus Schwab lectures world leaders on global ‘restructuring’ at G20 www.bizpacreview.com/2022/11/15/red…t-g20-1309609/ClimateDepot - Klaus Schwab speaks at G20 pushing ‘Great Reset’ – He is ‘now practically a recognized world power’ www.climatedepot.com/2022/11/16/kla…d-world-power/Klaus Schwab speaks at G20 pushing “Great Reset” hotair.com/david-strom/2022/11…great-reset-n511207The Great Reset: “What we have to confront is a deep, systemic, and structural restricting of our world. And this will take some time, and the world will look differently after we’ve gone through this transition process. … A transition into a multi-polar world which has a tendency to make our world much more fragmented.”Global Health Passports (Clip from G20)Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Indonesian Health Minister, explaining how the “Global Health Passport” will work for “the next pandemic.”American Greatness - Our Digital Panopticon: How digital surveillance is gaining power for the biomedical security state amgreatness.com/2022/10/29/our-digital-panopticon/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Many people think the field of eugenics disappeared after the Nazi’s were defeated in WWII. But eugenics, a controversial program to perfect the human race, exists in various forms in modern times. Robert Graboyes, economist, journalist, consultant at RFG Counterpoint, decided to write about the topic. Graboyes was also a panelist that covered the topic in a webinar hosted by The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.Eugenics has a long history going back way before the Nazi’s practiced it in World War Two. It really got its origins in Victorian England and it got some cover because it was associated with an emerging field at the time, statistics. Graboyes said it entered the U.S. before the Nazi’s came into power and practitioners at first, and in a much more gruesome way. Euthanasia was too controversial, so sterilization of was the weapon of choice and the practice continued well into the 20th century when it was discovered prisons were sterilizing people who were incarcerated. Graboyes also discusses the expansion of euthanasia in Canada and even in the U.S. He discusses whether it could be used for nefarious purposes. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Polls show that Americans care most about crime and the economy. And while the election results are suspiciously confusing, it’s clear that climate change is going nowhere in Congress. Biden will have to continue advancing his agenda through executive action. At COP27 more promises of climate payments are expected, but as in the past, they are likely to amount to promises unfulfilled.Previous agreements to send climate payments to developing countries often never come to fruition. Why would any agreement signed this year differ? In the meantime, coal use increases, and CO2 emissions keep rising, but weather events stubbornly refuse to get more extreme. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by all-time surf god Shaun Tomson to discuss his new book with Noah benShea, “The Surfer and the Sage: A Guide to Survive and Ride Life's Waves.” They chat about purpose, loss, hope, faith, the importance of doing nothing, what lessons surfing has to give about living a fulfilling life, and the power of “I Will.” Tim also tries to not geek out and ask too many surf fanboy questions about Pipeline.Get the book here: https://www.familius.com/book/the-surfer-and-the-sage/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The FDA recently gave emergency use authorization (EUA) to the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine. Unlike the vaccines Americans received as a result of Operation Warp Speed, Novavax is not an mRNA vaccine. It was bypassed for EUA early in the pandemic because of a decision to put all resources into mRNA vaccines as it was thought this provided the best approach to get a vaccine out quickly. Our guest today, Raymond March, a research fellow for the Independent Institute and assistant professor of agribusiness and applied economics at North Dakota State University, says this was a costly mistake. In an op-ed, March explains why it took so long for the U.S. to get access to the Novavax vaccine. March discusses Novavax’s different technology, the history of protein-based vaccines, and the dangers in using a one-size-fits-all approach when dealing with a public health threat. Novavax Authorization: https://ir.novavax.com/2022-10-19-U-S-FDA-Grants-Emergency-Use-Authorization-for-Novavax-COVID-19-Vaccine,-Adjuvanted-as-a-Booster-for-AdultsOp-ed: https://blog.independent.org/2022/08/12/take-so-long-novavax-vaccine/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Justin Haskins present episode 371 of the In The Tank Podcast. The ITT crew discusses Tuesday's election results - the good, the bad, and the ugly. What takeaways do we have from the results, what happened to the "red wave," and what does this it mean for policy in the United States moving forward? Also, will these results dissuade Donald Trump from running again in 2024? MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTSNYT – 2022 Midterm Results https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/briefing/midterm-election-results-2022.htmlThe Federalist - To Win Polarized Elections, Republicans Need More Than Weak Opponents — They Need Strong Leaders https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/09/to-win-polarized-elections-republicans-need-more-than-weak-opponents-they-need-strong-leaders/ TRUMP vs DESANTISMSN – Donald Trump is the biggest lower of 2022 midterms https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-is-the-biggest-loser-of-2022-midterms/ar-AA13UjH1Axios – Tracking Trump’s endorsement in key midterm races https://www.axios.com/2022/11/09/trump-endorsement-gop-midterm-electionsPolitico - Trump: 'Very big announcement' coming Nov. 15 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/07/trump-very-big-announcement-00065587 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?Mediate – WATCH: Psaki Says Biden Admin ‘Gleeful and Giddy’ Over Midterms In Late-Night Update From Inside White House https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-psaki-says-biden-admin-gleeful-and-giddy-over-midterms-in-late-night-update-from-inside-white-house/The Hill - Biden blowback shows coal still has sway in US politics https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3723927-biden-blowback-shows-coal-still-has-sway-in-us-politics/[Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.] In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and Cameron Sholty present episode 370 of the In The Tank Podcast. With the 2022 mid term elections only days away, the ITT crew discusses the odds of a coming "red wave" and what that might mean for the country. Also, it appears as though the left is waking up to the threat of big tech censorship. An article from The Intercept is making its rounds highlighting the collusion between the Biden Administration and social media companies Twitter and Facebook. OPENING CHIT CHAT – 2022 ELECTIONS538 – It’s a Dead Heat for the Senate https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate/538 - The Case For A Republican Sweep On Election Night https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-case-for-a-republican-sweep-on-election-night/ PRIMARY TOPIC – Left Finally Sees Big Tech as Big BrotherDaily Wire - Biden White House Admits Using Big Tech to Silence Americans https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07/21/biden-white-house-admits-using-big-tech-to-silence-americans/The Intercept - Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/The Atlantic – Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/Politico - White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/white-house-twitter-context-note-00064647[Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.] In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

There's been a sharp uptick in protests in the name of a climate change induced catastrophe across the globe. Fridays for Future, the group inspired by Greta Thunberg, recently held protests in 450 locations. Stories are flooding the news of protestors gluing themselves to private property and then expecting the businesses to cooperate with their demands. Why the sharp uptick in protests? Are these grassroots protests or is this a political scheme?Andy Singer, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and JunkScience.com's Steve Milloy discuss the global situation on today's episode of Environment & Climate News. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Jonathan W. White, professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University, to discuss his new book, To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln. They chat about the personal connection many blacks felt to Abraham Lincoln and how that gave them confidence to write to the president and to seek redress of their grievances. They also talk about how the act of writing to Lincoln for blacks was, in a small way, an act of civic participation and allowed them to claim the rights of American citizenship in a wide range of circumstances.Get the book here: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469665078/to-address-you-as-my-friend/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Poverty is no longer a requirement to qualify for long-term care under Medicaid. An entire industry has cropped up over the years instructing families on how to maximize Medicaid’s loose financial guidelines. While families save a bundle of money by having the government now pay for this care, the system has had a negative impact on the long-term care market. Reimbursement rates under Medicaid do not cover the actual cost of care which impacts quality and supply. Families no longer save for long term care knowing that Medicaid can come to the rescue. Stephen Moses, president of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, has studied long-term care for decades. He joins the show to discuss the first segment of his new report with the Paragon Institute, ”Long Term Care: The Problem.”Read the report: https://paragoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/202208_Moses_LongTermCareTheProblem_FINAL_2.pdfSeventy percent of people who reach age 65 today will require a severe need for long-term care. Long-term care provides medical and social services for those who are unable to care for themselves. 48 percent will receive paid care. The need spikes after age 85. In ten years, the baby boomers will reach that threshold, causing demand for long-term care to soar. Due to the loose financial guidelines, even well-off families can qualify for Medicaid coverage. This market manipulation crowds out private long-term care services. Our guest, Stephen Moses is about to release part two of a report which covers the solutions to this Medicaid problem. His hope is that a new Congress will be open to better alternatives that improve care at more affordable prices.In the interview, Moses discusses:1. How easy is it to get Medicaid to pay for long-term care?2. How has this compromised the quality of long-term care over the decades?3. Who will need long term care? Can any of us live independently until we die?4. Baby boomers…most are now 65…what kind of pressure will that put on long-term care and Medicaid in 10, 20, and 30 years from now?5. What about counting on family members to care for you? How about covering your care with your own wealth and investments? In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Mark A. Noll, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss his new book, America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911. They chat about how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture, and how a strongly Protestant Bible civilization was fractured by debates over slavery, contested by growing numbers of non-Protestants, and torn apart by the Civil War. They also talk about how the more religiously plural period from Reconstruction to the early 20th Century saw Scripture become a much more fragmented, though still significant, force in American culture.Get the book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/americas-book-9780197623466?q=america%27s%20book&lang=en&cc=usShow Notes:Wall Street Journal: D.G. Hart – “‘America’s Book’ Review: The Word Out of Season” https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-book-review-the-word-out-of-season-11651009649 In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 369 of the In The Tank Podcast. The COVID pandemic is over, if you ask president Joe Biden. Now, we need to sift through the rubble to see just how much damage was caused by the government lockdowns. The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, otherwise known as the Nation’s Report Card, came out showing major drops across the board. Also, there have been a few more stories that have come out recently showing just how terrible the government’s response to COVID-19 was. OPENING CHIT CHATIndependent - Hillary Clinton warns ‘right-wing extremists’ planning to ‘literally steal’ 2024 presidential election https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-2024-election-republicans-b2210291.htmlPolitico - Hillary Clinton warns of Trump trying to ‘sneak or steal his way’ to a second term https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/19/hillary-clinton-dnc-speech-398893 PRIMARY TOPIC – COVID-19 TRUTHERS HAD IT RIGHTHeritage Foundation – New NAEP Test Scores Are a Disaster. Blame Teachers Unions https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/new-naep-test-scores-are-disaster-blame-teachers-unionsWSJ - The School Lockdown Catastrophe https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-school-lockdown-catastrophe-naep-test-results-national-assessment-of-educational-progress-11666643369?NPR - Student math scores are down from pre-COVID levels, the National Report Card finds https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1130629135/naep-test-covidFull Fact - Claims that Pfizer vaccine wasn’t tested on preventing transmission need context https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-transmission-test/NYP - Judge orders Fauci, Psaki deposed in social media censorship lawsuit https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/fauci-psaki-can-be-deposed-in-censorship-lawsuit/Reason - Adding the COVID-19 Vaccine to the Childhood Immunization Schedule Is a Mistake https://reason.com/2022/10/24/covid-19-vaccination-schedule-immunization-childhood-mistake/[Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.] In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Brian P. Levack, John E. Green Regents Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Texas at Austin, to discuss his new book, Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America. They chat about how distrust in institutions was an important theme of public discourse in Britain and colonial America during the early modern period, why trust in these institutions is more tenuous and difficult to restore once it has been betrayed than trust in one's family, friends, and neighbors, and how this distrust shaped the political, legal, economic, and religious of Britain and its American colonies.Get the book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/distrust-of-institutions-in-early-modern-britain-and-america-9780192847409?q=distrust%20in%20institutions&lang=en&cc=us In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

President Biden told 60 Minutes in October that COVID-19 was essentially over. If that's true, why is he still lobbying Congress for billions of dollars in more COVID-19 relief? Biden also extended the emergency declaration another 90 days, further going against his stated position. Dr. Chad Savage, founder, Your Choice Direct Care, thinks the spending is not only unhealthy for the American economy, but “unnecessary, harmful, and blind to Americans’ real needs and problems.Savage says there is plenty of COVID-19 relief money unspent, just sitting on the sidelines. As a physician, Savage worries how more government spending will drive inflation further, increasing costs for working families. COVID is now becoming an excuse for Congress to continue its spending binge.Savage wrote about COVID-19 relief spending in an op-ed in Real Clear Health this summer. He also discussed the emergency declaration extension, now scheduled to end in December. Savage covers opportunity costs involved when funds are directed to COVID-19 versus where our health care priorities should be.Real Clear Health Op-Ed: https://www.realclearhealth.com/articles/2022/07/06/dont_buy_into_the_covid_relief_spending_spree_111363.html In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Environmental alarmists are trotting out the tired trope that growing human populations threaten the end of the world. In this case, they’re not claiming overpopulation threatens humanity due to using up finite resources, but rather because human greenhouse gas emissions are causing catastrophic climate change. Today’s guests, Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurmak, are authors of the book “Population Bombed!: Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change.” The authors explain why population growth is not causing dangerous climate change nor is it bad outright.In reality, an increasing population with longer average lifespans only improves humanities rate of discovering new resources to use and technologies to improve lives. Plus, environmental stewardship will improve as a result. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 368 of the In The Tank Podcast. It appears as the though the consensus is in - we are heading for a recession. However, according to President Biden, we are only likely to get a "slight recession." The ITT crew talks about the potential severity of the coming recession. Also, the most recent census over counted in a bunch of blue states, potentially skewing the political landscape in favor of the Democrats. PRIMARY TOPIC - WARNING RECESSION INCOMINGBloomberg - Forecast for US Recession Within Year Hits 100% in Blow to Biden https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-17/forecast-for-us-recession-within-year-hits-100-in-blow-to-biden?sref=h5EZFUoqAxios - Markets and economists are increasingly certain of recession https://www.axios.com/2022/10/19/us-recession-risk-markets-economyForbes - Jeff Bezos Says It’s Time To “Batten Down The Hatches” In Latest Recession Warning https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/10/19/jeff-bezos-says-its-time-to-batten-down-the-hatches-in-latest-recession-warning/?sh=1183d18c1d48CNN - Biden acknowledges a ‘slight recession’ is possible, even if he doesn’t think it’ll happen https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/recession-joe-biden-cnntv/index.htmlThe Epoch Times - America Can ‘100 Percent’ Avoid Recession If Biden Makes One Key Policy Shift: Billionaire John Catsimatidis https://www.theepochtimes.com/america-can-100-percent-avoid-recession-if-biden-makes-one-key-policy-shift-billionaire-john-catsimatidis_4773448.html SECONDARY TOPIC - CENSUS OVER COUNTS BLUE STATES Daily Signal - Census Bureau Admits Overcounting 7 Blue States, Just 1 Red State https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/18/census-errors-will-distort-elections-funding-for-next-decade/The Hill - Census blunder may tip 2024 to Democrats https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3504546-census-blunder-may-tip-2024-to-democrats/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Late this summer, CVS fired a nurse practitioner for refusing to prescribe ‘Plan B’ ‘Morning After’ pills at the “Minute Clinic” where she had worked for 2 ½ years. CVS had been aware of Paige Casey’s religious objections to prescribing the abortifacients, exempted her from doing so, and even gave her favorable job reviews. In August, CVS changed its mind and told Casey she would no longer be given an exemption. Casey is suing CVS and is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom.Increasingly, health care professionals are being reprimanded, attacked and even fired for refusing to perform procedures that violate their religious convictions. It is not clear why CVS changed its position this summer regarding Casey. Interestingly, the MinuteClinic where Casey worked is located in Virginia where there are conscience protections in the law. CVS has stated it did not believe the “Morning After” bills are abortifacients but contraception. Kevin Theriot, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom, discusses the facts of the case, the arguments, how the Dobbs decision comes into play, how there will likely be more cases similar to this, and the possibility that the issue could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.Alliance Defending Freedom: https://adflegal.org/paige-casey In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

POLITICO just released their inaugural Green 28 list. This list is constructed to rank the 28 individuals with the most influence on the European Union's sustainability, environmental, mobility, climate and energy policies. Vladimir Putin was awarded the top spot on the list. Russia holds a stronghold on energy exports within Europe. Without looking at why this is the case, POLITICO gleefully agues that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will force a green revolution. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Ryan T. Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, to discuss his new book, co-authored with Alexandra DeSanctis, “Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing.” They discuss how the post­-Roe experiment with unlimited abortion has harmed everyone and corrupted our political system, medicine, and the media, while undermining the rule of law. They also chat about what abortion in the United States will look like post-Dobbs, and what abortion opponents can do to help foster a culture of life.Get the book here: https://www.regnery.com/9781684513505/tearing-us-apart/Show Notes:The American Conservative: Emile Doak – “Abortion and the Clash of Moral Visions” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/abortion-and-the-clash-of-moral-visions/The Heritage Foundation: Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing (VIDEO) https://www.heritage.org/life/event/tearing-us-apart-how-abortion-harms-everything-and-solves-nothingNational Review: Ryan T. Anderson & Alexandra DeSanctis – “We Must Acknowledge That Abortion Harms Women” https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/06/we-must-acknowledge-that-abortion-harms-women/The Public Discourse: Charles C. Camosy – “A Clarion Call for the Pro-Life Movement’s Heavy Lift” https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/07/83558/Washington Free Beacon: Nicholas Tomaino – “A Post-Roe Playbook” https://freebeacon.com/culture/a-post-roe-playbook/ In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 367 of the In The Tank Podcast. At a recent World Economic Forum event, a representative from the United Nations boasted about working with Google to ensure THEIR information came up first when searching "Climate Change." In her words, "we own the science." Also, It appears as though the concept of a Universal Basic Income is becoming mainstream. PRIMARY TOPIC – “WE OWN THE SCIENCE”WEF - Tackling disinformation - how can we combat the lies that go viral? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/tackling-disinformation-agenda-dialogues/National Review - U.N. Communications Official Touts Google Search Partnership: ‘We Own the Science’ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-n-communications-official-touts-google-search-partnership-we-own-the-science/The Epoch Times - United Nations Now Claims to ‘Own the Science’ https://www.theepochtimes.com/united-nations-now-claims-to-own-the-science_4774791.htmlSociable - ‘We own the science & the world should know it’: UN rep to WEF disinformation panel https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/we-own-science-world-should-know-un-wef-disinformation/Team Halo https://teamhalo.org/ SECONDARY TOPIC – ARE UBIs ENTERING THE MAINSTREAM?Business Insider - Applications have opened for a huge new guaranteed-income pilot in Illinois that officials say is the biggest program of its kind https://www.businessinsider.com/illinois-guaranteed-income-pilot-scheme-cook-county-chicago-ubi-money-2022-10Government Tech - Cook County Launches Guaranteed Income Pilot With Help from Tech https://www.govtech.com/health/cook-county-launches-guaranteed-income-pilot-with-help-from-techThe Center Square - Critics say New Orleans guaranteed income program won't produce hoped-for outcomes https://www.thecentersquare.com/louisiana/critics-say-new-orleans-guaranteed-income-program-wont-produce-hoped-for-outcomes/article_8b80d1de-cfda-11ec-98e7-57a5d37169d6.htmlMashable - Every U.S. city testing free money programs https://mashable.com/article/cities-with-universal-basic-income-guaranteed-income-programs[Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.] In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!