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Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft bring you episode #168 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the R Street Institute and the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.

Small towns and small governments have a natural, cozy appeal to them.

But now President Obama wants to compound his social experimentation with the military, by ordering the Pentagon brass to focus not on imminent weather events surrounding battle plans – not on threats from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, ISIL, Hamas and other real hot spots – but on climate change years or decades in the future. He wants to replace Remember the Alamo with Remember the Climate!

As thoughts of pilgrims, turkey and stuffing and football games turn to dreams of sugarplums and stockings laid out with care, federal regulators tasked with protecting the public from dangerous consumer goods continue their Grinch-like confiscation of things millions of people safely enjoy at Christmas time and through the rest of the year.

In today’s episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) Jonathan Williams joins Managing Editor of Budget & Tax News, Jesse Hathaway. Williams helps Hathaway get into the holiday spirit by talking about a new ALEC report on how state taxes affect Americans’ charitable giving.

This is the political Santa who delivers subsidies of various sorts to farmers or “alternative energy” manufacturers. The Santa who redistributes vast sums of money for educational expenditures, or public housing, welfare and food stamps, or government defense contracts, and even “bridges to nowhere.”

Hydraulic fracturing started out as an “exploding torpedo” back in 1865. Today, nearly 150 years later, the actual process has made giant technological strides, but now, it’s the topic that’s explosive.

Every Christmas, schools make headlines by labeling their calendars for “holiday break,” “winter solstice,” and the like instead of “Christmas break.” The occasional Scrooge-like superintendent or teacher will inevitably punish some little six-year-old for bringing candy canes with a Bible verse to school or wanting to share the story of Jesus’ birth for a class presentation.

Public education imposes a “one-size-fits-all” and attempts to satisfy everyone’s preferences and moral values, but it’s just not possible. And in turn, it creates social tensions that could be dissolved with the freedom to congregate in mutual self-interest.

Many educated Americans likely recognize the expression “separation of church and state” but probably do not know it appears nowhere in the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson used it in a January…

The folks at my favorite Canadian network, Sun News, asked me to come on Adrienne Batra’s show today to talk about Greenpeace’s absurd “Christmas is Canceled” video.

Greenpeace is certainly shocked to see CNN mock it for employing a decrepit Santa to advance lies that scare kids and adults alike about the climate.

On December 3, 2008 — back when I was blogging more regularly at Infinite Monkeys — I shared with Monkey Nation a video I was hipped to thanks to The American Culture…