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Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #189 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Foundation for Economic Education, The Heartland Institute, and the Institute for Energy Research.

I don’t often dream but I awakened the other morning from a memorable one.

The majority of this episode consists of an interview between Heartland Director of Communications Jim Lakely and Bruce “The Gay Patriot” Carroll. Bruce joins the show to talk about his world view as well as his recent ban from Twitter. 

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #155 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from the Media Research Center, the Illinois Policy Institute, the Mackinac Center, and the Manhattan Institute.

Trump should embrace (and expand) court ruling that his Twitter account is free speech forum

Still counting on the American left’s useful idiots.

The New York Times announced a new social media policy intended to crack down on the perception of bias among their reporters.

Three companies now have enormous power over our economy and society. Politicians on both sides should be worried.

On Monday, a Gizmoda report charged that Facebook employees were biasing the “trending” bar by avoiding stories popular among conservatives, and even outright blocking conservative news outlets. Facebook responded in a statement that did not completely reject the report, “There are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality. These guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives. Nor do they permit the prioritization of one viewpoint over another or on news outlet over another.” In not providing an outright rejection Facebook makes clear what we likely know about this accusation anyway, that something was awry likely because of people.

On July 8, I represented The Heartland Institute at The Publicity Club of Chicago’s (PCC) luncheon on Strategies for Creating Engaging Social Content. PCC is the United States’ largest independent…

With the birth of social media people have become far more interconnected to each other, and have become able to gain access to news and information with incredible rapidity. That new access has given groups unprecedented power to organize. Social networking tools have been mobilized in the United States to develop grassroots political action on a myriad of topics. It was what propelled Barack Obama to office, and it aided the swift rise and mobilization of the Tea Party.

The Heartland Institute last week hosted a luncheon lecture with author and presidential scholar Tevi Troy, who talked about his new book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted: 200…

It has been a difficult time for newspapers. The industry  has experienced serious challenges due to multiple factors going back at least  to the early 1960s when the three major…