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The Benton Public Utility District commissioners believe intermittent electricity from wind will unnecessarily contribute to increases in northwest utility retail electricity rates

Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #188 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Heritage Foundation, The Heartland Institute, and more.

Voters in Arizona, Nevada and Washington state will soon decide if they want to pay more for less reliable electricity.

At last, regulatory flexibility for the seriously ill from the FDA.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #140 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from Pew Charitable Trusts, the Washington Policy Center, the Freedom Foundation, and the American Council on Science and Health.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #126 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Washington Policy Center, the Foundation for Government Accountability, and the Pacific Research Institute.

Another Veterans Day has come and gone. As nice as all the free doughnuts, meals, and haircuts were, even nicer was a simple statement—“Thank you for your service”—often tendered with a handshake.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #113 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Cato Institute, the Illinois Policy Institute, the Washington Policy Center and the Reason Foundation.

The federal government has spent the last two centuries-plus willfully ignoring the Constitution. With ever-increasing frequency and intensity, the Feds have drifted further and further from their charter.

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized the phrase “laboratories of democracy”: “(T)o describe how a ‘state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.’”

There is much bemoaning of the loss of bipartisanship in Washington, D.C. Gone, they say, are the grand bargains – the two Parties coming together to reach deals that solve problems. Such the loss, they say.

Network Neutrality is a really stupid, anti-capitalism policy – that outlaws on the Internet several basic, fundamental free market tenets that are in practice in every other sector of a functioning economy.

I’ve heard the following quote ascribed to National Basketball Association (NBA) player, coach and executive Pat Riley – but the Internet is not giving up the ghost on provenance to him or anyone else. As I recall, the recitation is: “That player is drowning in Lake Me.” Meaning a person who is totally self-absorbed. Transfixed by their own navel (which actually has a name – Omphaloskepsis). A person who finds himself endlessly fascinating – and utterly invaluable.