Jim Lakely
VP @HeartlandInst, EP @InTheTankPod. GET GOV'T OFF OUR BACK! Love liberty, Pens, Steelers, & #H2P. Ex-DC Journo. Amateur baker, garage tinkerer.
Appears in 109 Episodes
Trump's Cabinet: A Dream Team? - In The Tank #474
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 474 of the In The Tank Podcast. As the dust of the election settles, President-ele...
Maple Syrup and Hot Air: Debunking Canada’s Climate Hype – The Climate Realism Show #135
While the political tide has shifted right in the United States – and away from the climate alarmist agenda – our neighbors to the north are still currently all-in for...
Everything Has Changed – In the Tank #473
Since Election Night, doesn’t everything feel different now? Not just our politics. but the whole mood of the country. Yes, some of our fellow Americans are in a very ...
Trump Causes Climate Activists to Melt Down - The Climate Realism Show #134
Donald Trump’s massive landslide victory in Tuesday’s presidential election has climate activists around the world melting down. Trump called measures to control clima...
A Trump Victory & a Media Reckoning - In The Tank #472
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 472 of the In The Tank Podcast. Donald J. Trump has been elected a...
Bezos: Americans Don't Trust The News Media - In The Tank #471
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Jack McPherrin present episode 471 of the In The Tank Podcast. The last vestiges of the media'...
Rhetoric and Reality - The Politics of Climate Change
The whole world seems to be nervously awaiting the outcome of the presidential election, which is just 10 days away — perhaps no group more than the global climate cab...
Establishment Targets Elon: 'This is War' - In The Tank #470
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 470 of the In The Tank Podcast. When Elon Musk expressed interest in purchasing Tw...
Climate Alarmist Education - The Climate Realism Show #131
America’s educational system used to cover the “three Rs” — reading, writing, and ’rithmetic – but that has long been abandoned from elementary school through college ...
When Progressives Squash Progress - In The Tank #469
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 469 of the In The Tank Podcast. Over this past week, we witnessed an engineering b...
Breaking Down Hurricane Milton - The Climate Realism Show #130
After a slow start to the 2024 Hurricane Season, it seems like Mother Nature wants to make up for lost time. First Helene hit the Florida Panhandle and caused a disast...
Kamala Harris and the Media are Getting Desperate - In The Tank #468
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Justin Haskins present episode 468 of the In The Tank Podcast. As the election approaches, it appears as thoug...
The Aftermath and Myths of Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene will go down as one of the most-significant natural disasters (so far) in US History, and certainly of the 21st century. While the Florida panhandle w...
Europe's Economic Takeover Exposed - In The Tank #467
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 467 of the In The Tank Podcast. The European Union has The ITT cr...
It’s Climate Week in NYC - The Climate Realism Show #128
It’s climate week in New York City, yet another expensive and carbon-intensive gathering of global chicken littles clucking about the end of the world. More than 6,000...
Microsoft to Reopen 3-Mile Island Nuclear Plant - In The Tank #466
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and H. Sterling Burnett present episode 466 of the In The Tank Podcast. Surprising news dropped earli...
Trump Looms Over COP 29 - The Climate Realism Show #127
The United Nations' climate confab (COP 29) in Azerbaijan, of all places, will convene less than a week after America's presidential election. It will be pretty glum g...
Trump Assassination Attempt ... Part 2 - In The Tank #465
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 465 of the In The Tank Podcast. We are back after taking a week off while preparin...
Debate Prep for Trump on Climate
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will have their first and probably only debate on Tuesday. Climate is likely to come up as a debate topic, after not being emphasized fo...
World's Socialists Desperately Clinging to Power - In The Tank #464
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 464 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week, the ITT crew is discuss...
Mourning Real Environmentalism – The Climate Realism Show #125 (Guest: Matt Wielicki)
One could pin the birth of the modern environmental movement to the early 20th century when Theodore Roosevelt’s love of nature led to the creation of America’s beauti...
Will the REAL Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? - In The Tank #463
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 463 of the In The Tank Podcast. Despite being the official Democra...
Hurricane Season 2024: Were the predictions wrong again?
NOAA and other forecasters predicted the 2024 hurricane season would be among the most active in decades. Professional climate alarmist Michael Mann said human-caused ...
Kommie-la's Basket of Deplorable Economic Policies - In The Tank #462
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 462 of the In The Tank Podcast. Over the past few weeks, Vice Pres...
We're NOT at a Climate Tipping Point – The Climate Realism Show #123
The New York Times on Sunday published a special section titled “How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points?” The article is heavy on fancy infographics and sho...
Free Speech Under Assault - In The Tank #461
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and S. T. Karnick present episode 461 of the In The Tank Podcast. The concept of free speech is once again under a...
The Great British Energy Company – The Climate Realism Show #122
The new Labour government in the UK wants to set up the “Great British Energy Company,” supposedly the answer to all of that country’s green energy dreams. But Heartla...
Harris/Walz: A Far Left Political Ticket - In The Tank #460
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 460 of the In The Tank Podcast. Vice President Kamala Harris, the ...
'Green' Olympics Make Athletes See Red – The Climate Realism Show #121
The Paris Olympics are underway, and it pledged to be the “greenest” games ever. No air-conditioned dorms. Bed frames made of recycled cardboard. An emphasis on plant-...
Large Majority of Voters Worried About Cheating in 2024 Election – In the Tank #459
The Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, Justin Haskins, and S.T. Karnick present episode 459 of the In the Tank Podcast. Heartland recently commissioned som...