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Environmental Myths

Environmental activists scare us with lies about extreme weather, dying species and food shortages.

Why?

“These scares drive donations.” says science writer Jon Entine.

In this compilation, we debunk their scary predictions about sea level rise, polar bears, drought… Here’s more from John Stossel.

Don’t Ever Give Up!

I’ve failed!

For years, I’ve made the case for free markets.

Yet now, socialists WIN elections!

Don’t people understand economics?

Only with “liberty, humanity moves forward,” explains Steve Forbes.

In our full interview: how entrepreneurs achieve what government doesn’t. Here’s more from John Stossel.

The Promises They Break

Donald Trump, running for office, said, “No more wars.”

Joe Biden said, “It’s time to end the forever war.”

But both got us involved in foreign wars.

So did presidents before them. Here’s more from John Stossel.

Nuclear Power Is Back!

President Donald Trump has ordered regulators to fast-track new nuclear plants.

Democratic senators call that dangerous.

“That’s just a bunch of crap,” says Ray Rothrock, a lawyer at Northrop Grumann. “They’re afraid of something they don’t need to be afraid of.”

My video covers some of their fears. Here’s more from John Stossel.

Rich Kids For Socialism?

It’s not the poor who want socialism.

It’s a “luxury belief,” says Rob Henderson.

Because socialism’s biggest promoters live a life of privilege.

Stossel TV Fellow Leyla Taghiyeva of Students for Liberty reports.

Who Sets Prices?

$122 for Thai takeout?

That’s what’s happened in Seattle, after politicians forced a high minimum wage for DoorDashers.

Now customers order less food, and drivers get less work.

Government wage controls ALWAYS fail. Here’s more from John Stossel, describing how government regulations broke the gig work economy.

My Body, My Peptides

I’m old. I want to slow my deterioration.

Peptides might help. Creatine and protein powder made me stronger. Now people say peptides would do even more!

But my government says I can’t have them…

Why? Don’t I own my body? Why do bureaucrats get to decide?

Here’s more from John Stossel, who talks about the FDA’s ban on peptides and why many Americans simply buy them illegally from the Chinese black market.

Triumph of Economic Freedom

Politicians say they can “improve” the economy.

They impose minimum wages, wealth taxes, more spending on the needy.

But their social engineering makes things worse.

Here economist Don Boudreaux explains why “…we prosper more, the more economically free we are.” Boudreaux is co-director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Here’s more from John Stossel.

Giving Bureaucrats The Slip!

Want to help special needs kids?

Louisiana bureaucrats say you may not, unless you prove to them that you’re needed.

I reported on a social worker who sued Louisiana because they told her she wasn’t “needed.”

Four years later, they STILL won’t let her, so now she helps kids by HIRING them at Chubbies, her new restaurant!

Here’s more from John Stossel.

Freedom: The Next 250 Years

Ben Franklin warned: America has “a republic, if you can keep it.” If! He wasn’t sure the great experiment would last.

I ask Stossel TV guests, how did we make it to 250 years? Americans “went out into the untamed wilderness and established towns and cities that really didn’t have to lean on a central government in order to function.” says Linnea Lueken of Heartland Institute. That self-reliance made America successful.

Unfortunately, today, people say, “Problem? There ought to be a law!” But the more government “fixes” things, the more control politicians have over us, and the less freedom we have. That’s not what the founders wanted.

What really makes America thrive? Ron Paul, Steve Forbes, Jennifer Grossman, Grover Norquist and others explain in my video above. Here’s more from John Stossel, focusing on how liberty, property rights and limited government built the freest nation in history.

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