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Give This Department An F

Half the Department of Education’s been fired or chose to leave!

Surely all those people were doing something?

“They weren’t!” says Corey DeAngelis, author of the book The Parent Revolution. “They were pushing paper, taking 6 figure salaries, and that’s why things haven’t changed much with half the Department gone.” Here’s more from John Stossel.

Why Not Be Self-ish?

People vilify business for being “greedy.”

Yaron Brook calls that a cultural problem, the idea that “when you pursue your own self-interest, or when you produce and create, you are somehow a villain.”

Brook is the chairman of the board of The Ayn Rand Institute. Here, he sits down for an hour-long interview with John Stossel.

Among the topics they cover: Selfishness, immigration, war, love, liberty and, of course, Ayn Rand.

Liar Liar: World On Fire

Activists say, “Climate change is worsening droughts!” But:

Globally, drought has not increased since 1900. And in the U.S., the EPA says the last 50 years were wetter than average.

The activists and the media (is there a difference?) get so much wrong about climate change.

Here is Climate Change Myths Part 2, discussing wildfires, droughts, rising sea levels and coral reefs. Here’s more from John Stossel.

World On Thin Ice?

We’ve all seen just how ludicrous the climate change warnings can be. Every politician exaggerates but very few of them can match the blowhard Al Gore, who kept yapping about catastrophes around the corner that never came.

Now, John Stossel takes a look at polar bears, Arctic ice and food shortages, while interviewing Linnea Lueken from The Heartland Institute. She hosts the weekly In The Tank podcast.

Stossel promises a second video soon, exploring more climate change myths and lies about the Arctic region.

The Government Always Wins

The government’s gambling hypocrisy: Bad odds and no competition. Here’s more from John Stossel.

Publicity Kills DEI

Diversity and inclusion sound nice. But:

“They don’t mean what they pretend to mean,” says Robby Starbuck.

He says corporate DEI policies look a lot more like “overtly racist hiring practices.”

Let’s take a look at his free speech approach to woke companies. Here’s more from John Stossel.

Who Wins, Who Loses?

Some immigrants get government handouts. That makes people mad. But the problem isn’t the immigrants.

“The way to deal with that is to restrict the goodies,” explains Yaron Brook, the chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute. More on that, and other solutions here, in a new broadcast on immigrants and the U.S. economy from John Stossel.

Useful Idiots

What do social influencers get wrong? Just about everything.

The internet is filled with economically illiterate people who make CRAZY claims like: “Socialism works better than capitalism 93% of the time!”

93%? Give me a break! That and other socialist lies fact-checked here. John Stossel dishes the facts.

High Taxes Have Consequences

Republicans are now debating renewing tax cuts. Reminds me of when I interviewed Donald Trump 15 years ago, after dumb New York pols raised taxes on the rich.

Trump practically shouted, “The rich people are going to leave, and other people are going to leave!” “You haven’t left,” I say. “I haven’t left yet,” he answers.

Of course, now Trump has left New York. And lots of big taxpaying people left states like New York and California. This John Stossel “Classic” from 2010 examines the consequences of high taxes.

Musk Vs. The Swamp

The media are FURIOUS that Elon Musk is quickly dismantling “USAID.”

But I say it’s a good start! The agency spends $40 billion a year — often on dumb things.

More cuts will also be needed. John Stossel captures the story.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who oversees USAID, announced Thursday night that he will  lay off 13,706 employees from the agency, leaving only a core staff of 294 staff members. It’s not clear if those 294 will be absorbed into the State Department or if USAID will even exist any longer.)

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