John Stossel

#COVID19 is scary, but many governments, eager to control people, go TOO far In California, surfers far from anyone get arrested. Cops also gave $1000 tickets to people watching the sunset IN THEIR CARS. Politicians should work for us, not push us around needlessly:

Lots of places suspended their plastic bag bans because of #COVID19. Too bad that didn’t last. Reusable bags are DIRTY. Paper bags cost more and break. Pols NEVER leave well enough alone.

Psychologist Jordan Peterson is controversial. People call him a “transphobe," an “extremist," a “misogynist." I disagree. Here's my FULL interview with Peterson, in which he responds to such claims:

Only government spends $2 million on a tiny bathroom in a park, I investigate:

America's military focuses on important things, like ... wait, climate change? "No nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate,” says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. He calls climate “crisis” the “existential threat.” Absurd! America's military should focus on defending America:

President Biden is at the #COP26 climate summit. He’ll probably agree to another bad deal like the #ParisClimateAccord. Here’s why the Paris Climate Accord was ridiculous:

American activists demand new "fair" policies, like banning "hate speech," "reasonable gun rules," and "adding balance to the Supreme Court.” Those ideas sound nice, but those very things have already been tried in Venezuela. They failed. Andrés Guilarte fled Venezuela, and now warns Americans: don't do what we did.

Government BANNED 20,000 online lectures. One entrepreneur spent his own money to save them:

One great thing about remote work: It's now easier to move to places with less government. Tech innovator JT Lonsdale explains why he jumped from California to Texas, and how having choices like that makes him optimistic for the future:

Parts of America still impose ridiculous mask mandates on kids and vaccinated people, even outdoors. Give me a break. Covid is here to stay. It's not going away. We must learn to live with it:

Why do some police officers repeatedly act like sadistic bullies? One big reason, Radley Balko tells me, is that police unions make it nearly impossible to fire bad cops:

America’s 50-year drug war has destroyed neighborhoods, worsened police relations, and locked up more people than any other country. But it hasn’t reduced drug use. It’s time to end this war:

Facebook and their "fact-checker," Climate Feedback, defamed me, implying I said something I NEVER said. I appealed! That went to... the same fact-checker who made the mistake! Facebook's representatives won’t help. It's illegal for them to defame me. So I'm suing:

Most in the media say they just report the facts. But is that true? Joe Concha says no. He writes about media for The Hill. --- Don't miss a video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1 --- He points out that even as fires raged behind reporters during protests, the media still call the protests “mostly peaceful.” “We've seen billions and billions of dollars in damage,” says Concha, “Yet you have news organizations saying, ‘this isn’t that bad.’”

The data are clear: Vaccines WORK. I got mine, and I hope others get theirs. But should vaccines be mandated? No. That’s tyranny.

Georgia (the ex-Soviet Republic, not the U.S. state) is now ahead of the United States in economic freedom! How did that happen? My producer Maxim Lott has spent two months investigating:

Angry mobs have threatened people throughout history. But now there’s a new kind: online mobs. Repeatedly outraged, and vicious--their goal is to get people fired. They are good at it. A tax specialist lost her job for saying being female is a biological fact. When Harry Potter author JK Rowling defended her, tweeting, “Force women out of their jobs for stating sex is real?” the mob came for Rowling. They called her transphobic, said her tweet was “cruel and inaccurate.” Some staff at her publisher refused to work on her upcoming book. But Rowling is the rare person popular enough to be able to resist the mob. Her publisher stood up for her saying, “freedom of speech is the cornerstone of publishing.” That’s how all these cases should be handled. “We just have to speak up,” says Soave. That can be hard in the current “cancel culture.” But those of us who can speak up, should.

"This is tyranny!" Dallas car wash owner Dale Davenport tells me, choking up. Dallas politicians crushed his life's work -- they blamed his car wash for high crime, citing Dale's own 911 calls as evidence. They then re-zoned his business to destroy it. Glad he's fighting back:

The media treat Dr. Fauci as a saint. They sneered at Senator Rand Paul. They don’t like his "conspiracy theories,” although many now admit Paul’s arguments were likely correct!

"Libertad! scream Cubans. LIBERTY! Then media report that the Cuban protests are over "shortages of food and vaccines!” They go out of their way to avoid criticizing any form of socialism. #CubaLibre

Trans women are beating women in sports competition. That’s not fair. But might there be fair ways to include trans competitors?

It amazes me what governments screw up. NY arrested bookies and then LOST money doing what the bookies did! Alabama managed to lose money running liquor stores. Oregon lost money on online gambling! Now politicians are messing up legal marijuana sales:

Elon Musk tweets insults at regulators and ignored multiple FAA warnings about rocket launches. GREAT! It's inspiring! Regulation often makes innovation impossible. Good to see someone test the rules:

“Experts" constantly over-predict doom! From #COVID19, to Climate Change, to resource depletion, the models were too alarmist. Matt Ridley explains here:

Do you feel free to speak your mind? Watch out! Today people get fired for that, especially in the media. The NY Times, NBC, Philly Inquirer, and others have caved to activists. Why? New tactics activists learned at college, Robby Soave tells me: