The Full Alex Epstein: the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, and Green Deceptions
Fossil fuels are…moral?
Yes, says Alex Epstein, because “3 billion people...use less electricity than a typical American refrigerator." To let them to have a modern life, "that's going to depend on fossil fuels.”
You won’t hear that in Saturday’s #EarthDay protests.
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Classic Stossel: The Biggest Freeloaders
Has America become a nation of freeloaders?
A person panhandling is what we usually picture when we think of freeloading … but in America today, the bigger recipients of handouts is not poor people, it’s corporations.
A Stossel Classic from 2011.
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Censorship Run Amok: Covid, The Lab Leak, Masks & The Twitter Files
Will government censor my new video? Label it “misinformation?" Will Facebook censor it?
That’s what’s been happening:
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Woke Colleges Vs Testing
In the name of diversity, many colleges are killing the SAT and ACT.
Bad idea!
The data are clear: Tests help predict who will succeed and fail in college.
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Catching Covid Makes Me Resent Big Government Even More
I dodged Covid for three years. Then I caught it. The much vilified free market may have saved my life.
Covid was much worse than any flu I’ve had.
I really thought I might die.
This is what happened.
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Classic Stossel: Makers vs Takers
Some people say, either you’re a maker … or a taker. And today makers and takers are battling for America’s soul.
Arthur Brooks says "It’s a battle because we’re deciding on our culture... Because the government is threatening to take us from a maker nation into taker nation status."
He points out "60% of Americans take more out of the public finance system than they pay in. They get more in public services than they pay in taxes. "
Star Parker was a taker. She lived off welfare for 7 years. She says the welfare bureaucracy encouraged her to be irresponsible… and stay dependent.
She says "It's so much easier to take than to make. I never even thought about it. I think that that's one of the greatest tragedies of becoming a taker is you don't think about that somebody else had to make this."
A Classic Stossel from 2009.
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Thomas Sowell vs the Left
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules ... that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today,” says Thomas Sowell.
Here’s why I admire him:
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How NYC Government Traumatizes Gun Owners
If you have a gun, don't fly out of New York with it!
Almost every week, New York City arrests someone who brings a gun to the airport -- even when the person has a gun license from their state, notifies authorities about their gun and follows TSA procedures for flying with it.
I interviews people who were arrested and confront the District Attorney who prosecutes them.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: DEI Training’s Unintended Consequences
A Heritage Foundation study found the average major university has 45 DEI personnel. The University of Michigan has 163.
Erec Smith used to be a DEI trainer. He calls it "a power grab. If you can keep this race thing going, then you will always have a business in getting rid of racism.”
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Classic Stossel: Minimum Wage
Politicians promise that increasing the minimum wage would guarantee everyone better pay, but it actually ends up costing people jobs.
Minimum wage is my Politicians’ Promises Gone Wrong #9.
A Classic Stossel from 2010
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Privatize Air Traffic Control!
America's air traffic control is atrocious!
Ancient gov't computers cause mass delays.
Why don’t they modernize?
"It sounds a lot better to talk about social justice,” Diana Furchtgott-Roth tells me.
She would know. She worked for the Dep’t of Transportation.
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Woke Award Shows
The #Oscars are Sunday.
I haven’t watched the orgy of celebrity worship for years, but now there’s another reason not to watch.
Musician Eric July points out that Award shows have become political, race-obsessed ceremonies that "shouldn't even be seen as legitimate."
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Not All Students Are Woke Socialists
It scares and upsets me how many students now claim to be socialists.
Thankfully, some don't.
"It's very easy to lose freedom,” a Michigan student tells me. "It’s very easy for politicians to legislate freedom away.”
She’s a Stossel in the Classroom student:
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The Philly Soda Tax Scam
When Philly passed a big soda tax, politicians said it'd fund pre-K.
But MOST of it didn’t.
Philadelphians I interviewed on the street were right to be skeptical:
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The Jones Act Makes Shipping More Expensive
After a recent storm, a ship full of fuel was BANNED from delivering that fuel to suffering Americans.
It happened because of a stupid law with a stupid name.
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Classic Stossel: Mandatory Minimums
Do mandatory minimums work?
Prosecutors love them because they give them more power to plea bargain with suspects. But they tie judges’ hands and result in needlessly harsh sentences.
A Stossel Classic from 2014.
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Classified—Government’s Dirty Secret
We’ve heard about the top secret documents found at Trump and Biden’s homes.
It's a "national security crisis,” say the media.
Nonsense.
It’s the usual media hysteria.
Here is why most government “secrets” are not what you think.
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Freeloader University
The cost of college has skyrocketed.
Princeton cost me $2K a year. Now they charge $60K! College costs have risen 4x the rate of inflation.
That's because government throws your money at colleges, says Inez Stepman.
Yale has a $31B endowment. Why give them MORE money?
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Bureaucrats Ban Betting
The US Gov't had ordered betting market PredictIt to shut sdown this week.
It's insane!
PredictIt is useful. A great predictor of future events. Do regulators just not like betting? They won’t even say.
Fortunately, a court says PredictIt can continue operating until the court rules.
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Government Bans Ambulance Competition
Want to start a business? Imagine having to get your competitors’ permission first.
In 35 states, laws block certainties of new businesses from operating unless they get their competitor’s permission. One such law prevents Phillip Truesdell from operating ambulances in Kentucky.
“You’re going to tell me that I’m not fit to work in your town?!” he asks.
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The FULL Mike Pompeo: On Edward Snowden, Classified Documents, JFK Files, and working for Trump.
I knew Mike Pompeo wouldn’t tell me if he’s running for president.
So in our FULL interview, I ask what he’d actually DO as president...
about defense, spying, immigration, the drug war and more.
His answers are often a surprise:
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Classic Stossel: Private Roads
In Britain, a local highway was damaged by heavy rains. When government said it would take a year to repair it, entrepreneur Mike Watts built a “private road” in just 12 days.
The road cost him about $250,000 to build. He put his house up as collateral. He charges $3 to cross, less for locals.
A Classic Stossel from 2015.
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Surprising Answers From Fmr CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Spending, Defense & Entitlements
“Randi Weingarten is the most dangerous person in the world,” Mike Pompeo tells me.
Really?
More than Putin? Xi Jinping? Kim Jong Un?
Pompeo backs up his accusation.
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Let Charter Schools Teach!
Government-run schools often fail kids. In Philadelphia, 29,000 students apply to escape to a charter school.
But only 7,000 get in, largely because the education/politician establishment won’t allow enough new charters to open:
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The Scaremongers Are Wrong
The world is about to end!
It must be true. I saw it on 60 Minutes. Species are dying off!
Whether it’s overpopulation… or climate change… the doomsayers keep getting it wrong.
"Life is getting better,” explains Marian Tupy from HumanProgress.Org.
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