The Greens' New Target
Green governments are cracking down on chemical fertilizer.
"It's totally insane!" says Michael Shellenberger.
Such green dogma would bring mass starvation:
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Classic Stossel: Stossel Confronts the Union Bosses
Most of education in America is a mess. The cost has skyrocketed, but performance is flat.
Why? One big reason is that the government monopoly—Stossel calls it the “BLOB”— makes it nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher.
Stossel confronts union leaders, like DC union boss Nathan Saunders, who opposes judging teachers by student test results. “I know my kids are learning when I look in their eyes,” says Saunders.
New Jersey union leader Joseph Del Grosso opposes charter schools: “Over my dead body, they’re gonna come here.”
When Saunders and Del Grosso were kids, they attended private schools, but now they oppose vouchers. This is a common phenomenon amongst members of the BLOB: choice for ME, but not for THEE.
A Stossel Classic from 2012
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The Full Babylon Bee Interview on Censorship, Cancel Culture & Anti-Woke Comedy
#TheBabylonBee is STILL banned from Twitter.
Twitter’s bosses don't want you to hear them. But you should give their humor a try—they now get more views than the Onion.
Here’s my new FULL video about the Bee:
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The Nuclear Option
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is another lesson in why it is bad for U.S. and Europe to move away from clean nuclear power.
The renewable replacements, solar and wind, can’t fill the void, so we become more dependent of fuel from places like Russia.
Nuclear power is green, safe, and relatively cheap if government allows it.
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Workers Pay for Privileged Students
President Biden has issued an order that cancels up to $20K per person in college loans.
Terrible idea!
Unless a court throws it out, workers will pay for privileged students to go to overpriced colleges.
Mike Rowe tells me students who demand debt forgiveness are “self-involved."
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Government Corrupts Science With Progressive Nonsense
The co-head of the White House's “scientific integrity” team just got caught lacking scientific integrity.
Tell me why I should “trust their science” again?
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Classic Stossel: Head Start
Politicians say give kids a “head start.” But the much-lauded program makes no difference in kids’ lives.
Lisa Snell explains how the government’s own research found that Head Start did not help poor kids.
Government’s response? Spend even more.
A Classic Stossel from 2012.
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Volunteers Save Lives in Ukraine
In #Ukraine, governments and big bureaucratic charities often MISS problems on the ground.
Fortunately, bands of volunteers such as "Ukraine - We are here" fill that void.
My producer Maxim Lott travelled with them in Ukraine:
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Forbidden Parenting
The government sometimes arrests parents for giving kids responsibility. In South Carolina, mom Deborah Harrell was jailed for letting her 9-year-old daughter play in a park for the day.
Local media outlets breathlessly reported that Harrell left her daughter at the park "for hours at a time," and that she "confessed" to that.
A police interrogator lectured Harrell: "You can't leave a child who is nine years old in the park by herself. What would you do if some sex offender came by?"
Yet despite media scare stories, kidnappings are extremely rare and are way down.
"I felt like she'd be safer in the park than she would at home," Harrell told Stossel. Plus, her daughter Regina enjoyed playing at the park.
But the state wasn't okay with Deborah's parenting. Not only was she arrested, but Regina was taken away from her for weeks
Deborah was charged with "willful abandonment of a child," which carries up to a 10-year jail sentence.
Fortunately, attorney Robert Phillips heard about her case and found it so outrageous he took it for free.
"The way you want to raise your child should be left up to you," he told Stossel. "We should not have unreasonable intrusions by the government telling us every little detail how to raise our children."
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How Your Job Predicts Your Political Party
In academia today, there are few conservatives.
A study of professors found 12 Dems for each Republican. In sociology, it was 44 to 1. In communications, 108 to zero!
Spending most of your time with people who think alike can create hatreds, Rob Henderson points out:
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Unions Invade Private Property
“If I didn’t allow them in, I’m the one going to jail!” rants a farmer after a California law allowed dozens of union activists to storm onto his farm.
“You don’t know if they’re mad, if they’re going to get violent,” says one employee who was working when the union arrived with flags and bullhorns, “It was a scary situation.”
The union wanted the workers to strike. Few were interested.
“It is asinine!” says Mike Fahner, the farm’s owner. He points out that unions don’t have the right to access private property without permission in any other industry. “If they came back every day I would have been paralyzed.”
Mike and another business are challenging the law in the Supreme Court. But they lost in two lower courts.
California officials argue that unions must be allowed to go onto farms because "workers remain isolated from the flow of information characteristic of modern society.”
Mike says that’s not true. “Every person has a cell phone in their pocket. [Workers] know how to communicate through Facebook and … Twitter much better than most.
“This is trespassing,” he adds, “You should be going to jail for doing this.”
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Escaping Federal Taxes
No federal taxes!
“It’s just a magical place to live,” says Melissa DaSilva.
And it’s in America!
People like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to shut the tax break down.
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Stossel Classic: Delayed Gratification
What’s the biggest predictor of success in life? Rich parents? Strict parents? Good looks? Many experts told us... none of those.
The biggest predictor is: can you delay gratification.
A Stossel Classic from 2014.
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John McWhorter: The FULL Interview on Anti-racism, Victimhood, Testing, and Woke Language.
Professor John McWhorter, author of "Woke Racism," argues that condescending leftist ideology hurts black people.
I learned a lot from this full, half-hour interview with Columbia linguist John McWhorter.
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Sugar Subsidies are Welfare for the Rich
The U.S. sugar program costs consumers billions, while rich politically-connected sugar industry CEOs get richer.
The program is “Stalin-style price controls," Ross Marchand of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance tells me.
The U.S. government uses a complex system of loans, domestic quotas, and limits on how much sugar we can import. The goal is to control the price of sugar.
I call it “Welfare for the rich."
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The Last Straw
Celebrities and environmentalists want to ban plastic straws.
That makes them feel good, but will it accomplish anything?
I asked Kristin Tate to find out:
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Where’s The Beef? Ask The Feds
Did you notice the beef shortages?
“You’d go to Wendy’s to buy a hamburger and they were out,” complains Rep Thomas Massie. "Yet you could see cattle from the drive-thru.”
Dumb government rules are to blame.
Massie says he has a solution.
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Regulation Overload with Peter Thiel
Government planners slow innovation with burdensome rules.
In 1931, workers built the Empire State building in just over a year. Now it takes 13 years to finish the new World Trade Center.
Entrepreneur Peter Thiel America is lucky that today’s FDA wasn’t around when the polio vaccine was invented.
A Stossel Classic from 2016
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Dictator Envy
Politicians express "admiration" for dictatorships. (Yes, really.)
It's dictator envy!
Johan Norberg sets them straight:
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The Southern Poverty Law Center SCAM
The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it protects us from"hate groups."
But it's a scam... a money grabbing slander machine:
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Does The Constitution Need To Be Amended?
I asked lawyers and media folk like Glenn Beck, Michael Malice, and Dave Rubin, how they would improve the Constitution.
Surprisingly, some of the best responses came from strangers on the street.
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Classic Stossel: Title IX
Politicians promised that Title IX would end discrimination of women in sports, but instead it has taken sports away from both men AND women.
A Stossel Classic from 2010.
Note: After this piece first aired, supporters of Cal athletics raised enough money to convince Cal to re-instate the 5 teams they planned to cut. Unfortunately student athletes at many other schools have not been as fortunate.
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Make America California
California is the Biden Administration’s role model for America.
What are they thinking? The state loses 170,000 people every year.
"People are just emptying out of California!” says Kristin Tate, who reports on why so many abandon the state: "exorbitant tax rates, the high crime rates, the failing public school systems, the exorbitant cost of living.”
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Abortion: The Liberty Debate
The #SupremeCourt just ruled that states can ban #abortion.
But should they?
Here's my new video about that--Abortion: The Liberty Debate.
@avensobrien and @MereLiberty debate, and I give my take.
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Classic Stossel: College Costs
Politicians promise to help everyone go to college. But they just make college more EXPENSIVE.
Did you know that the University of Missouri is proud to have a “leisure resort” on campus?
Naomi Riley, author of The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For, explains how government aid led to massive tuition hikes.
A Stossel Classic from 2012.
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