John Stossel

The Southern Poverty Law Center promises to warn us about dangerous hate groups and extremists. In reality, it smears grassroots activists like "Moms for Liberty" for daring to disagree about policy. The SPLC is, sadly, powerful. It has nearly a BILLION dollars, and reporters pay careful attention to its reports. They shouldn't. The Southern Poverty Law Center has become a hate group itself. It is now a left-wing, money grabbing, slander machine.

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:

#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:

Three academics conducted what they call a ‘grievance studies’ experiment. They wrote fake papers on ridiculous subjects and submitted them to prominent academic journals in fields that study gender, race, and sexuality. They did this to “expose a political corruption that has taken hold of the universities,” say the hoaxers

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.

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.

When politicians are frightened, they take your money and your rights! It happened in Canada when those truckers protested. And it happens in America:

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."

For most of human history, tyrants ruled. They enslaved people, confiscated property, waged endless war. Only a few hundred years ago, free markets emerged. David Boaz explains what that changed.

The government may soon be able to shut down your car. Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill includes a kill switch for new cars. In an effort to reduce drunk driving, government wants devices in cars that will monitor and limit impaired driving. But there’s a big problem: these devices give government control over your car. Automotive engineer and former vintage race car driver Lauren Fix points out the dangers in my video, above.

Traditional comedy got preachy and smug! It’s created a market for something new. Here's comedy the woke left doesn’t want you to see.

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

The hardest thing to get past is the shame," actress Emily Blunt tells me. She is talking about stuttering. I had my own shame. For years I woke up scared, fearing that day I would humiliate myself on TV. Emily Blunt and I discuss our problem and what we did about it, here:

Government insures beach houses! That’s just reckless. As I reported years ago, it encourages idiots like me to do foolish things-- like build homes near rivers and oceans. Finally, one senator, Sen Rand Paul, wants to limit this handout:

Crazy anti-landlord laws mean that in many states, if a squatter simply CLAIMS to have a lease, cops can’t do anything. Flash Shelton tells me his solution: out-squat the squatter!

Authorities deny critical race theory is taught in schools. Asra Nomani says that’s a lie… and shows me receipts to prove it. She says teaching kids CRT is a “multi-million dollar industry."

“Natural” food activists say: Stop eating genetically-modified foods! They're wrong. GMO foods are safe. They don’t, as claimed, “cause cancer.” Over the last couple decades, cancer is down and lifespans are up.

Will government censor my new video? Label it “misinformation?" Will Facebook censor it? That’s what’s been happening:

“I don’t want to be anything like California!” says one frustrated truck driver. But too bad, because he lives in Pennsylvania, which decided to AUTOMATICALLY copy California rules. Now trucks in Pennsylvania will cost $50,000+ more!

I hope progressives wake up and realize that socialism caused Venezuela’s destruction. Otherwise tragedies like Venezuela will happen again and again:

An innocent store owner's shop was DESTROYED by police, chasing a bad guy. The store owner thought he’d be reimbursed. But city officials ignore him. "They just gave me numbers to call. And when you call, they referred me to somebody else. It's unbearable!"

A TERRIBLE leftist idea is on the rise: “Dismantle capitalism!” they say, because “growth is killing us.” That’s just absurd. Capitalism and growth SAVE lives. “Over the past 20 years… 130,000 people were lifted out of extreme poverty every day” explains Johan Norberg:

Dozens of states expanded school choice in the last two years, allowing more students to leave government-run schools. But David Walrod, the president of a teachers' union in Fairfax, Virginia, says the new school choice programs are harmful. We debate.

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.”

Poisoned Halloween candy? That doesn’t happen! But parents fear it anyway. Here are other irrational fears: