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John Stossel: A dump with a view in New Jersey

Home prices keep climbing. It’s another reason to let people build housing. But corrupt politicians sometimes prevent that. The little town of Edgewater, N.J., sits right across the Hudson River from Manhattan. A developer, Maxal Group, bought a dump site there and proposed building more than a thousand new waterfront...
John Stossel: Labor shortage caused by government

America has a record 8.1 million job openings. The media call it a “labor shortage.” But it’s not a labor shortage; it’s an incentive shortage. “No one wants to work,” says a sign on a restaurant drive-thru speaker in Albuquerque, N.M. “Please be patient with the staff that did show...
John Stossel: Welfare for the rich

Congress passed the $2.2 trillion Heroes Act. House Democrats said it gives money to “governments who desperately need funds.” But it also gives lots of money to people who don’t need funds. Maryland, which even The Washington Post admits is “flush with cash,” got enough extra money to pass a...
John Stossel: Students who take out loans should pay them back

Americans took out $1.7 trillion in government loans for college tuition. Now, some don’t want to pay it back. President Joe Biden says they shouldn’t have to. He wants to cancel at least $10,000 and maybe $50,000 of every student’s debt. “They’re in real trouble,” says Biden, “having to make...
John Stossel: Liberty winning?

Do I live in an alternate universe? The media tell me my side is winning . Salon claims, “We all live in Kochland, the Koch brothers’ libertarian utopia.” Tucker Carlson says, “Our leadership class remains resolutely libertarian.” What? Who? Not President Biden. Biden already spent $1.9 trillion on covid-19 “recovery”...
John Stossel: Go green, go nuclear

On Thursday, Earth Day, politicians and activists shouted more about “the climate crisis.” I don’t think it’s a crisis. Covid-19, malaria, exploding debt, millions of poor children dying from diarrhea — those are genuine crises. But global warming may become a real problem, so it’s particularly absurd that Earth Day’s...
John Stossel: Steven Crowder calls out censorship

The most viewed conservative commentator on YouTube is Steven Crowder with his channel, Louder with Crowder. His fans love his politically incorrect jokes. He also sets up a table at college campuses, invites people to debate and airs the debate unedited. One such video, titled, “There Are Two Genders: Change...
John Stossel: Biden’s California dream

I was surprised to read (in The Los Angeles Times) that the Biden administration’s “role model for America” is … California! He wants to “Make America California.” That’s is a terrible idea. Californians now rush to move out of California. Some hopeful folks still move there, but so many more...
John Stossel: Woke colleges want to eliminate tests

Did you take the SATs to try to get into college? Your kids may not have to. More than 1,300 schools have become “test optional,” meaning students need not submit SAT scores. Some, like the entire University of California system, now won’t even look at scores. There are seemingly legitimate...
John Stossel: Union activists’ trespassing

Before dawn, dozens of union activists invaded a strawberry farm, shouting through bullhorns. This frightened workers and infuriated the farm’s owner, Mike Fahner, who thought that in America, owning property means you have a right to control access to that property — your home is your castle, and all that....
John Stossel: The Woke Awards

Oscar nominees were announced this week. The AP highlighted the record number of nominations of “actors of color” and “a record year for women.” Today, such declarations are important in this “woke” media world. Future Oscars will have actual quotas for minority groups. Actor David Oyelowo praised the new standards,...
John Stossel: Government getting in way of vaccine distribution

The vaccine rollout crawls forward. Most of us will spend weeks, or months, waiting. Great Britain did better. As of today, one-third of the English already are vaccinated, twice as many as in America. Why? A big reason is that our government decided to rigidly follow its regimen for the...
John Stossel: Everyone is essential

Politicians have too much power over our lives. Many used the pandemic as another excuse to take more. Early on, politicians declared that they would decide who was “essential.” Everyone else was told to stay home. Much of the economy stopped. Millions were laid off. Then politicians relaxed the rules...
John Stossel: Environmental groups not helping the rhinos

Today’s environmental activists are so hostile to capitalism that they end up killing animals they want to protect. Like the African rhinoceros. Poachers kill them to get their horns, which can sell for as much as $300,000. Poachers mostly sell in China and Vietnam, to people who carve them into...
John Stossel: We should better guard our privacy

I love my digital devices, but people keep telling me to worry more about my privacy. “Encrypt your emails!” “Drop Google and use search engines like DuckDuckGo that don’t track us!” I probably should. But I don’t. I’m lazy, and I like that web companies know me and show me...
John Stossel: Socialism never works

Last week, I reported on two myths about socialism. Today I’ll cover three more. Myth No. 3: Socialism works if it’s “democratic.” As the Democratic Socialists of America put it, “Society should be run democratically — to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few.” Sounds nice. If...

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