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  • Environmental rules -- a good thing gone tyrannical

    John Stossel

    Updated: Wed, Apr 3, 2013

    Environmental activists and politicians would like you to think that we must love their regulations -- or hate trees and animals. I love trees and animals. But you can love nature and still hate the tyranny that environmental regulations bring. The Environmental Protection Agency just...

  • Versailles, D.C.

    John Stossel

    Published: Tue, Mar 26, 2013

    The Senate did something this past weekend it hasn't done in four years: passed a budget. The law requires the Senate to pass a budget, but Congress often ignores its own laws. For most of Barack Obama's presidency, a series of continuing resolutions kept the money -- your money -- flowing. Now...

  • John Stossel: Unions are still bad for education

    John Stossel

    Published: Tue, Mar 19, 2013

    Shortly after I did my first TV special on education, "Stupid in America," hundreds of union teachers showed up outside my office to yell at me. They were angry because I said union rules were a big reason American kids don't learn. The union is a big reason kids don't like school and learn...

  • Environmentalists fight to ban progress

    John Stossel

    Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    Celebrities are now upset about fracking, the injection of chemicals into the ground to crack rocks to release oil and gas. With everyone saying they want alternatives to foreign oil, I'd think celebrities would love fracking. I'd be wrong. Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and their group, Artists Against...

  • John Stossel: Sequestration is a wake-up call, not a cut

    John Stossel

    Published: Tue, Mar 5, 2013

    If you're reading this, you've survived the "sequester" cuts! That may surprise you, since President Obama likened the sequester to taking a "meat cleaver" to government, causing FBI agents to be furloughed, prosecutors to let criminals escape and medical research to grind to a halt! The...

  • John Stossel: Libertarians and conservatives are still awkward bedfellows

    John Stossel

    Updated: Tue, Feb 26, 2013

    Last week, Conservative pundit Ann Coulter told me and a thousand young libertarians that we libertarians are puss- -- well, she used slang for a female body part. We were in Washington, D.C., at the Students for Liberty conference, taping my TV show, and she didn't like my questions about her...