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- Increasing Government Power Threatens Freedom - February 10, 2010
- Government is taking us a long way down the Road to Serfdom. That doesn't just mean that more of us must work for the government. It means that we are changing from...
- Spiro T. Obama - FOX News - February 7, 2010
- February 6, 2010 11:00 AM EST by John StosselThis week the President again showed how thin-skinned he is about criticism in the media. Maybe he's so sensitive to...
- Big Government's Cronies - February 3, 2010
- Many window-making companies struggle because of the recession's effect on home building. But one little window company, Serious Materials, is "booming," says Fortune....
- Obama Remarkably Resistant to Free-Market Reform - FOX - January 29, 2010
- January 29, 2010 10:50 AM EST by John StosselDuring the President's State of the Union, Obama laid down a challenge to opponents of his health care plan:If anyone from...
- Media's Misplaced Outrage Over Court Decision - January 27, 2010
- From the commentary in the mainstream media, I thought there had been a coup d'etat in Washington. The New York Times said what happened "strikes at the heart of...
- Obama's Bad Connection - FOX News - January 25, 2010
- January 25, 2010 12:13 PM EST by John StosselIn an appearance with ABC's George Stephanopoulos last week, there was little danger of the President being too hard on...
- Who Needs Energy Independence? - January 20, 2010
- When you gas up your car, do you think that you're doing something evil? After all, I'm told that burning gasoline helps "murder the Earth," not to mention fills the...
- Take the 'Crony' Out of 'Crony Capitalism' - January 13, 2010
- When Judge Richard Posner, the prolific conservative intellectual, released his book "A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression" last...
- Who Is Wesley Mouch? - January 6, 2010
- Tomorrow, my Fox Business Network show about Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" will finally air. That should stop the emails like this one from Karen Cooper: "Oh for the...
- Memo to the House: Adopt the Filibuster - December 30, 2009
- The filibuster is sure taking its lumps these days. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says "the Senate -- and, therefore, the U.S. government as a whole -- has...
- Dump the Audience? - December 23, 2009
- After my first two new Fox Business shows, I'm taking a break for Christmas and the New Year's holiday. We resume Thursday, Jan. 7. Again, I ask your help. Last time,...
- Senate: This Is About Life & Death ... and Pork - FOX News - December 21, 2009
- December 21, 2009 03:20 PM EST by John StosselCongress was busy this weekend. That is never a good sign.Today's New York Times quotes Senator Harry Reid explaining...
- Free Stuff From Sam - December 16, 2009
- I just got a free golf cart. Actually, it cost me $6,490 -- but the dealer, Colin Riley of Tucson, Ariz., points out that there's a $6,480 federal tax credit on such...
- ABC Fired Stossel? - December 9, 2009
- People keep forwarding me emails and blog posts saying ABC fired me. Internet forums claim I was fired because I aired a story about the downside of...
- Who Creates Jobs? - FOX Business - December 3, 2009
- Stop Insuring Mortgages - December 2, 2009
- The Federal Housing Administration announced this week that it wants tougher rules on mortgage lenders. It's about time. Maybe FHA got spooked by the recent New York...
- We Pay Them to Lie to Us - November 25, 2009
- When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a...
- Worse Than Taxes: The Spending - November 18, 2009
- Bill O'Reilly is mad at me because I'm not mad enough about taxes. Last week on "The O'Reilly Factor", we talked about California's and New York's enormous budget...
- The U.S. House of Presumptuous Meddlers - November 11, 2009
- As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical...
- The Double Standard About Journalists' Bias - November 4, 2009
- I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud. Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, "Critics have leaped on Mr....
- 'One-Size-Fits-All' Fits None - November 1, 2009
- Much of what government does is based on the premise that people can't do things for themselves. So government must do it for them. More often than not, the result is a...
- A Nobel Prize for Showing That Freedom Works - October 21, 2009
- Pundits and politicians act as if government can solve almost any problem. At the slightest hint of trouble, the ruling class reflexively assumes that knowledgeable,...
- What's Michael Moore Talking About? - October 14, 2009
- Michael Moore is confused. His new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story," begins by suggesting that all was well until Ronald Reagan became president and cut the top 90...
- It's the Spending, Stupid - October 7, 2009
- "The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," George Bernard Shaw once said. For a socialist, Shaw demonstrated good sense with...
- Success No Matter What - September 30, 2009
- This Friday, September's job-loss total will be announced. Whatever the numbers, administration officials surely will tell us that life is better -- because of them. "We...
- Reporters Should Be Upfront About Political Beliefs - September 23, 2009
- When I announced last week that I was leaving ABC for Fox, some readers complained about my "bias." I replied: "Every reporter has political beliefs. The difference is...
- I'm Moving to Fox - September 16, 2009
- It's time for a change. Next month, I leave ABC News to start a weekly one-hour prime time show with Fox News. When I announced that on my blog...
- Obama's Speech Tonight - September 9, 2009
- I wish President Obama would say to Congress: Members of Congress, I ask you to address our fiscal emergency. In 1964, President Johnson won a landslide victory -- quite...
- Economic Illiterates in Washington - September 2, 2009
- The economic illiterates in Washington are so impressed with the "success" of Cash for Clunkers that they're readying Cash for Clunker Appliances. The ludicrous...
- Geithner Moral Hazard - ABC News - August 28, 2009
- Debate Shows How Little Obama Understands - August 26, 2009
- "Choice, competition, reducing costs -- those are the things that I want to see accomplished in this health reform bill," President Obama told talk-show host Michael...
- The Ugly Truth of Obamacare - August 19, 2009
- False charges about Obamacare don't help. Like the end-of-life tempest. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin popularized the term "death panels." She said: "The America I know...
- Big Business Goes Big for Health-Care Reform - August 12, 2009
- "What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand,"...
- Impossible Promises - August 5, 2009
- I keep reading about health-care "reform," but I have yet to see anyone explain how the government can make it easier for more people to obtain medical services, control...
- Government-Run Health Care Means Waiting in Line - ABC - August 3, 2009
- A Minimum Wage Means Minimum Jobs - July 29, 2009
- The media are never better at displaying their economic illiteracy than when they report on the minimum wage. "Workers got a raise on Friday when the federal minimum...
- Arrogance - July 22, 2009
- It's crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It's even crazier to do it by August. Yet that is what some members of Congress...
- Health-Care Competition - July 15, 2009
- The statist establishment would love a single-payer health-care system like Canada's if it were politically achievable. Barack Obama said that if we were starting from...
- Insurance Is No Answer - July 8, 2009
- Health care "reformers" keep talking about getting us more health insurance. Then they talk about cutting costs. This is contradictory nonsense. Insurance, whether...
- "Better" Health Care? - July 1, 2009
- President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch. In England, health care is "free" -- as long as you don't mind...