I never expect much from politicians. But Mike Pompeo, a possible candidate for president, surprised me. ————To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ————Pompeo used to be CIA Director and Secretary of State. I wanted to talk to him because he might run for president.I confronted him about Republican hypocrisy on spending.I pushed him on whether he’d cut entitlements.Would he abolish the Department of Education? His answers were not what I expected.

Have you heard? The world is about to end! No…it isn’t.————To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe————Throughout history, people predicted the end of humanity. Recently, 60 Minutes featured doomsayer Paul Ehrlich.They treated him like an expert, even though his dire prophecies have repeatedly been proven utterly wrong.Instead of interviewing people like Ehrlich, 60 minutes should talk to Marian Tupy, the creator of humanprogress.org.“If you sell the apocalypse, people feel like you are deep and that you care,” Tupy tells me. “But if you are selling rational optimism….”Rational optimism is right. Scaremongers like 60 Minutes are wrong.

For decades we’ve been told recycling helps the Earth. It really doesn’t. ————To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe————Recycling is a “sacrament of the green religion,” says Science Writer John Tierney. He once debunked recycling claims in an infamous New York Times column “Recycling is Garbage.”“It’s even more true today,” Tierney tells me.Greenpeace now says plastic recycling is a “dead-end street.”Often it’s also a costly scam.

After 3 years of Covid, what lessons can we learn? Did lockdowns work? What about closing schools? What countries did best?****** YouTube age-restricted the original video I posted, which vastly reduces the number of people who will see it. I have decided to edit out the parts that may have caused the restriction: a clip showing Australian Police choking a woman for not wearing a mask, Chinese authorities dragging a man out of his home, and protestors clashing with police ******————To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe————It turns out that America’s lockdowns did NOT work. Even though the media praised New York governor Andrew Cuomo for an “amazing job,” accounting for age, his state ended up with more deaths than “irresponsible” Florida.Meanwhile, some countries, like Australia, imposed brutal lockdowns. My producer crunched the numbers at MaximumTruth.Substack.com and found that lockdowns DID save some lives. But they weren’t worth it. The video above explains why.

After 3 years of Covid, what lessons can we learn? Did lockdowns work? What about closing schools? What countries did best?————To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe————It turns out that America’s lockdowns did NOT work. Even though the media praised New York governor Andrew Cuomo for an “amazing job,” accounting for age, his state ended up with more deaths than “irresponsible” Florida.Meanwhile, some countries, like Australia, imposed brutal lockdowns. My producer crunched the numbers at MaximumTruth.Substack.com and found that lockdowns DID save some lives. But they weren’t worth it. The video above explains why.