John Stossel Archives - Granite Grok

How Did All These ‘Hungry’ People Get So Fat?

November 8, 2023 Op-Ed

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!” News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.” But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at the Heritage Foundation, explains, “Food insecurity is not the same … Read more

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Leave It To The ‘Experts’ To Follow California Off A Cliff

October 24, 2023 Op-Ed

Pennsylvania’s Peter Brothers Trucking delivers goods all across America. Owner Brian Wanner says Pennsylvania bureaucrats now are driving him out of his home state.

US Capitol - caution Original Photo by Andy Feliciotti on Unsplash

If The Government Shut Down, Would You Even Notice?

October 8, 2023 Op-Ed

This week, Republicans and Democrats got together to avert a government shutdown. Too bad. There’s so much that ought to be shut down.

A Climate Scientist Blows The Lid Off The ‘Manufactured Consensus’

August 13, 2023 Op-Ed

We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.” “It’s a manufactured consensus,” says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video. She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.” She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change. … Read more

“Show This to the Stupid and Nutless NHGOP”

February 17, 2023February 16, 2023 Steve MacDonald

A reader sent me a clip from a John Stossel interview with Jordan Peterson. It’s a short clip, just over six minutes, but it covers two crucial points, one of which they thought might be useful to New Hampshire’s State Republican Party.

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Facebook Admits Its “Fact Checks” are Just Opinions

December 11, 2021 Steve MacDonald

We’ve had a few run-ins with Facebook’s so-called Fact-Checkers. Third-party left-wing activists picking contrary opinions peddled as fact. And now we’ve got an admission from Facebook’s lawyers that this is all it ever was.

“Facebook Lets Activists Restrict My Videos Based on Something I Never Said.”

October 10, 2020 Skip

This is an ongoing problem with Facebook that they won’t acknowledge by actually DOING something. Oh, they’ll issue a non-apology apology. Say it was a mistake or that an “algorithm” screwed things up. Except that the vast majority of mistakes and the screwups involve conservatives taking it in the shorts.

Give, Don’t Govern

December 29, 2019December 28, 2019 Op-Ed

By John Stossel: Christmas Day 2019 –

This week, children may learn about that greedy man, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is selfish until ghosts scare him into thinking about others’ well-being, not just his own.

What John Stossel and NH’s 603 Alliance Have in Common – Climate Alarmists Refuse to debate

November 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

There’s no such thing as settled science. Science by definition is a process, not a destination unless it is climate science. The keepers of its revealed ‘truths’ call those who question it, blasphemers, deniers, which is amusing. Even religious leaders will debate.

American constitution, USA flag and a handgun

Every Day is ‘Constitution Day’ Around Here, But Since they Went to the Trouble…

November 7, 2024September 17, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Most of our readers know what day it is. And a good number of them are familiar with its parts and purpose. And we also know plenty of people out to get that crazy document. Because it stands between them and unlimited power.

John Stossel on the Free State Project

June 9, 2018January 24, 2013
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Hubba, hubba! The Free State Project and New Hampshire just got another boost, this time from John Stossel writing at Reason.com. Says he: