People who run businesses are often smeared. But they shouldn't be.

“Making our lives better is what entrepreneurs do. We take it all for granted,” says Yaron Brook, Chair of the Ayn Rand Institute.

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In our full, hour-long interview, Brook defends the marketplace and the self-interest that drives it.

He also carves out the path of self-interest through mountains of big issues: war, poverty, immigration, drugs and children--even how self-interest is important for your love life.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy03XKhrdgI

More climate change myths need debunking.

There's so much the alarmists get wrong!
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Linnea Lueken of the Heartland Institute helps us reveal the data that disproves claims of: worsening drought, worsening wildfires, catastrophic sea level rise and a dying Great Barrier Reef.

You might be surprised by what’s true and what’s not.


Here is a list of the sources used in the video:

Global area in severe meteorological drought has not increased over the last 100 years:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157#fig0009

Drought in the U.S. is not worse today:
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-drought

U.S. Wildfires Have Declined:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157#fig0012

100 million people live below sea level:
https://archive.is/t3B2y#selection-913.394-913.545

U.S. Sea Level Rise is currently rising at a pace 1.2 inches per decade since 1993:
https://sealevel.colorado.edu/

Great Barrier Reef coral coverage hit a record high in 2024:
https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-condition-summary-2023-24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GctDsMw8N4Y

Here are the sources for this video:

No new record low summer ice extent has been observed since 2012.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094780

Satellite data show average annual sea ice volume has been largely stable since 2010:
https://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger/ice_volume/BannualVolumeTsCurrent.png

Total arctic ice mass:
http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/data/

Polar Bear Estimates
1993-today:
https://www.iucn-pbsg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/July-2021-Status-Report-Web.pdf

1981:
https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/1985-012.pdf

1960s:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proceedings_of_the_First_International_S/oCEXAQAAIAAJ?hl=en

Global agricultural output:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agricultural-output-dollars

NASA Greening study:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth-study-finds/

Malnutrition deaths:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malnutrition-deaths-by-age

Coffee production:
https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4fChyXPgj0

Black Guns Matter founder Maj Toure is NOT a fan of the media:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjd2yyvqjM8

Many politicians across America condemn gambling. They crack down on slot machines and want sports betting banned.

Yet, there’s one gambling operation they never try to ban: their own!

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The politcians' hypocrisy is disgusting. They should leave us alone. How we spend our money should be up to us!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTRK7AM1c00

Michael Malice, the popular podcaster and author, reminds us that tyranny can be defeated. It’s been done before.


In this podcast, Malice shares stories of life under totalitarian regimes, and explains how the media was often complicit in totalitarianism.


Malice’s distrust in government is why he’s calls himself an anarchist.


He makes the case that things like food, education, and even security, are better left in private hands.


“Maybe we don't need government at all,” he says. “When you have something as important as security or anything, food, education, to have it at the purview of a monopoly, let alone a government monopoly, makes no sense."


I’m skeptical that the private sector would do all those things better. So we debate those issues and more.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmMV-vZkHSA

The city of Dunedin, Florida fined one resident more than $30,000 because they said his grass was too long.

I reported on that 6 years ago. What’s happened since?

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Jim Ficken, with the help of the Institute for Justice, fought the excessive fines for six long years.

Absurdly, they lost in court.

But their lawsuit sparked enough outrage that Dunedin eventually changed the rules so residents could reduce their fines.

Surprisingly, that’s not the end of the story.

Our video above is an update of what's happened since.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ynpUFszdg

For years, major corporations bragged about their wonderful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. They’re good for business and morally correct, they said.

So why are they now cutting those programs?

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Robby Starbuck says these programs once got a lot of buy-in, because people wanted to be nice!

But DEI came to mean much more than just being nice.

Starbuck says what it looked like in practice was “crazy trainings” and “overtly racist hiring practices."

Now lots of people agree with him. Companies actually take notice when Starbuck tells his many followers about their DEI programs. Often the programs get dropped.

That’s the power of free speech.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0TKfPAye6c

People think socialism can’t happen in their country. “Until it does,” says Gloria Alvarez.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8PHTjFjglk

Many Americans believe immigrants hurt America. Most want illegals kicked out.

But have you looked at the facts?

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Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute and I talk about immigration myths.

Myth 1: Immigrants hurt our economy.

In reality:

“Every serious economic study shows they create more jobs than they destroy,” says Brook. Stopping immigration is like saying, “I have a right to stagnate and force all of you to stagnate with me.”

But what about the risks? Migrant crime? Welfare?

Ann Coulter says, “We are bringing in peasant cultures.”

Brook reminds us, “There are good people in every culture."

More about the pros and cons of immigration in the video above.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ikJBhEmcFs