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Nick Gillespie After Growing Disillusioned with Liberal And FEW JOURNALISTS CHALLENGE the conventional conservative media outlets, he turned wisdom with more power than John Stossel, the to reason."It was a revelation," he co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, the auteur behind writes. "Here were writers who ana- widely watched specials such as Are We Scar- lyzed the benefits of free markets ing Ourselves to Death?, and the author of this that I witnessed as a reporter.They month's cover story, "Confessions of a Welfare called themselves libertarians, and Queen: How Rich Bastards Like Me Rip Off their slogan was 'Free Minds and Free Taxpayers for Millions of Dollars" (page 22). Markets.' I wasn't exactly sure what Whether debunking claims that TV's Power that meant, but what they wrote sure Rangers were turning America's kids into made sense." hyperactive droogs or revealing how the Ameri- This issue is filled with other reve- cans with Disabilities Act has made it tougher latory stories. In "Faith, Shame, and for the handicapped to find jobs, Stossel always Insurgency" (page 30) and "Baby- forces his viewers to think long and hard about lonian Hostility" (page 34), Steven what they assume is the truth. Vincent and Nir Rosen file reports Stossel's article—drawn from his engaging from a Baghdad different from the new memoir, Give Me a Break: How I Exposed one you've encountered on the eve- Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became ning news. Whether you were for or the Scourge of the Liberal Media (HarperCollins) against the war, these pieces will chal- —forces us to redefine what it means to be on lenge what you think you know about the dole. Ronald Reagan famously complained Iraq. about "welfare queens," writes Stossel, "but he In "Waiting for Antar" (page 16), never told us that the biggest welfare queens Charles Paul Freund turns to Arab are the already wealthy." Thus begins a tale of history to explain Saddam Hussein's how such struggling down-and-outers as former bizarre refusal to use the toilet after Archer Daniels Midland CEO Dwayne Andreas, being captured. In "Blood Money" financier David Rockefeller, and a well-heeled (page 56), Damon W. Root shows that broadcaster named John Stossel have ben- America's most sacralized battlefield, efited handsomely from government largess. In Gettysburg, has always been its most Stossel's case, you and I helped him rebuild an commercialized; he also explains why expensive beach house via heavily subsidized that's a good thing. And in "Swingers federal flood insurance. of the World, Unite!" (page 52), Peter It's an enraging piece.To the extent that it Bagge gives us the skinny on a recent makes you rethink the definition of welfare "alternative lifestyles" conference. queen—not to mention rich bastard—it's Stossel Whether what he finds there is a rev- at his best, reason, too. In Give Me a Break, Stossel elation is something readers will have identifies reason as the magazine that radically to decide for themselves. changed his thinking about the benefits of lais- sez faire in economics and personal lifestyles. Nick Gillespie After growing disillusioned with liberal and LICENSED TO UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED reason Editor-in-Chief Nick GUIespie JOHN STOSSKL [gillespie® reason, com) As co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, has Managing Editor Jesse Welker exposed millions to libertarian ideas through ([email protected]) Senior Editors his weekly "Give Me a Break" segments. His Brian Doherry {[email protected]) Charles °aul Fren^d (cpfcdireason.coni} provocative hour-long specials have taken on lacoo SiiiiLim [email protected]} such topics as the drug war, junk science, and Assistant Editor Julia-" Sanchez ([email protected] the explosive growth of government. But when Science Correspondent Ronald Bniiey (rbaiieyiSreasoT.com} he began reading about cheap government Editorial Assistant Mary Toledo flood insurance, which protected his pricey ([email protected]) Art Director 3arb Bu'ch (bQurchgf>reason.f.om; beach house, he says "it occurred to me that Photo Researcher Julie Wolf JohnStossel 1 was a freeloader too—I had just viewed it as Web Editor Tin: Csvs-iaugh another of life's deals." His article in this issue, (rc«vanaugh(«>re-aso"-.com} r Webmaster B ianJ.Ttiy!or "Confessions of a Welfare Queen" (page 22), is Reason Express Writer Jeff A. Taylor excerpted from his new book, Give Me a Break {[email protected]) Contributing Editors (HarperCollins). PercrBagge, Gregory Be'-ford, James V. DeLong, Glenn Garvin, Mike Godwin, D.ivid STEVEN VINCENT believes in plunging head- R. Henderson, John Hood, A.an Chdries Kors, Brink Lindsey, Carolyn Lochht'ad. Lo^i E. first into history. Shaped by the Vietnam War as Lomasky, Mike Lynch, John .VicClaughry, Dei'd re N. McCloskey. Michael McMGnamh, Michael Valdez Moses. Chiles Oliver, Waiter a Berkeley student in the '70s, he spent his hon- Olson, Joh" ). PHney|;\, Thorns Szasz, Matt Welch, Cathy Young, Michael Young Steven Vincent eymoon in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, where Publisher Mike Alissi ([email protected]} he witnessed the Khmer Rouge's attempt to Legal Adviser Don ErikFranzen disrupt the 1993 elections. He traveled to Hong Editorial and Production Offices 34i"j S. Sepiiiveda Blvd., Suite 400 Kong for the city's handover to China. And as he Los Angeles, C.A 90034-606/4 Tel: 310-391-2245 Fax: 310-391-4395 watched the Twin Towers collapse from the roof Advertising Sales of his Manhattan apartment, he knew he would Burr Media Group Ronald E. B<-irr, 703-89:3-363^ go to Iraq, which he suspected would be an early Joseph P. Whistler, 540-349-1.0to. ([email protected]) front in the War on Terror. 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