Wednesday night episodes of The
Independents, as a
perusal through the Reason
archives will
attest, tend to be chock full of
libertarian red meat. Tonight is no different.
Batting leadoff, playing natural-rights field (ducks),
is Fox News
Senior Judicial Analyst and Reason.com
columnist Andrew Napolitano, who will talk about 1) CVS’
decision to stop selling cigarettes, and whether that’s an example
of a
private business living life by its own lights, or an example
of a
lobbying heavyweight working the borderline between P.R. and
corporatism; 2) the move by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to
make Attorney General Eric Holder disclose the administration’s
legal rationales for Barack Obama’s once and future executive
orders; and 3) an outrageous Circuit Court decision allowing the
city of Orlando to
eminent domain a church (!) and give it to a Major League
Soccer franchise (!!!!).
In the two-hole come TV’s
Andy Levy of Red Eye fame plus
“Conservative Black
Chick” Crystal
Wright, who will discuss the latest developments and
pharmacological hysteria over the heroin overdose of Philip
Seymour Hoffman, and also the news that New York Mayor Bill de
Blasio is creating
new school days off in honor of Muslim and Asian holidays. The
third hitter, fittingly, is Liberty Movement superstar
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), who will talk about 1) the
latest Edward Snowden/Glenn Greenwald
nonsense emanating from House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Mike Rogers (R-Wisc.); 2) the latest
promising developments in the fight to roll back mandatory
minimums for drug sentencing; 3) whether he’s ready to go full
legalization; and 4) his weird & wonderful off-the-grid farm. (Speaking
of the latter, that’s the theme of Friday’s show, which will
discuss Bitcoin, preppers, sovereign cities, and all kinds of
wonderful don’t-track-me-bro arcana.)
Beloved Reason Foundation Senior Analyst
Shikha Dalmia comes on to talk about the latest in
immigration-reform politics, and whether Roger L. Simon’s
modest proposal to withhold voting privileges for amnestied
illegal immigrants is a clever way to depoliticize the issue. There
will also be discussion of the latest awful farm bill,
the
latest idiot e-cigarette ban, the proposed upcoming boxing
match between
George Zimmerman and the rapper DMX, and the school that
wants to ban the advertisement for banning guns at school
because it shows a gun, at school.
And to put a cherry on that sundae, there will be a second
installment of Two Minutes Hate, a reading of your worst viewer
mail. Send your tweeted appreciations out to @IndependentsFBN!
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