Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday, With Ron Paul, Nick Gillespie, Dave Barry, Andy Levy, and…John Bolton!

The Welch reign of error in the
hosting chair ends on tonight’s The
Independents (9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, on Fox Business
Network, with repeats three hours later). But that’s not why you
want to watch this program. You want to watch this program because
it’s Red Meat
Wednesday, and that means hulking slabs of libertariany
goodness, quivering and bleeding right there on the plate.

Like…Ron Paul!
The gentleman
obstetrician from Texas gives us his take on the
Bundy conflict in Nevada, talks about his
threat to defy the Internal Revenue Service’s orders that his
501(c)4 Campaign For Liberty disclose the names of all its donors,
and defends publishing at the Ron Paul Institute website a
Paul Craig Roberts essay with this sentence:

The conclusion is increasingly difficult to avoid that elements
of the US government blew up three New York skyscrapers in order to
destroy Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iran, and
Hezbollah and to launch the US on the neoconservatives agenda of US
world hegemony.

Reason heartthrob Nick Gillespie
will be on to slag Enemy
of Freedom Michael Bloomberg, who’s making news this week by A)
announcing a
$50 million spend to defeat pro-gun control politicians, and B)
giving this quote to
The New York Times:

Pointing to his work on gun safety, obesity and smoking
cessation, he said with a grin: “I am telling you if there is a
God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am
heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not
even close.”

Best-selling funnyman Dave Barry has given two of the
most memorable interviews in Reason history: One to
Glenn Garvin in 1994 (sample quote: “I don’t have any insight
or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is
that it’s stupid—which is the one perspective that’s almost
completely lacking in Washington”), and one that was memorable
mostly to me because it involved
gashing my finger on a Budweiser can and actively sucking up
blood while he answered questions. Barry’s on to talk about his new
book, You
Can Date Boys When You’re Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and
Other Topics He Knows Very Little About.

The Party Panel tonight is the odd couple of TV’s Andy Levy (Red
Eye, super-libertarian) and…former U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations John Bolton! The
two will talk (natch) about smoking weed, the New York Police
Department’s
termination of its Muslim-surveillance unit, Rand Paul’s
foreign policy beliefs, and the big new
Al Qaeda party video.

And finally, the lovely and super-chill independent Jedediah Bila—who, it was

announced today, will be a regular co-host on a new
four-ladies-against-one-dude Fox show called
Outnumbered—will share with the class what she’s learned
this week while subbing in for Kennedy. Who will be back Friday,
the end.

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