Friday night episodes of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
with re-airs three hours and five hours later) are organized around
a single theme. Tonight’s theme is “The War on War.” That is, the
show is talking about phrases that begin with “The war
on…,” and, well, declaring our own war against the promiscuous
usage thereof.
Fittingly, the conversation starts off with a discussion of the
actual war-related content, as in, what exactly
is “The War on Terror,”
should we still be fighting it, and is it time for a new
name/emphasis? Joining to ponder that question in light of recent
ISIL-flavored events is former Reagan-administration deputy defense
secretary K.T.
McFarland and retired
Col. David Hunt.
Next, to tackle the war metaphor head-on, is Cato Executive Vice
President David Boaz.
What do Democrats mean when they say there’s a “War on Women,” and what
do Republicans do to further that impression? Hadley Heath Manning,
director of health care policy at the Independent Women’s
Forum, will give her 77 cents.
Reason readers certainly know about the horrific
consequences of the “War
on Drugs“; helping FBN viewers through this policy thicket is
longtime former vice cop and current board chair of Law Enforcement
Against Prohibition
Jack Cole. The War on Drugs is part of a larger “War on Crime,”
which in 2014 seems ripe for
long-overdue reform. One of the broad shoulders on that
particular wheel belongs to Chuck DeVore, vice president
of the Texas Public Policy
Foundation.
Is there really a “War on Christmas”? Fox
News radio host John
Gibson
certainly thinks so; he’ll be on to defend his pet metaphor.
Then the co-hosts will assess LBJ’s “War on Poverty” a
half-century on. You people will enjoy this television program.
Follow The Independents on Facebook at http://ift.tt/QYHXdB,
follow on Twitter @ independentsFBN, and
click on this page
for more video of past segments.
from Hit & Run http://ift.tt/1wPVJlz
via IFTTT