On The Independents: John Bolton on Torture Popularity and Sony Terrorism, Timothy Sandefur on Sony’s Free-Speech Claims, Deroy Murdock on Jeb & Hillary, Plus Heroes of Freedom, E-Cigs, De Blasio Hypocrisy and Aftershow

Tonight’s live episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6
p.m. PT, repeats three hours later) starts off with one of our
favorite guests to parry with, former U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations
John Bolton (see our testy exchange about Iraq and George
Orwell here). He’ll be paired on a
Party Panel with Fox News personality Jedediah Bila to
discuss the Sony hackers’ new alleged threat to unleash

9/11-style violence on theaters that show The
Interview, plus polls showing
American fondness for torture, studies showing

millennial preference for e-cigarettes, and everyone’s
favorite Christmas movies.

Heroes of Freedom—a direct and happy knockoff
of Reason‘s
35^th anniversary effort—resumes with #s 17-15.
Timothy Sandefur,
principal attorney of the Pacific Legal Foundation, analyzes the
First Amendment implications of the Sony
hack. Fox News contributor/National
Review writer Deroy
Murdock assesses today’s Bush/Clintontastic campaign 2016
news (slits throat); and I’ll rant a bit
about New York Mayor Bill De Blasio’s opportunistic hypocrisy
on
cigarette-tax enforcement.

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