Midnight on The Independents: Judge Napolitano, John Stossel, Peter Suderman, and TV’s Andy Levy Talk Executive Power, Obamacare, Economic Freedom, E-Cigs, and More!

Tonight
when the gong strikes 12 in the east, your latest episode of
The
Independents will roll off the Fox Business Network
factory shelves. (As in
last night and also this coming Friday, the usual 9 pm hour is
pre-empted by live coverage of the
Barrett-Jackson car auction.) This installment is jam-packed
with hot libertarian action, including:

* Andrew
Napolitano talking about the
National Security Agency, America’s
recently reaffirmed
internal checkpoints, President Barack Obama’s fondness
for executive
power, and the tension between Obamacare’s contraception
mandate and
nuns.

* John
Stossel previewing his Thursday night documentary about
the regulatory war
on the little guy, and how stuff like that is causing the U.S.
to slip in global
indices of economic freedom.

*
Beloved Reason Senior Editor Peter Suderman
discussing the
latest Obamacare setback, and also what this week’s
appeals court ruling means for Net
Neutrality.

* TV’s Andy Levy on
the
bitchy letter sent by several senators to the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association about the use of e-cigarettes on the Golden
Globes broadcast; plus the Los Angeles City Council’s latest
brilliant idea for a
$15 hotel-worker-only minimum wage, and
Beyonce’s flawed gender stats.

In addition to these topics there will likely be
devil babies, Francois Hollande’s
First Lady coin-toss,
shark stunts gone horribly wrong, and more. As always, join the
heckling both in the comments to this thread, and on Twitter at
@IndependentsFBN.