Tonight on The Independents: The Skies Over Baghdad Have Been Re-Illuminated, Chris Moody on Rand Paul’s Flip-Flops, Jacob Sullum on Asset Forfeiture, Former Linebacker Darrell Reid on the NFL, Plus NSA, Chinese Sidewalks, Hillary, and Aftershow!

Tonight’s live episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
with re-airs three hours later) starts with
breaking news: The United States has launched its first air
strikes near Baghdad, in this the latest American war of choice in
that cursed land. Joining to talk about that and other world
reaction to the latest ISIS beheading are Party Panelists Katie Pavlich (co-host,
Outnumbered)
and Basil Smikle
(Democratic political strategist). The two will also discuss
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign
sorta-kickoff, and one Chinese town’s
central-planning solution for pedestrians who stare at their
cell-phones.

Speaking of 2016, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has
gone through the media wringer today for his alleged
flip-floppery. The author of
one such piece, Chris Moody of Yahoo! News, will give
a breakdown. Speaking of getting out the whippin’ stick, former
NFL
linebacker Darrell
Reid will give his two cents on the
criminal child-injury indictment of star Vikings running back
Adrian Peterson, which is just the latest in a string of very
unpleasant news from professional football.

Beloved Reason Senior Editor Jacob Sullum will
come on to explain how civil forfeiture laws (and enabling Supreme
Court decisions) allowed cops
to become robbers, and Kmele Foster will explain how the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has
quietly re-authorized the National Security Agency’s
controversial and probably unconstitutional bulk-data collection
program.

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