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Tonight on The Independents: Government Employees Gone Wild, Ukraine on the Brink, Charlemagne the God, Spanking, Michael Jordan's Alleged Racism, and TV's Andy Levy!

Matt Welch | 5.7.2014 7:25 PM

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Tonight's episode of The Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT) starts with a discussion of the Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of, um, its own employees, including that dude who surfed porn all day, and that other one who drew a paycheck for two-plus years while not working and pretending he was off gallivanting with the CIA. Joining to discuss are Jehmu Greene and TV's Andy Levy, who will also weigh in on the advisability of news organizations being allowed to fly surveillance drones.

Then Michael Weiss of The Interpreter reports on the latest from Ukraine, the co-hosts discuss the relative merits of spanking and banning spanking; then hip-hop DJ Charlamagne tha God comes on to preview our special Friday show, "If I Ruled the World….," by explaining what he'd do in power and how his professional name is linked with dealing crack. Andy Levy and Charlamagne then discuss Michael Jordan's alleged teenage racism, and before you know it the co-hosts are back talking about teen pregnancy and abortion rates, and we're outta here!

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