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Tonight on The Independents: The Racial Divide, the Torture Report, Demoralized Military, Tom Brady's F-Bombs, Rolling Stone Fallout, Heroes of Freedom, and After-Show!

Matt Welch | 12.8.2014 8:22 PM

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Tonight's live episode of The Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT (with repeats three hours later), will feature the following televised spectacles:

* Hip-hop radio DJ Charlamagne Tha God and Democratic political consultant Julie Roginsky talking about late-Obama-era race relations post the Eric Garner non-indictment.

* Broadcast personality and veterans advocate Montel Williams talking about the "shockingly" low U.S. military morale.

* Co-hosts Kennedy and yours truly (sorry, dreamboat Kmele Foster's on vacay) inaugurating the show's top-25 "Heroes of Freedom."

* A Topical Storm possibly involving furries.

* Roginsky and Independent Women's Forum policy analyst Hadley Heath Manning on the Rolling Stone rape-story fiasco.

* Radio DJ and football fanatic Bobby Bones on Tom Brady's devotion to yelling the F-word on live television.

* Me on the Senate's forthcoming torture report.

* Online-only aftershow at foxbusiness.com/independents just after 10.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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