Comment on CBS News: Manafort wiretaps may have picked up conversations with Trump

“President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday selected Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission, elevating a Republican lawyer who is likely to abandon the Biden administration’s liberal approach to policing mergers while keeping the heat on big technology companies,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Ferguson, one of two current GOP commissioners on the five-member FTC, would succeed Chair Lina Khan, a progressive hero who sought to flex the commission’s enforcement muscle in ways not seen in decades.

Molly Jong-Fast: “We are a country that stands on the precipice, just six weeks away from swearing in, for the second time, a wannabe ‘dictator’ with ambitions to wildly reshape our democracy. There is a desire to tune out.” “I get it. And while, as a member of the media, I feel a little sheepish making the case to keep reading columns (like this one!), watching the news, and listening to podcasts, it’s a perilous moment for America, and it only serves Donald Trump and his allies to look the other way.”

Abby Livingston: “Trump’s unusually early cabinet appointment timeline has given his nominees time to wear down reluctant G. O. P. senators. It’s also given Democrats a chance to shut up, sit back, and watch the Republican infighting.”

CBZ Management, the owner of several dilapidated apartment buildings in Denver and Aurora, has filed a lawsuit against the Colorado Attorney General’s Office aiming to quash investigative subpoenas that had sought records related to its ownership practices. The suit was filed Friday in Denver District Court by CBZ and several constituent companies that formally own its 11 Colorado properties.

Always a bad thing when privilege fuses with leftist resentment and entitlement.

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