The Welcome to the Charles C. W. Podcast, episode 25, quarter of a century, looked at in a particular way.

I just got back from the beautiful state of California. Really is a great state.

Really is badly run though.

Since I made my request for more questions

I've received lots of cues that in good time will most definitely receive associated A's but this week I've decided to forego the Q and the A and the color supplement and

even my monologue and instead turn over the whole show to Jennifer Rubin who is going to tell us all about how the recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius makes the case for Joe Biden in

in 2024.

No, not, not really.

Really, I've decided to turn over the whole show to Shakespeare or at least to the discussion of Shakespeare and to do so with no less than Daniel Hanan, who you may know from his Henry the Fifth-like role in sticking

it to the French, among others, and getting the United Kingdom out of the European Union.

Shakespeare once said that talking isn't doing.

It's a kind of good deed to say well, and yet words are not deeds. Which, well, which tells me that Shakespeare never

had a podcast. Clever guy, no doubt, but he never had a podcast. But do you know who does have a podcast?

Other than me that is? The Competitive Enterprise Institute and that podcast is rather well timed in my view.

Because as Americans deal with rising prices, record inflation and fears of a looming recession,

President Biden's Federal Trade Commission, under the direction of Chair Lena Khan,

is pursuing anti-consumer, anti-competitive measures against American industries, thereby

killing innovation and threatening America's dynamic 21st century economy.

And the worst part?

The worst part is that American taxpayers are footing the bill for bureaucrats at the FTC to threaten to break up businesses and stop mergers and acquisitions.

That's why the Competitive Enterprise Institute has launched their eye on FTC campaign, exposing abuses of power at the

FTC, calling on Congress to reassert oversight over this rogue agency and protecting consumers from government

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