John Brennans evil, Zohrans rent-freeze delusion and other commentary

From the ex-left: John Brennan’s EvilFormer CIA Director John Brennan “is the epitome of political evil in this country,” avers American Refugees’ Roger Simon, who knew him in their shared days on the left and finds it a “mystery” that “such a person” “could even be a member of our intelligence community,” much less “director of the CIA.” Brennan was not just a “pretend semi-leftist” in the ’60s and ’70s; he “was a serious leftist for real, as real as you can get, Stalin real.” In 1976, Brennan “actually voted for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) candidate for president at the time, Gus Hall.” More recently, Brennan “must have known” he was “lying” when he “signed the infamous letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely Russian disinformation,” Now evidence points to him “lying” about his past “insisting the agency use the blatant fabrication” of the Steele dossier “as evidence.” But will “this highly slippery character” escape justice?Eye on NYC: Zoh’s Rent-Freeze DelusionZohran Mamdani “believes the solution to Gotham’s perpetual housing crisis is stringent price controls and massive government subsidies,” laments Howard Husock at Reason.Argh! These solutions — regulations and public housing — “have been around in New York” for over a century “and they are policy disasters.” Rent regulation perversely pushes landlords “to remove unprofitable units from the market and to allow their buildings to fall into disrepair.” Mamdani’s “rent freeze could turn the deterioration of the regulated housing stock into a full-blown crisis.” Though New York City is “the nation’s most regulated housing market, with the largest stock of government-owned and subsidized housing in the country,” Mamdani pretends doing” more of the same” is the answer.Media watch: The Bias Is in the Bubble“For a glimpse into the sealed world of the establishment media, nothing tops Pa...