ANTICS OF OUR LEADERS

ANTICS OF OUR LEADERS JOHN PODHORETZ: It’s bad enough that our politicians are crooks, but it’s insulting that they sell themselves for so little. CORRUPTION AND NANNYISM GO TOGETHER: Corrupt Pols Running America’s Biggest Nanny State. The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government. “This is what blue model decline looks like. And with businesses and people fleeing the state, the worst may be yet to come.” We Won’t Be Out-Cronyied! Here’s a letter to the Baltimore Sun: Export-Import Bank President Fred Hochberg proclaims that “It is our job at Ex-Im to level the playing field. .....Translation: “It is our job at Ex-Im to unjustifiably bankroll our crony capitalists every bit as fully as other governments unjustifiably bankroll theirs. MIKE BLOOMBERG’S ANTI-GUN FRIENDS SEEM A SHADY LOT: Anti-Gun Pennsylvania Mayor Drunkenly Seeks Oral Sex — at Gunpoint. “According to the man, Schiliro, who was intoxicated, asked repeatedly whether he could perform oral sex on him. . . . According to court records, Schiliro waved three handguns during the encounter.” He was a member of Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns group, many of whom seem to have had problems with the law. In fact, Mayors Against Illegal Guns members are 45 times more likely to commit crimes than Florida permit holders. And in view of other recent developments, that number may be on the low side. . . . NEWS OF THE OBVIOUS: MSNBC Is Kindergarten for Bored, Angry Unemployed People. JONAH GOLDBERG: Is Disability The New Welfare? GLOBAL WARMING: Was it just a beautiful dream after all? “I’ve grown old waiting for the promised global warming. I was 35 when predictions of a looming ice age were supplanted by warmmongering. Now I’m 68, and there’s still no sign of warmer weather. . . . A generation and a half into climate change, née global warming, you can’t point to a single place on earth where the weather is noticeably different from what it was in 1979.” IT’S POTEMKIN VILLAGES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Democratic front group hyped as hunters by media in gun-control fight.