Iranians at a building destroyed by an airstrike as part of Operation Epic Fury in Tehran on April 13, 2026. AFP via Getty Images Canon lawyer: It’s a Just US War on Iran A nation’s not obliged to “wait for the enemy to attack” before “commencing morally legitimate military action,” observes Fr. Gerald Murray at the Free Press, and Iran’s “determination” to produce nuclear weapons “means the attack on Iran was an act of protection, rather than aggression, under just war theory.”
President Trump’s willingness to engage in “negotiations that preceded the attack” demonstrated “the length to which the United States was willing to go to avoid war,” as did how Team Trump even after the war began “continued its effort” to “achieve its vital aims through renewed negotiations.”
Ultimately, “negotiations with Iran were proven to be a fruitless path toward eliminating its nuclear threat,” and protecting the United States and its allies “by military means clearly fulfills the conditions for a just war.”
Hollywood is protesting “Paramount Skydance’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery,” warning it “would reduce competition,” reports Reason’s Jack Nicastro.
Yet such a merger would “present a more viable alternative” to Disney+, Amazon Prime and Netflix, “inducing price competition” among the four.
Critics such as progressive Neera Tanden claim the deal would “gravely threaten the freedom of the press by putting CNN and CBS News under the control of Donald Trump’s allies.”
Hah! retorts Nicastro; “the most popular evening news programs” are now “both produced by left-leaning outlets,” NBC and ABC.
Besides, “Americans have more access to news than ever” from a wide range of sources. Bottom line: This deal might be disruptive, but it’s “likely to benefit American consumers.”
After an illegal Haitian immigrant murdered a convenience store employee with a hammer, the liberal media painted “the real victims” as “Haitian migrants and other Third World border breakers,” gasps City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald.
The New York Times related a “sanitized account” of “the psychotic bludgeoning” which quoted “no victims’ rights groups or families of innocents mauled and maimed by immigrants and their progeny,” instead casting its story around President “Trump’s shocking sin against diversity politesse.”
Nationally, the media insist that “crime and disorder are not the main problem afflicting the U.S. — racism is.”
But there “is, in fact, behavior worse than racism,” including murder.
Apologies are in order “from all of the pundits and politicians who predicted that Viktor Orbán would destroy democracy in Hungary,” snark The Wall Street Journal’s editors: “Turns out they were as wrong about Budapest as they were before about the end of democracy in Poland,” as voters ousted Orbán “in a landslide.”
Behind the hysteria: “Simple partisanship” — “progressive elites want to stigmatize the right as fascist to win or remain in power.”
The left also insists “bourgeois voters can’t always be trusted to elect their betters educated at the Sorbonne or Harvard.”
Yet voters don’t want “autocrats,” and “the more elites cry fascism every time a conservative party does well, the more credibility they lose with the public.”
“Across the country, a troubling pattern is emerging whereby government agencies fail in their most basic responsibilities and lawmakers find someone else to blame,” grumbles Sheri Few at The Hill.
After a rash of child abuse cases in Connecticut, “the ‘someone else’ is the state’s homeschooling families.”
This is “a political sleight of hand”: Witnesses urged legislators “to fix the Department of Children and Families — the agency that failed to act on repeated warning signs” — but instead “lawmakers are proposing to burden every homeschooling family with new regulations.”
“Even supporters of the bill acknowledged that ‘no one blames homeschoolers for the atrocities that happened,’ ” but somehow the solution is to “expand the reach of an already intrusive state” and remove parents’ “autonomy over their children’s education.”
