MARK STEYN: Persian Carpet-Bombing.

Israeli media report that he’s pushing up daisycutters. If it is correct that the US waited till every senior figure was attending the Spectre board meeting and then took them out in a single strike, that would be a remarkable start to any war. Whether or not the Islamic Republic’s leadership have gone to their virgins, in retaliation Tehran seems to be targeting Nigel Farage’s Reform UK leadership at their global HQ in Dubai:

Reform Treasurer Nick Candy today told how his hotel ‘shook’ as a devastating barrage of Iranian missiles and drones rained down on Dubai.

The billionaire property developer was on one of the upper floors of the Bulgari Resort in Jumeria Bay, Dubai, when one of a series of missiles struck.

The Reform Deputy Leader’s squeeze is also under barrage in Dubai.

The ayatollahs have also struck the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, and killed at least one person in strikes on the Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait. There are conflicting reports of forty dead after the USAF hit a girls’ primary school, which is sure to go down well with Ilhan Omar and other child-care specialists. On the other hand, a view from the streets:

Read the whole thing.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER: Trump’s Truth Social Statement On Khamenei’s Death.

1979 WOULD HAVE BEEN THE TIME TO DEESCALATE, TRUMP IS MERELY SETTLING ALL FAMILY BUSINESS:

ARAB-PERSIAN EMNITY HAS BEEN AROUND ABOUT AS LONG AS ARABS AND PERSIANS:

SPOILER: They will not join us in being happy today.

Happy… with a side of schadenfreude:

YES:

Previously: Trump’s international strategy is becoming clearer. “The core goal remains to restore absolute American superiority over China and Russia. But Trump wants to avoid confronting these major rivals directly. He is rather working to isolate Beijing and Moscow from their international partners and deprive them of any major means of external support.”

Update: But you can always count on international leftists, here and abroad, to do or say anything to undermine an America First agenda.

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DISPATCHES FROM M-SNOW: LOL: Capehart Claims ‘The Media Isn’t Necessarily Liberal.’

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart works for a network that openly presents itself as an outlet for progressives, but when he joined Friday’s PBS News Hour to discuss Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.—which would include CNN—Capehart hilariously claimed “that the media isn’t necessarily liberal.”

Host Geoff Bennett actually kicked things off with The Atlantic writer and podcaster David Brooks, “And if the deal closes, it means that one family, in this case, the family that has been so far deferential to President Trump, would control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. How do you see it?”

Flashback: How David Brooks Created Donald Trump.

COMMUNISM SUCKS:

REGARDING THE MULLAHS, YOU DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, “GOTTA HAND IT TO THEM:”


Classical allusion in headline:

UGH:

“It wasn’t as Al Jazeera reported” is basically evergreen.

SCIENCE:

DISPATCHES FROM THE BAR STOOL:

Portnoy links to this tweet from the White House: