It’s an assertion that trips glibly off the tongue of politicians, academics and media pundits. An Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would, they keep telling us, lead to a conflagration across the Middle East, even World War III.

So relentlessly is this apocalyptic warning run in the ...

Read more: Why De-Nuking Iran Won’t Mean WW3 – or an Oil Crisis

The Trayvon Martin case is a wholly familiar one to residents of any major urban city. If you live in Chicago, New York or Los Angeles, then it's only a matter of time until an incident between a law enforcement officer, or more rarely a civilian defending himself, and a member of a minority group ...

Read more: The Bankrupt Race Card

Pentagon says it has no records of bin Laden's death; CIAhasn't answered open records request ... The hunt for Osama bin Laden took nearly a decade. It could take even longer to uncover U.S. government emails, planning reports, photographs and more that would shed light on how an elite team of ...

Read more: Pentagon Has No Records of Osama's Death ... CIA and Admin Stonewall Requests ...

The only real lesson of the ObamaCare defense is that if you define the macro broadly enough, you are entitled to completely control every aspect of the micro. Everyone can be compelled to buy health insurance because health care is no longer a service bought from a doctor, it is a national market ...

Read more: The Total Power of the Mandate

"It doesn't matter if you're black or white," Michael Jackson sang, even as he embarked on a journey to crudely transform himself from one to the other through plastic surgery. Around the same time a biracial man who had grown up in a white family was protesting on behalf of a vehemently racist ...

Read more: It Doesn't Matter If You're Black or White

One of the more constant dynamics among self-styled liberals at the Guardian is that - though they often view themselves as erudite, morally enlightened intellectuals - the "logic" which informs their polemics is often remarkably facile.  Particularly, they demonstrate a tendency to recycle ...

Read more: Guardian’s Marina Hyde Denies Iran's Call for Israel’s Destruction

Savagery by Islamists is carried out in the same ritualistic manner as they prostrate multiple times toward Mecca in tribute to Allah and his emissary Muhammad. Yet, from time to time, and much more often these days, the devotees of Muhammad manage atrocities that are beyond the pale. The massacre, ...

Read more: Islamist Massacres Toulouse Children

And We're Back 

On Tuesday I spoke at the Skirball, the evening of the next day I was back home and glancing at the number next to my latest article, "The New Nazis" saw that it was my 3000th article.

It's been an interesting ride and it was a reminder of how I got into this, by writing day in ...

Read more: Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Big Three Thousand