Today’s show: Why do grocery stores guilt people into giving a dollar in the checkout line but not match the contribution? It’s not charitable of them to pass off our contributions as their own when they can afford to double whatever’s raised. Plus, of course, Joe Barton is a buffoon. Listen here.

Today I interviewed my friend Asher Yarden, Israeli Consul General to the Southwest. As I wrote earlier in the week in the Chronicle, I believe that Israel is acting in an incredibly self-destructive way. The more it lashes out, the more whatever global support remains for the Jewish state evaporates. For those of us who care about Israel, watching the...

It pains me to write this, but here it is… Pro-Palestinian activists — hoping to embarrass and isolate Israel — dared the Jewish state to stop them on the high seas. Aware that it would face international condemnation, Israel took the bait anyway. Now the world is coming down harder on Israel than it has in years. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran...