http://www.boldson.com Conservative political commentary Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:52:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't really have anything awe inspiring to write about the conflict in Israel, other than it's more of the same: 1.) Hamas and Co. fire rockets at Israel's civilian centers. 2.) Israel puts up with it for months and then finally answers back. 3.) The world condemns Israel. I do not believe this ... http://www.boldson.com/2009/01/07/the-peace-delusion/ Given the fairly large slowdown in the way of current events (domestically and politically anyway... Israel is a big deal but not exactly my personal intellectual forte), especially as the country gears up for Jan. 20th, I have spent most of my time reading (and buying) a selection of books ... http://www.boldson.com/2009/01/01/my-reading-list-for-2009/ Big apologies for the lack of content of the last week or two. Strangely enough, we all got hit with fairly large things at the same time: finals, illness, crushing workloads, etc. For now, here is some excellent reading to tide you over. Some of it is ... http://www.boldson.com/2008/12/22/required-reading/ Adding on to Walter's point below, the myth of the government being able to "create jobs" is the "broken window fallacy" where the focus is on what is seen instead of what is unseen. Paraphrasing, it goes as follows: if a store owner accidentally breaks his window, he must hire ... http://www.boldson.com/2008/12/07/the-broken-window-fallacy/ On Saturday President-Elect Obama gave us for the first time some details from his forthcoming economic plan. While we all can appreciate his well meaning intentions, his rhetoric seemed to be displaying the same enormous deficiency that should have derailed his entire campaign: a complete disregard for historical precedent. ... http://www.boldson.com/2008/12/07/reality/ The Democratic hopes of having a filibuster proof super majority (60 seats/votes) in the United States Senate was dashed when Saxby Chambliss won re-election in his runoff election with Jim Martin.  This is good news for conservatives--thank you Georgia voters.  Before President Obama can sign legislation into law it must ... http://www.boldson.com/2008/12/03/no-super-majority-for-the-dems-in-the-senate/ I'd like to elaborate a on a great point brought up by The Professor. In an Iowa campaign speech Obama said "The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't ... http://www.boldson.com/2008/12/02/vote-for-change/ A common fallacy on the Left is that the United States has never fought wars for humanitarian purposes, but rather only cynically goes to war when its national interests are at stake. This type of thinking results in "blood for oil" rhetoric that still has traction in many circles ... http://www.boldson.com/2008/11/29/us-humanitarian-wars/ The first Thanksgiving occurred when Captain John Woodlief led the newly-arrived English colonists to a grassy slope along the James River and instructed them to drop to their knees and pray in thanks for a safe arrival to the ... http://www.boldson.com/2008/11/27/happy-thanksgiving/ Myth #1:  Huge voter turnout The fact is we did have a large voter turnout in the 2008 presidential election just like we did for the 2004 election.  However, the turnout numbers were nearly identical to the 2004 election.  The estimate is that around 60.7 percent to 61.7 percent of the ... http://www.boldson.com/2008/11/26/myths-of-the-2008-election/