Recent content by Tidewater

I see what you are saying, but I do not think I was begging the question. I was drawing the analogy between those who denied the humanity of black people (or Jews in Nazi Germany) and the realization (which I'm fairly certain is general today) that black people and Jews are, in fact, people. To...

The question is not sovereignty over the actor's body, but the victim's sovereignty over over the victim's body. Both questions revolve around the issue of the humanity of the victim. Pro-slavery people argued that black people aren't really human, so keeping them in slavery is not such a bad...

Why is that absurd?

I would still go see the film if I had not already, but they took some liberties. The filmmakers did not reimagine a universe in which the Nazis won or anything crazy, but they took liberties. And Monty was a real arrogant jerk.

I saw the film Pressure. Decent movie but they took enormous liberties with the history. In the alternative universe of the film, there was a war. It pitted the US and UK against Germany. There was an invasion at Normandy in June 1944. Beyond that, lots of creative license trying to make the...

250 years ago today, Congress authorizes Washington to use up to 2,000 Indians to operate in Canada. Congress also calls on the states to field more forces. 13,800 militia to reinforce the army at New York; t the colony of Massachusetts, be requested to furnish of their militia 2,000...

Nice strawman. That was not the argument I made. I said, people in 150 years will look back on pro-abortion people the way we look back as slaveholders. But since you brought up the ethics of the two institutions, abortion is morally worse than slavery. If you had the choice between being...

I've said it before, in 150 years, once the tribalism of the political imperative ("my tribe is pro-abortion, therefore I must be pro-abortion") has abated, today's pro-abortion people will be looked at much the way slavery apologists are today. In 150 years, people will ask themselves, "How...

The Founders did own slaves, but they were pragmatic. Without the 3/5th compromise the Union would never have been formed in 1787. Every state but Massachusetts had citizens who owned slaves. (RI had 958 slaves in 1790, NH 157, Conn. had 2,648, NY 21,193). Southwest of Connecticut, the numbers...

Here is a great example of media malfeasance/deliberate stupidity. Statue of Founding Father who enslaved hundreds installed at Freedom Plaza So, the article implies that the guy's statue was erected because he had enslaved hundreds. One alternative explanation was his service in the American...

Sure, I know that. My point was to show how easy it is, when you question someone's motives, to take an element of truth and spin it into something not intended. If someone was really worried about a Somali-American waving what looked like a Bonnie Blue flag, he could just ask the...

Here is a small, relatively benign example. While the EU is facing some serious challenges, they decided to ban single-use condiment sachets. EU bans single-use condiment sachets at restaurants from Aug 12 You can still get them from takeaway restaurants and in stores, but not in sit-down...

250 years ago today, Congress requests the colonies of New England send 6,000 of their militia to bolster the army in Canada. the colony of Massachusetts bay, be requested to supply, of their militia 3,000 - 4 batallions . Connecticut , of their militia 1,500 - 2 batallions. New Hampshire, of...

250 years ago today, Washington writes his brother John Augustine Washington: "I am very glad to find that the Virginia Convention have passed so noble a vote(i.e. the vote calling on Congress to declare independence), and with so much unanimity. Things have come to that pass now, as to...

Expensive, but probably will have to. More rubble for the ruble.