Interesting, so "new" means "better" to you, and you believe that Adolf Hitler was better than Caligula.

It derives from the "progressive" view that is taught so thoroughly in most schools (especially colleges and universities) that "new" means "better" and that history is irrevocably moving from worse to better.

And yet, the Roman Empire already bordered on Aksum those hundreds of years earlier...how stupid did someone have to be to think they were not trading?

Umm, at the time, Egypt was part of the Roman Empire. So, based on the way Rome was running its empire, trade with Egypt WAS trade with Rome.

Next they will announce the startling revelation that there was trade between the United States and Mexico over 100 years ago.
Seriously, have these people never looked at a map? The Roman Empire shared a border with the Empire mentioned in the article. Of course they were trading. That's what people do.

IF they can prove that he thought the prosecution would want his browser history, AND they can prove that he thought it would be incriminating, then I would be willing to find him guilty of these charges. Of course, those two things are rather difficult to prove.

Heck, you don't even have to be smart. You just have to be able to think the right way. Other than that, I absolutely agree with what you posted.

Well, I guess if you look at it that way. However, it would make more sense to bring in someone with actual expertise on sex slavery.

Exactly WHAT makes Eve Ensler an expert on sex slaves? Would it not have been more useful to get someone who has worked for an extended period of time with women who had been sex slaves?
What I am saying is that I have seen enough of what Eve Ensler has promoted in the past to know that she has an agenda and everything she touches serves to advance that agenda.

I think you take the point to far, but I agree with you in principle. I did not get an adblocker until ads started to get so intrusive that I had to interact with the ad before I could read the content I had visited the site for in the first place. I do not object to ads which are on the side of the page, or even in the middle of the page, as long as they do not obscure the content. Even magazines now all come with intrusive ads. They have ads throughout them on different paper than the rest of the magazine so that when you try to flip through the magazine it always opens on an ad. To find an specific article you have to turn page by page from the closest ad (it used to be you could flip the magazine open to the somewhere close, then flip through the pages til you got there, or at least to within a page or two).

Well, I would agree with you...except, they brought in the author of the 'Vagina Monologues", Eve Ensler, to consult on making the film. You do not bring her in unless you are putting in some deep underlying message which she would approve of. For that matter, Eve Ensler would not have consented to consult on the film unless she agreed with the message.

The wealthy ARE behind a more socialistic society. Of course the reason they are is because they recognize that socialism will make it easier to enslave others to do their will.

I should point out that the main point of my post was to give a description of the two viewpoints that was almost as far to the conservative side as your original post was to the liberal side.

OH yes, look how well those "smart" people have solved the problems of Baltimore and Detroit. Liberals have been running those cities for as long as I have been alive, yet the problems keep getting worse. Perhaps it is time to try something different?
As for your example of the DC metro area, perhaps you have not noticed, but the overwhelming majority of the people living there are liberals and vote for the Democratic Party.

Just because I pointed out that your argument was full of crap, does not mean I was making a counter argument. If you have an argument against the death penalty, feel free to make it.

Actually, if you look at the policies supported by the Koch brothers (as opposed to the propaganda about what they support) those policies make it easier for people to take care of themselves. Perhaps you mistook the Koch brothers for George Soros, Tom Steyer, or Herbert and Marion Sandler.