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May 21, 2004
Friedrich was a painter of the Romantic School renowned for colorful and vibrant landscapes. Though he was religious in his overt convictions, Friedrich's sense of life possessed admirable traces of humanism, discernible in his work.
May 19, 2004:
Released yesterday by renowned cartoonists John Cox and Allen Forkum, this work displays the dangers inherent in the June 30th handover of power deadline in Iraq.
May 20, 2004:
A cartoon on media coverage of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the Nick Berg execution.
June 11, 2004:
G. Stolyarov II argues in favor of the "historical" definition of marriage, not from history or tradition, but from Reason and the fundamentals of Objectivist thought.
Henry Emrich exposes four mentalities, permutations of which pervade the modern culture and paralyze sound thought.
Examining the issue of whether or not life needed to have existed in perpetuity in a universe without chronological origin, G. Stolyarov II integrates biology with metafysics to answer in the negative.
May 10, 2004:
The dominant paradigm indoctrinates men with the idea that "money is evil, money cannot buy happiness, money is not everything." Michael Miller responds in this article.
May 26, 2004:
Using as evidence the famous speech of Daniel Webster against conscription in 1814, G. Stolyarov II reveals the draft for the unconstitutional evil that it is.
May 4, 2004:
G. Stolyarov II transforms a commonplace but irritating type of math problem into a single-step variable plug-in operation via elementary algebraic manipulation.
June 2, 2004:
A manifesto of individual liberty and choice against an opressive State by G. Stolyarov II.
May 18, 2004:
Dr. Yaron Brook and Elan Journo contend that fighting a compassionate war is immoral; it is costing the lives of American soldiers in Iraq and emboldening our enemies throughout the Islamic world.
April 28, 2004:
With the Cold War over, the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction may no longer be effective, while the threat emanating from the nuclear arsenals of many countries remains substantial. Ivan A. Shatkin examines the dangerous effects of nuclear arms possession to human life and international affairs today. While TRA does not necessarily embrace Mr. Shatkin's reliance on international consensus at the expense of American unilateralism, it concurs with him that this issue is one worthy of exploration and consideration.
June 1, 2004:
The above number is the amount of times that, according to Robert Olson, the current US military would have been able to win a war such as the recent one in Iraq. The draft, argues Mr. Olson is immensely unjustified and constitutes a grievous violation of personal liberties under these circumstances.
Dave Schroeder reveals the true nature of the authors of recent twin bills S 89 and HR 163, which would reinstitute the draft nationwide. He also brings forth information about the effort by Republican Ron Paul to abolish the draft permanently.
May 7, 2004:
The lack of capitalism, rather than the lack of charity in Africa is the primary cause of poverty therein, argues Jonathan Rick.
May 7, 2004:
Dr. Gary M. Galles examines the ideological fallacies involved in the arguments of those American tycoons who wish to raise their own taxes via the exacerbation of the graduated income tax.
May 18, 2004:
The lobbies for mandatory wearing of seat belts and the prosecution of fast food and tobacco corporations attempt to impose a nanny state on the individual and deprive him of sovereignty to make choices with regard to his own life, writes Peter Schwartz.
May 25, 2004:
In an open letter to Senator Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois, G. Stolyarov II explains why a potential draft looming over the United States would be fundamentally un-American.
May 27, 2004:
G. Stolyarov II issues a call to action for all those who oppose the draft and wish to exert leverage in order to cause the rejection of twin bills S 89 and HR 163.