by Tara Overzat “Years later she considered herself an authority on propaganda, based on her university experience,” wrote Jennifer Burns in her well-researched Ayn Rand biog [...]
By Tara Overzat I sincerely wish NBC had had more gumption and decided against interviewing Charlie Sheen, seemingly legitimizing ABC and CNN’s Piers Morgan to follow w [...]
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By Tara Overzat Calvin & Hobbes, oh yeah In a few short hours, we’ll be gathered around our friends and families sharing our “New Year’s Resolutions.&# [...]
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By Tara Overzat I moved to South Florida in 1991. Being an eight-year-old I missed any chance of hearing that Rick Sanchez hit and paralyzed a man, Jeffrey Smuzinick, and fl [...]
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By Tara Overzat Father Albert Cutie has renounced his Catholic faith, after a scandal that had tongues wagging in the Spanish-speaking world. The handsome Catholic priest, whom some refer to as “Father Oprah” for his numerous TV appearances dispensing spiritual advice, was caught embracing and kissing his girlfriend,
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By Tara Overzat It appears the security of Americans abroad has dropped since President Obama took office. Within his few months in office, Somali pirates attacked US ships for the first time (taking the captain hostage), an American journalist was thrown into an Iranian prison, and two journalists are being held against their will in [...]
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By Tara Overzat Sonia Sotomayor has been widely praised for pulling herself up by her bootstraps and working her way out of the Bronx projects and first into the Ivy League, then into Law, and now into the limelight as President Obama’s first Sumpreme Court nominee, and in fact the first Latina to be nominated [...]
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By Tara Overzat As a sucker for reality TV shows (I’m not a die-hard fan, watching every episode weekly until the explosive season finale- I just get my fill in snippets while channel surfing), I was lured into viewing Obsessed which premiered after A&E’s Intervention. It’s a cross between Intervention and Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab, [...]
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By Tara Overzat Increasingly, children and pre-teens are being left unsupervised by the adults in their lives. With no compass to guide them, children seem to be more open to anti-social behavior. Five 6th grade girls created a cartoon for YouTube where they show 5 ways to kill a classmate they don’t like. The report [...]
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Another article that originally appeared on The Atlasphere. It is inadequate to say that it is depressing to hear of children in horrendous situations. The one ray of hope that we, and they, have is self-determination. A person’s past does not have to determine their future, and I have faith that these children will find [...]
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I wrote this article last August, a few days after the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Sadly, I think little has changed, as stories of corruption and violence continue to leak out of the tightly controlled Chinese media. The original article can be found at The Atlasphere. ********************** All That Glitters by Tara Overzat [...]
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Susan Boyle, the “frumpy” underdog of Britain’s Got Talent, gives another astounding performance on this week’s show. While it does not pack the same vocal punch as her rendition of “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Mierables back in April, it should be noted that the Scottish Boyle does one heck of a New York [...]
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Last night, a Coral Springs police officer was caught trying to apprehend armed robbers in the generally quiet Florida town of Coral Springs. I grew up in that town, and remember well when cows still grazed there under the hot sun. Though the town has since boomed, thugs possibly armed with AK-47s is not what [...]
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By Kushal Sharma **************** Kushal poses an interesting question here as to whether it is moral to destroy something you have made- in this case, bottles upon bottles of French wine. The following is from his website, Unspoken Words. Read on… ~Tara Overzat **************** Is it perfectly alright to destroy your own creation? Is it [...]
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