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 [...]
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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 Sen. Ted Kennedy passed this week after a 15 month battle with a malignant glioma, a type of brain cancer. While the media seems to be focusing on his “political achievements” and all the friends he had on Capitol Hill, Mary Jo Kopechne’s death seems to have been forgotten.
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By Tara Overzat Desperate times, desperate measures. Young, pretty girls trapped in a Communist country, where college grads are hugely disproportionate to available jobs, where the middle class is growing but hundreds of millions of peasants still work the soil, and where unattractive, unsuccessful foreign men go to escape,
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By Tara Overzat Laura Ling, Euna Lee, US journalists doing a story on North Korean women fleeing into North China, were captured by North Korean border guards three months ago. After a 5 day kangaroo trial, they have been sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp.
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By Tara Overzat American David Gabriel “Gabe” Watson, the man accused of letting his wife of 11 days die by A) not attempting to retrieve her when she had problems scuba diving on their Australian honeymoon or B) intentionally harming her under water, has pleaded guilty. However, he will only
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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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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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by Kushal Sharma **** This post on the right to vote appeared recently on the blog Unspoken Words. The author is from, and writing about, India, but the message is true the world over. Enjoy! ~ Tara Overzat **** So the charade continues. I saw this ad where a guy approaches a girl in the [...]
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by Tara Overzat Back on 22 January 2009, the NY Times ran an op-ed piece with a by-line of Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan political leader. The piece advocated a one state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict, as stated below.
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by Tara Overzat Tian Wenhua has pleaded guilty to the charges facing her in court, charges that hold a penalty up to (& likely) the death penalty. How does one come to the conclusion that their death is okay? Is her advanced age (Tian is 66) a factor? How do her children feel about this? [...]
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by Tara Overzat Reports are sketchy, but it appears that a total of 20 people have already been put on criminal trial, or are about to be, in the SanLu tainted milk scandal. These include Tian Wenhua, the former head of SanLu and dubious recipient of the 2006 Women’s World Excellence Award, other executives in [...]
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