Defenders of the popular columnist and constitutional scholar Anne Coulter have recently dismissed charges of plagiarism put up against the brilliant author by reactionary activists. But can these charges be dismissed without further examination? In one striking bit of evidence, her detractors point out that her description of liberals as “confused cone-heads wallowing in their own fecklessness”, bears a striking resemblance to accusations made on Freerepublic.com that liberals are “fraudulent elitists submerged in congealed thinking.” The similarity is haunting. An operative at the Democratic National Committee, who owns a thesaurus, points out that when most persons picture liberals in their...