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These self-styled 'progressives' are in reality trying to reverse four centuries of progress, taking us back to a time when a small cadre of elites ruled the world and everyone else basically lived as a serf. ... However else we might define “wokeness”--using terms like “leftist,” “Marxist,” or “progressive,” all of which are accurate enough—it is without question anti-Enlightenment, an explicit repudiation of Western, Judeo-Christian values. That is unfortunate. We call it the “Enlightenment” for a reason. Humanity emerged (in Europe, at least) from 1500 years of moral, intellectual, and spiritual darkness, where the vast majority of people lived short,...

Award-winning political scientist and former professor Carol Swain sounded off Tuesday morning shortly after Harvard released a full-throated defense of President Claudine Gay. The board’s expression of support came a week after Gay’s disastrous congressional testimony and amid allegations she plagiarized portions of her dissertation, including from Swain’s work. Advertisement “I rarely get angry, but I am angry,” she wrote on X, with a red-faced emoji. “[R]ight now about the racial double standards that are TEMPORARILY giving #ClaudineGay an opportunity to resign. White progressives created her and white progressives are protecting her. The rest of us have had to work...

Revealed: Ghostwriter Fr. Rosica plagiarized in homilies for top Canadian archbishop Fr. Thomas Rosica, now a byword for plagiarism in the English-speaking world, has admitted to preparing three texts containing plagiarized material for Cardinal Marc Ouellet. VATICAN CITY, September 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A priest who plagiarized under his own name for decades also plagiarized homilies he prepared for a leading cardinal. Fr. Thomas Rosica, 61, has admitted to preparing three texts containing plagiarized material for Cardinal Marc Ouellet. Formerly the archbishop of Quebec City and the Catholic primate of Canada, Ouellet is now the prefect of the Congregation of...

Ecologist Craig Layman says scientists should have looked into this long ago and calls Lauren Arrington's project "one of the most influential 6th-grade science projects ever conducted." But wait… Marine biologist says 6th-grader stole his idea Using only six fish and six tanks, a 6th-grade science fair entrant was able to demonstrate last year what is being hailed as a remarkable discovery: Lionfish, an invasive species found up and down the Florida coast, can also survive in nearly fresh water. There's just one catch: That student may have stolen her idea from a former graduate student her scientist father may...

Joe McGinniss' alleged plagiarism -- The author's ''The Last Brother'' is stirring controversy for it's blend of fact and fiction as an unauthorized ''biography'' of Senator Edward Kennedy. The first of the controversies swirling around the unauthorized ''biography'' concerns a weird disclaimer that appeared in a 123-page advance excerpt distributed at the American Booksellers Association meeting this May. ''Some thoughts and dialogue attributed to people in this narrative,'' the statement read, ''were created by the author.'' The disclaimer later was dropped, reportedly at McGinniss' insistence, but coming hard on the heels of the much-publicized lawsuit over quotes allegedly fabricated by...

Just how smart is the President? Famous presidential historian Michael Beschloss, a regular on PBS's Newshour show, says his IQ is "off the charts" and that he is "probably the smartest guy ever to become president," while admitting he doesn't know what his IQ is. I say: let's look at the evidence. Obama's booksJack Cashill has expended a great deal of effort at American Thinker to blast holes in the "foundational myth" that President Obama is a "literary genius". Comparing books attributed to Obama with known undisputed samples of his writings, Cashill has shown that, in fact, Obama is a...

Obama did not write his 2 memoirs, Ayers did? lets prove it unofficial Freeper Project code name Ghost(w)rider 1.$30 2.Volunteers needed As other Freepers have said: It is not a certainty, but it is plausible that Obama did not write his 2 memoirs.

Veteran political analysts wondered why Obama would release the news on the slowest news day of the week, and sandwiched right before the DNC convention. Revealing Joe Biden’s name in this manner assured the least amount of news coverage possible on his choice. Why? It was a very long time ago when Biden first ran for President in the 1987/1988 presidential race. He was forced to exit the race in shame when disturbing plagiarism charges were proven against him amid charges of lying. What launched the public inquiry into Joe Biden’s words was a debate in September 1987 in which...

Thomas Jefferson would roll over in his grave knowing Ho Chi Minh used his immortal words from the Declaration of Independence of the United States — "All men are created equal; they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" — as the opening for the Vietnamese communist's Declaration of Independence. This is the same Vietnamese communist regime responsible for the murder of more than 1 million Vietnamese. Although Jefferson's immortal words may be in Vietnam's Declaration of Independence, there they are but hollow words. Vietnam tolerates no challenges...

Syndicator Denies Coulter Lifted Material By HILLEL ITALIE The Associated Press Monday, July 10, 2006; 6:49 PM NEW YORK -- The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper columns rejected allegations that she had lifted material from other sources, saying a review of the work in question turned up nothing that merited concern. "There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact and minimal matching text is not plagiarism," Lee Salem, editor and president of Universal Press Syndicate, said Monday in a statement.

Universal Says It Doesn't Think Coulter Plagiarized in Her Columns Deborah Feingold Ann Coulter By E&P Staff Published: July 10, 2006 5:05 PM ET NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate said today that it doesn't think controversial columnist Ann Coulter is guilty of plagiarism. In a statement sent to E&P, Universal President and Editor Lee Salem said: "Last week a software program company official ran Ann Coulter's columns through a 'match-text' program, frequently used by teachers to detect original work. The New York Post cited two columns in which some text matched other published materials and also mentioned three snippets in...

The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper column is looking into allegations that the right-wing pundit has lifted material from other sources. "We are reviewing the material and expect to have a response some time next week," Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, told The Associated Press on Friday. The New York Post and the Web sites Raw Story and the Rude Pundit have raised numerous questions about Coulter's columns, which appear in more than 100 newspapers, and her best-selling "Godless," already notorious for the author's calling four 9/11 widows, who supported Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004,...

By Robert Niles: Two stories this morning about large news organizations plagiarizing independent online media: The first, related by King Kaufman at Salon regards an ESPN radio host ripping off a comedy bit from a sports blogger in Michigan. Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story reports the second and (literally) more serious example. In Huffington Post, she writes that one of her investigative reports found its way into an Associated Press story, which did not attribute the information to her or to Raw Story. Alexandrovna writes: "We contacted an AP senior editor and ombudsmen both and both admitted to having had...

A longtime columnist for The Baltimore Sun resigned Tuesday amid allegations of plagiarism from other newspapers, The Sun said early Wednesday. Michael Olesker, who wrote a column that appeared twice a week in the Maryland section of The Sun for 27 years, quit two weeks before his 30th anniversary as a Baltimore columnist. His most recent column had appeared in Tuesday's Sun. "I made mistakes," Olesker said as he cleaned out his desk in the newsroom, according to an article in The Sun's editions published Wednesday. "I am sorry to say that in the course of doing those columns, I...

Famous scholars get the ink in good times and bad. Stephen E. Ambrose's plagiarism would not have made the news were it not for the millions of books he sold. Few people would have cared about Doris Kearns Goodwin's borrowings had they not seen her on television. It might seem that the only academic plagiarists are famous scholars with sloppy research assistants. But a Chronicle investigation proves otherwise. Among the cases we found were a political scientist who swiped five pages of his book from a journal article, a historian who cribbed from an unpublished dissertation, and a geographer whose...

L'affaire Blair and the TimesMona Charen (archive) May 23, 2003 | Print | SendThe Jayson Blair scandal has most of the elements of the modern American classic. There's a celebrity angle, a race dimension, a drug and alcohol excuse, and hypocrisy in high places. The only missing element so far is sex. No doubt when the TV movie of the story is done, it will add a curvaceous girlfriend to round out the plot. Let's start at the end. Here's a little quiz: After plunging himself and his newspaper into a major credibility crisis, 27-year-old Jayson Blair met with a)...

‘The Real Deal’ on Jayson Blair   Behavior so bizarre, it surpasses the realm of human comprehensionThe New York Times’ poster boy for fraud, Jayson Blair, has spoken. For those of you with a weak gag reflex, grab a bucket. It’s the Jayson Blair ‘Real Deal.’        JAYSON BLAIR IS, borrowing the words of Miami Herald writer Carl Hiaasen,”a sick puppy.” The self-described former coke-head stole stories, lied about locations, made up facts, and committed fraud on America.        Now this screwed-up 27-year old kid is lining up a book deal that is sure to make...

Cheer up, Jayson Blair—I got your back. Don’t get me wrong, you will never be cool—especially if your soul’s for sale—but at least now you’re obvious and will (hopefully) take your medicine in private. Your ex-boss’s boss Howell Raines, on the other hand, is running ass-over-apple cart from his own eventual self-destruction. We’ll know the end is nigh if the Times nominates itself for exposing their own fraudulent coverage. As the drama plays itself out in dispatches from the newsroom and daily Op-Ed’s, we are being treated to an existential spectacle among staff big-wigs and professional opines in a bizarre...

If the bigwigs at the New York Times thought their headaches would start fading after Sunday's massive apology for a four-year rampage of bogus stories and plagiarism by reporter Jayson Blair, they were in for a big surprise. [. . .] Why the sudden fascination with New York Times jokes? Because "there is a tremendous euphoria in our culture about watching the mighty take a pratfall," Dezenhall says. "There's something in the American spirit that feels it's an exercise of democracy to humble the mighty. And no weapon is more potent than ridicule." The New York Times held itself out...

This week, we learned from the New York Times that one of its reporters has been committing journalistic fraud. According to an embarrassing revelation by none other than the Times itself, former Times reporter Jayson T. Blair was, shall we say, a little liberal with the imagination when it came to at least 36 of the 73 articles he wrote for the paper as a national reporter......