“Plagiarism” on The Daily Caller

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian President Pal Schmitt resigned Monday because of a plagiarism scandal regarding a doctoral dissertation he had written 20 years ago on the Olympics. (more)

US News’ Alvin Felzenberg says those who listened to the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night can be forgiven for thinking they’ve heard it before — and not just because it turned out to be yet another presidential grocery list of “investments,” AKA government spending.  The lack of originality runs deeper than that, Felzenberg claims; he calls it “tantamount to plagiarism.”  And the close inspection of the speech Felzenberg supplies provides some evidence for the accusation: (more)

A Republican running for New York’s first congressional district seat says the campaign of his primary opponent, Randy Altschuler, has plagiarized press releases from an unrelated congressional candidate, Doug Hoffman. (more)

DENVER | A plagiarism scandal surrounding Colorado Republican gubernatorial front-runner Scott McInnis has thrown the race into turmoil, jeopardizing the state GOP’s chances in one of its most winnable races and prompting calls for him to drop out less than a month before the primary. (more)

Vaughn Ward lost the Republican nomination for Congress in Idaho after a damning video surfaced showing him delivering a speech with lines seemingly taken almost verbatim from a well-known address by President Obama. Now a television station in the state says that Ward ripped more text in the same speech from another congressional candidate. (more)

The dust jacket is by far the best part of David Shields’ latest work, “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto” (Knopf, $24.95, 219 pages). In bold multi-colored type, the front and back covers are filled with not just praise but downright prostration from the brightest literary stars, including J.M Coetzee (“exhilarating”), Jonathan Lethem (“sublime”), Lydia Davis (“compulsively readable”) Amy Hempel (“brilliant”), Richard Powers (“incendiary”) and Frederick Barthelme (“stunning”). (more)

Today, the New York Times ran a remarkable editor’s note acknowledging that Zachery Kouwe, a business reporter for the paper’s Dealbook blog, had apparently plagiarized several stories from The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets. The note said that after a review, the paper found “extensive overlap between passages in Mr. Kouwe’s articles and other news organizations.” (more)

The Black Eyed Peas are facing a plagiarism lawsuit over their single ‘Boom Boom Pow’. (more)