Free plagiarism tracer

Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia professor of Journalism, mentions Copyscape in his newsletter. Nice, especially since it's free, unlike Turnitin.

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Meanwhile, religious fascism wins in the UK

Ten performances of a play have been cancelled in the UK because the local Sikh community tends to be a bit overly sensitive.
I was offended when I was a Christian kid and was confronted with books such as 'The Incredible Evil of the Supreme Being', which (as you may have gathered from the title) depicts the Christian God in none too favorable a light.
Can't remember throwing stones at the writer, though.
If you're offended, write your own books, plays or films, or simply speak out.
The universal line that must be drawn, and which cannot be debated, is that between speech and violence. When violence is used, very soon it will amount to mob rule and ultimately fascism, as soon as a strong leader rises to herd the mob.
Too bad the UK doesn't get that anymore.

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FrontPage explains

Hey, it's not exactly my kind of magazine, but kudos to FrontPage for the way they explain themselves after that nasty bit of plagiarism by one of their contributors. I'd like to see the MSM do that. It also turns out that the woman who ctrl-c'd/v'd my blog was using a pen name. Val MacQueen, not Alexis Amory, is her real name.

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