Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

Sarah Palin just resigned as Alaska governor. She announced her resignation in an odd rambling speech. Pundits in the media are speculating the resignation frees her up to run for president in 2012. Hogwash. No one resigns their first term as Governor with such a nutball speech and expects to have a national political future. She is a trainwreck.

I am guessing the real reason for her resignation will come out in short order. When it does, it will sell a lot of tabloids.

Play her off, keyboard cat:

The King of Pop is dead. He was a man of unparalleled talent, a musical genius. His impact on the world of music and the medium of music videos is without equal.
Beyond the music he lived a troubled life. Today that life came to a sudden end. May he finally find peace.
Michael Jackson sang “Gone Too [...]

President Obama and Vice President Biden were at Ray’s Hell Burger yesterday for lunch. Ray’s is a burger restaurant in Arlington, Virginia and one of our lunch hangouts. I am generally not a burger lover, but Ray’s makes some awesome burgers. My personal favorite from their menu is the Big Punisher with a side of [...]

Now for something completely different! Consider this therapy:
I am sure by now all of you have heard of the Susan Boyle phenomenon. I saw it last week on YouTube. To me what was amazing was not that a so-called “frumpy” woman was singing with a gorgeous voice. To me the amazing thing was that someone [...]

In case you have been wondering why I haven’t been posting on (torture!, swine flu!, specter!, pakistan!, sunita paul!, bangladesh!), its because I have been a little under the weather for the past week that has kept me from work and the blog. A lot has happened and I’ve not been able to write about [...]

It appears that “Sunita Paul” cannot help herself. Even after facing charges of plagiarism, she continues to plagiarize.
According to ”Sunita Paul”’s bio on American Chronicle, she is “considered as an expert of South Asian affairs, counter-terrorism and international relations.” However, when writing about militants in Bangladesh she plagiarizes published and copyrighted articles from Bangladesh’s leading English language [...]

About a month ago I questioned why Neel Kashkari - the incompetent Treasury official in charge of the TARP program - was still employed. Today, we got some good news.
Neel Kashkari is gone:
Herbert M. Allison Jr., the chief executive of Fannie Mae for the last six months, has emerged as a candidate to become the [...]

I guess I am not the only one who “Sunita Paul” plagiarizes. It appears that she even plagiarizes big name reporters.
Consider the April 5, 2009 article by “Sunita Paul” in the American Chronicle entitled “DPRK: Missile-Satellite Controversy” - one of the very few articles not focused on Bangladesh. The article is about the North Korean [...]

Today The Daily Star published my op-ed “Who is ‘Sunita Paul’?” The op-ed expands on my post on Sunita Paul from last week.
The full op-ed follows:
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Who is ’Sunita Paul’? 
Mashuqur Rahman
“SUNITA PAUL” is an “Indian journalist” who has been writing inflammatory articles on Bangladesh in little known foreign online outlets. “Sunita Paul” is also [...]

Sunita Paul is a plagiarist.
Sunita Paul is a “journalist” who has recently been publishing a series of sensational articles about Bangladesh. She has caused quite a stir because her articles make extraordinary claims, based on anonymous sources, about the political situation in Bangladesh. Extraordinary claims without much factual support however require a significant leap of faith by the reader. [...]